Earlier this summer, at Knoebels Amusement Resort in Elysburg, Pennsylvania, I tried to get a silhouette shot of Sarah checking out a fortune-teller machine. It turned out OK, but I wasn't completely pleased with it. The background was too busy, for one thing. So I used some photo-editing to try to turn it into something more artsy. Those results are above. I kind of dig it now.
And now on to Friday Reads, as we creep ever closer to Autumn in the Northeast. We're in a short stretch of unseasonably cool nights (in the 50s) here in the Dog Days of August, and it's a fairly dry stretch, too — nothing like the terrifying forecast of Hurricane Harvey bringing a meter or more of rain, plus damaging winds, to parts of Texas over the next few days.
Books I'm Currently Reading
- Ring Around the Sun, by Clifford D. Simak
- On Roads: A Hidden History, by Joe Moran
- Restless Nights: Selected Stories, by Dino Buzzatti
Articles You Might Find Interesting
- YDR.com: "Search for missing World War II soldier died with his mom. Now, there's a new clue — and hope" by Brandie Kessler
- The New Yorker: "Carl Icahn's Failed Raid on Washington" by Patrick Radden Keefe
- My Inside Voices: "Finding meaning in patterns big and small" and "It's time to start listening" by Susan Jennings
- LancasterOnline: "Army veteran opens window on Vietnam War with long-forgotten photographs, on display in Lancaster County" by Michael Long
- Smithsonian.com: "Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Artwork Is Appreciated Now More Than Ever" by Amy Crawford
- Literary Hub: "10 Famous Book Hoarders" by Emily Temple
- MIT Technology Review: "The Enduring Legacy of Zork: The innovative text-adventure game still influences technologists 40 years after its creation" by Elizabeth Woyke
- The New Yorker: "Dreaming with Shakespeare During a Summer of Chaos" by Cynthia Zarin
- Motherboard: "Do We All See the Man Holding an iPhone in This 1937 Painting?" by Brian Anderson
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— CreativeHistories (@CreativeHists) August 9, 2017
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