19 Aug 2024

Weeknotes 18

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    Media

    • I’m still obsessively listening to Chappell Roan—Good Luck, Babe! is perhaps the most perfect song? (or maybe it’s Picture You. Or Pink Pony Club. Or My Kink Is Karma.)
    • I finally watched RRR, and it was the most sickosmeme movie watching experience I’ve ever had. Every action scene was like, yes…hahaha…YES!!! and it just kept escalating. I will be listening to Dosti and Naatu Naatu on repeat.
    • Destiny finally loosened its grip on me and I’m not spending much time on it these days, which means I may pick up FFXIV again soon!! (i’m so close to the award-winning heavensward expansion…)
    • I went to see St. Vincent perform, which was very cool and very loud. Favs: Reckless, Los Ageless, Cheerleader.
    A low-quality photo of St. Vincent performing with her band on stage under red lights.
    we love blurry zoomed in concert photos…
    Me standing on a street, putting on a mask and wearing a black dress, jacket, and boots.
    fit
    Selfie of me. I'm wearing black and have a short bob.
    lòók

    Photography

    I’m getting back into photography!! I bought a new lens for my mirrorless camera, batteries for my point-and-shoot film camera, and a new half-frame film camera, lol. I really need to figure out a good way of sharing photos now.

    A Fujifilm mirrorless camera with a small lens.
    new pancake lens 🤏
    Holding a compact Nikon film camera.
    the point-and-shoot

    Some film photos

    The closed side of pink and white food truck, which is parked in front of a sports stadium.
    A grassy field with people lounging about on picnic blankets and benches on a sunny day.
    Looking out the window from inside a dark restaurant.
    A plant nursery, shot through a chain link fence.

    Some digital photos

    I finally learned what film simulation recipes are. I cycled through a few here and don’t remember which I used for specific pics, but I had Pacific Blues, Kodachrome II, and Kodak Gold 200.

    Indoor mirror selfie where I’m holding a mirrorless camera up to my face.
    Looking across a crosswalk to the other side, where a pedestrian path leads up a slope and into a walkway between some buildings. The path is lined with trees.
    Some soft pink flowers in a bush.
    A path leading to a small building, which features large windows and rounded edges. The photo has warm tones and overcast.
    A tall, narrow structure in the distance with a large ‘Q’ at the top and the words ‘hotel,’ under an overcast sky.
    The silhouette of the 'Q' structure, framed by some small buildings. It sits on the edge of a pier. It's sunset and the sky and clouds are many shades of orange, blue, and yellow.

    Other things

    I watched my best friend get married, celebrated my birthday, and finally harvested some of my cherry tomatoes.

    Me holding a bouquet of flowers and wearing a pale green dress.
    c’est moi
    A pretty arrangement of white, soft yellow, and blue flowers in a vase.
    took my bridesmaid flowers home after
    Holding five cherry tomatoes in my hand, which range from small to very small.
    i grew these
    A pretty arrangement of white, pink, and blue flowers, framed by green leaves.
    more flowers

    And this week I’m off to Portland with my partner for XOXO! (Say hi! Find me in the Slack! Talk to me about websites, art, comics, Destiny, or other weird internet things!)