Lilly Schwartz
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Lilly Schwartz
@lillyschwartz.bsky.social
Photographer, artist and musician (Polarcoaster) who makes videos about all that stuff too. Mostly analog.
https://www.youtube.com/@LillySchwartz
https://polarcoaster.bandcamp.com
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New video is up, this time some new music! In this track I experimented with the AE modular drone38 module which is a bank of 18 oscillators. #synth #ambient #eurorack #AEModular
Ambient with Bastl Neo Trinity + AE drone 38 | Polarcoaster - Ebb
YouTube video by Lilly Schwartz
youtu.be
Some legit prototyping going on. The Raspberry pi Zero has the most obnoxious USB port, USB micro. I couldn’t get any of my keyboards to work, so auto-login and piping my ssh command outputs into /dev/tty1 got me typing in vim on the screen. Fixed two cross system incompatibilities in my code too.
November 23, 2024 at 10:51 AM
I'm doing some bash scripting for my newest project. Curious to see how this will perform on an e-ink screen.
November 21, 2024 at 11:43 AM
Got contacted by an AI company to endorse their tool. They did zero research before contacting me. I have a degree in AI, so unless your AI tool is open source I won't even bother looking at it 🤷‍♀️
November 21, 2024 at 10:47 AM
The original forest image was taken with my Brownie with the flipped lens, and the creature came out of a dream. It was a digital collage on top of a film photo and I really love that I can print this analog as a cyanotype.
November 20, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Got myself a bigger frame for cyanotype printing today. The shop where I got it isn't even two kilometres from here, but I had to lie down after coming back. My health is still too iffy to get the footage I need since that's a longer walk than that 🤷‍♀️ I guess I'll try again tomorrow *sigh*
November 18, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Diana F+, probably with the pinhole aperture. I've photographed this particular tree quite a few times with different cameras but this one has the right mood.
November 18, 2024 at 12:50 PM
My newest rabbit hole involves reusing an old iPad screen for a raspberry pi project. I've been investigating this before but hadn't quite figured out what I wanted it to be in the end.
a cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland with the words " and it begins " below her
ALT: a cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland with the words " and it begins " below her
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2024 at 12:32 PM
This was taken on my Brownie with the flipped lens. I have no idea where the circle of light came from, but I probably forwarded it in full sun and the red window at the back burned it in there.
November 14, 2024 at 2:39 PM
I used to work in webdesign until all creative aspects of the job were replaced with a content management system. The job became nothing but inputting data and battling with templates. In the end I was offered a position maintaining the CMS because they had completely misconfigured it.
Complacency
November 13, 2024 at 11:56 AM
This was probably made with my Diana F+. I could check in my clever OCD Excel sheet, but I can already tell from the corners that it wasn't my Brownie and it isn't sharp enough for my Rollei. Perfect kind of shot for classic cyanotype because that takes out a lot of sharpness anyway.
November 12, 2024 at 5:08 PM
New video is up, this time some new music! In this track I experimented with the AE modular drone38 module which is a bank of 18 oscillators. #synth #ambient #eurorack #AEModular
Ambient with Bastl Neo Trinity + AE drone 38 | Polarcoaster - Ebb
YouTube video by Lilly Schwartz
youtu.be
November 11, 2024 at 6:11 PM
There is one feature on Twitter I still miss on here: I want to turn off Reposts from certain people I follow. I want to see the things people post themselves, not the random political articles that they came across on their feed and probably haven’t even read beyond the clickbait headline 🙄
November 11, 2024 at 10:11 AM
Speed Graphic, Leitz Hektor 150mm f/2.5, Foma 100, printed on Canson XL with the classic cyanotype formula.

I just love how this one turned out!
November 10, 2024 at 11:57 PM
I'm deep in my cyanotype printing project right now. These are from yesterday or the day before? I have my workflow figured out now and I'm getting fairly predictable results which makes me happy. These are printed on Canson XL which is working out really well for me.
November 6, 2024 at 4:40 PM