View from patio roof, apartment building next door, trees on the left, and a road lined with cars. Above, a very dark smokey sky, but made lighter and far less foreboding by a smartphone camera that wishes to normalize the image. It is currently darker than before dawn.

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   tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 08:53:59 JST tom jennings

   We're having our first apocalypse of the year in our neighborhood. It's 9am and dark. The plumber scheduled for an hour from now called to ask if it's safe here (yes).

   As I was typing photo description it occurred to me that the way the phone normalized the image -- I'm telling ya it's fkn dark as shit here, with occasional ash dropping -- the phone has made it look like a cloudy day. It's like corporate "two sides" politics. Camera: I know what sky looks like, I'll adjust photo for that.