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A selfie of me, a white man with an increasingly-scruffy-looking red beard and receding hairline, sitting at an electronic drum kit. There's also Hob, a white man with glasses and shoulder-length curly hair, sitting down with a semi-hollow Gretsch electric guitar in his lap, and Daniel, an Asian man with sort of mid-length (?) black hair standing up and smiling and he's looking down at a dark green Ibanez bass guitar.

A photo looking out west from the 30th floor of our office. In the foreground are tall buildings, though lower than where I'm standing, tapering down to residential houses and units further back, and the sky has clouds scattered across that are lit up yellow from the sunset. The sun itself is behind a cloud bank in the distance.

I was in the office again for another after-work jam session, and this time we did almost zero playing along to real songs and spent most of the time improvising! I started on bass which was a bit dicier because I required that I actually figured out what the hell notes I was playing (though I DID actually correctly remember the typical progression for a 12-bar blues which I was quite pleased with, as well as which notes it should be!), but we got over that hump and got some pretty cool grooves, and then I switched to drums and we got a particularly awesome minor key thing going with me playing the eighth notes on the low tom.

The sunset before I headed over to our music room was decent too!

sunset clouds selfie darkroom friends in the office jamming

Posted on 10 April 2025, 20:18

A photo of five people sitting around a somewhat messy music area in our office. The drum kit is empty because I was on it but stepped back to take the photo, but we have someone on bass guitar, two guitarists, a keyboardist, and a vocalist.

In the office again for the first after-work music jam of the new year! As well as the guitar/bass/drums/keyboard, there's a little Korg synth of some description and one of the people had great fun playing around with that despite not actually knowing how to really use it. At one point I ended up just starting a simple little progression on the bass guitar and then everyone else joined in along the same lines and it sounded so good! Completely improvised but we all got into the groove and it was hella satisfying.

Then at the end we played Black Sabbath's Paranoid and oh man such a good song but I was on drums at that point and it absolutely did my arm in, haha.

darkroom friends in the office jamming

Posted on 30 January 2025, 20:44

A panorama photo of a group of people sitting around a pair of tables in a pub. Everyone except @thewetmale is looking at the camera and smiling.

Excellent turnout with the Sydney fedimeet, it was great to see @thewetmale @dimsimple@chinwag.org @ausfestivus and @s0@cathode.church in person again, and extra lovely to meet @akent @heygeorgie @dropbear @vk2gpu@mastodon.radio and @NewtonMark@chinwag.org for the first time! 🎉 Big thanks to @yayKM for organising, we'll have to do this again soon!

(Also full disclosure, @thewetmale doesn't actually look that munted in real life, he was in the middle of talking while I was taking the panorama and this was the result. 😅)

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Posted on 22 January 2025, 22:10

A VERY close-up, not quite in focus photo of April the dark brown labradoodle sitting on the lounge almost directly on me and giving a very expectant stare. It looks exactly like she's saying "YES HELLO I AM HERE GIVE ME PETS" which is 100% what she would be saying if she could speak.

A not-quite-so-close-up photo of the lighter brown labradoodle Amber who is also standing on the lounge and staring at me. At the very bottom right of the frame you can see just a bit of April's head because she was sitting on me at the time.

A somewhat blurry photo of both April and Amber sniffing each other's snouts, April is sitting directly on me and Amber is standing alongside. Out of focus in the background you can see @ausfestivus sitting on the lounge as well.

Today we went over to visit @ausfestivus and his lovely wife and their two excellent doggos! One of the dogs, the lighter-coloured one Amber, is a completely chilled sweetheart, and the other darker one April is a complete chaos whirlwind who insisted on being ON me whenever possible but would immediately get jealous if Amber was getting any attention, haha.

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Posted on 4 January 2025, 18:46

A photo of four smiling people sitting around a restaurant table. There's me, a white man with a short red beard and short brown hair, @yayKM, a white woman with short brown hair, @200ok, a white man with short-ish black hair and black-rimmed glasses, and his partner who is a white woman with shoulder-length tinted light purple hair wearing clear plastic rimmed glasses.

Mamak for the second time in two days, whee! Met up with @200ok@mastodon.social and his lovely partner before they move to Melbourne.

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Posted on 30 December 2024, 20:59

A photo of three people sitting around a restaurant table. There's me, a white man with a short red beard and short brown hair, @yayKM, a white woman with short brown hair, and @SeaFury, a Chinese woman with shoulder-length black curly hair.

We went out to Mamak tonight to meet up with the very lovely @SeaFury! A++ would food and conversate again.

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Posted on 28 December 2024, 20:06

A photo of a dining room with two tables set up on either side, two people are sitting around the left and another two and a child are sitting at the right. There are a bunch of paints and miniatures and things scattered over both tables.

A photo of several different pieces of gothic-looking yet somewhat futuristic ruins of varying sizes sitting on my painting table. They've been primed black and then had three layers of drybrushing done in increasingly-light greys and it looks mint, if you were lazy you could totally use that on the tabletop as-is.

Today I went over to a friend's place for a painting day! I got the drybrushing for ALL of my remaining Hivestorm terrain done, and then we finished the day off with a good hour-long splash around in the pool.

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Posted on 27 December 2024, 13:10

A selfie of three people sitting around a restaurant table, all smiling at the camera. There's River, a white non-binary person with long brown hair and glasses, Kristina, a white woman with short brown hair, and me, a white man with a short red beard and short brown hair.

Our final outing of this trip was meeting up with @menz@mastodon.social for dinner, after MANY years since we last saw them! A++ company and food.

kristina selfie me darkroom friends melbourne

Posted on 14 December 2024, 21:24

A panorama photo of fourteen people sitting around a set of wooden outdoor tables. @ajft is at the very left but also did a runner after the camera moved from his position and is also pictured sitting at the opposite end of the table, haha.

A++ would Fedivus again! Wonderful to meet-slash-see-again @ajft @pelagikat@eigenmagic.net @futzle@old.mermaid.town @koosli @mike@chinwag.org @hugh@ausglam.space @daedalus@eigenmagic.net @upmultimedia@mastodon.gamedev.place @ThermiteBeGiants @minga@chinwag.org and @ThePingMachine@chinwag.org! Plus @koosli's lovely partner!

kristina darkroom friends melbourne

Posted on 13 December 2024, 23:21

A photo of three people sitting around a restaurant table smiling at the camera.

A photo taken at the intersection of George St and Park St in Sydney's CBD, looking up at a building with a whole bunch of dangling string lights over the outside. They're making animated patterns and the one in the photo is a series of circles going outwards.

It was most excellent to finally meet @mike@chinwag.org in person tonight!

Then on the way back to the Metro station, the George St Woolies building had this big animated light display going.

kristina selfie me darkroom friends buildings

Posted on 10 December 2024, 20:50