Wow, it’s been over a month since I last blogged. I guess nothing much has happened between then and now. Semester break just started on Friday, and I have two weeks to do lots of work! and then some. My dissertation is going to SLAY me, it’s so bad. Well, it actually was going pretty well and on-track, until our supervisor decided that we had too little to do (is that even possible?) and has given us what could potentially turn into a truckload more work before October. We have to go back into the lab and remake the phantom, which took us a day the first time around and should therefore theoretically (hopefully) mean half the time when we go back in and do it again the week after next, but there’s just so much more stuff on my plate and I’m like, GOD PLEASE MAKE THEM GIVE ME A BREAK.
Work is going pretty all right, though. I always have a stress/internal panic before going in, and when the shift’s over I wonder why I was so worried. Damn these insecurities about my abilities. I bet I’m actually awesome but just don’t even know it. I want to go to English school.
I probably didn’t ever blog about it, but I bought a Vivitar PN2011 a while back and just finished the first trial roll of film (Fujifilm Fujicolor Superia 400) last Wednesday at Pharmacy Dodgeball. I’m such a 2000s baby even though I was born in the 80s… I had no idea how to rewind the film and that I had to push a little button (about the size of a reset button but protruding from the camera body), so when the film seemed to be taking AGES to finish rewinding, I decided to open the damn thing and, long story short, I ended up exposing the last 10 cm of film for about two minutes. It will be pretty interesting to see the end results. I can’t wait to get the roll developed, that’s for sure.
There’re a bunch of mods you can do on the PN2011 that enables stuff like exposure and shutter speed mods, but I’m afraid of stuffing it up so I haven’t bothered for now.
Speaking of film, I don’t know what Kodak Chrome Elite 100 film is (well, some quick Google-Fu explains that it gives extremely fine grain, sharp and deeply saturated photos, and is slide film which means that the negative is actually a positive – so the pictures are in colour on the film and you have to, like, reverse develop them or something), but this guy has used a Nikon FM2 and a roll of the aforementioned, and has come out with these beautiful photographs. Everybody is talking about this guy and that photo post (it’s been on the WordPress Freshly Pressed page), and you know why? Because it’s awesome.
And now for some Random Music Wednesday, Weekend (mini)Edition:
New track from Lupe Fiasco! I honestly don’t think this man can go wrong musically.
I rediscovered Great Northern’s debut, Trading Twilight for Daylight, the other day and this song’s been haunting my brain ever since:
Last but not least, I would be remiss if I didn’t blog about that song everyone’s been talking about (I haven’t linked to the official video so it’s safer for work, if you were so inclined to read my blog while there)…
Love everyone but the people you hate,
Chloe
