I've been neglecting you, Mastodon.

Here's something the other social networks won't get: A Kodachrome view of Philadelphia, sometime between 1955 and 1962.

And yes, this pertains to my quest to find old photos of the building I live in. It is in here, if you know where to look! But it only resolves to a few pixels - no details.

In the 1970s, Tony Lazorko was shooting color photography in Philadelphia. There are one or two hundred photos from this hobby, uploaded to Flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/lazorko/albums/ and given how hard it is to find color photography of the city prior to the 80s, I think it's a real treasure.

One of my occasional hobbies is to find the spot an old photo was taken, and do my best to match it. This is a view of Race Street, looking east from just beyond 11th Street.

The instrument I used to record this album is very much a "break the mold to reveal the sculpture" kind of device, making it incredibly challenging to recreate in a live setting... but if I were to perform this album or parts of it, think of this video as what would be projected on a wall behind me.

When you're in the right mood, sit in your favorite chair, play this on a big screen, and play it loudly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9VitRsBlgc

"I'll make an hour long abstract video to go with this psychedelic ambient album" is an exercise that I'm glad to be doing, and will be even more glad when it's done. Making slow-moving visuals takes a lot more effort for me than making slow-moving music.

I'm also violating the "composers shouldn't create their own video accompaniments" rule that I cite when I see other video/music installations.

For the Spotify version of my album, I made song-specific "canvases" based on the track-specific artwork.

8-second long vertical videos are cute I guess, but this inspired me to start cranking out a full-length visual accompaniment for the album. Nothing earth-shattering, not a big artistic statement, but it's been a fun way to incorporate the visual language of the album artwork & teach myself how to use Davinci Resolve.

It's also a lot of damn work. I'm only 33 minutes into my first pass.