Beautiful, isn’t it? That’s the library on the Samford campus. Spent a fair amount of time in there this evening. I shot that picture on my iPhone, running it through something called the MoreLomo app. I didn’t know what Lomo was, but I look through the app store every so often for the next big, free thing.

Lomo, or lomography, is a photographic subculture based on a poor quality Russian camera. Just think of them as film and slide hipsters. The finished product, legitimate in the film version or manufactured in the digital, is intriguing. You can get one of the camera’s here.

I appreciate the classic essence of what they’re doing. I miss the smell of the darkroom, as most old school print people do. (There’s one just down the hall from my office. Sometimes I linger, hoping to catch the chemistry in the air. But I’ve been shooting digital for a decade and I could never go back. Especially when my phone will try to give me random interpretations of a poor, but interesting, processing technique. I’ll take a few more, I’m sure. But I’ll also have to take pictures in the traditional style, because I’m a realist.

Now I’m looking for a good time lapse app. Let me know if you find one.

Taught my class, rushed through all those slides so they could have some time to work on a story they have due next week.

Spent time reading and writing. The student-journalists at the Crimson are putting their paper together tonight. We got a look at the soon-to-rollout new version of the Crimson site. That’s going to look nice.

Storms rolled through. Started with high winds this morning and seemed to storm all day thereafter. It isn’t just your neighborhood. This was part of a huge mid-latitude cyclone, probably one of the largest, stronger storms we have on record in the U.S. This graphic will have changed by the time you look at it, but just imagine the southeast lit up with lighting strikes.

I cause trouble again. The al.com roundtable is back:

Auburn question 2: Ole Miss has certainly improved since losing to Jacksonville State, but is still last in the SEC West. Any chance Auburn suffers a letdown after three tough games in a row?

The most heartening thing about Auburn, when it comes to questions like this, are the attitudes on the sideline. People watching on television saw it better than those in Jordan-Hare Stadium, Saturday, but Gene Chizik looked at ease at the half. Chizik and offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn were chatting late in a one score game like it was a 30 point blowout. There’s a calm demeanor in the leadership that bodes well for potential trap games. Of course that could have just been an appearance of peace opposite the Les Miles Psycho Road Show going on across the field.

Fifty-five incendiary comments and I didn’t even say anything controversial. Sports fans are entertaining. I suppose the Alabama side of that will be up tomorrow.

Tomorrow will be busy. I should start now.

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