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portrait, Eva

Dr. John Hopkins — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:07:39 +0000

field work

Dr. John Hopkins — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:40:53 +0000

fortifying for whitewater

Dr. John Hopkins — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:43:19 +0000

granola

Dr. John Hopkins — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:05:55 +0000

Breakfast nine-days-out-of-ten, I’ve converged on this morning repast over the last fifteen years after an ignorant long-ago youth of Cheerios and Rice Crispies (along with despising the slurry of hot oatmeal glue mixed with milk and brown sugar (to which my father, a Californian, would add chunks of chopped dates). I have not included an …

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camping under the pines

Dr. John Hopkins — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:07:35 +0000

cleared

Dr. John Hopkins — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:47:19 +0000

destroy facism

Dr. John Hopkins — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:59:10 +0000

A message needing repetition, forever it seems. Every generation of youth will face this issue, with answers that “sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind.” Gib Nazis keine chance! A majority of Germans understand why, although their number tends to mere plurality these days. Wearing a tee-shirt with this message today in Potsdam or elsewhere …

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Monique’s interview

Dr. John Hopkins — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:33:46 +0000

Happened to run across this nice interview with a long-ago former student, Monique Stauder. She was in two of my photo courses at CU-Boulder back in 1988—Intro and Master Printing. We’ve stayed in contact, and what a life trajectory she has forged as a photographer and visual artist. The interview: Creative: Dispatches, Monique Stauder at …

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watching Hells Kitchen

Dr. John Hopkins — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:31:17 +0000

portrait, EJ and Bridget

Dr. John Hopkins — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:08:18 +0000

group portrait

Dr. John Hopkins — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:05:57 +0000

watching Hells Kitchen

Dr. John Hopkins — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:42:43 +0000

Fuji #18

Dr. John Hopkins — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:19:56 +0000

[ED: It occurred to me that I don’t have any representations of Kevin’s work on the travelog, after documenting most of the work he left behind in his Brooklyn studio the summer after he left this mortal coil—all too young—more than 20 years ago. This is one that I live with every day.]

student protest

Dr. John Hopkins — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:28:03 +0000

Fuera Yanquis! yup

Dr. John Hopkins — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:28:50 +0000

scene for an apocalyptic vision 22

Dr. John Hopkins — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:58:32 +0000

watching Hells Kitchen

Dr. John Hopkins — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:37:08 +0000

[ED: On the first walk-through of the rather dilapidated ranch house on 13+ acres of property there in Cedaredge, the 2020 view of Hells Kitchen from the kitchen was quite alright despite dirty windows, a wonky screen, lots of broken-down fencing that I slowly removed within a couple years, replacing it with “Stonehenge,” a season-tracking …

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the revolution

Dr. John Hopkins — Mon, 25 May 2026 04:26:05 +0000

[ED: Another impossibly low-fi piece from the initial era of video play in 1988-89. Perforce: dated, perforce: indulgent. The introductory commentary below was written as a course requirement back in the day. Remember, eons before streaming and the web. Ancien régime, the 1980s, pretension abounds.] With minimalist imagery and rogue audio, this video short examines …

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domination of landscape 10:43

Dr. John Hopkins — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:35:18 +0000

bed

Dr. John Hopkins — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:03:38 +0000

noise and inequality

Dr. John Hopkins — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:52:10 +0000

Claude Shannon, the Great White Father of information theory, framed the fundamentals of communications in the nascent Age of the Counting Machine. His ideas included the concept of noise and how statistical (stochastic) thermodynamic principles ruled the efficacy of information transfer. All communication degenerates to noise when there is a lack of energy to transfer …

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watching Hells Kitchen

Dr. John Hopkins — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:47:06 +0000

who who who

azega — Sun, 17 May 2026 15:23:09 +0000

i think now of Paul Celan rather often denken danken i think he feels evokes that it is necessary to live and this living presents itself as distinct from creation imagination memory distinct from encyclopedic collective whirl-wind concepts …. the world is gone …. i must carry you …. to live not according to the …

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waking up in Finland

Dr. John Hopkins — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:34:57 +0000

[ED: This particular version is a very low-fi 340×280 one. I have copied the original analog Hi8 material to DV tape, but getting those digitized is … complicated … I’ll get to it … someday. And Hi8 analog tape isn’t exactly hi-fi to begin with. It’s all I had access to that ancient year of …

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sacrifice

Dr. John Hopkins — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:04:55 +0000

group portrait

Dr. John Hopkins — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:30:37 +0000

Reveil 2026 recording

Dr. John Hopkins — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:57:37 +0000

[ED: Following is the recording of my outgoing stream to the Reveil 2026 collaborative round-the-world streaming project from last weekend. The audio starts around 04:20 AM, pre-dawn, with almost no bird activity. There is, as with any field recording anywhere near “civilization” the rumbling drone of no particular source (or mélange of sources): HVAC systems, …

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2026 Reveil project

Dr. John Hopkins — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:45:18 +0000

The 2026 Reveil is heading into it’s last few hours—in Western Australia by now. Tune in if you catch this before ~midnight PST. It’s been a fabulous demonstration of collaborative streaming at its best. The variety of global environments—sampled one after another at dawn from east to west, as the world turns west to east—has …

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Reveil 24-hour live broadcast 2026

Dr. John Hopkins — Sat, 02 May 2026 12:27:14 +0000

[ED: Coming up next weekend 1-2 May—see specific times below.] neoscenes joins the 13th live broadcast of the annual Reveil 24-hour stream / broadcast 2026: Reveil is a collective production by streamers at listening points around the earth. Starting on the morning of Saturday 4 May in South London near the Greenwich Meridian, the broadcast …

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erosion of curiosity

Dr. John Hopkins — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:51:52 +0000

[ED: A couple viewpoints to consider following. Technologies have always changed aspects of human agency—we are formed by the tools we pick up—and that forming is *not* neutral! How AI will differ in its precise effects—from precursor technologies in general and other digital technologies specifically—is largely unknown within the wider techno-social system. There may be …

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