A film photographer and print maker living in Seattle. I write about the process of restoring and using very old cameras to make analog prints from film images in my home darkroom.
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Last Notes npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere Yeah but more smiley and less guns and more cameras! npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere A few weeks ago I posted an ad for a large tripod to better support my new 8x10 camera. A fellow responded from a town about an hour away. He said he had a “comically large” tripod that should work. npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere I don’t think every book needs to be some kind of philosophical treatise! But heard, the queue is long anyway :) npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere Yeah, I mean to be fair, I don’t usually make it past “God Emperor of Dune” but I’ve always passed over Brian’s books. npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere I always passed on the books, how are they? npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere I loved the old adventure games as a kid. Sierra, Lucas, Cyan, Infocom. npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere I haven’t made any Kallitypes but finally have all my materials for argyrotypes. I make a lot of Cyanotypes and silver gelatin prints. npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere It’s weird, when I look at it I feel warm and safe nostalgia, but also an insatiable urge to kill 🤔 npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere Thank you both! npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere They’re so well suited to each other that I’m going to ask for an annoying favor. npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere We can all have dreams npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere This is why they invented conduit! npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere Did you ever read Confessions of a Long Distance Sailor by Paul Lutus (another early mac dev turned sailor!) 🤣 npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere It’s too many Devine. npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere Could be both 🤔 npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere Yoshis island?! More like Adventure 🤣 npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere It’s gonna be like popeye but fingers npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere If it was jinxed, it was jinxed days ago! Not much we can do about it now 🤣 npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere Bold move posting this /before/ we dev the pictures 🤣 npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere 5 copies spread out in front of you in a pentagram, candles illuminating the pages of each one, while you chant the rite written out therein npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere I agree that I think it is incumbent upon us to create it. I think the co-ops offer an intriguing view of the possibilities. npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere Reading Dan Sinker’s excellent blog post this morning about how we live in the “who cares” era. It is, one the one hand, a refutation of AI slop, and on the other a much more interesting discussion looking to answer the question: “How did we end up in a world where anyone wants AI slop in the first place!”. Unsurprisingly, the answer he comes to is that nobody fucking cares. npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere Looks like you’re almost there! Just need to draw the rest of the owl now. npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere Count me in for labor :-D npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere I’m doing my best on Gravity’s Rainbow with some prodding from @npub1s8h…zg6y but this book is HARD. npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere is there already a uxn assembler built in it? 🫣 npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere This is my current plan to a T :) npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere Yes this is getting closer to it. Although, I don’t begrudge the intentional time spend here, engaged in conversation like this. But I do dislike my brains ability to seek out the comfort of checking the news for the 30th time in a day instead of being a little bit bored. npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere Yes! There are contradictions at the heart of it! npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere I’ve been slowly, successfully, waging a war with my phone. It’s not that I consider all of my time on my phone bad. My most dominant use is for engaging with communities I care about. But at the same time I see it stealing my focus and time away from activities I care deeply about. npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere woof, that and gravity’s rainbow are on that short list of books I feel like I might like if I could make it past the first hundred pages 😰 npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere Shocking when it unfurled! npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere Watched tonight with the kids. They loved it! I’m thinking about it… something about how we anthropomorphize animals and how they aren’t human and if we expect them to behave human we risk making a mistake. Not sure I’ve fully got it yet. npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere sold, saw a few of his other movies (loved Get Out, mixed on Us, didn’t seen NOPE) npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere Makes sense! I’ve never read Aldebaran so I’ve got something to add to my list. But if the vibe is that these are worlds that are hostile to human life in a kind of lovecraftian disconcern then it’ll fit right in. npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere Have you watched Scavengers Reign? npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere i’ll be interested to hear :) npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere What do you think? Gonna keep doing it? I’m at somewhere around 3 years now 😵💫 npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere That’s what i’m doing now! But I would love to make money at some point. Because I am also trapped inside of capitalism 🤔 npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere The further away from my tech job I get the more I’m convinced that the big issue is just… capitalism? 😬 npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere Unfortunately I think the design could do with a bit more than that 🤣. But it’s somewhere on the list to spend some time cleaning up the look. npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere Here is the recipe I used. All chemicals were brought to 100F and developed in a Jobo. npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere Yesterday I decided to try doing my own color film development. Modern color negative film all uses a standardized process called C-41. It’s not too different from black and white development but does require much more precise temperature control. Unfortunately C-41 developer is mildly expensive and degrades relatively quickly. npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere In the past I’ve held weights between my knees 🫣 npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere weighted explosive pull-ups can help train the power needed. (might also be fun since it seems like you’ve got pull ups down pat) npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere Ah well let’s say my knee is hurting. It happens sometimes! It happened earlier this year when I was running to pick up my daughter and stepped on something funny. No sense in pushing through and continuing heavy squats, but still want to train, so I usually take that as a sign to change up my training schedule. npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere This year has been just plagued with minor little injuries. Strained torres muscle, bakers cyst in my knee, bleh! npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere https://search.technomancy.us/why has got me wondering if you could federate a web index. Like what if I hosted an index of stuff that was relevant to me. You’d find a bunch of photography shit, some electronics stuff, programming, etc. But finding stuff that I already know about it pretty boring, usually I need to find stuff I don’t know about. What could i use someone else’s index? npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere Super smart! Thanks :) npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere @npub1z8r…mrq6 all this talk of the webring reminds me that I added a PR to add anders.conbere.org last week npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere Anyone have a recommendation for forum software these days? I’m on a bunch of sprawling photography email threads with folks from the school I attend. We’re all starting to have trouble following and looking at alternatives. npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere Lol racket is fine! It just wasn’t on the list and … I will admit… while I’ve read the others I haven’t read HTDP! So maybe something else is a better choice. npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere I find the later half of SICP gets a little in the math weeds for my very practically oriented engineer brain (says the person with a degree in algebras, but we all make mistakes when young!). npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere Why don’t we eat more pickled cauliflower?! It’s so good! npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere This helped, on reflection I think I can massage the same software that makes my static blog to make a wiki for me. It probably won’t have every fancy feature I could want, but it will be very easy to get going. npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere I might want to pick your brain on running a wiki in today's day and age. Increasingly I'm running out of brain space to store the intersection of all the photography related things I learn. Been considering a wiki as a solution. npub1g4war8y5pcxnsmjcsn8ka2ky3eqca3nr0ptytu7qltppm4k26jrsdgntuv Anders Conbere Hello all! Recent immigrant from mastodon.social (I’ll need to figure out more about what that means).
