[Leica] Rented an SL and its lens for the WFMU Marathon (semi-review, photos)

[Sonny Carter]

online here:  https://wfmu.org/

in Jersey City  91.1 and the Hudson Valley 90.1

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> > On Mar 18, 2016, at 9:26 PM, Jeff Moore <jbmmllug at jbm.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Nice. I have fond memory of public radio from our time in America, and
> > incredibly, we still have mugs from WHYY in Philadelphia from the early
> > 90s. They have survived several international moves.
> >
> > That's cool!  WHYY in Philadelphia is one of the better public radio
> > stations, producing some good shows (like Terry Gross's Fresh Air) which
> > get shared around the network.
> >
> > WFMU, though - WFMU isn't a public radio station in any of the accustomed
> > senses of the word.  WFMU isn't part of those conventional public-radio
> > networks (NPR, PRI, APM), and proudly, belligerently sometimes, has
> nothing
> > like the style of public radio.  WFMU is a singularity (with a broad
> > international listenership, by the way).  It's completely freeform (which
> > is to say that each individual DJ plays or does what that DJ wants to
> play
> > or do - within the limits of US broadcast obscenity rules, of course).
> > There's so much variety that some new listeners are initially kind of
> > befuddled - because depending on whose slot they tune in for, they could
> > hear: 78 RPM records and Edison cylinders played on period equipment,
> > facemelting Nordic death metal, sincere folk singers, Japanese pop,
> > roadhouse honky-tonk, obscure 1970s pop/rock, straight-ahead rock and
> roll,
> > free jazz, twelve-tone modern "classical" music, hard bop, garage rock,
> > 1980s-sounding jangle rock... or any of a few talk shows.
> >
> > http://www.wfmu.org/table
> >
> > One of the secrets to happy listenership is that once you identify your
> > favorite DJs - people whose taste frequently aligns with your own - you
> can
> > listen to their shows at your convenience, because shows at WFMU are
> > archives and playable on demand (via the website or via the Android or
> iOS
> > apps).
> >
> > http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/
> > http://www.wfmu.org/mobile.shtml
> >
> > If any people here want to tell me (off list - I've done almost enough
> > plugging here) what kinds of music they like, I'll be glad to recommend a
> > few shows they might enjoy listening to.
>
>
> classical, classic jazz, foreign esp French please Nathan,
>
>
> where is this station located? ie out of ?
>
> thanks,
>
> Steve
>
>
> >
> > And back partly on topic - I'll continue to drop pictures taken with the
> SL
> > in the previously-referred-to Flickr pile.   Some more added this
> evening:
> >
> > https://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/sets/72157665752167155
> >
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Sonny
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Natchitoches, Louisiana
1714
Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase

USA