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Played around with the Lite Brite a bit more and took a baker's dozen photographs as I kept adding pegs to the board. Followed that up with a fun Sunday morning playing around with the Photos app in Windows 10 which is a surprisingly fun little movie making utility. The results: https://twitter.com/johndewees/status/1287420349957668865

This post will provide an overview of how to upload resources using the CONTENTdm (CDM) Project Client using the tab-delimited text file (TDTF) to avoid during this process. This whole blog post is written assuming a Windows environment, sorry Mac users. Also I apologize that the section discussing errors doesn't provide examples of the specific … Continue reading CONTENTdm: Uploading via Tab-Delimited Text File →

In 2019 myself and a colleague endeavored to find a straightforward way to collect email newsletters being regularly distributed by Toledo/Lucas County-area organization such as the art museum or city government to keep their audiences informed. The initial formulation of this was to use Zapier to create a lightweight action where an email would be … Continue reading Quick-and-Dirty Email Archiving (But Different) →

I've always really enjoyed the aesthetic of out of focus lights in photography, in particular the hyperspecific subgenre of shot whereby someone inside a rain-slicked car at night takes a photo looking out the car, focused on the water droplets with the lights of other cars and the city blurry in the background. I've got … Continue reading Quarantine Photography, Part 1 →

My work from home has been going really swimmingly and I've continued to tweak and add to my setup and finally got the last piece of the puzzle delivered today so I thought I'd provide an updated post. I don't really think this is of interest to anyone but writing about this just makes me … Continue reading My Home Office Reaches Its Final Form →