The other week, I found a small shoebox containing a few forgotten SD cards. It had clearly been there for some time, given that I donated the Canon EOS 60D to a friend several years back.

One card was snapped in half, somehow without the box being harmed; a second had apparently been reformatted, then renamed to 'tourmaline_start_en00'.

I have absolutely no clue what that means.

Google tells me something to do with Magic: The Gathering (which I've never played). I prefer to read this as less an indicator of dissociative kleptomania than a comment on my relationship with photography.

The camera might come out after a break up. Get a shot of that dead tree. I feel better. I can learn to love again because I have captured the temporality of a fallen log.

Third card. Actual data! I find a photo of the spire of the Holy Trinity Church (on E 88^th & 1^st), a view from the window of my old apartment (who lives there now?), and last: a photo of a very large man asleep, shirtless, sprawled on a towel in the middle of the Great Lawn while clasping a small pipe in his right hand. Not pictured below for his privacy, wherever he is... but fondly remembered.

I applied Floyd-Steinberg dithering, Atkinson dithering, and fun, modified implementations of both (using something I'm calling 'reservoir dithering') to a few of these shots to yield the images below.

Historically I've used the same process for a few album/single covers, which are also included. Some greyscale, mostly RGB.

End goal: a library for all the other people who have difficulty paying attention to one thing at a time. Probably.

There are countless little visual techniques which are simple for me to consolidate and modify, but difficult for digital artists to easily access. Starting with standard dithering and pixel sorting implementations; hope to afterwards strike out into experimental image processing methods (we’ll see).

Keeping it simple for now. Frankly, it's just refreshing to focus on something small and self-contained.