negative earth

November 26, 2025 • 6 min read

Smooth Brain World.

This visual language is everywhere. Look at your app icons on your phone and every container on every modern website. You’ll see smooth rounded corners on damn near every single one. Zero visual friction. Our entire modern world has been built on this conveyed convenience. Drive-Thru, 1 Tap to Apply. Click to Buy Now. Swipe Right to Fuck. All delivered via Infinite Scroll.

#philosophy #personal #culture #tech

November 21, 2025 • 2 min read

now I really want to get back into glitch art.

Fuji X100V - Pixel Sorted | Picture taken in May 2022 | Glitched in November 2025

#nature #glitch-art #open-source #alt-process

November 19, 2025 • 11 min read

escaping the walled gardens and embracing Open Source - a photographers ongoing journey into Linux.

…I walled myself into the garden of Apple and Adobe products, opening wide for spoon feedings of early 2000s and 2010s billion dollar marketing campaigns…

#photography #linux #personal #notes

November 19, 2025 • 2 min read

'Digital Garden' turned into my 'Thought Darkroom'.

This feels like a gamechanger

#notes #personal #website

November 17, 2025 • 4 min read

A rebuttal to “Is Photography Yorgos Lanthimos’s True Calling?”

Spoiler: I say No, but I'm curious if I'm alone.

#photography #cinema #response

November 14, 2025 • 6 min read

Tree with white trail blaze on the Appalachian Trail

I switched my websites image format to AVIF instead of WebP, maybe you should too?

AVIF poses promise over WebP. But is it ready for prime time?

#linux #photography #website #tech #how-to

November 12, 2025 • 1 min read

aurora.

Since it’s too cloudy see the aurora this time, I’ll share a poem I wrote about the one I saw last year.

#poem #nature #personal

November 9, 2025 • 1 min read

pictures from a fall walk.

Images taken on 2025-11-08 - Shot on a Fuji X100V - Processed with Darktable

#digital #color

November 8, 2025 • 10 min read

Happy Interdependence Day! - A Celebration of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.

This gargantuan book about drugs, tennis, and entertainment has taunted me from our bookshelf ever since my wife and I moved in together 8 years ago...

#books

November 2, 2025 • 11 min read

gpu troubleshooting saga.

I went on a journey trying to fix a GPU issue with Claude and now I’m making you read about it.

#linux #tech

November 1, 2025 • 2 min read

Schuylkill River Flooding from Hurricane Ida in 2021

welcome to a new, hopefully improved … something.

I’m starting a new blog, that turns out isn’t a blog. It’s a digital garden! What a concept. Hopefully turning it into a digital 'thought darkroom' is something I can find a bit more freedom with than my 'portfolio' website.

#linux #photography #tech #notes #website

February 17, 2025 • 3 min read

I am my own chaos monkey.

What's the point of using and learning linux if you're not gonna break things due to your own carelessness?

#tech #linux #zfs #chaos-engineering #digital-storage

January 15, 2025 • 12 min read

Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

On May 31st, 1889, disaster struck the City of Johnstown, Pennsylvania when a catastrophic flood took the lives of 2,208 people. Unprecedented rainfall in the days before compromised an inadequate dam, unleashing destruction upon Cambria county's largest city.

#travel #history #disaster-tourism #hot-dogs #photography #keystone-dreams #nature

November 12, 2024 • 2 min read

Esherick at the Brandywine River Museum.

A couple of weeks ago my wife and I visited the Wharton Esherick house in Malvern, and this past Saturday visited the Experiencing Esherick exhibition at the Brandywine River Museum.

#museum #historic-home

November 8, 2024 • 1 min read