Holy fucking shit, Batman.

You ain't gotta phone?

Yeah, no phone or camera. I guess I could try holding my laptop over my head. Let's do it!

Yeah, no phone.

Ok, here you go, in glorious 640x480, blurry cos I had to hold the laptop in the air and unreasonably close cos I'm backed into a corner!

 :-(

Until the lockdown I've barely used my phone, probably averaging 3-4 actual phone calls a year, checked email a few times, checked some web development stuffs a few times...

Anyhoo here's a few more shots of my current workplace.

The blue raku jug is a treasured gift from my old pottery master, er Ceramic Artist David Cohen, who died a coupla years ago. We stayed in touch over the years, he sent me a couple of his books. I think I last saw him in person ~2003, when he and his wife Frances graciously hosted Mrs.D and I in their home for most of a week.

https://vimeo.com/220532240

I love your chair <3

Keep in mind that that was at the start of lockdown and I've a) been working in here daily for 4 weeks and b) I'm terrible at keeping things tidy  (fail)

You're gonna have to go back to basics. 

A daguerreotype of your work space please. 
  "To make the image, a daguerrotypist would polish a sheet of silver-plated copper to a mirror finish, treat it with fumes that made its surface light sensitive, expose it in a camera for as long as was judged to be necessary, which could be as little as a few seconds for brightly sunlit subjects or much longer with less intense lighting; make the resulting latent image on it visible by fuming it with mercury vapor; remove its sensitivity to light by liquid chemical treatment, rinse and dry it, then seal the easily marred result behind glass in a protective enclosure".

/Everyone's/ got that equipment lying around the house. Surely?

Chair has a history: It was originally my bosses chair, she got it from her father who ran a lumber supply store Piercey's and later became a big-time developer.

Leather upholstery stuffed with horsehair, still has the original casters and they even roll (how many plastic shite chairs can claim that?).

I reckon it might be 1920s-30s vintage judging by the style.

Thanks Xen. That looks more or less identical to what I remember 10(?) years ago, except the keyboard is smaller and potentially looks less full of ash? But surely not!

If anyone just happens to have that stuff lying around it'd be Xen.

I don't have daguerrotype materials, but I have recently started playing with cyanotype.

It's not terribly exciting...

Did you use a potato to take that?

Here is mine. Ikea desk and chair. Tidy, because I'm a clean freak and can't be dealing with messy desks.

I'm jealous of how tidy you are.

That's uncanny, like a Magritte painting.

There are a few things hidden behind the Macbook, but not much and there are pictures hung up around the room, just not behind my monitors

Don't be silly.

It was clearly a lemon.