9 September, 2021
Aperture Zero 07. Bug Eyes
‘That,’ the woman said. ‘Is absurd.’
She had looked alright from the back, with her braids and denim, but once she had turned around the Pipes Man immediately regretted approac...
6 September, 2021
Aperture Zero 06. Pawallax Lines
Parallax. Pa-ra… Out loud he rolled it around his mouth: ‘Pawallax. Pawa-ra-llax.’ Something about lines, important to upright composition. Or getting everything in the right pl...
3 September, 2021
Aperture Zero 05. Oil
When thoughts grow dull and the eye calcifies, a little lubrication is required to keep the pipes from stiffening. With sticky valves he was having to puff harder which pushed t...
2 September, 2021
Aperture Zero 04. A Counterpoint
The Pipes Man limbered up to the corrugated barrier with wild eyes. What lay behind may be a fragment of what he had long left behind, but he pressed forward into it regardless,...
30 August, 2021
Aperture Zero 03. GAS
Is a ‘strong sense of listlessness’ even a thing? The Pipes Man was distracted. His day-to-day, the sustenance stuff, the things that objectively matter were slipping. ‘Just fuc...
29 August, 2021
Aperture Zero 02. Glazed Youth
Should he try to meet her glazed gaze through the glass? The girl had no expression. That could just be the vibe here, but it was boring; he could anger her by showing his inten...
29 August, 2021
Juggling Parenting and Film Photography – by Richard McKenzie
It’s a cliché but it’s true: everything changes the moment you become a parent. There’s the stuff they tell you about—the crying, the nappies, the many, many sleepless nights—an...
27 August, 2021
Aperture Zero 01. The Pipes Man
With one hand cradling a cigarette inwards, sheltering it from the clear sky, he extended his other arm perpendicular to the horizon. Well steadied, he stared ahead beyond the m...
