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The Year in Reading

Posted on January 1st, 2025January 2nd, 2025 by Scott

When I decided at the end of last winter to return to school and major in English, I knew that I would be reading more than usual and that I needed to start stretching my brain before classes began. Having fallen out of the habit of reading many years prior, at the end of February…

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Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov

Nabokov’s Pnin and Peter Sellers

Posted on December 14th, 2024December 15th, 2024 by Scott

This fall, I read Vladimir Nabokov’s Pnin for the first time, having read Lolita for the first time decades ago. I mention this timeline because, while it took me nearly 40 years to get to Pnin, Nabokov went to work immediately on the novel while still wrapping up Lolita. More precisely, Nabokov originally wrote and…

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Map of the East Indies by J. H. Colton (Geographicus Rare Antique Maps)

Indonesia and a Noble Beast

Posted on December 9th, 2024December 9th, 2024 by Scott

The mismanagement of plastic waste in Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country and second largest polluter, is, at its core, a global crisis. The Indonesian government, the World Bank, the United Nations Environment Programme, and an untold number of non-governmental organizations have worked tirelessly for years, investing countless resources, to develop and implement strategies…

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Nine Stories by Salinger

Salinger And the Lovecats

Posted on July 12th, 2024July 13th, 2024 by Scott

This summer during introductions in an English lit class, a fellow student suggested that I read J.D. Salinger’s Nine Stories as a primer for the author. As I sat reading the last of the short stories in his collection (in a gently-used first edition paperback printed in the summer of 1954), the lyricism of one…

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Doing Things

Posted on June 18th, 2024December 9th, 2024 by Scott

It’s been two and one-half months since I arrived here. Today was the first day that I went to the beach. Today was also the first day I picked up food from a local seafood restaurant. The food from Seaview Crab Company was delicious. (Dining inside wasn’t going to happen.) It’s amazing that it’s taken…

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Back to School

Posted on April 21st, 2024January 9th, 2025 by Scott

Hi all,My name is Scott and I recently moved to Wilmington, North Carolina to embark on a new path in life. After getting a degree in mathematics in my youth and spending the fifteen years that followed corporate ladder-climbing in tech, I eventually burned out and pursued a more relaxing career in photography. (Creative endeavors…

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We’re Going on a Journey

Posted on February 29th, 2024June 16th, 2024 by Scott

So many times, this site has gone into cardiac arrest. And almost always, it languishes in agony, forgotten by me until I catch it in my periphery as I whip past, rushing headlong in some new direction. And I’m always more appalled by the aesthetics of its demise than concerned for its actual death. Because…

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My Exit from Sensual Photography

Posted on August 28th, 2022January 9th, 2025 by Scott

I’ve found it incredibly difficult to put into words why I’m exiting the world of sensual photography but I can most definitely say that nearly everything about my years working in this realm has been utterly fantastic. I’ve met and worked with so many wonderful people over the past decade and a half and, between…

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The Canon FD 24mm

Posted on May 31st, 2022March 31st, 2023 by Scott

I mentioned in my post on the test shoot that I ran into issues with the Canon FD while shooting. The issues I ran into were twofold. One, despite my light meter readings, everything was way over exposed. And two, focusing was more difficult, I felt, than it should’ve been. After a few shots during…

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The Test Shoot

Posted on May 23rd, 2022March 31st, 2023 by Scott

Had a shoot with Reese last Saturday specifically to test out new equipment and, more importantly, to test out changes to my workflow. Definitely time well spent. Learned a lot and, as an added bonus, Reese and I ended up with a number of shots both of us found exceedingly satisfactory. As far as the…

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The Lunchbox Camera Case

Posted on May 11th, 2022March 31st, 2023 by Scott

I just built myself a custom lunchbox camera case for a fraction of the cost of what I would pay someone else to do it. And then I built a second one. And I did it with vintage lunchboxes. Could not be more pleased with the results. These are exactly what I’ve wanted for years….

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Lenses, Swirly Swirls, and a World of Green

Posted on May 6th, 2022March 31st, 2023 by Scott

Sometime, I don’t know, maybe two months ago now(?), I contacted someone I’ve worked with previously about a concept shoot I had in mind. So we started planning. And I’m getting super, super stoked about what’s going down. And then I said, hold up, let’s wait until I get these new lenses in. So they’re…

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Shooting with Vintage Lenses

Posted on April 23rd, 2022March 31st, 2023 by Scott

Two of the three vintage lenses I’ve ordered have arrived along with two focal reducers to match their mounts. The first lens to arrive was a Pentax 35mm f3.5 with M42 mount. I have a straight M42 to X-mount adapter from Urth that I’ll probably keep on it, making the effective focal length ~52m on…

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The New Era

Posted on April 9th, 2022March 31st, 2023 by Scott

I’ve mentioned previously that my headspace has been shifting with regards to photography. Sort of an overall shift, from what I want to shoot to how I want to shoot. Even to why I want to shoot. Today marks the beginning of the new era. I tend to look at my years in photography in…

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Rest in Peace, Stacy

Posted on January 31st, 2022June 16th, 2024 by Scott

Recently, I’ve been re-posting words I wrote shortly and long after Alec committed suicide on March 1st, 2010. While I had been planning to republish those words eventually, recent events made getting them up a priority. Cue it up for listening while you read Right after Alec’s wake, I drove into town to meet up…

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It begins with a name

Posted on January 23rd, 2022June 20th, 2024 by Scott

Prior to today and for the last eleven or twelve years, I’ve introduced myself to you as Scott. So in all likelihood, you know me as Scott. Well friends, I’m still Scott. But the ground has been shifting and rumbling underneath me for a while. My digital space here is changing as well, mimicking the…

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It’s a nice town.

Posted on June 15th, 2021June 16th, 2024 by Scott

Winston-Salem is not the town for me. It’s a nice enough place. Just not for me. As someone who is forever viewing each city or town I live in as Goldilocks’ next bowl of porridge that’s not quite right, I actually knew before I moved here that it was going to be a little lukewarm….

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Normal Speed Time Traveler

Posted on June 2nd, 2021June 16th, 2024 by Scott

There are a few thoughts that dominate my mind lately. And they’re both sort of broad-ranging and, in a way, tied together. The subjects? Aging and our connected world. I want to talk about aging first. And I’m likely to write more about it but I’ve been trying to get this down digitally forever. Aging,…

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The Pursuit of Happiness

Posted on January 5th, 2015June 16th, 2024 by Scott

It was during that superficially exciting time in my life when I was living in South Beach, surrounded by beautiful people, and shooting erotica nonstop that someone said to me, “I wish I could be you.”Without hesitation I replied, “No you don’t. I don’t even want to be me.” There have always been dark realities…

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The Darkness and the Light

Posted on March 17th, 2010June 16th, 2024 by Scott

Cue it up now, please, listen as you read. I’m kind of battling with two different things right now, and trying to find the balance between everything. I think I should warn you that, while this isn’t graphic in nature, that the content of this post may be upsetting. If you’re of influential mind, just…

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Catharsis

Posted on March 12th, 2010June 16th, 2024 by Scott

Wikipedia (which is the known trusted source of human knowledge or something close to it) has this introduction for their entry on Catharsis: Catharsis is the emotional cleansing of the audience and/or characters in the play. In relation to drama it is an extreme change in emotion resulting from strong feelings of sorrow, fear, pity,…

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Remember

Posted on March 8th, 2010June 16th, 2024 by Scott

At 4pm this afternoon, we will be burying Alec. I would ask for one thing from those of you who can’t attend the service but who knew Alec, myself, his mother, his brother, his girlfriend, or any of the rest of our family: please take a moment of silence at that time to remember him….

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Love

Posted on March 5th, 2010June 16th, 2024 by Scott

Everyone, This post is going to be somewhat short and I have soooooo much to say, but I need to get a message out right now. Everything feels like it’s happening at lightning speed. I don’t know where to begin. I can’t thank everyone enough for your love and support. As a lot of you…

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Visitation and Funeral Service

Posted on March 2nd, 2010June 16th, 2024 by Scott

I want to say thank you en masse for all of your love. To all of the many friends who have reached out across this globe to share your love by phone, by message, by whatever means you have been able to, I thank you. We are having visitation on Saturday, the funeral will be…

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Alec and Zach surfing

I beg

Posted on March 1st, 2010June 16th, 2024 by Scott

I beg that you please send all positive thoughts, energies, prayers, whatever you have this way to my family and I. I’m in Charlotte, NC, tonight and will be in Newberry, SC in the morning. Alec, my oldest son, committed suicide today, Monday, March 1st, 2010. I just want to ask that you keep all…

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Nomad’s Land

Posted on April 4th, 2009June 25th, 2024 by Scott

I’m leaving Miami for a while. I’m taking a trip across the country. On my scooter. Since my scooter maxes out at 35mph unless I’m going downhill, I can’t take the interstate. And so I will be taking the long way: the winding back roads, the busy streets, and the empty stretches of highway, through…

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Currently Reading

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
Dracula
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Stories Since 1970
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Stories Since 1970
by Lex Williford
Metaphors We Live By
Metaphors We Live By
by George Lakoff
Metaphor: A Practical Introduction, 2nd Edition
Metaphor: A Practical Introduction, 2nd Edition
by Zoltan Kovecses

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Currently Reading

Metaphor: A Practical Introduction, 2nd Edition
Metaphor: A Practical Introduction, 2nd Edition
by Zoltan Kovecses
Metaphors We Live By
Metaphors We Live By
by George Lakoff
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Stories Since 1970
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: 50 North American Stories Since 1970
by Lex Williford
1984
1984
by George Orwell

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