(you might feel better if you) cry about it

I was thinking about framing as I took these photos.
Haven't taken many photos of busy or deep scenes like I saw on that morning's walk.
Wanted to move around and view subjects more but physics refused.
More adventures in batch processing. Adjusted contrasturation. Didn't peek at the photos after editing // before uploading.

Nifty has been thinking a lot lately about basically everything.
It has caused Nifty to approach familiar things in new ways.
Today's new Nifty had painful hands.
This informed his decision making process with how to do his daily art practice.
He opted to forgo opening and editing each individual photo in RawTherapee like he usually does.
Instead, he wondered if there was a way to select several photos at once and apply the same tools to them with one command.
Digikam, introduced to Nifty by Toyfriend, had such a tool.
Nifty was able to easily figure out how to convert an entire batch of photos to JPEG without hurting her hands.
This is a Nifty win.

This set of photos is sort of working with a feeling I've become highly aware of lately. My chronic hand pain has made it very difficult for me to use the computer and my smartphone like I habitually have. A combination of being unable to use these things and being forced to pay attention to my body's feelings to cope with chronic pain has made me much more sensitive to unexpected sensory stimuli. Today a housemate was watching cartoons in the living room, and before I knew it, I had started paying more attention to the screen than how my body felt. It's so easy for me to become distracted.

i think we should all aspire to the role of the metal fetishist...

feel free to masturbate to these. or dont. i literally dont even care. art is sex anyway. we've been having sex every time you look at my photos.

alone in a scary forest with a toy you like

sometimes its nice

photo one reflects me being the center of negative attention.
photo two reflects me being under intense pressure.
photo three reflects a seemingly useful, but distinctly broken system.
photo four reflects reaching for something and never quite grasping it.

flex your muscles.
be hard.

photo 5 is a house that i am driven by on a regular basis and every time I had seen it I was thinking to myself "ohhh I want to photograph it" and yesterday (as of today) was the first day that I remembered I would be driving past it and had my camera ready to shoot it...

its not about the dishes...

i need to upload a photo to get back to streaking!! its the knee for me

real shit