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A wide-angle photo of six people sitting around a somewhat messy music area in our office. I'm on drums, we have someone on bass guitar, two guitarists, a keyboardist, and a vocalist.

Yessss, jam session was excellent! We had a group of other people who were using the space just before us and some of them stayed back and ended up playing with us as well.

I turned out to be the only drummer so only played that, but got some compliments on it which I was stoked about! Especially given that the other people were waaaay above my level in terms of guitar or bass skills, haha. They were actually playing some songs, none of which I had the remotest idea of how to play on drums and some of them which I hadn't even heard, but I was able to put down a good beat at the right speed and it worked out really well. We even ended up doing some bluesy-sounding thing at the end where I did a shuffle beat and it sounded fantastic!

music darkroom friends drums in the office jamming

Posted on 26 September 2024, 20:34

A photo looking down Sydney's George St, with tram tracks in the middle, some trees just starting to come back into their greenery, tall buildings, and people walking around with umbrellas. The sky is grey and it's actively raining.

I'm in the city today for a doctor's appointment and also post-work jam session, and jesus CHRIST is it miserable.

sydney darkroom rain in the office

Posted on 26 September 2024, 11:14

A photo of three smiling people sitting at a restaurant table. There's me, a white man with short hair and a red beard that's in need of a trim, @yayKM, a white woman with short light brown hair, and @thewetmale, a white man with dark brown hair pulled back into a ponytail. In front of us are two roti tisu, which are huge cone-shaped sweet Malaysian desert things.

Most excellent to finally meet @thewetmale in person!

kristina selfie me darkroom friends mamak

Posted on 19 September 2024, 20:49

A selfie of me, a white man with a red beard, with a blue curtain over half of my head because I'm sitting directly next to the window and the wind keeps billowing the curtains everywhere. Makes a little hard to work.

I've got all the windows in the house open right now, and while it's absolutely glorious, it's also slightly windy.

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Posted on 18 September 2024, 13:42

A photo of my standing desk in its upright position, with an electric guitar sitting to the left of the desk, a bass guitar sitting to the right of the desk, a MIDI keyboard on the desk, and Logic Pro showing on the main display.

Recording the bass and drums for @[email protected]'s upcoming Christmas song has gotten me into the mood to try record a short little something of my own. 👀

I'm trying to do some kind of cool minor pentatonic thing, we'll see how it actually comes out. 😅 I've got the bass riff recorded so far and it's sounding pretty good, next stop is some lead guitar over the top of it. (The MIDI keyboard may or may not end up being made use of in the final product.)

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Posted on 15 September 2024, 21:12

A photo of our original cupboard doors, there are four of them and they're in a very white thin frame with very cheap looking wood grain as the actual door material (I honestly couldn't tell if it was the real wood or just a faux-wood covering on top).

A photo of the new cupboard doors, only three of them. They're white, in the "quaker" style, and the middle one has a mirror in, which is reflecting me in the middle of taking the photo.

Today we had our incredibly shitty built-in wardrobe in the main bedroom replaced! Looks so much nicer now, inside as well, and it's good to have a mirror that isn't the weirdly lowly-positioned one on the back of the bedroom door.

our house darkroom renovations

Posted on 13 September 2024, 13:45

A wide-angle photo taken from the bottom of the set of three escalators looking up them on the Metro platform at Sydney's Central station. It's a big open area with geometric textured sandstone-coloured walls above.

And now we're heading back home on the Metro, having dropped @yayKM's mum off at the airport. I don't think we've used public transport this much since pre-COVID!

sydney darkroom train station

Posted on 7 September 2024, 8:22

A pair of individual framed paintings showing the two frames of the "Awkward Monkey" meme, with a little red sticker next to it indicating it's been sold. No, I don't know why either.

Today we went to Carriageworks to see the Sydney Contemporary exhibition. There were some really cool artworks, and also some weird and very pretentious ones.

Also for some reason someone painted Awkward Monkey.

art darkroom redfern

Posted on 5 September 2024, 13:42

A photo of a large six-storey unit block with another one next to it under construction, but in the foreground is an open field with grass and some sheep grazing.

Well, the construction might be proceeding apace but at least there's still some farm life at the moment.

schofields darkroom buildings construction

Posted on 5 September 2024, 10:11

A photo of a very worn copy of Star Wars: Heir to the Empire. The cover art shows Luke, Leia, and Han's heads and upper body, Chewbacca standing is off to the right and there are three Stormtroopers running with a large fire or explosion in the background. Grand Admiral Thrawn, the blue-skinned, red-glowing-eyed tactical genius, is standing at the left in his white grand admiral's uniform, and above all of them is a man in brown Jedi robes with a big white beard, holding his arms up to the sky with blue/white lines of light or power coming out of his fingertips.

Right, having finished Timothy Zahn's Star Wars novel "Choices of One" which featured Mara Jade, I think it's time to go back to her beginnings for my semi-regular re-read of this EXTREMELY well-loved copy of Heir to the Empire!

My parents bought this for me for Christmas of 1993 so I would have been not quite ten years old. It was the very first proper novel I ever read and I'd absolutely credit it with my love of reading to this day, I read it through and then immediately started it again, and ended up reading it five times over the six weeks of the Christmas holidays that year, haha.

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Posted on 4 September 2024, 23:15