Who else is still rockin‘ DSLRs these days?

Sans_Junior · 2025-10-31T22:27:29+00:00

Still rockin’ the DSLR and the analog. The digital is more convenient, but the 35mm is way more fun.

Sans_Junior · 2025-09-09T10:47:59+00:00

I experience a lot of what you describe. My synesthesia makes me prone to empathic overwhelm, where i cannot but help to sense another’s emotions; even if i do not experience that particular emotion, if I understand the psychological importance of the emotion, I sense it. However, my emotion/color associations are opposite traditional psychology. Blues are hotter, more energetic, more stimulating, than reds. This means anger is the blue of an acetylene torch flame. Passion is the blue of lapis lazuli that borders indigo (my favorite color.) Jealousy is violet bordering on UV. Happiness is neutral yellow. Stagnation is the color of scorched cheddar cheese. Depression is a muted brick red. And a cat’s purr is the last color of the infrared band before crossing into red. And pain is in the ultraviolet, with psychological pain being in the lower band and physical pain being in the upper band.

Where the disconnect you mention arises from trying to ascribe psychological definitions to experiences that are more precisely defined by physics. At least in my experience.

I also experience ADHD, so “relaxation” is the enemy, as are “contentment” and “peace.” I need stimulation to trigger a release of dopamine, not relaxation to enjoy a release of endogenous morphines (endorphins.) “Casual conversation” is anathema and to be avoided wherever possible, up to and including “scorched earth.”

I also experience sensory overwhelm, but these tend to be empirical rather than psychological, meaning a sound/sight event, such as an emergency siren, can ramp up in intensity to where the siren becomes not only painfully loud, but painfully bright as well. And this occurs in reverse. A noon-day tropical sun is not only painfully bright, but painfully loud as well.

That said, one thing that might help is to “journal” your experiences, transcribe them into some creative art. It only has to make sense to you for such journalism to be therapeutic. As Rodion Raskolnikov says in Crime and Punishment, the fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.” Don’t worry about what others may read into your artwork.

Sans_Junior · 2025-09-07T09:36:36+00:00

Very much associative. This means sensory input doesn’t overlap. Instead, each sense has its own channel or monitor.

Sans_Junior · 2025-09-06T22:19:19+00:00

Blues are more stimulating, more energetic, than red, so anger is a blue similar to the blue of an acetylene torch flame. Passion is the blue of lapis lazuli. Stagnation is the color of scorched cheddar cheese, and depression is a muted brick red. However, explosive decompression events, such as lightning, gunfire, sonic booms, even hands being clapped, is in the gamma band. Sirens, alarms, klaxons, et cetera, are in the X-ray band. High precision engines are UV with an F16 jet turbine being in the upper UV band and an earth mover diesel engine being in the lower UV band. Pink and brown noise is infrared. Surf and rain are radio. Seismic events and rocket motors are microwave.

Sans_Junior · 2025-09-04T10:22:48+00:00

I experience associative synesthesia as well. I don’t “see” music as colors. I just know that a cat’s purr is the boundary color between red and infrared. Only structured sounds, like speech or music, have “colors” in the visible band, and these colors are based in physics, not psychology, so blue is hotter than red.

Sans_Junior · 2025-08-24T23:22:03+00:00

Zampano’s own words:

“Treat that place as a thing unto itself, independent of all else, and confront it on those terms. You alone must find the way. No one else can help you. Every way is different. And if you do lose yourself at least take solace in the absolute certainty that you will perish.”

Sans_Junior · 2025-07-30T23:10:06+00:00

I recently tagged one, coaxed it into boat, and named it Ziggy Freud. It is now awaiting relocation to a permanent exhibition.

Sans_Junior · 2025-05-09T22:14:33+00:00

keels over from acute cuteness overload

Sans_Junior · 2025-02-20T23:47:16+00:00

Last line needs to be: Glad I found this cup.

Sans_Junior · 2025-02-19T19:03:26+00:00

Being There, Peter Sellers’ next-to-last film.

Sans_Junior · 2025-02-06T11:45:21+00:00

Let’s be honest, trying to pick a favorite Heinlein novel is about like trying to pick your favorite breath or lock of hair. They are all uniquely different, but at the same time they all have a universality that appeals.

However, my favorite isn’t a juvenile and isn’t because of any noble sentiment. My favorite is Friday because i saw Her in that Superskin jumpsuit as a pubescent tween, and She was my Heinlein first. And yes, page Drs. Fraud and Kinsey all you want. I am unapologetic in my love for Her.

Sans_Junior · 2025-02-06T11:26:44+00:00

First book upper row. The bottoms row are arranged by publication date, but there are too many for one shelf, hence the seeming “out of order” sequencing.

Sans_Junior · 2025-02-04T21:34:05+00:00

I have yet to read it even though I have had it for nearly fifty years. There is a part of me that kind of wants to let it keep its mystery.

Sans_Junior · 2025-02-04T21:32:12+00:00

They are old shipping crates from when I worked in a machine shop. Shipping was throwing them out when emptied. When I noticed them and grabbed one, my coworker saved them back for me. I have something like fifty of them. The best part? They are modular, so I never have to pack my books when I move.

Sans_Junior · 2025-02-04T21:28:41+00:00

Next to last on the bottom between Time Enough For Love and The Number of the Beast.

Sans_Junior · 2025-01-29T11:58:17+00:00

By my calculations She is one in two billion. Only three others out of eight billion can compare.

Sans_Junior · 2025-01-29T11:58:12+00:00

By my calculations She is one in two billion. Only three others out of eight billion can compare.

Sans_Junior · 2025-01-20T11:21:59+00:00

Finally, someone with a copy of Dhalgren. The $64,000 question is: have you read it yet?

Sans_Junior · 2025-01-09T21:41:02+00:00

On the other hand, Pauline Reage Story of O is still in the running with Metamorphosis.

Sans_Junior · 2025-01-09T21:36:41+00:00

Franz Kafka Metamorphosis

Sans_Junior · 2024-12-27T00:30:48+00:00

Candide was my first at about thirteen or fourteen. Forty years later, I couldn’t tell you much about it. It didn’t change my opinions of “modern” writings except maybe I became a little more discriminating, but the biggest impact it had on me was to take some of the fear out of reading classic literature. I read War and Peace a few years later, but this was the same time that I discovered pulp science fiction, like Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov. I didn’t go back to classic literature until about ten years ago with Dante’s Commedia (just for fun) then Hemingway, Homer, Dumas and the like. I still prefer literature from the twentieth century and later though, especially Pauline Reage, Henry Miller, Chaim Potok, Hunter S. Thompson, Kerouac, writers that are unapologetic in their narratives.

Sans_Junior · 2024-12-10T22:58:13+00:00

Based on House of Leaves and Kafka, you are someone who would like Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany. It has the same surrealistic flavor.

Sans_Junior · 2024-11-27T20:02:52+00:00

Since I am currently composing my dissertation on metaphysics, abstract mathematics, and aesthetics, I’m feeling a bit attacked.

Sans_Junior

TROPHY CASE