On a lost effect from the analog film era.
Plasma Effect
The classic plasma effect is a staple of demoscene history. Using sinusoidal functions and color gradients, it creates mesmerizing organic patterns that flow and pulse across the screen.
Meta Ray-Ban glasses make it easy to film (and harass) strangers
We regret to inform you that the pickup artists have discovered Meta Ray-Bans.
Enlarging a Negative for Contact Printing: The Analog Process » Shoot It With Film
Have you ever tried to enlarge a film negative? We'll walk you step-by-step through the process of enlarging a negative using only analog techniques...
The Sunshine Recorder
I went into this video not knowing anything about how a mid-19th century sunshine recorder might work and was genuinely delighted by the reveal. If you’d li
The Relation of Environment to Anti-Environment
The ground rules, the pervasive structure, the overall pattern eludes perception except in so far as there is an anti-environment or a counter-situation constructed to provide a means of direct attention. Paradoxically, the ten percent of the typical situation that Drucker designates as the area of effective cause and as the area of opportunity, this small factor is the environment. The new TV environment is an electric circuit that takes as its content the earlier environment, the photograph and the movie in particular. Thus to put the artefacts from such a culture into a museum or anti-environment is an act of nullification rather than of revelation. To create an anti-environment for such electric technology would seem to require a technological extension of consciousness itself. The structural features of environment and anti-environment appear in the age-old clash between professionalism and amateurism, whether in sport or in studi.
How To Remove Remjet: An Update
Welcome to my blog about all things film photography. We'll talk about books, cameras, film stock, etc. If it's film it's game.
Gazing through a lens, I invent as much as I reveal | Psyche Turning Points
For years I watched people through cameras and screens, filling in the blanks and calling it truth
Using CSS to create a CRT
Many of us remember televisions from our childhoods as these flickering glass behemoths. These were CRT TVs and they had a very different look to them than our LCD screens do today. I have attempted to assemble a set of CSS effects to replicate this look mainly by adding three things: screen-door effect, flicker, and color separation. The color separation idea originally came from the hyperpunk theme by Andre Staltz for the hyper terminal. The scanlines and flicker effects came from the CSS CRT screen effect codepen by Lucas Bebber.
Mass Effect: Andromeda actor Tom Taylorson says the game "was done dirty" by EA and "a very toxic atmosphere" online, among other things
One of Mass Effect: Andromeda's lead actors has reflected on the game's reception and said it was doomed by the publisher's high expectations and demands.
An Explanation (Which I Would Be Very Grateful If You Took The Time To Read)
What follows is a minor modern horror story.
Why we’re still obsessed with 90s aesthetics in 2026
Decoding the visual cycle: how tactile 90s aesthetics bridge the gap between sterile tech and human emotion in 2026.
Double Exposures on 35mm Film - Tutorial
Tutorial on how I shoot double exposures on 35mm film by Eric James Photography
Spielberg’s ‘A.I.’ Divided Critics, but It’s the Ultimate Coming-of-Age Story 20 Years Later
Movies don't change, we do. And where you are in life may affect how you receive the heartbreaking vision of this film.
This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous. Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-light
