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Housekeeping notes

After several weeks of cobbling together daily posts at the 11th hour, there’s a short queue running again. Hoping to keep it that way through the summer–knock on wood.

Further: you all were very patient with me while I was agonizing over my applications to 3 MFA programs. I have news on that front I wanted to share: I was rejected by one program (way to be great big ol’ bag of dicks, CalArts), waitlisted at the second and accepted with full funding at the third (which just so happened to be my first choice school).

This girl is going to grad school, y’all!!!

Full funding–come to find out–does not include housing these days. Also: not that I’m super excited about taking on further student loan debt but I can only borrow against the estimated cost my program cosigns. They allow for $1618 in supplies for the entire academic year. (I want to know who came up with this amount and when the last time they shopped for art supplies was–fucking 1978?

Add in the expense of swapping coasts and yeah…it’s a great big old stress mess.

For now: that will have little bearing on this project. However, beginning in September–unless something gives–this project will be slowing down in a major way. We’ll almost certain go from a post every day (on average) to something like five (5) posts every two (2) weeks.

It’s not my preference to take that approach–however: something will have to give and this is the first thing with any flexibility.

Thus, if you like what we do here and you are able to do so: really, really please give some thought to supporting us via our Patreon. I realize in the real world only about 2% of your total followers can be counted on to offer support. But seriously, if 10% of you pledged $5/month, I could treat this project as my job and essentially do this and be a full-time student. (Also: if Patreon isn’t your jam, and you want to just donate–reach out and we’ll figure out how to make that happen.)

I am also working on two other things that will eventually be tied into this project: a series of guerilla exhibitions and a subscription introduction to photography history and technique online course. (Both of those are taking a lot longer than I anticipated to pull together.)

Lastly, Vox ran this think piece on digital imaging with smartphones and its impact on memory. There’s a host of category mistakes and uninformed assumptions. But it’s the first time I’ve really read something like this directed at non-photo/imaging folks and I think that despite it’s boneheadedness, the crux of the matter it’s trying to address is actually worth photographs and image makers more actively engaging with.

(If I seem scattered, I am. This week has been an abject clusterfuck and I am spectacularly ragged brained right now. Thanks for putting up with me.)

A 2 Week Queue

The influx of new followers over the last several weeks has been straight up unbelievable. Thank you so much and a very warm welcome to all the newbies.

Acetylene Eyes–for the first time ever–is set to run without interruption for the next 2 weeks. (Practically that means there’s likely to be at least one new post a day through mid-March, at least–though I am hoping to keep in going for as long as possible.)

I’m going to take this opportunity to remind you that this blog as long as this project is active, it will always be 100% free. However, the work involved in curating it takes a lot of time–approximately twenty something hours each and every week.

So if you like what I’m doing here consider offering a bit of support via my Patreon. Literally, at the rate I’m currently growing, if 10% of my followers contributed a couple bucks a month, I could feasibly transition to making this my full time job in a years time and making my current boring ass full-time office job a part-time thing.

Also, you know, if more than 10% of y’all donated, who knows. I certainly have bigger and better plans out there. But for now, I’m paying for them out of my own pocket. Investing in the blog, if you will–in the hopes that going forward, enough people will consider the blog worth investing in so that it can become self-sufficient and then maybe with a little bit of patience and a whole lot of love, it can possible be a way of supporting myself while I transition into some sort of more creative full-time occupation.