paloma kop

experimental multimedia artist, creative technologist, forest dweller. based in the kaatskill mountains of upstate new york.

➤ https://palomakop.tv

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palomakop@merveilles-town.mostr.pub

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2024-12-19 15:18:48

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@nprofile…68an haha, ok, thanks for the explanation -- i can't see the op, my instance must already have it blocked.

2024-12-19 15:14:43

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@Humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club @nprofile…68an um, i think i'm missing some context here...

2024-12-02 17:16:12

i went to check how many Mystery Objects i need to make this month, and discovered that i've met my funding goal for the Zine Club project to be sustainable. wooop!
we broke the CSS thermometer, i need to do something about that :moomin_notice:
https://palomakop.tv/zine-club/#stats

2024-11-25 18:59:18

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@nprofile…gaap @nprofile…y6g5 you've heard of the small web, now get ready for ... the cute web

2024-11-23 00:57:05

the yurt in the season's first snow, wood fire smoke puffing out of the chimney. it will probably all be melted tomorrow
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/113/529/538/328/433/983/original/c93e75f980f68ce4.jpeg

2024-11-16 19:28:07

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@nprofile…y6g5 yes! embrace it!! the fonts look so good at that pixel height.

2024-10-27 01:02:17

omg. i forgot my age AGAIN and had to check using an online time calculator tool. this is... not the first time. my birthday is very close to the end of the year so i'm very prone to off-by-one errors. turns out that i'm already 32, and i'm turning 33 this year. ok... that's fine 😅 i'm fine

2024-09-11 04:26:41

ok, so the landline internet does not actually work at my new place, and for reasons i won't go into here i don't think it will be fixed. there are 2 bars of LTE at the window, but the signal varies inside. wondering if anyone has experience with trying out a cellular signal boosting antenna/repeater thingy and if so, how it worked for you? i'm considering putting an antenna somewhere outside and then putting the repeater inside. please boost (no pun intended)

2024-09-01 01:27:51

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@npub1qu5…4evr i've seen several little gray moles coming above ground, scuttling about the forest floor in the past few days

2024-08-20 14:29:05

i'll be an adjunct professor of animation at hamilton college for the fall semester :)

2024-08-15 03:02:01

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@npub14rw…w066 congratulations on the passage! enjoy colombia

2024-07-13 19:40:22

some friends / former students of mine are putting together a zine about feedback loops, noise, analog technology, and experimental media. it will be published on risograph in upstate NY. and they currently have an open call for submissions!
https://strangerays.com/infinite-input-output
i'm putting together a bunch of stuff to send them, looking forward to seeing how it comes out.

2024-07-11 13:20:00

my night light brings all the moths to the yard

2024-04-27 09:57:08

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@npub14rw…w066 i love it and the caption

2024-04-13 22:40:12

there has been some discussion in a local foss group about #LoRa, people are very interested in it, but some also concerned because i guess the LoRa standard itself is not actually fully #opensource?? i don't currently fully understand the details of how open/closed it is and the implications of this. does anyone here on Fedi have any thoughts about this, or ideas about potential solutions/alternatives?

2024-03-31 15:03:40

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now #piped is unable to play any videos in addition to #invidious.
i hope that these are temporary situations and not youtube making API changes specifically to block these applications. i run my own invidious instance and use it every day :/

2024-03-30 23:11:14

seems youtube has made some changes that have broken all instances of invidious at the moment. bummer.
https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4498
guess i'm listening to my local music library for now... and maybe some @npub16y2…23p2 later.

2024-03-29 03:17:57

revisiting some textural macro photos from last year's travels.
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/112/176/800/275/776/599/original/4970764d6ce56013.jpeg
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2024-03-22 19:42:33

i just recieved one of the most unhinged spam emails of my years as a user of email. it sounds like it was written by a person locked in a room with nothing but a thesaurus and a 10-strip of acid. the fact that it ends in the usual fake paypal invoice only makes it funnier.
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/112/141/020/595/727/241/original/2a36c0850f0d629e.jpeg
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2024-03-21 13:28:14

in my dream i was upset because my 10 year old aluminum laptop was imploding. it was like, you know how the battery on those sometimes gets puffy, and then you know you have to get it out before it explodes. like that, but it was sucking the keyboard inwards instead of outwards.
irl, i've already changed the battery once and it's still holding strong. not my main computer but i like it and don't want it to die.

2024-03-13 15:59:22

day 1 of teaching a practical analog video art class online was a success. i used OBS to switch between different layouts with multiple cameras so people could see me and what i was doing, and then piped that via virtual camera into big blue button, our self-hosted video conferencing software.
it's not the same as teaching a workshop in person, but then, i wouldn't be able to do that with people on multiple coasts and continents at the same time, so... :)
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/112/089/199/077/752/627/original/575bdeff473c3462.jpeg

2024-03-10 20:30:34

finally updated my "news" section of my website with some things i've done so far in 2024!
https://palomakop.tv/news/2024/

2024-03-03 10:15:29

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@npub1k08…6xvn i redid https://moonark.studio [still under construction] with https://11ty.dev, and so far i like it. my use of it is pretty simple because both the template and main content are both just written in html (tho it def saves a LOT of copying and pasting.) but it's very flexible you can use lots of different languages / formats.
other than that, i'm experimenting with some other stuff for some of the many websites i'm working on, but i like 11ty the best so far.

2024-03-03 09:05:09

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@npub1k08…6xvn thanks! handcrafted with html/css of course :)
i have been learning more about SSGs lately, and i'm using some for other sites i'm building, but for my main artist site, i want to keep it always handwritten html :tealheart:

2024-03-03 02:57:09

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eek people are subscribing ^__^ thank you!
once i have some time i want to add a little "stats" section to the page so people can see how many members there are. perhaps i will add some graphs as well, that could be fun to figure out with CSS...

2024-03-02 18:42:31

well, this seems to be pretty much set up: ZINE CLUB is officially a thing and i will be sending the first round of Mystery Objects out next month.
thanks everyone who helped me figure out how to set this up without going thru p*treon. i feel a lot better about sharing this link than i would if it was on there :)
https://palomakop.tv/zine-club/

2024-02-27 17:49:26

i'm interested in setting up a subscription thing where i'd mail out prints/zines/stickers/etc. to folks at regular intervals. i've heard that patreon takes a large cut and is sketchy but i don't know of any other great options -- anyone have any suggestions?
liberapay doesn't fit the bill as it doesn't track address details in order to mail physical items. ko-fi fits the bill but is it any better than patreon? also people seem more willing to subscribe on patreon than on ko-fi, not sure why.

2024-02-20 15:29:51

my friend max came over and played with video stuff with me and took this photo. might use it as a new artist portrait, i don't have many photos of myself since before our road trip which was shortly after i shaved my head, my hair is getting quite long now!
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/111/964/498/350/121/294/original/687d13781eb6883d.jpeg

2024-02-01 17:20:12

jeez.
reading the transcript of @npub1hyk…3p33 McLuhan lecture at Transmediale.
fuck the gig economy, and tech giant monopolies
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2023-04-21 19:09:31

if anyone on here is in brooklyn, we are having a fun flea market / yard sale at my house (aka phase space) tomorrow (saturday april 22) from 10am to 4pm! :mac:
i'm moving out of my house at the end of may for an extended period of travel, so i'll be getting rid of a bunch of things, and my friends are selling various art and art-making equipment! we are near the wilson L station in bushwick. :amiga:
rsvp on withfriends to get the address emailed to you: https://withfriends.co/event/15703513/phase_space_flea_market
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2023-04-16 02:52:06

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#[0] does corinne still have our old school bus?

2023-04-01 00:30:38

me and #[0] needed to take an artist picture together for some things we are doing soon.. usually one of us is behind the camera so we don't really have many photos of both of us. it came out pretty decent!
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/110/120/711/862/628/526/original/bb24b51d7b25ad8c.jpeg