Update: Now available for download on the Play Store .

Over the last six months I have been developing an Android app to aid in my film photography. I now use it every time I go out shooting and am making it free for everyone to use.

Analog Photography Assistant is a free, ad-free, privacy-first app with the …

I get my film developed at a local film lab and scan the negatives myself at home. The scanning setup is simple. I suspend the film negative flat over a lightbox, mount my sony digital camera to a copy stand so that it’s facing down, and shoot the negative using a macro lens. I get much better results than the local film …

There’s an urban wasteland walking distance from the Melbourne central business district. No, not Elizabeth Street, but an in-between area of the city – you’ve left the city going north west but haven’t yet reached the suburbs. You drive over it on viaducts, or travel through it on metro train lines. It’s an …

The Maniototo is a region made of plains and mountains in the South Island of New Zealand. As names go, through to the early 1900s the Maniototo used to be known as Central Otago, during which modern day Central Otago (Cromwell, Queenstown, Wanaka, …) was known as The Interior.

A rough map was made in 1852, with …

Normalised language is loose convention across prose, narrative form, formality, and conciseness in text we write. Academic papers, professional writing, advertising, group chats, and workplace chats all have different forms of normalisation. Texts can also be normalised by the way they look – if you see a two-column LaTeX document your mind recognises that it’s an academic paper before you’ve even read a word.

In Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More, Alexei Yurchak …