Lighting - Extreme Gayness

[nfotxn]

The photo is about the enlarger lamps. Seriously.

My latest obsession is lighting. I can't get enough of it and I'm not particularly sure why. It's as if a dormant stereotype gene has activated, transforming me from the once gender-identity challenging iconoclast into... into... a host from a TLC home renovation show.

And know what? I really couldn't care less. Being really concerned how "gay" something looks is about as gay as you can get. It only answers to using the word "butch". Only us fags use that word, for real. I'll stop before I offend any more gender studies students. Really nasty lot, always got something stuck up their feminizing orifice.

So I was raiding my basement, which is full of unpacked boxes from the old house, and found my old darkroom equipment. Considering that traditional photo processing has all but moved entirely into the domain of the bourgeois, pretentious and ignorant I decided to repurpose re-used the enlarger lamps. Outfitted with some 23W compact fluorescent bulbs they provide nearly the equivalent of 200W of nice white light over my workspace.

I always marvel at what a great workspace I make for myself. Considering that I hardly do any worthwhile work with it anymore.

C'est la vie.

Comments

[bearringsd.livejournal.com]

Wow, is this the future of IKEA catalogs? If they come with woofy half nekkid men I believe they might have hit their target audience. :-)

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, ultra-niche softcore bearporn catalogues.

Attn:

[jongrizzman.livejournal.com]

As with all of our products, assembly is required.

[iahklu.livejournal.com]

so this was right after you finished having gay sex with john?

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

Haha, shut-up I fixed it.

[jawnbc]

the far ceiling lamp is penisesque. And you are a prisoner of a minoritizing discourse on masculinity.

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

I suppose it is. No wonder I keep staring at it, salivating.

As for "masculinity" I'd much rather forget about the word.

[mikiedoggie.livejournal.com]

I got into photography just as it was going all digital. I wish I had the time (and mostly the mentally incentive) to setup a B&W darkroom. I feel there's a certain amount of skill that I'm losing out on by not knowing traditional methods of dodging, burning, etc. etc. While I love the digital darkroom, film is a great medium to work with; I don't even scan negatives anymore.

[mondragon.livejournal.com]

No no no no no. Everything you can do with paper and chemicals you can do in Photoshop. Get a book like Scott Kelby's Photoshop CS for digital photographers. Having worked in darkrooms I love being able to do the same thing, in my own time, with an undo, in Photoshop.

[twnchicago.livejournal.com]

so you're tall and you're really, really gay. wow...

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

WANNA FIGHT!?

[keanubear.livejournal.com]

That is a pretty awesome looking workspace. I think I am gonna head off to home depot to get some lamps like that and hang them from the ceiling!

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

Glad I could inspire you!

[danlmarmot.livejournal.com]

Now you need take a picture of your (Ikea) bed with John in it... to showcase your fabulous Sex Lighting skills.

Not that John needs sex lighting to look good.

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

"Notice how, with directional lighting, we are able to highlight his asshole with precision to the mm!"

[thekingoftoday.livejournal.com]

What if I use the word faggy instead?


or how about, "Man that sconce is real cumdumpsterish."

I think that's a new word, though maybe it would be better used like this:

"Just yesterday I was chatting with Margaret over tea and she suggested that we all participate in some good old-fashioned cumdumpstery."

[jongrizzman.livejournal.com]

Honestly... everyone should know i compute in your room without my shirt on because you have so many computers and amps in that room which generate lots o' heat.

But, perhaps that's not juicy enough.

Kiss me, Lover. Now. Ungh.

[bookbear.livejournal.com]

Is there a good reason I want Key Lime Pie right now? Or do I just want sweet sweet cream on my stache?

[clarkelane.livejournal.com]

sexy gay workplace!

[beg1n.livejournal.com]

I'm flipping back to older photos of our trip there...I'm guessing your walls were the same color then? Maybe the new, improved lighting brings it out more. ...and of course I'm digging the workspace.

[beg1n.livejournal.com]

...and I'm laughin' a little over the .jpg name.

[backawayslowly.livejournal.com]

i like this picture a lot, Brodie.

[abearius.livejournal.com]

I remember those lamps very well. :-)

[thafuzz.livejournal.com]

*snort* Stupid Ontario. All-nude revues, legalized gay marriage, Toronto, and hot fuzzy men toting Mac hardware in every gay boy's bedroom.

It ain't fair, I tell ya, it ain't fair!

[p0lish-sausage.livejournal.com]

What's so ghey about your lighting? You can see. And it brings out the colours of your walls. Which are making me want to get a 35c lemon lime popsicle from the variety store.

[jbear70.livejournal.com]

And how many foot candles is that???

[perlcub]

Wow... Bright...

[aj-word.livejournal.com]

I love the green in that room, oh and the hairy cutie isn't to bad either!

[slate-canada.livejournal.com]

Is that a goiter on your right shoulder?

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

that is John (jgrizz)'s 2nd head, Leonard (does not have an LJ).