Today, for the first time since I received knee surgery back in January, I tackled one of my formerly regular 10km dirttrack/hill runs. Not at my usual speed, mostly—I’m still too scared, and I’m also not exactly in top shape. But it sure felt great! What also resumed as of last Friday is work; my watching-the-balcony-being-flooded-by-torrential-rains staycation is finally over. Then, photos. These will resume differently. The first thing that changed, I’m off of Glass after two years; the app‘s future development hasn’t kept up with its annual price tag for much too long. Thus, my public profile’s gone, with all the photo edits into which I put a substantial amount of love and work. Luckily, just in case this would ever happen, I always tucked a copy away into a special Flickr album; so they’re still online even if the interface isn’t as slick. The second thing that changed, I will post new pre-Corona Flickr albums a lot less frequently or not at all for a while because I want to prioritize editing them to get done with it. (Uploading them in a controlled and well-tagged manner is a whole ’nother process in itself.) When I’m done, I will resume uploads but can simultaneously travel on to farther shores—like focusing on 110, APS, expired film, and analog photography in general.
During the last two weeks, I wrote brief movie reviews on Les Amandiers, which was fairly terrible, and Past Lives, which was the best independent movie I’ve seen this year by a margin. Next, concert season’s on again! Then, my book The Ludotronics Game Design Methodology commenced shipping, my comp copies arrived, and I redecorated the book’s companion website. No new albums on Flickr, as mentioned above, but a handful of new entries at my betweendrafts Instagram account and my daily vintage-style travel squaries at Pixelfed.
As for my weekly random recommendation, here’s a great video on Dave Bull carving out ukiyo-e woodblocks of selected motifs from Hokusai’s Picture Book of Everything. I could watch stuff like this the whole day (and sometimes do).
J.
During the last two weeks, I wrote brief movie reviews on Les Amandiers, which was fairly terrible, and Past Lives, which was the best independent movie I’ve seen this year by a margin. Next, concert season’s on again! Then, my book The Ludotronics Game Design Methodology commenced shipping, my comp copies arrived, and I redecorated the book’s companion website. No new albums on Flickr, as mentioned above, but a handful of new entries at my betweendrafts Instagram account and my daily vintage-style travel squaries at Pixelfed.
As for my weekly random recommendation, here’s a great video on Dave Bull carving out ukiyo-e woodblocks of selected motifs from Hokusai’s Picture Book of Everything. I could watch stuff like this the whole day (and sometimes do).
J.