2022-02-06
i have a soft spot for grimy puddles
find dusk
look at this dope chair. it's crazy there are like hundreds of these, and you can just sit on them in a public library
this tour guide was just the cutest. like 5 years later i still remember being very charmed
i'm enjoying how junky this process is. i like that each phase of me fucking up can appear in the final image.
pretty sure this was a test shot. i remember the light in my room being extra dreamy that day
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i finally got a film scanner! i've been shooting film on-and-off since college. i'd develop the film and stash it with my student work, but i didn't have a good way of processing it.
back in high school i would borrow my parents' digital camera, and brought it with me everywhere. it was maybe 2003 when i started putting my pictures on the internet. back then it wasn't yet normal for a person to post hundreds of photos per month.
once a month (or less often), i'd dump all the photos from the camera onto my computer. then i'd upload those to my website, and painstakingly caption each one. the process was terrible, and took many hours, but still i loved it.
most of the photos i scanned in this afternoon were either test photos, or unusable due to bad exposure. but looking through the pictures that turned out, i felt the way i did back in high school.
the internet used to be a place of visiting. you visited websites, and you did it because you were interested in the things on it.
i thought about posting these photos to instagram. i came very close to posting these photos to instagram. if i'm being honest, the thing that pushed me over the edge into spending the effort of making this website, and the $12 for a domain name, was that instagram is picky about image aspect ratios.
it's fitting that a design choice intended to optimize the content feed is what brings us here.
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you can visit whenever you want, and when you do, the only things i'll offer you are my weird photos, and some commentary on them.
anyway, i took these between 2017 and 2019ish. i think?
- carlos