Since it's quiet today, here's a question I've been thinking about since dan posted about it...and then said Farcaster needs a @matthewb for every niche...

** What is your area of top 1% knowledge in a niche? **

Your answer might be an insight into your place here, more engagement, etc. 

(https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0xb68eaa15)

I have a couple that I haven’t unleashed on farcaster yet but the most obscure is definitely hybrid analog-digital photo processes, most notably:

- drum scanning: high-end film digitization with photomultiplier tubes (vacuum tubes) and point source halogen illumination

- lightjet printing: analog chromogenic prints (C-prints) made with digital files, LED or laser printers in a darkroom, and RA4 chemistry

both of which I could talk your ear off, though would be so insanely niche that you’d probably tune me out.

Farcaster-native research: https://paragraph.xyz/@matthewb | prev. Juicebox, Nouns, RAW DAO | casting about coffee, hi-fi, and other rabbit holes

Fascinating subject! My life pretty much revolves around hybrid analog / digital creation and I’m also fascinated by abandoned older technologies that are actually amazing

musician, photographer, strategist, yogi | exploring the intersection of sound, movement, consciousness and technology | GEMS | Falling Over Water

I was recently talking  to @rinanicolae about optical compressors and light dependent resistors, haha. 

I record, mix and master music with a combo of analog, outboard and digital gear. Vacuum tubes in some of it like guitar amps.

I also shoot on film and edit digitally. I recently did a studio visit with a photographer who is generating with AI, printing large and then photographing the print with a large format camera from the 1890s

I want to get into some holographic stuff or silver gelatin prints and other mediums that just can’t be recreated on normal screens

definitely share your interest there, big time. 

I was obsessed with this type of obsolescent tech in my previous career in photography (hybrid analog/digital processes) and now mostly get to explore that through my hi-fi hobby (amps, preamps, DACs, all that). interestingly enough, vacuum tubes were a constant between those two eras.

what type of hybrid analog/digital stuff are you up to these days?