Category: Core

It’s Friday.

Start at 5am. Read The Radical Crusade of Mike Pence – Rolling Stone and Bashar al-Assad’s War Crimes, Exposed – The New Yorker

Four shots espresso at 630. 9 Pokemon caught.

Add all new releases to Apple Music Library (new Menzingers!). Listen to a few seconds from the first track of each and begin the first round of deleting unwanted albums, especially Blues, R&B, Christian, etc. Begin second round with 334 songs remaining.

Hold Pokemon Go Plus button in palm, pressing the button every time it buzzes. Do this all day, unobserved.

Three podcasts down by 730, at double speed. Delete a bunch that came in overnight – I only need to listen to one or two on SCOTUS, not seven.

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830am – round two song cull complete – 175 songs remain.

episode one, Santa Clarita Diet (watched on iPad in shower)

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Code

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Start work

Photos made before lunch: 1,185

Photos made after lunch: 569

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Code

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End of day. 142 Pokemon caught.

It’s… this time this year is similar to this time last year. Looking forward to Jan 1, planning for Jan 1, thinking of how next year will be improved on.

Like, I’m going to write more.

Funny, though, writing more is not ne.. or should say posting more is not a great idea. Quantity is not the thing I want to bump up.

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Suicide Squad –

Why are all the superheroes in the movies spending so much time punching. If you’re truly an evil genius or god or mutant, you’re going to have such a great plan that your success/failure won’t come down to punching. These films were always tragically flawed, but at this point it’s unwatchable. I know, it has always been unwatchable. You’re right.

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I lost my Narrative Clip 2 camera a couple weeks back. So unless it turns up under the seat of my car, that project has come to an end. Much to the relief of Kyle Goon and others who were disturbed to find out that a device clipped to my shirt had been taking their photograph every ten seconds.

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Diane Rehm has broadcast her final radio show. It’s a serious loss to the world. There was no moderator of her calibre, who could keep things calm and reasoned and allow all voices to be heard with respect. This election and its special rancor was probably her biggest challenge, but I will definitely miss hearing her voice – I will subscribe to her new podcast, and hang on as long as she does.

Some of her final advice:

Rather than arguing your point, listen to the others’ perspective.

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My assignment last night was the Utah Democrats Election Night Party.

Not the happiest place.

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The coverage of the campaign has been atrocious – always falling back to the horse race rather than issues.

And how does the New York Times run the odds of Hilary winning (always over 85%) up until late last night when out of nowhere it reads Trump with 93% chance of victory?

How does the media, get it so wrong? So out of touch.

At our pre-election night photo dinner, a colleague couldn’t understand why anyone would vote for Trump, and why anyone didn’t like Hillary, that there was nothing to dislike.

But I’ve known people who have hated Hillary for twenty years. That’s beside the point. I was surprised that he gave no validity to anyone on the conservative side, that anyone opposed was simply a racist or misogynist.

They voted against Hillary because they don’t agree with a progressive agenda. I’ve kind of swerved here in my writing.

Back to the media – and more importantly the fake media, the partisan media – those outlets. The media world is so splintered into tiny outlets with little credibility.

But you know what? Readers don’t demand credibility any more. They just want to see what they agree with, or what outrages them.

It’s true in my own life – for a while this year I was looking at the Daily Mail everyday. I knew that the stories were all exaggerations and falsehoods and the most ridiculous stories. It didn’t matter, because that’s what I was looking for…

It was more fun to read the cartoon version of the news than the real news (which I read as well).

And I’ve stopped, so don’t judge.

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I’ve been saying this year that everyone always says Never Forget, and It Can Never Happen Again, and how we’ve learned so much from the Holocaust.

But really, in the future it will happen again, with much more precision and devastation. Humans have gotten better at everything – the next rise of fascism (whether or not it is Trump) will be exponentially worse.

Just back from a cold walk – with Ruby who was pinballing all around chasing sights sticks and smells.

Had someone reach out asking about the Short Creek zine I put out a while back. This was the push I needed to set up https://store.trent.photo.

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We had a great fovi8 meeting last night. I’ve pretty much finished with the back end and now the ideas are flowing from the team. It’s great to be involved with three brilliant people.

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It’s funny how you want things

Not going there.

With all of the recent hacks going on, it’s gotten to where you don’t really want to write anything down, especially in an email or text.

That’s definitely the direction I”m going. Why put anything down that reveals the a*shole that we all have inside of us? It’s not really who we are, but it comes out with quick expressions of opinion.

After watching a couple episodes of Black Mirror season 3 yesterday, I taped over all of the cameras on my devices. I don’t use them anyway, so why have an exposed window that is out of my control? Seriously.

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Eli told me that UNPA results are all finalized, but I”m still waiting on them arriving in my inbox. Yes, in November we still don’t have results from the contest. And we haven’t had a get-together to hand out the awards.

Big credit to Eli, though. He’s been handling a lot of contest work for a dozen years. He’s finally done after this one. I just need that email and he’s done.

I have moved the UNPA winners gallery site to https://unpa.trent.photo, which isn’t optimum. I don’t like having my name in the URL, but I’m no longer in the business of buying too many domains. At least, I hope those days are over.

Did I say something in the last post about taking my obsessions and doubling down on them?

I made a second PGO user and as of 16 hours later it’s at level 8. And a diff team than my main player.

On the walk this morning I realized why stop at two players? Why not a smurf of each team? If I can get them up to level 8 in less than a day…

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Double down.

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Fovi8 backend is going to go through a major testing phase when this writing session ends. New photos from a variety of users, entered into a contest, judged, and stats calc’d.

Major advances.

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Photographed a singer yesterday who has left the neighborhood meetings. He was still very raw over it, releasing a very emotional album that really puts himself out there.

Courageous, and at the same time I’m sure it will upset many of his fans still in the neighborhood.

He got choked up talking about parts of it, as he still hasn’t figured out what will replace the neighborhood in his life.

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A friend from the neighborhood: “I was wondering if you’d mind if we could grab some lunch or dinner this week someplace. i was hoping we could chat about where you are in relation to (neighborhood). I really miss seeing seeing (sic) you and your family there and know you’ve told me a little aboiut what’s going on but I wanted to just talk and get a better sense of it all if you don’t mind. If it’s too personal I understand and this isn’t like some well thought out discussion with an agenda. I honestly just think there are things you have to offer those (neighborhood) and vice versa.”

We had that dinner the other night.

My thoughts are, it’s interesting how the more progressive and open-minded people are curtailing their neighborhood involvement. This means the neighborhood meetings get less and less open minded.

The time we previously spent in the neighborhood meetings is now spent walking seven miles in City Creek Canyon together. It is breathtaking, and I am madly in love with L, 27 years on.

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The other day we had my little nephew over for the day. I tried to find kure kure takora on youtube, but it wasn’t there. So I found the greatest show for a little boy – MXC.

He was laughing at the people falling into the mud and getting crushed by giant boulders. I was laughing at the double entendre’s that give the show the added edge.

Then my other nephew showed up, who’s a teenager. And he laughed at the people falling into mud as well as the double entendre’s.

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Yesterday I published the ninth custom-design article for the main client.

Lots of thoughts on this, lots of frustration at the slow pace of improvement there.

The office is a place of silence, some of m

Focusing on the work. Photographing two soccer games today. Will be a good day to clear the mind.