A Year Alone

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and, still, you haven’t written War and Peace.

My year hasn’t been alone during this panda-emic. My life was built to live in this world. Not planned. It just grew that way.

so, Happy Newer Year.

Groover on Technique

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JAN GROOVER: Technical prowess? I–I know as much as I need to know and no more. 

I’m interested in seeing the thing. 

I could tell you how a view camera works. I could probably explain it to you, but I only know that from experience. I knew nothing about it before I bought one. I had some wild concept that you could change space, which you can. But once I bought the–once I bought the view camera, everything else was just eyeballing it. 

If the thing doesn’t look the way I want it to look, I’ll try something else.