Blogiversary!

According to my records, tomorrow (March 16th) marks the one-year anniversary of the Tin Lizard Productions blog. Since 2012-03-16, there have been: 208 posts (including this one) 144 comments 366 pings from people searching Google for “Laurel and Hardy“ 1 ping from someone searching Google for “mr beetle should have guessed that …

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Shiny Pointy Things 2: WWII German Regalia

In my previous post, I mentioned that I photographed an edged weapons collection for a friend. I talked previously about one of his American possessions, but the real meat of his collection consists of several pieces of WWII German regalia. My friend certainly does not have any sympathies with the …

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Shiny Pointy Things and the M.C. Lilley Company

About a week ago, I was called upon by an edged weapons collector to photograph his stash of pointy things for insurance purposes. Most of the photos aren’t terribly visually interesting, since they are meant to be just matter-of-fact documents of the quality of the item and the maker’s marks. …

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Tiny Thing #93: Tiny Tales Book (plus a DIY macro lens)

The Tiny Things project has been continuing slowly, yet steadily. This weekend, I shot this tiny joke book, which is about the size of my thumbnail. (Funny that the book is too small to actually contain any Tales. Instead, it contains some very lame kids’ jokes. Apparently, tiny pages don’t …

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Tonight: Drinking with Geeks!

Tonight, the geeks of Minneapolis shall gather at the Bryant-Lake Bowl, united in a mutual love of nerdery, social time, and booze. You want to be there, too, don’t you? Of course you do! Because it’s free! (Okay, you need to pay for drinks, but you don’t have to pay for tickets …

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