Digital Essentialism
Though I consider myself to be an essentialist, there does come a time when I get lazy and the discipline slides. Clutter, digital or otherwise, can get distracting over time. Now may be the perfect time to clean up your…
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Tag: Digital
iPhone vs Camera
The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of ditching all but one of my cameras and just use the camera built in to my iPhone. Why? An iPhone can untether the photographer because you have…
Analog + Digital
When you buy a new vinyl record nowadays, it comes with a code to download the MP3 digital version too. Why can't we get a free e-book version when you buy a paper book?
Digital vs Analog
02-25-2023 Analog vs Digital I observed my Royal Scrittore typewriter collecting dust this morn g moring and thought I would give it a go. Two sentences in and my fingers hurt. Compare this tothe keyboard on my MacBook Pro where…
Photo Archive & Curation
2023 is the year I finally go RAID (redundant array of independent disks). After that, a dedicated photo file server. Then organize images with tags, keywords, geotags, faces. Easily searchable. Convert to the Digital Negative format and use as backup…
Overorganized & Underused
Over-organizing is a great way to procrastinate. Am I doing something useful or am I avoiding something that is intellectually more difficult? I am not an archivist. But I want to curate my notes and articles. I am not making…
Light Reading
Not too many things can beat a free public library card paired with the Libby e-reader app. I’ve downloaded and read so many e-books from there this year that I’ve beaten my goal of twenty two books for 2022. I…
This Week
It’s been about a solid week since re-using iA Writer exclusively, instead of Ulysses and I’m thrilled to be back. I’ve never stuck with iA Writer except for editing Markdown files but now I am using it exclusively to publish…
Digital > Analog
I am on a hiatus with analog film photography for now. The price of film, developing, scanning is getting out of control and is not sustainable for me right now. I love the results but damn. Going all-digital for a…
Digital Contact Sheet
One of my favorite tools on the iPad is importing my images to the Photos app. The simple act of sorting, organizing these photos like I used to do on a contact sheet of film negatives. Find the keepers and…
How To Become The Great Urban Photographer
If you loosely apply Lomography’s ten golden rules, you’ll do just fine. Number 10 may be the most important. Don’t listen to others, stay true to yourself and your artistic endeavor. There are plenty of rules that can and should…
Analog Notes
Following up on a previous post, I have too many unused paper journal notebooks in the form of Field Notes©. I need to frequently remind myself to use them, and this post intends to do just that. During the day,…
Overthink Before I Act
Give yourself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around. This website has seen a lot of documentation on tools, workflow, and productivity. I would rather not have a workflow, I don’t want to talk…
Long Live The iPod
The iPod is a discontinued (as of May 10, 2022) portable media player designed by Apple in 2001. At 20 years, the iPod brand is the oldest device to be discontinued by Apple. It’s the end of an era, that’s…
Paper: A Good Storage Format?
I waffle a lot between digital and analog. I enjoy paper books for the tactile aesthetics, but love the convenience of a digital book (thousands in a pocket-sized device!) Paper books have been around for eons, still available, and we…