i didn't post about it at the time, but @andrei_jay and i traveled north to the adirondack mountains to the path of totality of the recent solar eclipse.

i didn't attempt the capture an image of the eclipse itself (it's already been done much better by many others), but here are some of the cool crescent-shadows cast by trees when only a tiny sliver of the sun was visible. such a strange moment, when everything comes into focus, like a pinhole photograph.

revisiting some textural macro photos from last year's travels.

well, this seems to be pretty much set up: ZINE CLUB is officially a thing and i will be sending the first round of Mystery Objects out next month.

thanks everyone who helped me figure out how to set this up without going thru p*treon. i feel a lot better about sharing this link than i would if it was on there :)

https://palomakop.tv/zine-club/

wow, digital gardens / knowledge rememberers / whatever you call them are way more necessary if you wanna teach stuff

managed to post about our recent workshop in minneapolis from the one bar of cell service that made it to the mountain where i'm sitting!

https://palomakop.tv/news/2023/#2023-07-20

found a place to camp in the national grasslands of north dakota, and was greeted by dramatic skies

i attempted a light drawing of #theLogo while playing with long exposures in the forest with @andrei_jay

i all but accidentally caught this exact moment in a photograph: a bald eagle flying in front of the sun, which is orange due to the wildfire smoke (which is quite thick where we're camped in illinois at the moment)

i played a fun set with @andrei_jay and Kevin Kripper as Phase Shift Collective last night in Erie, PA! this video is of us setting up. we combined:

- analog video feedback with a camcorder and a video mixer, and ambient field recording sound loops by me

- generative visuals and oscilloscope shapes by Kevin using Vsynth, a library he created for Max

- Gravity Waaaves, a video mixer/frame buffer system Andrei created to run on an SBC, as well as musical loops also by Andrei

here is a version of the first card in my tarot-esque deck. the idea is to make somewhat abstract drawings based on my interpretation of concepts i've learned from studying and practicing various schools of buddhism.

going to keep going with these and see if i'm happy with this format. this would be the equivalent of a major arcana. not sure how many cards there will be in the end, i think i'll just keep adding to it and see what happens.

pine bark beetle #asemic writing spotted in new haven, connecticut

as of a few days ago, i'm slowly traveling across the US in a van with my partner @andrei_jay. along the way, we'll be doing artist residencies & leading workshops as Phase Shift: a roving audiovisual art collective.

...and we now have a website (made with hand-coded html :tealheart:): https://phaseshift.zone

today was my last day at the corporate tech job i've been at for the last 5 1/2 years. and in a month i'll be leaving brooklyn to travel across the US in a van with my partner for the next ~6 months. along the way we will be visiting art spaces, doing workshops, shows, and artist residencies, camping, and spending time in nature after these years of life surrounded by concrete.

it's happening!

i have been given a perfectly working asus eee pc - a really cute and tiny laptop from like 2008 that runs some kinda linux out of the box. i don't know what i am going to do with it but excited to play :)

0.5 liter water bottle for scale

the new artist website i've been working on, which is made with hand written html and css, is now live at https://palomakop.tv !!

i still have a bit more to do, moving the history of my "news" blog over from my old site, and making a new mini-site for my mfa thesis book & projects. but i'm really happy with it so far :mac:

our garbage can in our kitchen (which is a crappy plastic thing we found on the street) had broken. specifically the foot pedal function to lift the lid without hands. a plastic piece underneath that served as the lever had cracked and broken apart, so i fixed it and reinforced it with zip ties, wire, and a butter knife that i bent into the right shape. hope it holds until i leave this apartment next spring. satisfying to repair things that were never meant to be user-serviceable.

at this place i went on retreat last week, they had a huge rug with these cute strange ribbon creatures floating around on it, and i love them.

organizing my hard drive systems in parallel with organizing my brain. (it's not a coincidence.)

we created this flyer for our upcoming show at phase space, MERCURALIA!

if anyone is in brooklyn/nyc, this should be a fun time. i am cooking up some new audiovisual performance techniques involving live liquids (something i have not tried before, i have used footage of liquids that i recorded in advance, so we'll see how it works out 😅)

there is also more info on my website:
https://palomakop.tv/2022-08-27