New(ish) old gear – Helios-44

A few years ago I was messing around with film photography. I had my grandpa’s old cameras and a Canon I bought at a flea market. A friend gave me a very sturdy Pentax camera he wasn’t using and after shooting a…

Photo Set 3/2026

New gear starting this month, a sweet Fujifilm X-T30 III that I can’t wait to take around town for photos. My photography skills are a bit rusty, and the gloomy February weather didn’t help with the light, but it was a good…

Cultural Dispatch Ed. 2

1. Record This year has started out with an absolute bang. On New Year’s night I discovered, quite by accident, my new favourite band. It’s rather annoying because the more I looked into them I found they played Glastonbury and are well…

Photo Set 1/2026

It’s not a Daily Photo project, like Andrei used to do, but this works out nicely to try to get back in the photography habit. Sort of a lo-fi photo journal.

Infraordinary Fieldnotes (1)

(Pictured: Georges Perec)Approches de quoi (Approaches to what)That is the title of Georges Perec’s 19731 essay that first mentioned the infraordinary. In different ways, and with different levels of confidence, we are both trying to get our bearings through writing, which is…

33 bits of unsolicited advice

Since I’ve turned 33 recently, I thought I’d lay out some thoughts, if not in pen and paper, then at least here as a random piece. This isn’t too well thought out so I wouldn’t call it wisdom or anything else, just…

Cultural Dispatch Ed. 1

Welcome to the First Edition of the Cultural Dispatch. Let’s go. 1. Record – Sanah – Kaprysy First section is dedicated to off-beat music, stuff that’s not mainstream and I’ve loved recently. I don’t appreciate the music that’s pushed by big labels…

Dust off

Well the internet’s gone downhill and let itself go. Not only you’re getting screwed every which way off-line financially and socially and so on, but what used to be a fun and open and labyrinthine place of expression and socializing has gone…

Retro Gaming Update – Retroid Pocket 4 Pro Redux

About three months ago my ADD brain was on the high of retro gaming again. The Retroid was boring, I wanted a PSP for the sake of nostalgia, then thought better of it because it was quite expensive… But what sounded just…

4 More U2

Might as well go through the next U2 albums since I’ve been listening to them and I have minimal opinions on them. Not much else to say, U2 is huge, Bono is a cunt, their music is quite good. Achtung Baby (1991)…

Nirvana – In Utero⭐

It’s two years later after “Nevermind” and “In Utero” comes out. You don’t think it can top that and… it doesn’t. But it’s not bad. It’s like if Nevermind was the A-Side and In Utero is the B-Side. It’s still some of…

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