I did not pay much attention to this roll after I shot it, until now. Ilford, I'm impressed. GR1S is really a gem if you take time to make friends with the auto-focus. B&W and GR1S is such a power couple!
A few random updates:
- I spent a wonderful, long vacation in Melbourne with my family, and lugged four cameras with me on major tourist spots. I do not recommend it (lugging four cameras).
- I have no idea when I'll be able to get
moneythe energy to bring the rolls to the lab - I've stopped using my default social media accounts, because.
- It's final, I'm not going to renew my domain anymore.
- I'll be moving writing personal stuff elsewhere
- Last, and the most important, update in my life these days is: The Legend of the Blue Sea trailer has been released!
Hey April!
ReplyDeleteDon't know if you still remember me commenting a few months back. I've wanted to comment on your recent posts but I just have that inertia when it comes to interacting social-media wise. I don't know why but it brings me to my point. I read your last entry regarding having doubts about the existence of your blog and in many ways I can relate.
I am a really really prolific writer. Like, I probably have dozens of unpublished long reads in my hard-drive, but I just don't know if I want to commit them to the blogoshpere. I've also written on blogs before and I believe I kept one for almost 10 years (but that was more on a weekly basis). The thing is, when I was thinking about whether or not to put my words into a page, I wondered what would be the benefit of it. Like, there's no interaction and there isn't that palpable sense of, for lack of a better term, connection with anything other than unknowable space. I think the best way that I could describe it is that having a blog would be somewhat...redundant.
But the thing is, when I look at all my past entries and I look at the proposed HTML layout I was going to use with it I get the sense that what I have put down is something I've worked on and something I've created without having to use much brain power - it's organic. The trouble is just having that stuff transcend into a digital realm. That's why I found the title of your last post to be so apt.
I read other blogs and I really do mean to comment. In fact, I did on some posts, probably around the same time as I was commenting on yours but nothing really ever grew out of it and it wasn't for lack of content. I am also a big film camera guy and I appreciate it when photos are mixed with good writing. Your content is great and original.
I guess there's just really not much more I could say to describe how I feel about blogging. The thought occurred to me the other day that maybe pure blogging as a medium has finally met its end and that instagram, twitter, or tumblr is the new way to communicate. It would explain somewhat the cavernous and arguably anti-social feel of Blogger. I feel like I am standing on the precipice of something that has either ended or about to begin with a whole bunch of words that I wrote and now I have no idea what to do with.
Anyway, I like reading your page and seeing your photos. You have a natural eye for photography and your words articulate well the personal journey that you've set for yourself. Whatever you decide to do with writing in general, I hope that you find the means to keep it going. I love being able to go into any coffee shop and slam out 500+ words and be gone coffee in hand before ppl even realize that I'm there and the "forever-alone-loser-aura" surrounds me hahaha! Maybe that's what keeps me writing but I know that it's just a surface kind of thing and that something deeper has to drive me. I hope that you find something deeper like that whatever the medium is and you just keep going.
Take care and great shots!
Hi, Rheise :) How I wish I was as prolific as you are. I could copy and paste your entire comment and make it a post, and I would have finally expressed my dilemma. You've encapsulated it well.
DeleteReading that someone likes my page —— too cheesy but I mean this —— warms my heart. It's always feel good to know you're appreciated. And I appreciate it as much, if not, more.
I'd still be updating this blog by sharing photos because that's just what I love to do. However, I'm finding a new space where I can, in your words, "slam out" the words out of me in long sentences, and not get in the way of my photography. I'd still like to curate a portfolio type of blog without my personal, emotional essays haha. I'd let you know where once I'm all set.
Thanks a lot for your comment. I've realized some things for myself. It does help when someone else articulates your dilemma for you haha.
Hi April!
Deletehmm, now that I think about it, being prolific doesn't necessarily mean being coherent hahaha :) i should also concentrate on editing stuff if i ever decide to blog for real in the near future. for now, glad to hear you'll still be updating and i'll be looking forward to more reads! take care!
Gee.. four cameras. That's tough on your neck haha. Drop by Sydney next time k~ and didn't know you're into k-dramas... hee
ReplyDeleteTough on the neck, shoulders and back haha.
DeleteI watched My Love from the Stars last year and got hooked since then :)
Hey, how long have you been in Sydney? I have some questions! What's your email?
Just got back not too long ago. You coming? Cool! I'll shoot you an email.
Deletedo not let this go mam...
ReplyDeletekeep going..
your photos are great..
visiting this blog makes me feel relax..
and somehow escape from this tired body and mind.
may the force be with you.
Thanks a lot! :)
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