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Composing a short film about childhood at the moment and Iāve been leaning heavily on this Casio PT-1 keyboard I picked up at a flea market in Barcelona. They were manufactured starting in 1985 as a simpler alternative to Casioās LV-1, hailed to be the first commercially available synth. Anyway love this sound itās so tactile without feeling too boxy, Iāve really enjoyed playing it through my Tascam 414 as a preamp.
Mar 10, 2025
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I have this Casio synth, I got on Portobello Market a few years ago. I like to bring it around with me when Im travelling. It has a really shitty drum machine in it and a couple good sounds. Sometimes synths can have way too much going on. This thing is strictly no bullshit.
Feb 13, 2024
been my ride or die pocket synth for going on 10 years. really versatile and durable, you can get some good deals on used ones too now that the OP Field is out. has a very digital sound to it but iāve used it in plenty of songs and it sounds great in the mix. played live with it for a bit too when I was doing shows.
was also gifted the EP-133 (K.O. II) for christmas and liking it so far, havenāt gotten too into the sampling functionality but been enjoying the workflow and the built in sounds are nice. not sure if that oneās still on back order but itās a very reasonable price point for TE.
Mar 7, 2024
I am in a deeply passionate love affair with this freaky little instrument
Oct 25, 2024
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Really adds texture and personality, iāve been inspired a lot by twee and mod culture recently and i find these posters really fun and exciting.
Apr 8, 2025
Alright hereās a quick look at hand processing 16mm motion picture film. The stock I shot for this film is called Kodak 3378, itās a high contrast black and white reversal film stock, which basically means it doesnāt develop as a negative but as the actual viewable image. The process of āhand developmentā 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 artistās hand on their work. This is why we shoot film in a digital world: itās something we can physically affect as true human beings.
Mar 19, 2025
I thought Iād delve a little into the behind the scenes of a personal film Iām working on. Iāve 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.
Thatās 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 āsplit screenā effect. To do that, I covered three quarters of the image plain and shot through my film. Then, Iād rewind and adjust my matte to expose one of the remaining quarters, doing so until I had a complete image. Iāll go a little more into the film stock when I talk about hand development :)
Mar 13, 2025