More photos from the last month or so. All taken with the Ricoh GR II. Still don’t really know what I’m doing. Tried editing these in Lightroom rather than Apple Photos. Also, E got me a book on street photography for Christmas; hoping I can pick up a few ...
For quick access the rangefinder overlays in black and white, .eps and .svg: via Dropbox E’s working on a really cool zine collecting film photos she’s taken over the last few months. She’s arranged all these photos (some taken by her, some taken by me) ...
I’ve been taking some (out of focus, blurry, overexposed) film photos using E’s camera for the last couple months and that’s been really fun, so I was interested in something that would be less fragile and was specifically for street photography. Got a ...
First off, this past two weeks I’ve been getting overwhelmed trying to dive in the deep end with YouTube tutorials on Ableton. I had just been searching ‘Lo-fi hiphop tutorial ableton’ and this gave me some results I found difficult to understand. The ...
I asked Jonathan a form of the question we had discussed around discomfort: What’s an area of your life that you constantly think about, yet still feel like you aren’t making the progress that you’d like. Why? I answered the following: 1. Courage. Why: As ...
This one was interesting. I tried to do the same chord approach as the first Lofi post I made, where I followed a music-theory-ish tutorial and copied the chords he added. I tried to use the same principles and pick chords whose names I forget… and it ...
This is a random story fragment totally for fun. I don’t know whether it needs to go anywhere, and the plot is extremely vague. I’m reading A Hundred Years of Solitude, and one of the things I like very much is its high-level, detached way of describing ...
You can’t always expect to be comfortable. If you have that expectation, you’re in for disappointment. By constantly seeking comfort, you’re training yourself to be unhappy. Comfort is contentment with the status quo. It’s not a bad thing. It’s different ...
Before asking a question to someone, take a moment and ask yourself the same question—it’s an opportunity to form an opinion. Ask the same question first to someone else, and they form the opinion for you. When you become a vessel for other’s opinions you ...
Watched a tutorial on writing chords for lofi hiphop without samples. I thought about looking into samples but this felt more in line with the stuff I’ve been playing around with, and working with samples is something I haven’t tried yet in Ableton. I ...