DEVOURED ELYSIUM

Next weekend I am driving to Baltimore to go to the Maryland Death Festival. It is a showcase of metal acts from around the world, and it is great time to be inspired. I spend my entire year looking forward to this because it is the closest America comes to creating a European style metal meeting ground. All the artists hang around all weekend and you get to meet a lot of cool people who really believe in evil. I'm going to try and bring an audio recorder and do some interviews there with fans and innocents.

FUN WITH PHOTOGRAPHY - VOL. 1

"The carte de visite (CDV)—a paper photograph mounted on card stock measuring approximately 4 x 2.5 inches—was the most popular format for portrait photography in the nineteenth century.

CDVs were often exchanged between family and friends and were collected in specially made albums. The format became popular in the late 1850s when a technique was developed for making multiple negatives on a single glass plate and it remained popular through the 1860s.

Celebrities were a popular subject of both carte-de-visites and cabinet cards and were widely collected in the last part of the nineteenth century. Cabinet cards lost their popularity in the early 1900s and largely disappeared by the end of World War I." From the George Eastman House