the city where we live doesn’t allow public barbecues so my brother fucking welded a grill to a handcart and now hosts “chill and grill sessions” where he sends all his friends his live location so they can hunt him down on their bikes with sausages in their backpacks while he carts it around evading the police like some sort of barbecue vigilante, grilling on the run. i have never been prouder of him
I am mad about cellphone cameras hiding the processing they do, and I am glad about software that lets me control it and opt in and out, and I dictated this rant on insta so I am resharing the images here and will attempt to turn this into a useful text post on my blog in future, when my hand is working better đ¤đ
and here’s an example of exactly how much this means to me – I’ve been really feeling like I’m terrible at photographing my own work, especially watercolour, and i can’t seem to really capture what makes a painting special in person.
here’s some examples of my attempts to photograph this sketchbook painting using the native camera app on my phone:
it’s grainy, blotchy, the colours feel off, the contrast is too much… it really doesn’t capture what’s on paper in front of me!
so then i try with the processing turned off in Open Camera:
I am so pleased at how many notes are some version of âI donât fear the science, I fear the corporations who control itâ because that is EXACTLY the attitude you should have. GMOs can save us. Monsanto will kill us.
what people fear about GMO– âtheyre gonna make frankencarrots that crave human flesh and cause diarrhea â
what GMO actually is– âwe made rice crop that is both drought resistant and flood resistant which will prevent about 20% of major famine disasters, also it now makes vitamin A because vitamin A deficiency in poverty stricken areas is a major killer of kids as most vitamin A rich foods dont grow thereâ
what people SHOULD be upset about– âi made all crops sterile so all farmers have to buy the seed from me in perpetuity and i will sue anyone who tries to go back to crops that produce their own seedâ
A trope that gets to me: ‘guard dog’ character and their partner who are both fully aware of it and honestly don’t care/kind of like it. Someone says “call your guard dog off” and their partner does call them off. That person, their ‘guard dog’, is someone who is unreservedly, irrefutably loyal to them. Someone undoubtedly dangerous who is willing to kill, to maim, to obey, simply because of their love for one another. There’s no manipulation involvedâ it is loyalty, brutal, dogged loyalty. And it goes both ways.
