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Silver light on the reservoir. 🌊🎞️

🎞️ Execution: 35mm Film • Nikon F3 Capture • ILFORD ID-11 Brew • DSLR Macro Digitization

📍 Setting: Texas Hill Country Waterways

🏙️ Elements: Specular Highlights • Heavy Cloud Cover • Distant Topography • Silver Grain

📐 Structure: Center Horizon • High-Contrast Monochrome • Physical Rebate Margins

Finally, the digital inversion. When you shoot a landscape on black-and-white film, you stop seeing colors and start seeing pure luminance. By pushing the highlights in the edit, the water practically glows off the screen.

The shimmering reflections on the reservoir act as a brilliant counterweight to the heavy, dark topography of the hills in the distance, while the thick cloud cover adds a moody, atmospheric ceiling to the frame. Leaving the physical film rebate intact adds an undeniable, tangible grit.

Do you prefer this sparkling reality or the eerie, snow-like glow of the negative? 👇

#35mmLandscape #FilmPhotography #IlfordHP5 #NikonF3 #AnalogFeatures

The visual threshold. 🌗🌊 Swipe one more slide to see the final digital conversion. 👉

🎞️ Execution: 35mm Format • Manual Agitation • DSLR Sensor Scan • Precise Bisection

📍 Setting: Open Water Horizon

🏙️ Elements: Inverted Tones • Chemical Reality vs Digital Edit • Emulsion Density

📐 Structure: Split-Frame Geometry • Mirrored Landscapes • Transition Line

This bisection highlights the incredible visual physics of shooting on analog film. On the left, the raw DSLR scan of the negative creates a surreal, inverted world where the dark, forested hills render as bright white, mimicking a snow-capped mountain range. On the right, the digital inversion reveals the stark, sunlit reality of the shimmering water.
Slicing this 35mm frame directly down the center draws attention to the vast horizon while visually breaking down the DIY darkroom chemistry that made it possible. Which side of the frame draws your focus first? 👇
#FilmInversion #DarkroomProcess #SplitScreenArt #VisualDuality #SilverHalide

Landscapes in reverse. 🎞️⬛ Swipe to scan and convert this negative into a beautiful landscape. 👉

🎞️ Execution: Analog Celluloid • Tank Development • Backlit Macro R A split-screen monochrome landscape image of a lake, with the left half showing an eerie, inverted film negative where the hills look white, and the right half showing a bright, high-contrast positive.

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🖥️ Tune into our Digital Dark Age topic research webinar Saturday, October 10 at 10:00AM ET hosted by our very own #FutureProblemSolving Student Advisory Council! Our experts include Jeremy Davet, Digital Preservation Librarian at the University of Houston Libraries, Ari Negovschi Regalado, Technical Director at the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, and from the UK Liam Wyatt, and Senior Technical Partnerships Manager at Wikimedia Foundation. Swipe and scan the QR code to sign up.

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Presented by Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI), Art + Feminism, and the Houston Public Library, the Linking Queer Houston History Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon takes place on Saturday, October 10, from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM CDT in the Meeting Room at the Freed-Montrose Neighborhood Library. Celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month, this free, hands-on event (for ages 18+) invites participants of all experience levels to learn how to create and update Wikipedia entries highlighting Houston’s queer history using archival media from TAMI’s KPRC-TV Collection—part of the CLIR and Mellon Foundation–funded Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Amplifying Unheard Voices project. Training, reference materials, and refreshments are provided, but attendees must register via Houston Public Library in advance and bring their own laptop, charger, and a pre-created Wikipedia account.

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Thank you so much to @av.geeks @thebakerschool @the.press.room @klaus_kinskis_ghost @weluvvideo for making our ‘Go Old School’ fundraiser a success!! We truly could not do the work that we do without the collaboration and support of our peers 💖 Analog forever! 💖💖💖

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We are rooted in history. 🫶

Long before the Hemisfair District you know today, this land was home to the Payaya people, a Coahuiltecan-speaking group who called the San Antonio River “Yanaguana.”

As San Antonio grew, the land became part of the Alamo Mission’s farmland, and the Spanish built the Acequia Madre de Valero to bring water to the people who lived and worked here.

By the 1800s, the neighborhood was known as Germantown, a vibrant, multicultural community where families, businesses, and generations of San Antonians lived, worked, and built their lives.

In the 1960s, the area became home to HemisFair ’68, the first World’s Fair held in the Southwest. After the fair concluded, many historic structures faced decades of what we call demolition by neglect.

Today, we’re writing the next chapter. ✍️

We honor the people, places, and stories that shaped this land while creating a future-focused district with parks, public spaces, businesses, and experiences for generations to come.

One District. Three Parks. We are Hemisfair. ♥️

🎥: HemisFair ‘68 footage courtesy of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (@texasarchive)

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Austin Public Library’s Howson Branch was not exactly a quiet zone on a recent Monday night. People filled every table in the meeting room and spread out to more tables squeezed between bookshelves. They had come for Film Strip Club.

“You don’t have to have any sort of special background or extra training to partake,” said Jennifer Quarles, a regular attendee for nearly a year. “It’s just an hour and a half where everybody just creates together and makes something new.”

The once-a-month, free club offers a chance for members to explore direct animation using 16-millimeter film — a process where film stock is manipulated using techniques like drawing, painting or scratching to create a new image on top of the existing ones.

“I don’t know much about film, and I’ve certainly never just handled film and then purposely messed it up as an art form,” said Megan Rosales, another dedicated clubgoer. “It’s really fun and kinda challenging to not have a plan and just go for it.”

Each session starts with a screening of the previous month’s creations on a 16-millimeter-film projector. Members also receive digital copies of their animations.

Justin Green, the assistant manager at the Howson Branch, runs Film Strip Club in collaboration with staff from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, or TAMI. A film major in college, he founded the program with TAMI’s digitization lab manager, Victoria Perez, after bonding over a mutual love of direct animation at a friend’s birthday party.

While the library pays for art supplies and some film, TAMI gives the club access to specialty skills and equipment for free. It also digitizes members’ films.

“We wanted to provide a space where people could try out this art form with no barrier to entry, totally free and open to the public,” Green said. “We provide the materials. We have the 16-millimeter projector. Texas Archive has the infrastructure to digitize patrons’ films professionally, which would cost a lot of money elsewhere.”

TAMI’s library was also a source for some of the film people animate over.

Tap the link in our bio to read more from Ella Kopeikin (@ellakopeikin).⁠

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Dorothy Ann Richards was born on this day, September 1st, in the year of our Lord, 1933, 93 years ago in Lakeview, Texas, where Miriam A. Ferguson was serving as the very first female governor of the great state and also the second only female governor for all the country, the United States of America, that hadn’t yet truly accepted female equality. Much like her fellow larger than life Texan Lyndon B. Johnson, Ann was an exceptional teacher before entering the world of politics in which she truly made her mark for the Democratic Party, which had become much more progressive since the days of her youth when it came to women leadership. This extraordinary woman was both Treasurer of Texas and the 45th Governor of Texas, so you cannot talk about Texas without talking about Ann Richard’s. Outside of politics, as the great mother she was, she had four children. Many would say that’s just as God wanted for a woman and much better than her whole political career. Cecile Richards, Ellen Richards, Clark Richards, Daniel Richards all from this big-haired wise cracking no nonsense woman who stood up for the rights of women and the human rights for all while leading a state known for regression not progression on these topics. When she died at the age of 73, it wasn’t just Texans who had felt this great loss but all good people who care about politics.

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Step back in time with us, and visit the emerging “Gay Capital of the South,” an LGBTQ+ hub for activists, artists, nightlife, and more. This is Houston, 1980.

Join us this Wednesday for a virtual program with @texasarchive featuring stunning archival footage spanning from the 1970s to the early 2000s.

Register for this free virtual program using the link in our bio!

Video credits: Being Gay (1981) and Changes: The Transsexuals (1979), KPRC-TV

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In the 1980s, Houston, Texas earned a new nickname — the “Gay Capital of the South” due to its prominence as an LGBTQ+ hub for activists, artists, night life, and more.

In partnership with the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI), join us on August 12 for a virtual program featuring stunning archival footage spanning from the 1970s to the early 2000s. Moderated by TAMI curator Katharine Austin, explore Texas’ pivotal placement in LGBTQ+ American history alongside an expert panel: Associate Director for Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University, Bryan Riedel; Texas historian JD Doyle; and Special Collections Archivist at the University of Houston, Joyce Gabiola.

Register for this free program using the link in our bio!

Image credit: Two people sit atop a car at Houston’s Second Annual Gay Pride Parade in 1980. Credit: KPRC-TV

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Happy National Day of the Cowboy
Video Credit • @texasarchive

Produced by the Institute of Texan Cultures, Workin’ from Can’t to Can’t shares firsthand memories of early 20th-century ranch life—long days, tough work, and a unique cowboy culture that has often been overlooked in history.
#cowboy #history

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WE ❤️ VIDEO Block Party this Sat! 12-7pm DJ 007” & Stresswolf, Queen Serene, Nova, Team Trust, Whisper, screening of rad slasher Silent Madness in 3D, flash tattoos, Stitches Vintage, ATX VHS Swap, TAMI workshop & tons more!

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