THE WRITTEN RECORD

Author: Chris

Lomo Turquoise Emulation

Last year, Lomography teased the photo film community with images hinting that they were bringing back the Turquoise film. Development has been ongoing and is scheduled to release fall of this year, 2022. Pre-orders sold out and more have been…

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Micro Posts

Did you know that I have a page on this site that is dedicated to micro posts? Think quick tweets or blurbs of whatever I need to post as opposed to long form writing on the main page here.

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Explore More

For me to experience life I must explore. The insatiable urge to see what’s around the next corner must be satisfied or I will die, so it is for my own survival I must go. And so I go, typically…

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On Meditation

The best meditation is being genuinely curious about the contents of your own mind.

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Stop. Enjoy.

I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living…

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The Infinite Web

From the short story of Jorge Luis Borges’ “Book of Sand,” there is an ancient book with no beginning and has no end. The narrator discovers this simple-looking book contains endless volumes of information that was good and evil. “I…

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Never Enough

… not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night.

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GC9XF0J

After eleven years of geocaching, I finally have submitted my own hidden cache into the wild. Geocache #6 (GC9XF0J) is located east of downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma and is currently pending review on my submission. But it is placed and ready…

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There Is Nothing New Under The Sun

“THE IMPOSSIBLE ATTRACTS ME BECAUSE EVERYTHING POSSIBLE HAS BEEN DONE AND THE WORLD DIDN’T CHANGE”

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Noble Superiority

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

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The Sun Also Rises

Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you’ve lived nearly half the time you have to live already? I’m re-reading this novel and it’s…

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Why Ask Why

“Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But you listen to them anyway.” Picasso, when asked what his paintings meant. Sometimes we create for the sake of creating and seeing what happens. There are times where…

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Own Your Domain

“Lastly, if there’s anything I can convince you of: you should build a personal site, you should obsess over it, you should meticulously document it, and you should have quite a bit of fun doing so. (It’s worth it.)”

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Makes Little Difference

The difference is almost indistinguishable when comparing portraits from a $900 mobile phone or a $2,500 mirrorless camera. Cameras are losing turf as mobile phones are closing the gap in technology and usability.

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Unsubscribe

The future of goods and services are subscription-based. The latest BS is that BMW has built-in seat warmers behind an $18 monthly paywall. What a nightmare. There is something fundamentally wrong with how companies no longer feel they are able…

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