From Earlier This Year

Earlier this year I was doing a running routine during lunches and brought my camera with me to see if I can get some snaps. Using this Minolta DiMage XT is not easy sometimes considering how old the tech is, but I do happen to force myself to take pictures a certain way. It's actually pretty fun and does really require anything else other than patience.












I think that image making is starting to make sense again. Mainly because I'm not necessarily trying to do anything crazy outlandish and am just trying to just keep a diary of things that I do and see. I'm becoming more aware that taking photos even the littlest of creatures can really help expand your mind when you limit yourself with specific tools. Having everything all at once kinda makes things worse lol.

Maybe one day I'll exhibit some of these works somewhere, but right now I'm having too much fun working with this angle of photography. I hope it doesn't stop and hope that I can make something out of it. A bit ago a co-worker had gifted me an enlarger to have and am wondering what kind of experiments I wanna try to partake in. Hopefully this will help me sort of work on the cyanotype of printing I've been wanting to try over the last few years. We'll see.


- Art(icle)

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Finally a Picture of Me

Just recently Mike Adame sold a small run of these shirts. Being the Mike Adame fan that I am I found myself grabbing one with the intention to advertise it. The other day I went on a grocery run with my fiance and sought the opportunity for her to take a picture of me in front of some items using my Minolta DigiCam. And yeah this is the result. It was fun lol.

Kinda made me think how fun it is to just post images these days and I think (if i'm not burnt out doing it) I could just start posting stuff again just to make the habit of exercising that muscle. I do miss editing and finding ways of take pictures and editing them on my computer and letting them rock out in the world and go onto the next picture and do the same thing again. Especially since I have this digicam I want to just start figuring out how to make pictures look as good as it can be without having to deal with the nonsense of all this AI shit that's been happening for the last few years. Just freakin' have fun and let the images just rock ya know?

I'm sure there a lot of images out there that I took awhile back that I haven't edited yet. Most of the images during the editing process that I'm completed have been the film stuff and that's going to take a looong time to edit. It's good exercise and I'm happy to keep this process pending.

Enjoy your day everyone! Lots of stuff coming up for these next few weeks soo stay tuned

- Arthat

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Japan 2024

I finally got around to casually edit some stuff from the Japan trip from last year. A lot of my excursions with the camera were mainly done on film (which I'll get to soon), but for now here are the images that I took using the Minolta DiMage XT.













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To sum it up my experience in international waters had me realize many things about myself. From my experience the Japanese culture is very humble and quiet and really to themselves, but in some cases their longing to connect even to strangers can reach boundaries that they've been wanting to reach for a long time. The respect and attitude from these folks have me realize that my same approach to things have been already embedded here stateside. I'm going to continue that respect and pass that along with people that take me kindly while this lifetime exists. Thank you to the community that made myself and my party comfortable throughout the time. I'm hoping to come back with the same love I received.


- Art(icle)

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Currently

Right now I've been doing nothing, but just taking small pictures and letting the record mastering cycle take its course until I find a perfect middle ground with my go to mastering producer. It's been crazy seeing how much of this work is starting to unfold and letting my ears be comfortable hearing what it likes and what it dislikes. I've had nothing, but good vibes over the last few weeks of things and I'm certain that most of what I'm going to be doing for the next few weeks (or even few months) is going to be the same if not better.

I've been playing a lot of video games. Yes, ALOT of video games. And for now I'm finding myself enjoying just playing the games without any kind of worry. I guess I'm sort of detached from the world this way and letting things pass me by without having that FOMO feeling. Lots of people are enjoying themselves in those high octane spaces and its cool! At my level of comfort I'm easily happy being with my fiance and just cooking and playing guitar and cleaning the house and playing video games and napping and working out and whatever. This is the life and lots of people don't have what I have these days. I'm pretty damn lucky.

Haven't posted much of anything in the last month or so on my socials as well. I'm not sure if its the fatigue that's been happening or whatever, but I'm just not interested in sharing things that I used to. Private and quiet has been such a thing and I don't think there have been any better combinations of things about my life that I enjoy the most. I'm not sure if I was this reserved about myself as I was back then being open like this and allowing people to come to my life without any sort of consciousness of them being crooked. I'm fairly lucky to know that the majority of these people have been kind and well to me and I'll take that luck any way I can.

I hope everyone is alright these days. I know that a lot of uncertainty is going to really throw off the mindset society has right now. Just be careful out there guys. And support one another. That's all we have. Where I am at now I'm hoping that we have some resolve to a degree and be alright for awhile.

- Artsicle

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