Philip Greenspun may think that with tools like OpenACS they've built some really cool communities like Photo.net. And while all of the above are actually really well done, the best online community that I have ever found is The Lomographic Society International, particularly their photo.ping.pong service. It includes the Lomohomes, a sprawling "virtual capital" of lomowalls and guestbooks. Sadly, there are still a lot of empty homes (probably made under an earlier version of the service), but the filled ones are very fun to visit. In the guestbooks, you're identified as your screen name and current "key lomohome image". With a plethora of contests, clever writing and design, and a worldwide collection of submissions shot under the "don't think, just shoot" mantra using this bizarre range of cameras - it's bound to be a good time. Lo-fi, analogue, quirky, ahhhh. I feel so at home here.
sigh - I was going to post to an odd Eucci & Co. track here called gd-jamjamjam04 and say "then again, this is what I tend to do when given a guitar, a lovely composer girl in the studio, and one on the phone," but EUC.CX is down for the time being while I tuck away time to rebuild; No Type is still rebuilding; DISTORTED MEDIA disappeared a long time ago; .tiln has only barely started showing signs of life again. So - all my online albums are offline, for better or worse. But I guess I can say "then again, this is what I tend to do when making recordings on the sound of a hard drive dying." And if you don't mind mp3.com, it turns out the jam still exists somewhere online. Now I just need to find the much more harse gd-jamjamjam01-03's. :)
A recent picture of my dad, taken with a supersampler and some Ilford XP2 film (color processable black and white). this is the raw scan. we made that apron for him many many years ago for fathers day.