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You Shall Not Pass / Tu Non Puoi Passare for #caturday 🪄

Catdalf the black and white 🧙🏻‍♂️ (not played by Ian McKellen, if you can believe it) didn't want the Balrog 👹 (me - spot on casting) to pass the Bridge of Khazad-dûm 🌉 (the steps at my friends house)
I would try and make a LOTR pun here but unfortunately, all the best of them are Aragorn. ✨

#photography #amateurphotography #catsofpixelfed #cats #blackandwhitephotography #pink #monochrome #flowers #lotr #lordoftherings #badpuns #urbanphotography #cat #colours #steps #italy #sardinia #sardegna #furrycat #windowshopping #experiment #colourpop #micio #gatto

So, coffee roasting progress tonight:

✅ Did not set a power cord/house on fire. 😬
❌ First batch tasted HORRIBLE
✅ Second batch finished roasting, first crack and then started into second crack, on cast iron outside on a camp stove.
✅ Determined why the cheap (clearance) commercial coffee brand that was being purchased (not by me) tasted so bad... Under roasted!! It might be that coffee could be rescued by roasting it again. (Ralph's Signature Select, for the record... consistently sour and tasted exactly like my under-roasted coffee).

Will see how the hopefully properly roasted coffee tastes in the morning.

#music #ai #experiment #freetouse #eyelashes

Eyelashes is a orginal song by me, writen in cooperation with chat-GPT. The follwoing versions are all AI-generated on variable more or less free music generation services.

The idea behind this experiment is to invite everyone to use the lyrics to genrate and/or conventionaly produce their own version of the track. Feel free to add your creation here. If so, please leave a note, if you made it 'by hand' or via AI.

wiki.vehtoh.de/doku.php/hoeren

wiki.vehtoh.dehoeren:eigenemusik:frei_fuer_alle:eyelashes:hauptseite [vehtoh.wiki]
Resistance / La Resistenza

Today in Italy is "Festa della Liberazione" / "Liberation Day". It commemorates the victory of the Italian Resistance Movement over Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
Let us remember and honour them and more importantly - continue their great work, as there is still *a lot* of work to do. Nobody is free until we're all free!
Buona 25 aprile! ✊🎉✨

#photography #amateurphotography #flowerfriday #camellia #blooms #spring #flowers #bloomscrolling #nature #urbangarden #25aprile #giornodellaliberazione #liberationday #red #dark #moody #artistic #graphic #natura #italia #italy #bologna #fiori #experiment #garden #dark #moody #art #fucknazis
Are you or your loved one looking for a new sleep paralysis demon?

Today's your lucky day!

Pros:
Can fit under your bed if needed.
Doesn't mind standing for long hours.
Has seen Nightmare on Elm Street. Believes in vaccination and that the world is round.

Cons:
I would like him home before 1am.
Is a bit sneezy this time of the year.
Knows too many Dad jokes.
Will definitely be more scared than you.

Can also be hired out to stand ominously in the background at funerals, Halloween parties, or weddings.

This is a one-time deal. Get your offers in quickly!

I'm counting this as an early #spookysaturday and a#texturetuesday because of how crunchy it looks. 😂

#photography #amateurphotography #portrait #dark #moody #creepy #spooky #art #portraitphotography #funny #fun #advert #night #nightmare #experiment #atmosphere #vintage #painting
Only Ghosts in these Halls / Solo Fantasme in queste Sale for #monochromemonday

In the Archiginnasio the walls are covered in around 6000 heraldic arms. These arms commemorate past students, teachers and patrons of the university. Arms were added to the walls until the late 18th century. (The Archiginnasio was built in 1563 so we're taking about 200 years worth of people)
It got me thinking about all the people who come and go from the building, yet it remains.
The "ghosts" right now are those represented by the heraldry, but one day will be us. But it's a Monday morning so don't think about it too deeply okay! ✨
This photo is a combination of a double exposure and a long exposure (because I have shaky hands and I really liked the people in one photo and the background in another so I tried to squish them together 😂)
Do not look too closely as it's my first time trying this and it's a mess. Just squint and enjoy! 😂✨


#photography
#amateurphotography #street #streetphotography #urban #history #city #cityscape #archiginnasio #shadows #ghosts #doubleexposure #longexposure #monochrome #blackandwhite #bnw #blackwhite #blackandwhitephotography #stairs #sunlight #light #shadow #spring #experiment #dark #spooky #moody #bologna #italy #italia #europe #biancoenero #fantasme
Only Ghosts in these Halls / Solo Fantasme in queste Sale for #monochromemonday

In the Archiginnasio the walls are covered in around 6000 heraldic arms. These arms commemorate past students, teachers and patrons of the university. Arms were added to the walls until the late 18th century. (The Archiginnasio was built in 1563 so we're taking about 200 years worth of people)
It got me thinking about all the people who come and go from the building, yet it remains.
The "ghosts" right now are those represented by the heraldry, but one day will be us. But it's a Monday morning so don't think about it too deeply okay! ✨
This photo is a combination of a double exposure and a long exposure (because I have shaky hands and I really liked the people in one photo and the background in another so I tried to squish them together 😂)
Do not look too closely as it's my first time trying this and it's a mess. Just squint and enjoy! 😂✨


#photography #amateurphotography #street #streetphotography #urban #history #city #cityscape #archiginnasio #shadows #ghosts #doubleexposure #longexposure #monochrome #blackandwhite #bnw #blackwhite #blackandwhitephotography #stairs #sunlight #light #shadow #spring #experiment #dark #spooky #moody #bologna #italy #italia #europe #biancoenero #fantasme

I read in a book about an experiment during which people were given a square of their favorite chocolate and had to rate whether they wanted more after the last piece or if they didn't want any more. The more chocolate they had after a certain point, the less they wanted.

They were either eating the wrong chocolate (probably! milk chocolate is sugar) or were not real chocolate fans.

When I am eating my favorite dark chocolates (90% Lindt or 87% Laima, a Latvian chocolate), I have to hold myself back from eating ever more of it. Both of these chocolates are low in sugar, sugar being further on the list of ingredients compared to other chocolates. So it's more chocolate than anything else, though it isn't bitter like some of those chalky high-percentage chocolates that really don't understand the potential of chocolate at all.

So I guess if I were in that experiment, I would skew the results, and happily.

I say as I eat some dark chocolate accompanied by a mug of chocolate-and-orange rooibos.