Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this week's transmission from the fraying edges of the Internet, I answer calls from a place where time folds in on itself. A jacket is removed. Hair is assessed. Light ratios achieve momentary perfection before entropy inevitably claims its due.
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My future selves interrupt with urgent messages while I contemplate the proper dimensions of memories trapped on paper. A square reveals itself as the obvious solution to a rectangular problem. Even Ansel Adams couldn't escape the gravitational pull of posing with his camera.
Three callers. Four callers. Numbers blur. Questions about musical journeys, vocational persistence, and the search for community in an increasingly dislocated world. Plus, the Internet: a cursed room we begrudgingly visit daily to hang portraits of our better selves.
Join me as I continue my odyssey through the photographic wilderness, wondering aloud if anyone's still watching after the twenty-minute mark.
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845.232.1732
Intro music: Solar Flare by Adi Goldstein: adigoldstein.com
Join the Patreon: patreon.com/thehotlineshow
Links:
Get Sound by Adi Goldstein: getsound.ai
Normal Houses: noahkalina.com/normalhouses#1
Excire Foto: excireeu.pxf.io/09YY7L
Edward Weston 125 Photographs: amzn.to/41S2Lte
0:00 — Intro
3:56 — Book format contemplation
7:13 — Adam from Austin's call about the opening music
10:49 — Unnamed caller's question about sticking with photography
14:17 — Jason from Rochester's quest for photography community
20:28 — Seth's call about posting work online
26:31 — Closing thoughts
In this week's transmission from the fraying edges of the Internet, I answer calls from a place where time folds in on itself. A jacket is removed. Hair is assessed. Light ratios achieve momentary perfection before entropy inevitably claims its due.
patreon.com/thehotlineshow
My future selves interrupt with urgent messages while I contemplate the proper dimensions of memories trapped on paper. A square reveals itself as the obvious solution to a rectangular problem. Even Ansel Adams couldn't escape the gravitational pull of posing with his camera.
Three callers. Four callers. Numbers blur. Questions about musical journeys, vocational persistence, and the search for community in an increasingly dislocated world. Plus, the Internet: a cursed room we begrudgingly visit daily to hang portraits of our better selves.
Join me as I continue my odyssey through the photographic wilderness, wondering aloud if anyone's still watching after the twenty-minute mark.
Call the Hotline
845.232.1732
Intro music: Solar Flare by Adi Goldstein: adigoldstein.com
Join the Patreon: patreon.com/thehotlineshow
Links:
Get Sound by Adi Goldstein: getsound.ai
Normal Houses: noahkalina.com/normalhouses#1
Excire Foto: excireeu.pxf.io/09YY7L
Edward Weston 125 Photographs: amzn.to/41S2Lte
0:00 — Intro
3:56 — Book format contemplation
7:13 — Adam from Austin's call about the opening music
10:49 — Unnamed caller's question about sticking with photography
14:17 — Jason from Rochester's quest for photography community
20:28 — Seth's call about posting work online
26:31 — Closing thoughts
