first snow in 2016?
Photowalk! First snow in 2016! First snow this winter!
Actually, that is not true. In the early hours of new year’s day, Vienna got a bit of snow as well. But as it was all gone when we woke up again, I will just declare this the first snow day of the season. Maybe because I really, really love snow and I don’t like the idea of having slept through the first potential snow experience in months ;)
Besides snow, I also love “my” railroad bridge. I don’t know how many pictures I have shot from up there over the years. The train station around it looks incredibly creepy and also very pretty in a disgusting way …
This past weekend had another amazing snow day, and I shot a whole roll of film when we were out that day. But I messed up one of the settings, and the film I used also requires a different kind of developer that we first need to order.
Blah blah. It is going to take a while until I get to see how (or if) the pictures have been working out.
In other exciting news, the scanner in my apartment got new software, so we are not quite sure if the green tint is related to this new piece of software. It probably is, but I think that the light looks really nice in the pictures as they are – And I think it’s not too far off from the actual lightning situation.
And the wonky bridge. The other one, much smaller and for pedestrians only. I have been trying to take a perfectly symmetrical photograph of this bridge-tunnel-thing for years now, and failing every time. I am almost convinced now that the bridge itself is the reason for my failure. It’s just not straight at all.
Maybe that is why I like it so much.
holidays? not so much …
Too many cameras. Just enough fairy lights.
We don’t do christmas around here, or take part in any religous winter/end-of-year celebrations, so the end of the year usually only means that we get out loads of lights and candles to make the place a bit cozier.
I was not in any kind of holiday mood at all, but I did take a few nice pictures that capture the mood quite well.
More lights.
My roommate decided we would have a tree after all. It had zombies and a few developed rolls of film as a garland.
And my beloved enamel watering can that used to be a coffee pot in it’s previous life. I bought it at the flea market quite some time ago :)
still not over (roadtrip #2)
As the weather is quite lame, and nothing particularly interesting is happening right now, I’m finally posting the last few autumnal roadtrip-pictures :)
purpletatomash
Potatoes to match my personal colour scheme. What a time to be alive ;)
snowflakes
Very kitschy and heavily embellished snowflake coasters!
Luckily, not everyone is connected to everyone else just yet, so I can show you gifts I helped a friend make :P
I used the snowflakes to try engraving acrylic glass with the laser, which is something I will need for a future necklace-project I have been planning for a while.
It took some time to find the right material for the necklace-to-be, but now that I have the material and the handling of the robot figured out it should not be too long until I can get started.
While I am not too fond of how laser-engraving looks on wood, it is quite lovely on acrylic. Maybe I would even like how engravings look on wood, if burnt edges on unfinished plywood weren’t just screaming hackerspace project in a not-so-aesthatically-pleasing way? Not sure.
But then I generally do not like unfinished wood. It looks rather bland, and it feels horrible.
Let’s just stick to engraving things that are not wood for now ;)
And as I am being asked about the laser a lot, I made a video of the cutting process.
The video is a bit lame as I was too lazy to edit it much, and not brave (or stupid) enough to put my camera beneath the lid, right into the machine while it was running. But here you go, I hope you still like it:
even more scissors
Today we went to a medieval winter market and I accidentally bought another pair of scissors :D
It was really lovely. There was so much fog, one could very much feel the moisture. The air was almost dripping …
The overall gloominess greatly improved the experience at the market – the whole city around it just vanished. Everything felt strangely calm and silent, and much prettier than without the fog.
But the peaceful silence was an illusion.
