I've been really lucky. I don't post here often, but I've been living out on Oahu the last like 5 years. It's been wonderful, it's beautiful and I get to spend so much time hiking, or out in the water, or just looking at everything. It's informed my art, it's given me opportunity to work on my photography with amazing material, learn from incredible people,...
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jadestone:
Wow that's sooo cool!
cryptek:
@jadestonerthanks ^_^
Between the quarantines, workplaces being lovely as always, actually catching covid.... time slips away sometimes. A lot has happened even though at times it's felt like this last couple years has just been some purgatory. I'm back in classes, I've picked up so many old hobbies (skateboard and roller skating, painting and craft) and some new ones (mostly VR and VR accessories), finally upgraded my...
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Slow adjustments to The New Normal. People are hitting a second level of stock-up here on island. Normal canned isles, the beans are GONE. But ethnic food isles, they're untouched. Frozen veggies? GONE. Fresh veggies and frozen fruits and canned veggies untouched.
There is a bunch of ways to prep and I get that some people don't have the means to have a couple month...
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Wild couple weeks!
Pow Wow just had it's 10 year anniversary event for Hawaii. They do events all over the world, but it's home is Hawaii. It was over a week of murals going up, artist events, concerts and gallery events and more. I got some digital photos in, but I mostly ran around with some film cameras and I can't wait to get those...
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Little delayed, but a lot of my resolutions are centered on creating... so I made a 2020 poster thing about optimistic creation.
The process for making this was something I call "Automatic Design," after the surrealist "automatic drawing." Idea is going into the piece with only a vague idea or direction maybe, and just chaotically moving shapes around and letting the concepts take form on
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cryptek:
This... did not age well did it? Well 2022 is 2020 too so second chances n stuff.
Great finds at the bimonthly film swap ^_^ New finds for my little Nikon 35mm, got a shift lens for architecture and a great closeup bellows that should be nice for portraits. Still hoping to fabricate or find parts to make a technical camera system so I can blend the different tools I have, but looking forward to testing out some of the new things...
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Starting the new year with an extended workweek, but it's followed by my time getting freed up again. I may have time to go to the fireworks on island each week, and the overtime from all the extra start-of-year hours could go a long way to upgrading my digital camera (which sorely needs it).
Much as some routine is nice, having change in schedules and
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jimmieknuckles:
maybe just conditioned after forty some years, but the drone ones seems less "american" to me.we had a laser show in my area as well and i jus looked at it thinking "heres the'merica? when are we gonna blow shit up/" fun to watch all the same
cryptek:
@jimmieknuckles yeah it's a tricky balance. The intel drones have dome some amazing works, but they remind me of the fireworks in Tron:Legacy more than traditional.
Making resolutions has always been weirdly important to me, been making a big deal out of them since I was like 8 or 9. At some point I figured out that a list of resolutions didn't work though. I kept getting vague or just making an endless silly bucket list.
Maybe 5 years ago I began to make a list of "areas of improvement" that...
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unita:
great plans, great text! thank you for sharing and good luck💖
cryptek:
@unita Thanks ^_^