John Astin | Chris Aldrich

While I was updating Indieweb/site-deaths, I was reminded to download my TwitPic archive. It sold to Twitter almost two years ago this week and has been largely inactive since.

It includes some of the earliest photos I ever took and posted online via mobile phone. Looking at the quality, it’s interesting to see how far we’ve come. It’s also obvious why photo filters became so popular.

02/07/2009 UCLA is spanking Notre Dame on an early rainy morning basketball game.

05/07/2009 Beverly Hills Hotel

05/09/2009

05/17/2009 A gray sunset in Laguna Beach

01/20/2010 Breakfast with a Hopkins Student at One World Cafe

12/16/2009 Veggie Cafe with Rama Kunapuli

12/12/2009 A visit out to Jason Calacanis’ office

11/26/2009 Visit to In-N-Out Glendale

05/22/2009 Excellent breakfast at Athenaeum & tour of interesting microscopy lab at Caltech; only photo I got was this??

07/19/2008 Back down to the first floor @WholeFoods

07/17/2008 Dinner at Hugo’s

07/19/2008 Meat! (at Whole Foods Market Pasadena)

07/19/2008 The 2nd floor of @WholeFoods in Pasadena is bigger than most average grocery stores. Is that a restaurant over there?

05/16/2009 Hello Laguna Beach…

06/26/2009 Massive media zoo at UCLA for passing of Michael Jackson! 32 SAT trucks. LAPD army camped out.

11/13/2009 (The house on Dartmouth Drive that I bought.)

09/20/2008 UCLA vs Arizona at the Rose Bowl

09/13/2008 Steven Chan session at #drupalcampla

05/15/2009 (Art gallery in downtown LA)

01/06/2012

05/30/2009 Jason’s pre-wedding jitters finally tamed with a project: Papier Mache!

05/30/2009 Breakfast with @viperwriter on the day of his wedding.

11/10/2010 (Mike Miller’s UCLA math class)

03/13/2010 (A Johns Hopkins University Event in Los Angeles)

07/09/2009 In keeping with the zeitgeist, I’m enjoying birthday cupcakes for dessert!

06/28/2009 Nice chat with Bradley Whitford. Gave me autograph for Sonia:”Santos 2012?! – BW” Such a good guy.

06/26/2009 Michael Jackson media circus dying down. Only 9 satellite trucks at 12:42am PST outside UCLA Med

06/26/2009 Hanging out with Nobel Prizewinner Martin Chalfe in front of my poster on GFP.

06/26/2009 Massive media zoo at UCLA for passing of Michael Jackson! 32 SAT trucks. LAPD army camped out.

06/06/2009 Afternoon snack with John Astin

06/06/2009 Breakfast at One World Cafe

06/05/2009 Having lunch with PM Forni at Gertrudes.

08/03/2008 Out for an evening constitutional in the cooling San Marino Breeze

05/31/2009 The first sunrise on the beginning of Jason & Molly’s marriage. Good luck kids!

05/31/2009 Rosy-fingered dawn touches the sky over Delaware at 5:30am.

05/01/2009 Can you tell how I know this BMW is driven by an IT professional? Taken on 110 S into downtown Los Angeles this morning.

10/06/2010 (A peek into the social media class at UCLA)

04/02/2009 Absorbing genius from Dr. Sol Golomb (as he teaches combinatorics)

02/27/2009 Hanging out with Communications Gods Andrew Viterbi, Sol Golomb, and Robert Gray

“Homewood campus, Peabody Conservatory, East Baltimore campus have made cameos big and small over the years”

Source: Johns Hopkins on film: A guide to university cameos big and small

It’s almost like they write some of this stuff just for me. Though I was already aware of most of the movies they mentioned, they did miss a few:

Washington Square (1997) directed by Agnieszka Holland in Hollywood Pictures/Caravan Pictures production has a stunning cameo of the interior of the Peabody Library – this cameo is the only reason I vaguely remember the film at all.

The Johns Hopkins Science Review (1948-1955) This production is also particularly notable as being the television debut (October 8, 1951) of actor and alum John Astin who now heads the JHU Drama program and for whom the eponymous theater in the Merrick Barn is named.

Fratricide (1966) – A very independent short black and white film (with no credits) starring professor Richard Macksey that was produced by a group of students which included later Hollywood luminaries Walter Murch (who just a few years later co-wrote THX 1138 with George Lucas), Caleb Deschanel, and Matthew Robbins, who coincidentally co-wrote Crimson Peak with Guillermo del Torro which comes out in theaters today.

I have a nagging feeling there are a few more, but they’re just not coming to me at the moment…

By the way, for those suffering through Head of State, you should know in advance that the Shriver Hall scene doesn’t appear until the very end of the movie and then plays through the credits.