Beau 🏠

@beau

React Native/Expo enthusiast. Interested in analog photography & darkroom printing. Design/brand/code at postprojects.com Building darkroomtoolkit.com

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Beau 🏠@beau· 26d

The old spring wound Bolex H16 (Rex4) sounds a little frightening at 64fps, but I like the result! 🎞️ Kodak 250D 7207 #16mm #filmphotography

Beau 🏠@beau· Jun 23

The BIG LOMO and its smaller cousin. Looking dramatic thanks to the studio skylight #16mm #lomo

The big Lomo with its lid off and film reel visible

The little Lomo with its lid off and film reel visible

Beau 🏠@beau· Jun 11

I Love Boosters was a super fun watch. Definitely worth catching in a theatre before it’s gone.

Beau 🏠@beau· May 26

Had one of those moments where you dig out a cable triumphantly from an ancient box of cables. Alas I cannot heed its warning.

USB cable with warning label that reads: WARNING INSERT CD-ROM BEFORE CONNECTING THE USB CABLE

Beau 🏠@beau· May 13

📍Brooklyn Bridge, NYC 🎞️ Olympus 35RC 📷 Kodak Ektar 100 📄 Fuji Crystal Archive #filmphotography #darkroom #ra4

On the Brooklyn bridge pedestrian walkway at dusk. A passing cyclist popping a wheelie, wearing a red face mask and red trunks.

Beau 🏠@beau· May 8

I’m an analog kind of person, but I also do computer stuff for a living, so I decided to merge the streams and build an app for my favourite non-work activities: #filmphotography and #darkroom printing. The result is Darkroom Toolkit. Check it out: www.darkroomtoolkit.com

Beau 🏠@beau· Apr 28

Currently reading Sally Mann’s “On the Creative Life”. Quite liking it so far.

Front cover of the book “Art Work: On the Creative Life” by Sally Mann

Mural painting of a photographer in silhouette in front of a blue sky with clouds.

Beau 🏠@beau· Apr 7

Not performance related, but CSV import seems to be out of commission

Beau 🏠@beau· Mar 29

The design panel with @darrin.bsky.team was a highlight of #atmosphereconf Big ups to designers @brookie.blog, @montoulieu.dev, and @dame.is, who are all making things that are fresh, distinctly them, and FUN!

Design panel at the 2026 atmosphere conference

Beau 🏠@beau· Mar 27

that post #AtmosphereConf workshop feeling 🐬

Jones, a cybernetically enhanced dolphin from the 1995 film Johnny Mnemonic

Beau 🏠@beau· Mar 25

Will be smiling at everyone this weekend #AtmosphereConf

Beau 🏠@beau· Dec 19

Fun! 🌕

Extracted colours overlayed on source photo of Vancouver’s west end at dusk with super moon.

Beau 🏠@beau· Dec 9

New work: website for the Gibson Art Museum at Simon Fraser University gibson.sfu.ca

Beau 🏠@beau· Oct 31

affinity vs adobe has got me reminiscing about what could’ve been

Beau 🏠@beau· Sep 16

Upgraded this React Native project to Expo SDK 54 to try Liquid Glass Bottom Tabs. It’s SO different. I like it.

Beau 🏠@beau· Jul 1

Just finished Flesh by David Szalay. Highly recommended. #booksky

Beau 🏠@beau· Apr 11

Just finished adding processing instructions for every black and white film currently being produced to Darkroom Toolkit One step closer to completing all the data entry. Chemistry formulas are up next.

Beau 🏠@beau· Apr 6

It lives! Loving the pink paper tape roll that came with the punch.

A set of punched paper tapes that read “hello world”, “Cineworks analog”, and “FCC”.

Beau 🏠@beau· Apr 2

Niche vintage computing side project alert: making headway rejuvenating this wonderful Solartron / Facit paper tape punch!

Overhead view of a paper tape punch loaded with pink paper tape.

Overhead view of a Solartron Schlumberger paper tape punch with its ready and error indicators lit.

Beau 🏠@beau· Mar 1

Just Vancouver things

A tiny home built out of City of Vancouver development permit application signs, being transported on a bicycle

Beau 🏠@beau· Feb 22

Carrying around a point and shoot camera = vintage car pics 📷 Yashica T4 🎞️ Kodak Porta 800 📍 Berlin summer 2024

A vintage orange camper van with a sailboat and lighthouse motif

A vintage car with red green and blue panels parked on the street in Berlin.

A blue vintage car parked on the street in Berlin.

Beau 🏠@beau· Feb 20

Processed just under 100 feet of animation and title card tests in a Lomo tank at the studio. High contrast #35mm #lomo

Unwinding processed film from a Lomo tank reel.

Processed high contrast motion picture film hanging to dry on a makeshift wire.

Close up of individual 35mm film animation frames hanging to dry.

Beau 🏠@beau· Feb 12

Side project update: the Darkroom Toolkit chemistry section is complete. Lots of data entry left to do. It’s essentially a cookbook in the app. This and film processing will really be the core.

Beau 🏠@beau· Jan 30

One of my favourite black and white film stocks is Orwo N74. Hopefully @orwo.bsky.social will be able to manufacture it again at some point. Tempelhof airport building, Berlin. #35mm Nikon F3

Cloud covered sun setting behind the Tempelhof airport building in Berlin.

Beau 🏠@beau· Jan 16

Had to revisit this David Lynch masterclass in communication and graphic design 🫡

A letter from David Lynch to projectionists regarding how to present his film Mulholland Drive

Beau 🏠@beau· Jan 10

The adaptive icons need some attention, but hey, it works on android too!

Beau 🏠@beau· Jan 10

Added shortcut menu links to my darkroom app with the expo-quick-actions config plugin ⚡️