April 18, 2009 Roll Out the Red Carpet written by Steven Barrymore I walked into the lobby of the Bankhead Theater in Livermore, California with Charlie Chaplin. Mr. Chaplin is alive and well, portrayed by Robert Martin. Robert has been performing the Chaplin character for over 10 15 years in San Francisco for visitors from [...]

June 14, 2010 Typewriter With A Split Personality written by Steven Barrymore I am a sucker for technology, old school and new. I came across a combination of old and new tech in a YouTube video that really caught my attention. Developer Jack Zylkin, a is a reclusive genius with 57 cats, according to his [...]

Being of Life — the Blog and Images Magical web site have moved to a NEW hosting service. The web site is being updated and the Blog is being rebuilt. March 10, 2008 Update: The major portions of the update and rebuild are complete. The new hosting service provided great support in this transition process.

June 23, 2008 Online Social Networking written by Steven Barrymore I have dabbled in online social networking. I have failed at online social networking. I do understand that each online social networking site is a ‘community’ of like-minded people. There is an etiquette to online social networking, of which I bungled on one popular site. [...]

January 13, 2008 written by Steven Barrymore photographs by Steven Barrymore FROM THE FILM COLLECTION Taking some time off. The Being of Life articles will return next month. Below are some favorite images from a collection of slides, photographed circa 1980′s in San Francisco. These scenes were photographed with Leica equipment (Reflex and rangefinder). Image [...]

January 31, 2009 The Amicus Brief written by Steven Barrymore The words Amicus Brief, read like an action movie title. And there is plenty of action swirling around California’s Proposition 8 (same sex marriage). The opponents, 40 law firms and other interested parties, to California Proposition 8 have filed an Amicus Brief with the California [...]