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seriously- this particular recording

I just listened again and the peel session of the fall performing Eat Y’self Fitter is gold standard post punk. John Peel allegedly passed out because the performance was so intense (sounds unlikely but also the song speaks for itself, light headedness would surely follow).

@glenbek

Oct 12, 2024

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The Man who Sold the world - midge Ure

Ideal if you have just woken up from a coma

@willreschke

Mar 1, 2024

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aztec camera's roddy frame celebrates another turn around the sun today 🎂

Way back when this first came out in the Big 80s, I learned "The Bugle Sounds Again" for the little acoustic set my dumb band did during our sets, a smoke break for the rhythm section. (It's gorgeous and not the easiest guitar part ever; I can't imagine actually playing AND singing it). My then-roommate called it "dorm room music" -- his take was that Scotland's Aztec Camera were for students, bedsit people, moody folks with lots of extra time on their hands. I suspect Roddy Frame would have appreciated hearing his cerebral-yet-shiny indie-pop music described that way. The man also did a killer (totally straight-faced) version of Van Halen's "Jump" that must be heard to be believed.

@coreydubrowa

Jan 29, 2025

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HANDMADE POSTER MAKING

Really adds texture and personality, i’ve been inspired a lot by twee and mod culture recently and i find these posters really fun and exciting.

@gnomes

Apr 8, 2025

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16mm Film development and hand processing

Alright here’s a quick look at hand processing 16mm motion picture film. The stock I shot for this film is called Kodak 3378, it’s a high contrast black and white reversal film stock, which basically means it doesn’t develop as a negative but as the actual viewable image. The process of “hand development” is an interesting one. First 100 ft of film are loaded into a light proof tank. The chemical process I used is called E6 and it consists of a few steps that can be performed at room temperature: first developer, second developer, rinse, bleach, fixer, photoflow. Exposing the film to these chemicals four particular times results in the final image. This step is the rinse, the 3378 stock is the slightly purple film. Hand processing creates strange patterns and aberrations, disturbances created by a process that is inherently imperfect. It allows the artist to play with the parameters of 16mm image making but maybe more importantly, its results are a direct effect of the artist’s hand on their work. This is why we shoot film in a digital world: it’s something we can physically affect as true human beings.

@gnomes

Mar 19, 2025

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Behind the scenes of 16mm short film

I thought I’d delve a little into the behind the scenes of a personal film I’m working on. I’ve been a type one diabetic for about fifteen years and have become recently obsessed with creating a film about the American medical system. I aim to capture the feeling that the medication that provides you with the ability to exist may one day be taken away, or not covered, or not delivered in time. I deal with the insulin saga every month, and while it may be an extreme example, I think many Americans live in similar situations. That‘s the context. What I really want to delve into is the process of creating 16mm imagery, from shooting to developing, to editing. This is what our rig looked like when I decided to shoot a few months worth of the disposable needles I use to inject. I wanted to create an in camera “split screen” effect. To do that, I covered three quarters of the image plain and shot through my film. Then, I’d rewind and adjust my matte to expose one of the remaining quarters, doing so until I had a complete image. I’ll go a little more into the film stock when I talk about hand development :)

@gnomes

Mar 13, 2025