Prologue

please finish the corn sketches I’m begging you pleas

9/ In our digital age of endless scrolling of isolated (and increasingly artificial) images, photography books remind us of the power of thoughtful curation and context. They're not just collections of photos - they're conversations between artist, reality, and reader.

8/ The readers' interpretation isn't cast on the artist's, but rather the artist's literal view of reality. Rather than thinking "why is reality depicted as such?", it is "what meaning do these captures of reality have?" That, to me, is an incredible experience that deserves to be more widespread.

7/ All these factors combine to creating a work of art that is unique and counter-intuitive. Despite being a literal representation of reality, every reader will walk away with a completely different understanding of the message and meaning, each one just as valid as the next.

6/ Social media like Instagram or DeviantArt remove the artist's ability to compose their own layout, rendering the collection of works as what is essentially a large bucket full of "stuff". Each photo MUST be able to exist on its own, without much in the way of guaranteeing any kind of continuity.

5/ The book exists as a whole, superseding the individual photographs that compose it as the artwork. Largely speaking, it is this element that has been taken away from most of our consumption of photography in recent years by various social media platforms.

4/ Rather, the photographer, given reality as-is, chooses how to frame the shot, what subjects to include, what methods to use to develop the photograph, what paratext to include; and, in the case of a book, how to lay out the work.

3/ That isn't to say that photography isn't art, even if historically it is this very argument that was used to discredit the medium as a whole.

2/ Photography as a whole already exists a bit apart from the other artforms. It is uniquely non-interpretive: while a painter, a writer, or a musician captures their perception and interpretation of reality within their work, the photographer is given reality as it is observed by the camera.

Photograph of Daido Moriyama's "Pretty Woman" photography book.

🧵 Praise for the #Photography Book: A thread

I was recently gifted a photography book, specifically street photography, and I wanted to take the time to share some of my thoughts on the #art, because I find that it is an often overlooked medium.

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we really live in a timeline where P-Studio directors finally get to work on what they want for 10 years and they decide to just make a megami tensei game again with a stock JRPG job system and a stock JRPG storyline

nothing wrong with that of course, I have a crippling JRPG addiction

question :(

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@magnoliaducky.bsky.social

A happy, happy B-day to a hella cool Duck!
Thanks for always helping the team and being a good amiga!
Hope its great with all the gifts, and such
Have a present!

Wanna find out how Tia ended up like this?
archiveofourown.org/works/59607319

Story by @prologue.did.games

YouTube video by Release - Topic Mistral

this week's musical hyperfixation is Mistral by Jan Cardell and Wintergatan, who answer the very important question of "what happens if I hook up a bass guitar and a glockenspiel to this mechanical sequencer I built in my garage"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL5U...

buenos dias mandy

erm.... what the sigma

when the sky

when the sky...is blue

blessèd be, these magicks are much more than just mild 🙏💘

Freedom Bound reached 20k hits on Ao3, which means this is an excellent time for me to shill it again :) If you haven't yet, you can read my full-length bondage and DID themed novel here:

lies of P apparently released on mac and let me tell you, being able to play an actual video game on mac is fucking surreal?? I am shackled to minecraft no longer, I am mad with power

Sun Bear cast as a fantasy Sun God, Moon Bear cast as a fantasy Moon God. The Sun Bear is clearly evil looking, the Moon Bear is cute.

consider: fantasy RPG setting about conflicting celestial gods but they're their respective bear species

you have quite the range 👁️👁️ very cool!

i hope he breathes lightly sparkling water

china what are you doing

continue to be fascinated by the officially licensed, east asia exclusive tom & jerry gacha game, which is still getting content and updates