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Photoni.st<p>Other’s Photographs Are Always Greener</p><p>Other people’s photos are always more interesting to me. When I look at other people’s photos, I always find them better made than mine: the technique is better, the composition is better, the tones are better, the colours or contrast are better, the artistic vision is more obvious, they’re m<br>[...] Click link to continue reading</p><p><a href="https://photoni.st/index.php/2025/07/25/others-photographs-are-always-greener/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">photoni.st/index.php/2025/07/2</span><span class="invisible">5/others-photographs-are-always-greener/</span></a></p><p> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Opinion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Opinion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/IMayBeWrong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IMayBeWrong</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Theory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Theory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/PhotographyTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhotographyTheory</span></a></p>
Photoni.st<p>Port de Royan</p><p>Last week I visited the lighthouse at Cordouan, on the French Atlantic coast, not far from where I live. It’s one of those things that aren’t far, but as a local you don’t do (e.g. when I grew up in Paris it took me many years to visit the Eiffel tower the first time even though I saw it nearly every day).</p><p>Photo explained: <a href="https://photoni.st/index.php/2025/07/21/port-de-royan/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">photoni.st/index.php/2025/07/2</span><span class="invisible">1/port-de-royan/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/PhotosExplained" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhotosExplained</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Theory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Theory</span></a></p>
screwlisp<p><a href="https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/LCKR-planned-simulation-scenario/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">screwlisp.small-web.org/lispga</span><span class="invisible">mes/LCKR-planned-simulation-scenario/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gamedev</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/simulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>simulation</span></a> <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/theory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theory</span></a> </p><p>No programming this time! I compose a scenario where a tree that avoids both locusts and other trees accidentally spirals back into locusts it escaped earlier, leading the locusts to discover previously safe trees.</p>
Photoni.st<p>Become A Good Photographer, Step Two: Quantity</p><p>I’ve watched, and sometimes was involved in, countless conversations about creativity that devolve into the same tired refrain: “Quality matters more than quantity”, “creativity can’t be controlled”, and my personal favourite “I prefer creating high-value work rather than churning out rubbish”.</p><p>This thinking is nonsense.</p><p>Continue reading: <a href="https://photoni.st/index.php/2025/07/11/you-dont-have-the-gift-accept-it/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">photoni.st/index.php/2025/07/1</span><span class="invisible">1/you-dont-have-the-gift-accept-it/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/IMayBeWrong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IMayBeWrong</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Analysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Analysis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Theory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Theory</span></a></p>
cedricPhotographer Artist or Photographer Technician?<br><br>I’m a technician. Not an artist. I have no doubt about that. So why do I pretend to make photos? (in the Ansel Adams sense)<br><br><br>[...] Click link to continue reading<br><br><a href="https://photoni.st/index.php/2025/06/27/photographer-artist-or-photographer-technician/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://photoni.st/index.php/2025/06/27/photographer-artist-or-photographer-technician/</a><br><br> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.anthropi.st/tag/photography" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Photography</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.anthropi.st/tag/opinion" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Opinion</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.anthropi.st/tag/imaybewrong" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IMayBeWrong</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.anthropi.st/tag/theory" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Theory</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.anthropi.st/tag/photographytheory" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PhotographyTheory</a>

Irvin Yalom asked the members of hundreds (or thousands) of #psychotherapy groups to write down their worst secret fear. He said that these fears could almost always be classified as one of two things:

  • Fear of being unlovable or unable to love fully
  • Fear of not contributing sufficiently to the world around you

He was initially trained as a Freudian1 psychoanalyst, so he called these fears
"Lieben und Arbeiten".

I sometimes think of this as I go through my life: everyone I meet or see, no matter how they present themselves, is probably struggling with (1) a feeling that they are not lovable or they don't know how to love others, and (2) a feeling that they have failed to make a difference in the world around them.

This makes me feel closer to people, even people I don't want to feel close to.

1 Freud was a shitty scientist and his theories were generally very bad. He was, however, an astute observer of human behavior and maybe an okay half-assed philosopher.

Every once in a while the stars align and you get to work on a paper that aligns all your interests. For me it was this side project:

Speculative Ecologies: Anxieties, Hierarchies, and Anarchies in the Natures of Speculative Fiction

🧵 (1/4)

literarygeographies.net/index.

www.literarygeographies.netSpeculative Ecologies: Anxieties, Hierarchies, and Anarchies in the Natures of Speculative Fiction | Literary Geographies
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@Lazarou @RealJournalism

Perhaps I agree with you that 20 votes per person (actually, 20 votes per SIM card, credit card, virtual device, etc.) is a poor voting system.

What voting system should be used?

This is not particularly encouraging:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27

The endless debate will continue. We'll soon see what EBU chooses to implement.

en.wikipedia.orgArrow's impossibility theorem - Wikipedia
Is Substack Just a Bunch of Echo Chambers?

I’m still trying to identify why I like Substack so much more than other social platforms. So navel gazing warning is in place.

One of the things that annoyed me with Substack is the fact that the various people writing on it do so for duplicates of themselves.


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#Substack #Theory #Opinion #Personal