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Unplugged #20: Analogue11, a creative wellspring, from the Gothic to the divine, and memory on fire
Yes, it’s been yet another Alps-based personal creative revolution.
Sep 12 • Alex Roddie
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The time capsule
Secrets contained in a family box camera from the 1950s
Sep 8 • Alex Roddie
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Unplugged #19: Thinking long-term, an upgraded film scanner, fear and finding out, and a phoenix rises from the ashes
Where is this thing going?
Aug 8 • Alex Roddie
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Alpenglow inspirations: iPhone photography in the Alps
Making the best of a flawed – but valid – photographic tool
Jul 29 • Alex Roddie
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Unplugged #18: A doomed landscape, the pleasure of creation, against compression, and getting back your time
Drawing together the threads for a larger audience this week
Jul 18 • Alex Roddie
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Experiments in deconvergence: it starts with a wristwatch and notepad
Simple first steps towards radically changing your life. Less time looking down, more time looking up.
Jul 4 • Alex Roddie
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Unplugged #17: Anti-conquest mountaineering, drones on Everest, end of an era in Glen Coe, and the edit is the adventure
I don’t identify with having a fear of heights, but tackling some issues has helped me on the rock… and it doesn’t have to be about ‘conquering…
Jun 26 • Alex Roddie
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Experiments in deconvergence: Is the cyborg mountaineer still an artist?
More than a century ago, George Mallory wrote that adventure qualifies as art. Is that still true today?
Jun 19 • Alex Roddie
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