Louis Duhamel — Film Photography, Synths & Nerdery in Paris

Seven prints from California

I am revisiting negatives from a Californian trip that I took in May 2024 with my girlfriend, visiting San Francsico, Yosemite, Monterey and Carmel. I brought two Minolta SLRs on the trip with some of my favorite lenses like the 50mm f1.4, 28mm f2.8, 58mm f1.4 and

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Two years of live shows on film

During these last months, I tried my hand at concert and live shows photography. I enjoy the set of challenges it presents and the results I get with relatively little equipment.

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Belgium on film: Bruxelles, Gand and Courtrai

The weather gets nicer and it’s time to travel again if you’re lucky enough to be able to. We visited my sister in Belgium.

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Street photography training: pensions reform protests edition

The current political climate in France may not be the best but if you want to practice street photography there are few occasions better than taking a camera with you in a protest.

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Geneva in July, on film

I visited my dad in Geneva in mid July 2022. I brought film and a Leica CL fitted with an LTM Canon 50mm f1.4.

Lenses

Winter seaside Jupiter 9 fun

What to expect when you're expecting a Soviet Jupiter 9 85mm f2 in the mail.

Photography

Some pics from Marseille

I took a trip to Marseille and snapped some pics.

Fixing screen tearing in VLC

I’m in love with my new old ThinkPad X200, but for all its great achievements, it had a major drawback when it came to play videos in Xubuntu. Here’s how I fixed the awful screen tearing in VLC and Parole. I got the machine this week and did

Linux

Get a ThinkPad

One of my most exciting memory remains seeing my dad coming home from work with a new cool gadget: a ThinkPad laptop. I remember how crazy it sounded in the mid 90s to actually have the power of a computer on the go. It sure did look like the future

The La's - There She Goes

I spent some time this summer in the family home in Normandy, among some of my oldest friends. One of them is a big britpop fan and we spent evenings talking about how awesome guitar tracks from the 60s sounded. These jangly tones, the simpler beats, the naiveté of it

Dub Snares forever

Can you not fall in love with dub snares in the first track of this Neel podcast? They have just the right weight. Also make sure to check out his Voices from the Lake project with Donato Dozzy. There’s a lovely story behind it.

5 Blogs that I read constantly

Seriously, I’d be lost without them. I keep coming to the same 5 blogs over and over again. These are my 5 prefered sources of certified nerdiness; some are French, some speak English, but they’re all guaranteed to be 100% nerdy. Abou Djaffar Don’t let the cover,

Book of February: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I want to read more. I used to read at least three different books every other week when I was a kid and I miss that a lot. So from now on I will try to read at least one every month and try to write some words about it.

New Year

It’s been a good year. And this year is going to be even better! People usually make a list of things they want to change or improve in the course of the new year (stop smoking, eat less junk food, exercise more, all kinds of things that I need

Elementary OS

Fixing VLC choppy playback in Elementary OS

I recently experienced some trouble with VLC and heavy mp4 files; although "normal" HD files would play fine, VLC would not play ball with my GPU when playing some heavy 1080p mp4 files. Here’s how I fixed it on my Samsung Ativ Book 9 Lite.

Alessandro Cortini (NIN) live rig

Ever since the documentary I Dream Of Wires has been out I’ve been lurking youtube for a sneak peak into Nine Inch Nails’ live rig. I am not disapointed. Extra credit for the old Tascam 4 tracks tape recorder that he plays with the pitch wheel…

A great weekend

I went to the Brooklyn record fair a couple of weeks ago, all on my own and it was very cool. The event took place in the Brooklyn Flea Market and was somehow sponsored by a well known brand of energy drinks heavily invested in all things musical these days.

A quote by William Gibson

Quote of the week is from a brilliant author that I read in my late teens (oddly, during a scout camp). I had to read Neuromancer again a couple of time to understand it better because of Gibson’s special writing and of all the geeky stuff – I did not

Elementary OS

Taking a screenshot in Elementary OS with fglrx drivers

If you are using the ATI fglrx proprietary drivers, you might have come across a nasty bug in Elementary OS while trying to take screenshots. Whenever I tried to take one, they would be incomplete, showing only my desktop and none of the windows open at the time. You can

A quote by George Orwell

Les nouveaux mouvements qui se firent connaître dans les années du milieu du siècle, l’Angsoc en Océania, le Néo-Bolchevisme en Eurasia, le Culte de la Mort, comme on l’appelle communément, en Estasia, avaient la volonté consciente de perpétuer la non-liberté et l’inégalité. Ces nouveaux mouvements naissaient naturellement

Google, Android and licensing bypass strategies

I’m in the process of writing a master thesis for my school. After some mail exchanges with my tutor, I chose to study Android’s model, specifically how and why Google has altered it from the early days of the AOSP project. I will be regularly posting about my

The KVB @ Route du Rock

One of my favorite bands came to play in France in Saint Malo for the winter edition of La Route du Rock (one of the biggest French rock festival). Arte recorded the concert, which makes me very happy. Thanks Arte!

Live-coding in Haskell with Dirt and Tidal

I am not a programmer and probably never will, but I like to think of myself as someone who tinkers with everyday tools – tools like a computer. I use my computer for a lot of things and especially for playing with music software. My favorite toy when I was a

Mondkopf - Hadès

Something’s terribly right with this record and until now I couldn’t really put my finger on it. Upon my last listen of the title track (Hadès I), I had a modest epiphany. This record works on so many levels for me that I somehow had to get my

Music

The KVB - Dayzed (Regis Version)

I first stumbled upon The KVB when reading about Regis at the time Sandwell District was big and I never missed a release of theirs ever since. It is always refreshing to hear Regis’ take on rock’n’roll.