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Having consigned myself to continuing, voluntary quasi-poverty, I started the PhD Program in the Built Environment in Autumn 2007 at the University of Washington in Seattle. The elevator ride description of my research interests: insurgent public space, spatial politics & spatial justice, political theory. I take pictures and write about my travels for both research and for leisure. If they don't throw me out of the academy, I hope to make a living out of traveling, bending my own schedule, and working with students.

My bread-and-butter work is in the library world. I'm pleased with my current title of Metadata Librarian because metadata is kinda sexy. I'm all for the evolution of digital media and digital libraries & archives. At the same time, though, my real love is in working with physical and archival materials.

I also do audio experiments and field recordings. My SoundCloud profile is here.


*** Vanity, Doodlings, and Other Photography

I also post things of a more personal nature: marginalia I've drawn, foods and funny things, parody and mockery, and whatever else visual that I want to show off.

Even more importantly, I like to post vanity shots of me in fabulous outfits. I am a genderqueer, trans woman. My gender identity is fluid but based in the feminine. Everyone has a right to define for themselves what feminine and masculine mean personally and how they express it. I am comfortable with expressing myself as I am and in engaging publicly in order to increase trans visibility.

As a general request, please don't add me to your contact list if your photo page is nothing but cock shots or your personal porn archives and masturbatorium.


*** Equipments and apparatuses

I primarily use a Sony Alpha DSLR-A100 for hard core photography. Adding to the stock 18-75mm lens, I play with a fixed 50mm and 35mm (M42) so that I can have less flexibility in framing compositions via optics alone. My hypothesis is that this will cause me to walk around more and view subjects from more angles.

I'm a tinkerer, so I also still use my old Canon A60 with an interestingly broken CCD. I also have modified a cheap thrft-store camera for near IR photography. I am currently assembling pieces to construct a camera of my own design. It will use a sealed box, the CCD from one of the better cheesy USB web cams, a Canon FD lens flange, and either my Canon FD 50mm lens or the Vivitar 75-210mm zoom. And if that works, I'm going to put together a USB digital Holga.

Recently, I've been geotagging my images using a GPS logger and software/scripts, some of which I wrote, to automate the process. Drop me a line if you are interested.


*** Read my other blather:

urbanarchives.org/wordpress
seattlest.com/authors.php?author=seattle_tom
urbanarchives.org/fstop/adaptations
www.linkedin.com/in/reverendkomissar