Treasure Hunt: Bitcoins in Landfill, Wales

[mistermack]

Whereabouts is Llandfill ?

I was going to go and have a look to see if I could ffind his hard drive, but there is no Llandfill on Google Maps.

Maybe this welshman is related to Kit Williams. Remember that buried golden hare that had people digging everywhere?

[klr]

Whereabouts is Llandfill ?

I was going to go and have a look to see if I could ffind his hard drive, but there is no Llandfill on Google Maps.

Maybe this welshman is related to Kit Williams. Remember that buried golden hare that had people digging everywhere?

Near Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch ?

[pErvinalia]

You should get that throat problem looked at..

[Seth]

Ah, the tenuous and intangible nature of our modern existence, hanging by a thread from the invisible and unreadable alignments of electrons, so easily lost.

So true. I often think about this with my photos. Despite all sorts of backups, it's a major task keeping duplicates both on site and off site, and keeping them all up to date with each other.

I was down at the camera shop the other day trying to peddle my Mamiya 645 Pro system in exchange for a cheap studio strobe setup so I can take eBay photos and the owner said he didn't even want it. A system I paid nearly $6000 for is essentially worthless now even though it's in perfect condition.

Jeez, if I had money, I'd buy it off you. I bought a Pentax 645 a few years ago before the uptick in interest in medium format film, but only have a single lens for it.

So anyway I was talking with the owner about how much I miss chemistry, negatives and printing. I said I thought that soon there will be a huge gap in the photographic record of humanity because everything taken since digital was invented will soon become lost to us through obsolescence, technological advancement, or the failure of a microscopic byte on a disk drive.

If I could afford it I'd love to set up a good old fashioned B&W lab to make archival large-format photos, platinum, palladium, gold, etc. so I someday I'd be famous for nothing more than creating photographs that will last two centuries or more.

People are still doing it. It's like vinyl records. There'll always be a community of enthusiast.

Guy told me about Kodak Ektar color print film. He says it's incredibly fine grained and folks are shooting it (C41 process I can get developed for about $5 per 220 roll) and then scanning the negatives. I have a couple of good scanners so I may give it a try. If I don't like it I might let it go cheap.

[piscator]

Whereabouts is Llandfill ?

I was going to go and have a look to see if I could ffind his hard drive, but there is no Llandfill on Google Maps.

Maybe this welshman is related to Kit Williams. Remember that buried golden hare that had people digging everywhere?

Near Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch ?

Ow!