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January 20, 2024

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Obviously, my “Thing A Day” attempt was dead almost before it began. I am, it
turns out, just too fucking busy to faff about making disembodied hands videos
every day for the shit of it. 

But w/e. I’ll see if I can’t catch back up but I ain’t sweating it. I’m not
numbering them any more, though. That is a tyrannical way to make things. Which
brings us to these photos. I buy virtually every camera I come across in thrift
stores or yard sales. As a result, I have a whole lot of consumer crap film
cameras, including several 110-format (and disk, but those are basically
paperweights at this juncture.) A few years back, Lomo was having a sale on
four-packs of mix-and-match 110 film, and I bought some. I loaded two cameras (a
fairly nice Minolta 110, and a piece of shit Kodak 110) and then immediately
forgot about them. A couple weeks ago, I found them in a drawer, both with
unexposed rolls of film in them, and took them out for a spin. 

The piece of shit Kodak camera _sucks_ at abstract photography. Everything I
took with it looks like a 1970s tourist snapshot. However, the Minolta, with a
roll of Lomo Orca black-and-white, got some fairly interesting abstract shots. I
think the last one in the set above is my dog. I am pleased with these, but I
couldn’t say why. 

In other news, I entered my first juried photography show. I’ll let you know how
that goes. 




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12/365 DTPHX

January 15, 2024

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Since both Doggy McDogface and I get mighty bored walking around the
neighborhood twice a day, we have started taking field trips to other parts of
the city for our morning walk. For this one, we drove down to what traffic
reporters call “the Tunnel,” which is a section of the I-10 freeway that is
covered with a park. The neighborhood is our “arts district,” such as it is in
Phoenix. Lots of interesting things to see and photograph. I only had the LX-7
with me, so these are Panasonic-centric looks. Really starting to like this
little camera. I scored a little movie for an instagram reel of these photos,
which you can see here.

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11/365 VIBE

January 14, 2024


This kind of thing doesn’t photograph very well (or, if you’re a Twitch streamer
or some sort of shouty “BWUTZUPGUYZEZZZZ!!!!” vlogger, perhaps too well) so let
me just say that in person, it doesn’t look so ARE. GEE. BEE!!!! I decided to
give my office a vibe check, and I found it lacking. So I built a shelf, which
effectively gave me half again my desk space, back lit it, and gave it a rack.
Now I can just push everything out of the way and have a full desk for whatever.
Next few days: I’ll design a little bracket in Blender and 3D print it to attach
a powered USB hub to the underside in a convenient place, and I’m going to dress
all the cables very neatly, thus forcing this to be my situation for the
foreseeable future. 

Short term: gonna get rid of the shitty pine shelves above my desk, and add nice
floating shelves of baltic birch ply to match the desk, and 3D print an
organizer to go on the wall space currently occupied by my AxiDraw. 


Long term: going to empty out my office, scrape the popcorn off the ceiling, do
a treatment for sound, and put built-in cabinets along the wall behind me (per
this photo.) Then we’ll be vibin’. 

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10/365 CANARY

January 14, 2024


Apologies for the lack of throughput. I have been doing Things every day, and
documenting them, but this has been a remarkably busy week for me; we got our
main bathroom renovated, and a lot of the finish work is on me (because it
“saves money” or whatever, apparently). 

Which brings us to the photo above; we hired out most of the renovation
(plumbing, tile work, drywall, etc., basically the tweaky parts that suck) and I
restified the original vanity from 80s Coke Dealer Honey Oak to something that
would theoretically be in a tasteful mid-century modern house. I also removed
the big built-in closet in the bathroom, and in its place, I am building a sort
of sideboard thing. Through shear happenstance, Woodworker’s Source (the best
store in the world) was having an end-of-year sale on live edge slabs, and I
bought the gigantic slab of canarywood you see pictured above. 




So, I have spent the last several days molding this slab in to the perfect size
and shape to fit in the bathroom; it is not finished yet. For photography’s
purposes, I engaged in the fine woodworker’s trick of wiping it down with
denatured alcohol. I will finish it with Odie’s Oil, as I do all of my
woodworking, and weld the lower part. I haven’t decided whether to do shelves or
drawers underneath; I’m going to weld up the carcass, and then we’ll live with
it for a couple months and see how we feel about things, which is normal for
furniture I build. I am, however, going to make two floating shelves above it,
also of canarywood. As soon as I have this built, I’ll do those. 

Thanks for suffering this brief pause. I am taking tomorrow off from chores, and
episodes 11, 12, 13, and 14 will all go up tomorrow throughout the day. 

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9/365 CAN’T STOP WON’T STOP

January 10, 2024

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So I have solved the “everyday carry” problem. While that Nikon S8000 point
and shoot was fun, and it does take some interesting images, at the end of the
day, I need something with a few more features and a bit more heft to it. I had
been looking at a Ricoh GRIII, but honestly, the thought of spending a thousand
dollars on a point-and-shoot just seems ridiculous. If I was a professional I
might have a different opinion, but I am not. So it is obviously far better to
spend $200 five times than $1000 once. To that end, I had settled on the
“premium point and shoot” market, and principally the Panasonic DMC-LX7. There
are current models, the LX10 and LX100, but I think the 7 had the right combo of
features and glass that I was looking for. It was actually kind of difficult to
buy this very common camera. I initially ordered one from mpb, but their
relationship with online commerce is rooted in 1997, and after two phone calls
to try to get this fucking camera in a box and on its way, I just said “this is
stupid cubed right here” and canceled the order. 

Next stop was eBay. The first one I bought, the seller cancelled the order (I
assume they sold it locally, on Craigslist or Facebook.) The second one I
purchased the day after Christmas, and this knucklehead didn’t even send it
until last Friday. But it finally arrived yesterday, and Luna and I took it for
a test drive. This short video is the result. 

I am _extremely_ happy with the abstract stuff. It will take some faffing about
with the settings to get it to do macros how I like, and the A7C with its Sigma
macro lens is always going to be the more useful tool for that, and for product
shots and what not, but I think this will be my main street photography axe for
some time. 

Music: Axon 3 + Quanta 2 + Continua.




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