I spent the afternoon taking pictures of Dylan's new Feeping Creatures. They're awesome little polymer clay figurines he's made; I've already snagged the little scheming teardrop on this page.

I'm sure Dylan will put up the full set of images soon (check his LJ, linked to above, for info about how you can snag your own on EBay, plug plug), but here's my favorite imagery from the day:

A Feep Turtle. (Because at a First Thursday a few months back, a surprising number of individuals were like, "these are cool, but do you have any turtles?")

We did the second half of the shoot on the University of Texas (Austin) campus; this just seemed like a canonical campus shot to me:

And finally, one of the deer that lives near our apartment complex was kind enough to pose for me when I finally had my telephoto lens in the car:

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Here's what I'm looking for: something that has a CF reader on one side, and a Firewire or USB port on the other. I can plug it into my portable USB or Firewire hard drive, and it pulls the photos off the CF card and smacks them onto the hard drive. Later, I can attach the hard drive to my laptop and pull stuff off of that. Does it exist? My google searches aren't inventive enough; I keep coming up against 6-in-1 media readers.

(Of course, even if I found this, I'd still have to figure out how to power the hard drive, so it's probably still going to be more economical to get something like an iPod + media reader, or the Archos Gmini 220.)

Update: From the comments here, a pointer to the Wolverine SixPac Media Reader & Storage Drive, which seems in the same kind of vein as the Gmini, but a lot cheaper and no LCD screen (which doesn't seem like a big deal).

Also, a pointer to the Macally SyncBox, which seems almost exactly like what I was envisioning (especially since I already have a CF card reader), but still retains the pesky problem of powering the drive.  11:45:36 AM  (comments [])