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Final dump of Berlin photos, while I'm sitting in the United lounge in Newark, waiting for my flight home to Phoenix. As usual, taken with an Olympus OM-D E-M5 w/ M.Zuiko 17mm f1.8 lens.

Some shots from around Berlin. Taken with Olympus OM-D E-M5 / M.Zuiko 17mm/f1.8

One of the tricky things about travelling to Europe from Phoenix is the 9-hour time difference. Not so much for the jet lag (which in my experience is worse going back home, where it doesn't matter because

This little guy is about the size of a grain of rice. Olympus OM-D E-M5 / M.Zuiko 17mm f1.8 / Neewer 10mm Macro Adaptor

The MiM here in Phoenix is an incredibly difficult place to take interesting pictures. The lighting is very poor for photography, plus the subjects are not lit in a way that makes them attractive. I've

I couldn't find a solid iPad stand for the 12.9" one, so I just bashed one out of plywood on my CNC router. This is just to check the shape and sizing; I'll make a "real" one out of maple.

I am setting up an Intel Skull Canyon NUC for music production work (or really to be our demo machine for our booth at Superbooth 18, which is effectively the same thing); I've written a post about my

I got a cheap macro extender off of Amazon this morning (this one: ) and took it out in the yard for a test run. Lens is Olympus 17mm f1.8, body is Olympus O-MD EM-5.

A vine sphinx moth (mildly uncommon for these parts, it must be said) chillin' in the lavender, waiting for the sun to come up. Easily 4cm long. Jalepeños ripening. Short-day onion flowering. Poolside

I wrote a piece about MPE and alternative MIDI controllers on my Analog Industries site. You can find it here:

We have a fairly large garden, and if you have a garden, you know you need pollinators. The more pollinators you have, the more robustly and better your fruiting plants reproduce. Pollinators take many

I posted about deleting my Facebook account on Analog Industries. Read it here:

About to do a full refurb of this Rhodes, but before I did that, I wanted to attempt a video where I played around its problems. Only about 70% of the notes work at all, and some experimenting showed as

More spring blooms. Taken with an Olympus O-MD E-M5 and a cheap Chinese CCTV lens. Steepshot | IPFS | Google Play

Shot on Mamiya 645 Shot on Lomo LC-A Shot on Yashica Electro 3 All shot in Arizona, developed by hand.

New Headroom Session up on Bricolage. Two hours of downtempo glitch, trip-hop, and IDM mixed by SupplyFi; most tracks are exclusive to this Session, and I provided one of my own, unheard anywhere else,

Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, early morning. An amazing place to me. A mundane daily trudge to this fellow. No other pedestrians at 6:30AM means he can safely check his social media accounts on the walk to

Teaching a teenager to drive. Several bullet points here: A good way to come to grips with your own mortality. A good way to realize that certain truths you hold to be self-evident were, in point of fact,