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These old New England shores hold secrets yet untold.

Canon AE-1 w/ Lomography Lady Grey 400

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Crows in Portland, ME

2018

Canon AE-1 w/ Kodacolor 200

Catching up posting old work.  Maybe I’ll actually be doing photography again?  Time will tell.

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sku//

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5/5/94

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A found photo, edited.

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Three colors.  Update to a previously posted image, which I deleted because I decided I hated it.

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Nightmares (Circuit Bent Hing Hon Ek-100)

New circuit bending project, which coincidentally is also my first case mod.  True story: I am absolutely terrible at painting.  I like the outcome overall, but I seriously couldn’t spray paint a flat surface on a windless day (which is primarily what this was).

As you can see from the demo video, this cute and pretty synth mostly makes terrible demon noises and screams sometimes.  Hence the name.

That switch and dial next to the purple percussion buttons was theoretically going to be another bend, but somewhere between hooking it up and putting it all together, it stopped working.  All the connections seemed solid, so I’m not entirely sure what happened, but I’m just going to let it go.

The ‘before’ shot was nabbed from worthpoint, because I’m terrible and never think to take pictures before I mod something, nor to document my process in any way whatsoever.

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Beats, courtesy of HELL (Circuitbent Casio PT-7)

There’s a weird story to this one.  I picked up the PT-7 a dog’s age ago, but I could never get the keyboard to actually work, despite every attempt at repairing it.  Fast forward to now, I decide to hack off the lovely little soft touch foil completely and just bend the beat box parts of the synth.  I found enough interesting bends that adding a separate section for all the hardware was needed, though it was kind of a pain in the butt.

Most of the switches do exactly what they say, and you can see it all in the demo video, but I’ll list them out for those interested.

Top panel

Reset: Duh

Snare/Bass Roll: Makes a four beat string of either the snare or bass drum (or more, depending on how long the button is held)

Pok: Makes one single pok (sometimes two though).

?????: Just fucks everything up.  Plays random beats at random tempos with random instruments.  Resetting is the only way to stop this.

Front panel

Muffle: Self explanatory.

No Splash: Cuts the splashy cymbals out of beats which include them.

Add Beep: Adds a beep to the mix, high beep when switched up, low beep when switched down. 

No Hi-Hat: Cuts the hi-hat.

Woodblock?: Replaces the snare with what sounds like a woodblock or bongo.

Buzz: Adds a buzzy and/or plinky effect.

Turbo: Speeds up the tempo past where the normal tempo dial would allow.

HELL: Adds a filter of static and scratching.

Hell, but worse: From sirens at one end of the dial, to the worst sounds an atari 2800 can make at the other, this switch is terrible, don’t touch it.

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Getting into in 1-bit depth and dithering

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Approximately 10 million years ago I wanted to make a family crest that really represented me.  Then, I made this instead, stuck it in a bin, and promptly forgot about it forever.   But then I found it.

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It’s only after having finished this that I noticed the name of the song that inspired me was ‘You Disappear,’ not disappeared.  Oops.  

Anyway, go listen to La Luz, they’re awesome.

EDIT: This was my 250th post. Yaaaay.

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Slip

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Faceless

I got a few rolls of reappropriated kodak tungsten movie film.  Apparently the process of cramming it into a still 35mm canister fucked it up a whole lot.  It’s a cool effect, but I’d really like to see how the film shoots, um, without all the destruction.

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Gruesome Vacations, Add On 2

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Gruesome Vacations, Add On 1

Finally got a chance to scan some slide mashing I did waaaay back.