November 2012 Wallpaper

Okay, so I'm late. And, since I'm so late, I'm taking this as an opportunity to deliver what is, effectively, a remix of October. This started out by playing around with an app on my iPhone called Decim8. It's nice to see someone, anyone, offering some filters/effects that aren't steeped in the ocean of nostalgia. My only knock on the app is that it caps out at a fairly low-resolution even though I fed it a JPEG from a 45 meg negative scan. I guess I should be happy it didn't choke out on the file altogether. Speaking of resolution, I did end up tweaking this a bit in Photoshop. So if it's a bit soft in places, well. . . there you go.

If I wasn't crushed, I'd have hoped to have worked on it with Pixelmator instead. Maybe next month since I'll (hypothetically) have a couple of days of down time.

This isn't an aesthetic I'd use every time, but I see the appeal. And maybe I'm more than partial to the irony of running an image shot on film through a distinctly digital process.

Get Out and Vote

I actually prefer to vote on election day—you usually vote close to where you live. Election day is a snapshot of your neighbors that is unavailable at any other time. So, go out and vote. My friends and family in North Carolina can find their polling places via the N.C.State Board of Elections. Those polling locations should be open from 6:30 this morning until 7:30 this evening.

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October 2012 Wallpaper

A bit belated while the site was down, but now we're back. This is actually something that I shot on film a long time ago while in Memphis. At first i was going to clean it up, then I thought I was going to dirty it up. I decided to just put it up and hope you enjoy it.

What's not to love?

Look, I'm a fan of web, ePub and the whole Brave New World of publishing. But books that manage to transcend the expected and emerge as mechanical art objects are reminders that, technology be damned, there's a special place for print.

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