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Darkroom

Didn’t really think that this would be a thing, but apparently it has now. I’m writing again. I think there’s cause for celebration.

Maybe not.

Today I was in the darkroom for the first time. For someone who has shot on film for 6 years, and never being in the darkroom, is a bit of a shame. Regardless, I will strive to develop my own film, at the very least, the black and whites ones my own. Of course, I’m scanning them by myself as well. Speaking of which, the film scanner is called Reflecta RPS 10M, expensive as hell and it’s on its way here.

Hope to god nothing screws up. That’ll be a $900 screw up if it does. Plus shipping.

-- Erfi Anugrah

Published: Sep 09 2017

Updated: Sep 15 2019

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The Fourth

Not in reference to a particular day in May but if you have been keeping up with reading the monthlies, you would know that this is the fourth one in the series but in actuality it is the fifth because I broke the chain earlier this month.

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Printing

I have been doing a lot of darkroom printing lately, and posting photos from my Hong Kong trip a year ago. But for the most part I have a dearth of content to post I think, so that has to change if I can say so myself. Being in university certainly does not make that easier, and I am sick. Again. It's probably the same thing which came back. I didn't really give myself time to recover fully too, so there's that. I tend to think I can do anything when I can't. Getting old now.

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The Ninth

This was a month of existential contemplation and relational confrontations. I would definitely not look back fondly on the latter. Then again, to say that for the former is also egregious as that is something, at least for me, has been a lifelong process not just for this current period in time. At the same time, the latter is not quite done yet either. It is almost a Sisyphean task to overcome.