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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.)

our house music darkroom guitar bass guitar midi keyboard

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.

books our house star wars darkroom

Posted on 4 September 2024, 23:15

A high-contrast black and white photo taken standing in the middle level of Sydney's Martin Place Metro station looking both up to the entrance and down to the bottom level. There is a lift directly in front at the bottom, with two sets of double-escalators on either side, and then another two escalators coming in from either side of the frame going up to the brightly-lit entrance to the station.

A high-contrast, very moody black and white photo inside a big gothic cathedral looking down the aisles of pews towards the altar.

A high-contrast black and white photo of the platform at Gadigal station, with a bunch of people standing around. It's all very clean and white and futuristic-looking.

Today was a day ending in Y so we took the Metro again, this time to the Art Gallery of NSW. We dropped into St. Mary's Cathedral on the way back, and I realised that the photo I took inside there plus the couple of the Metro platform and station looked great in high-contrast black and white. I also realised that with us getting off at Martin Place Station this morning, we've now seen all of the new CBD Metro stations!

I also brought the DSLR along and took some Proper Photos of my favourite pieces of art in the gallery.

st marys black and white darkroom sydney metro train station

Posted on 3 September 2024, 20:10

A photo of an older woman with grey hair sitting at an electronic drum kit in the middle of playing. There's an iPad in the middle with the app "Melodics" open, indicating with coloured squares which drum pad should be hit when.

Currently teaching @yayKM's mum how to play drums.

She's a lot better with the coordination than my mum is, but then I found out that she used to play the full church organ that involves using both your hands and feet!

our house darkroom family drums

Posted on 2 September 2024, 10:49

A photo of the tunnel right as you leave Gadigal station. It's brightly lit with walls that curve up and are corrugated to deaden echoes. The bottom half of the walls are an off-white, and the top half are alternating black and white, and the roof is black. It's very visually striking.

A photo of the HUGE mural at the middle set of escalators at Gadigal station. It's multiple storeys high, tiled, and features a bright cheerful yellow background with a blue tunnel painted in the middle that curves off the right.

A photo taken from the top of the escalators down into the Metro platform at Barangaroo. The walls are roughly-cut sandstone with some sort of leafy (I think?) art decoration at the right.

Today we took the bus to the Metro, then the Metro in to the city so we could go visit the Sydney Aquarium!

Have I mentioned how good the Metro is? Because I feel like it bears repeating, it's SO GOOD. We got off in the morning at Gadigal station, and after we finished with the aquarium we walked north and then took the Metro from Barangaroo back to Tallawong. They've done such a fantastic job with the interior of the stations, it's bright and modern and interesting, I love it.

I bought the DSLR along so I could take photos in the aquarium, and I got some shots of our wanderings through Barangaroo that I'm really happy with too.

sydney darkroom sydney metro

Posted on 29 August 2024, 17:22

A photo of a big bowl of tonkotsu ramen with three pieces of fried chicken beside it, as well as an extra boiled egg.

Today was a quiet one, but we did go out to Japanese in Chatswood (once again, shout out to the Sydney Metro) and it was excellent.

chatswood darkroom food portrait mode ramen

Posted on 28 August 2024, 20:38