Tag: Nick Carver

  • Diversions #8: Icy gin film

    It has been a long, cold, mostly icy winter. I’m not sure if age makes this feeling more acute, but the data seem to show that this winter has been colder than average. I can’t remember the last time I pined for spring this badly. But, just yesterday, as temperatures finally hit 50ºF, the garlic…

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  • A conversation with Keith Taylor – Photographer and Printmaker

    Keith Taylor is a photographer and printmaker with over 40 years of experience in the darkroom. His personal work includes multiple darkroom mediums including gelatin silver, platinum palladium, and his passion polymer photogravure. In mid-March we hopped on Zoom for a 1-hour conversation. This isn’t an interview. It does not have planned questions. It is…

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  • Voice Memos #1: Reframing our thinking about follows, views, likes, etc.

    In this voice memo I chat a little bit about how I’ve tried to think about my follow count, my blog’s statistics, likes, and other metrics. As the internet begins to divide into smaller groups once again, this perspective may become more important than ever. Voice Memos #1 is 7m54s. You need to be logged…

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  • What I saw somewhat recently #93: April 23, 2022

    Started some seedlings I’ve been spending a decent amount of time on a free word game (coming soon) and the redesign of my website. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t collected a cacophony of links for y’all.

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  • Why I’m shooting with film

    Nearly a decade ago Eliza and I began to make our own wine and beer. We started out making quick batches in buckets, carboys, or other small containers. It allowed us to get more familiar with the process of fermenting fruit or barley into one of our favorite drinks. Pressing grapes, 2013 Eventually we graduated…

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  • The Best of 2019 as told by me

    At the end of the year I like to sit down and make a rather random list of the “best” things I’ve seen that year. I do this almost entirely from memory but I also peruse my browser history and look through my Unmark archive in order to uncover some of the things I appreciated…

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  • Podcast: Culm dunes – October 2019

    22mm ∙ f/22 ∙ 1/15s ∙ ISO 100 22mm ∙ f/20 ∙ 1/40s ∙ ISO 100 22mm ∙ f/20 ∙ 1/50s ∙ ISO 100 Culm dunes – October 2019 You can listen behind the scenes as I make these photographs in an episode of Photowalking with Colin titled Culm dunes. I’d been wanting to use…

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  • Nick Carver on his photographs

    Nick Carver, in an interview by Cody Schultz in early 2018: Certain artworks I’ve seen throughout my life have had a powerful impact on me. When I look at a painting by Kenton Nelson or a sculpture by Michael Heizer, I feel something deep in my psyche that I can’t put words to. I can’t…

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