PennyRoyal

joined 5 months ago
[–] PennyRoyal 6 points 1 day ago

Ironic that the image has a red line that’s not plummeting, unless it’s tracking inequality and completely-screwedness

[–] PennyRoyal 3 points 1 day ago

That’s exactly what I saw, I had to read the title to get the real context

[–] PennyRoyal 2 points 1 day ago

Universal credit has been a shambles from start to finish, almost as if cruelty and weakening the welfare state were prioritised by the tories over actual welfare

[–] PennyRoyal 17 points 1 day ago

Tories need some shred of ethics

[–] PennyRoyal 1 points 2 days ago

This is the way. I’m trying to have my camera on-hand more, and add time into essential trips etc so if I want to stop to take a couple of shots I can. I’m also planning my holidays/trips with more of an eye to taking photos, rather than that being incidental to the trip - eg: I last went to Belgrade, which is a cool city, and planned out the interesting bits of brutalist architecture I wanted to see and photograph before I went.

[–] PennyRoyal 19 points 2 days ago

How weird! Could the fact that more and people are falling below the poverty line have something to do with an increase in people stealing stuff they can’t afford? How will we ever know?

[–] PennyRoyal 7 points 2 days ago

We transferred a huge chunk of public wealth to private companies during covid, and unless we tax that back, we’re only going to see this situation get worse

[–] PennyRoyal 3 points 4 days ago

5 stars, will crash again

[–] PennyRoyal 3 points 5 days ago

I’ve been slightly obsessed by Love Endeavour (Maurice Fulton Remix) by Alice Smith from 2014, Golden Fool by Gnome (and indeed the whole album), and Cabin Fever by Slomosa (and indeed almost everything they’ve done), both released last year

https://open.spotify.com/track/0oGM4LIuCrXG5aYOAu6ANJ

https://open.spotify.com/track/6Bc3ADDXY0JKUPPJ3AXYBp

https://open.spotify.com/track/4lmnpR0Z7kc7ktKOwlPFsi

[–] PennyRoyal 18 points 5 days ago (2 children)

That was a well-found location, the colours in that last photo are perfect

[–] PennyRoyal 2 points 6 days ago

That explains a lot! Fantastic image

[–] PennyRoyal 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That’s a nice tit! Is it cropped, were you using a phenomenally long lens, or were you somehow able to get very close with a more manageable lens?

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Probably worth a watch, and whether you agree with him or not, being aware of the economic situation here at the moment is probably prudent

 

Hi all, I need a bit of help.

I’m looking to get further down the rabbit hole of interesting photographers, but I struggle to define what I’m after. My general misanthropy extends into photography, people are almost always the least interesting thing in the frame to me. Why would you waste film on faces, when you could be taking interesting images of some nice concrete or rusty iron?!

I love the work of Toshio Shibata, Bernd and Hilla Bescher, Bill Brandt, Danila Tkachenko, and GXAce on YouTube. The problem I have is that searching for “Urban” photographers brings up street stuff, “Architectural” ends up with folks who take pictures of whole buildings, “industrial” seems to lead to people who take photos for corporate websites, or urbexers (though some of those are verging on what I’m after). Constructed landscapes, textures, geometric shapes, and the juxtaposition of human artifice and nature, that’s my bag.

Is there a term or genre that would connect all this? Or am I just going to have to keep finding new artists one at a time?

Ta!

 

I’ve got a little stainless Coast A5, which I love, but its beam pattern is very, very much inspection torch. Dead circular, even spread.

Is there anything similar in body, but with a more every-day torch beam? I don’t really want some black knobbly military-cosplayer’s thing, I’m not too bothered about a built in charging port, I want minimal. I love the simple, smooth stainless body of the A5, it lives in my smart jacket pocket along with an elegant little pocket knife, I just wish it had a thrower-style beam.

 
 

https://open.spotify.com/track/6bsOINgyf4lBBblmJCWcwr

Again, obvious link, but obscure song. Underrated band by my lights too

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Turbonegro - Fuck The World (self.connectasong)
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https://youtu.be/xFYXP19e5KM

Try to unfuck the world all you want, Turbonegro will fuck it right back up for you

 

I’m mystified how this isn’t a more well-known pedal, it’s about the most perfect fuzz tone to my ear. The sub switch takes it from a high, sizzling tone that cuts through a mix like a saw, right through to the noise of an earthquake. It’s in a similar realm to the Carcosa (which I reckon is probably the best value fuzz ever made, really versatile) but a bit weirder and heavier. Joyous.

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Giving me the eyes (sh.itjust.works)
 
 

Bunged a couple of pedals from the B-team box onto a little board I’d bashed together a while ago. I’ve had to cut the right-hand end down a bit to plug the Dirty Robot in.

I’ve been using this on synths, just as a bit of fun really. The dirty robot is fantastic, and very versatile. Seems redundant, using a synth pedal on a synth, but on rhythms it does all sorts of joyous things. The Bass Overdrive is a great little budget drive, and the wet/dry mix and low/hi tone shaping makes it well suited for synths. The Aurora is a nice, simple delay that you can manhandle nicely, and the Exosphere is a reverb that can be rather wild especially with the Little Monster expression switch.

 

I have a couple of things I’m not managing to do - I can’t seem to search posts, only instances/users etc, and can’t block whole instances from the app. Am I doing something wrong, or are these just features that don’t work in version one on iOS? Thanks

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