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2021.01.15

wish i would use this blog consistently, ever 😩

i’ve been taking photos since there’s nothin else to do

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2019.12.02

i got a tripod so i wanted to try rack focusing which is, like, a pretty straightforward thing to do but anyway...hire me as an AC already sheesh!

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2019.11.24

it’s been uhhhh a long time since i used this blog, probably a combination of having less energy since i graduated college and also my general laziness. i’m reacquainting myself with my camera, partly because i want to shoot more Video Art. but it was really windy today so i didn’t stay out too long. i used my all-plastic holga lens, hence the unsubtle vignette effect. 

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im drawing pokemon dammit

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i wrote some elementary pixel sorting algorithms in python

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David Wojnarowicz was born on this day in 1954. Untitled (One day this kid …) includes a grainy image of the artist as a child, set within a text he wrote that outlines what he saw the future holding for a queer person. The Whitney will mount the first major, monographic presentation of the artist’s work in over a decade in summer 2018. Explore his work in the Whitney’s collection. 

[David Wojnarowicz, Untitled (One day this kid …), 1990. Photostat, 30 × 40 1/8 in. (76.2 × 101.9 cm). Edition of 10. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Print Committee  2002.183. Courtesy of The Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York, NY]

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need to take more photos to justify a lens upgrade

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look ma, no hands

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ok so maybe i havent done anything besides doodling in a long long time. but heres the proof that ive at least been doodling.

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i randomly found 4 prismacolor markers in my basement. maybe from when my brother was in Art School? anyway i did some doodling

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failed experiment (magnetic tape and thread)

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i guess i never posted a photo from my video project Memory #1 all set up so here's a photo i took

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excerpt from a recent A/V project

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brainstorming an assignment but i dont think i'm going to use any of these

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schoolwork w/e

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what i learned while transferring my short movie to vhs:

a lot of VCRs have remote controls, but luckily AV-input is accessible from the channel selection on the front panel

most laptops send digital output, but VCRs only accept analog input. luckily, my laptop randomly has VGA out, which can be easily converted into an RCA video output

movies officially released on VHS have a little notch taken out of the plastic so that the VCR won’t record over them. If you tape a piece of paper into this notch, you can trick the VCR into thinking it isn’t there. this is a lot like how if the locking mechanism of your SD card falls off in the wash, you can tape over it to make the reader think the lock is disengaged