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TFM Photo Contest

This photo is a finalist for The Fiberglass Manifesto’s photo contest. If you like the photo, you can cast a vote on its behalf by sending an email to tfmcontests@gmail.com with my name, Tim Schulz, as the subject for the message. You can only cast one vote for each valid email address. You can see…

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The Year that Was

Here is a brief review of the first year of Madness and Magic in a video slideshow set to the tune of Upstream from the excellent album Fishing Music by Ben Winship and David Thompson. I look forward to documenting more of the adventure in 2012. For better viewing select 720p(HD) and fullscreen, or try…

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Anatomy of a Weekend

Cast of Characters ADAM, John Voelker’s quick-witted grandson TIM, the bumbling photographer and flailing fisherman BROOK TROUT, the foolish and unwary native Scene One: The Internet Prologue (Email exchange, day one.) ADAM Tim, I’m thinking of coming up to camp for this weekend. If you are free why don’t you come down and we can…

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Monsters in July

I can scarcely remember how I came to this place. When I was young the water flowed all around me. The swift current swept bugs and small minnows through predictable paths, and I ate recklessly. When the small bugs tried to fly, I jumped through the air and caught them in my mouth. But I…

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The Digital Camera: The Spherical Lens (Part I)

We recently examined the way a spherical glass surface focusses light; however, this focussing property is not unique for light that travels from air into glass. Instead, this phenomenon occurs anytime light travels between two surroundings separated by a spherical boundary. For light that originates from a point source, the general equation that specifies the relationship…

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Spam!

I have a few new posts ready to go, but I’ve been spending my time lately trying to learn how to stop the onslaught of spam comments I’ve been receiving on the blog. If you have advice, I’d appreciate any help on this. (I use wordpress to manage this blog.) I have wordpress configured to…

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Back to School

My oldest son returned to college on Thursday, and, because of a work commitment for Friday, I stayed in Houghton while my wife accompanied him to East Lansing. My youngest son was practicing with his band the evening they left, so I retreated to my office to wallow in sadness and self-pity. ”Stop whining you big…

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