Month: April 2026

On collecting physical media

#indiehead #datahoarder #homeserver #physicalmedia

https://tylersticka.com/journal/ephemeral-media/

Love of Lego inspired blind man to make the sets more accessible | AP News

https://apnews.com/article/lego-bricks-for-blind-audio-braille-instructions-5a2a27de4354a0b1443171c3f24f29e4

#lego

Gradually the #Fediverse has become my preferred social media. Even after a couple years it still feels very random, which may be what I like best about it.

It often seems that if I don’t follow someone or something immediately, especially smaller accounts like mine, they’ll be lost forever.

"Roland Barthes in his classic study of photography, Camera Lucida, uses two terms, punctum and studium, to descrube our reactions to photographs.

"The studium can be translated as what the photo represents in aesthetic and intellectual terms, wholly disconnected from our emotional response.

"The punctum can be translated as the wound of the photograph. It's both emotional and individual. The punctum for you might be different from my sense of the punctum in a photograph.

"It's a small detail that wounds us, a bou's crooked teeth in a photograph of smiling boys, a man shading his eyes from the sun in another."

–Robin Hemley, essay Lines that Create Motion, The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre

Camera Lucida : Reflections on Photography used book by Roland Barthes: 9780374532338

https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/camera-lucida-reflections-on-photography-9780374532338

https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/the-far-edges-of-the-fourth-genre-an-anthology-of-explorations-in-creative-nonfiction-9781611861211

#robinhemley, #rolandbarthes, #creativenonfiction #savednotes

In reply to @james.

Just read it. Content warning on racist language. Still thinking about the story.