u/davidlondon

I’ve been lurking in this sub long enough to know my baby belongs here: The AH-64 Apache. I was a 68X Armament, Electronics, Avionics Tech in the 1-101st Aviation Regt. 101st Airborne Division in the 90s. We still had the A models back then. My MOS was qualified as Gunner if the need arose and I spent my formative years in the cockpit of these birds. Every switch, exquisitely analog. Everything glowed green at night. Every screen shitty by today’s standards and yet could be used to pick off targets at 10-11 kilos out.

I could do a 15 minute TED Talk just on the flight helmet and retical alone that sounds so cyberpunk you wouldn’t believe it. And this bird was rolled out in 1975.

Thought you’d appreciate some functional, battle-tested cassette futurism.

Bonus Fact: there is, in fact, a cassette in each bird. In the tail of each is a fat VHS-looking tape that records everything the pilots say and see. I can’t tell you how many of those tapes end with “hey, watch this!”

The brakelight reflections off the old tiles have a Tron kinda feel. I was stuck in construction traffic, so I took a bunch of these for possible album covers.

Stuck below a river in a 1930s tunnel while work crews allow one lane of traffic to pass at a time. Stale air. Old tiles called to me.

This isn't self-promotion. It's a thank you. I've posted a few times here asking for ND stories. Specifically, I was looking for how parents and teachers and other students treated you when you were younger. I took many of those answers and incorporated them into a book I made. It's a graphic novel about neurodiversity and finding a comfortable place to be yourself without judgement. I'm not trying to sell anything here. I just wanted to show you what I made.

And yes, those student are, in fact, robots. I've always said "I'm wired different" when describing how I am, long before I knew what neurodiversity was. And since I can't pass up a bad pun, I made all the characters robots who are literally wired different.

https://www.wireddifferentbooks.com/

NOTE: I added the Brand Affiliate flair because I'm not sure how posting a book works. To publish it, I made my own publishing company. I've actually made several companies and it was only recently while reading ADHD2.0 that I learned that THAT is a thing that's common among certain ADHD. Who knew, right?

I find that shooting moody photos with high contrast between well lit areas and dark edges make for easy liminal photography. BUT can an 84 degree day in NYC in broad daylight be considered liminal?

Fujifilm X100S. No post other than monochrome conversion from .RAF raw.

One of my favorite shots from the Royal Oak Memorial Day Ceremony today. This Boy Scout standing on tiptoes to read the names of the fallen. Thanks, kid. And thanks to the Den Leader for guiding kids to be selfless and compassionate.

Also, the infamous Michigan Weather™, longtime foe of this subreddit, came through today.

Taken at an ungodly speed shooting upward into a chandelier. Canon 5D Mark III with 24-105mm f/4L IS USM.