Jay.

@meangrape.com

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I stopped studying the cello. I started studying Arabic. I grew up on the other side of the middle of nowhere and am an inveterate urban dweller now. I like mathematics, fountain pens, and TTRPGs. https://sidewalks.meangrape.com

A soft black and white photo with a light leak on the right side. I forget the name, but it's a food trailer with open sides. The sign on top says "Fried" "Lemonade" and you can't read it but "Fried Oreos".
Closeup of a white envelope flap sealed with a circle of gold wax. The impression is a honey bee with its wings extended.
A window looking into blackness. A neon sign that says OPEN with a cord hanging down out of the frame. The sign isn't lit. There is a light flare coming in from the left middle of the frame.
Search box filled with the word brick. An in descriptions sections with a thumbnail followed by "A russet brick wall viewed from an angle..."
Search box with Lomo inside it. Below a dropdown box in two sections. The top is labeled galleries and has Lomography, Lomograph Phoenix, and Lomochrome Purple. The bottom is labeled In descriptions and has a thumbnail and "Lomo" next to it.
A russet brick wall viewed from an angle.
Three status cards. Not started: 3. Pending: 0. Approved: 1. Below them it says "1 image(s) ready to finalize. Below that an oxblood button labeled "Finalize and deploy alt text (1 images)". Below that an image thumbnail with a tag in the upper right corner "approved"
Corner of a page. Has a text box that says "Enter descriptive alt text for this image... Has save/approve/close buttons
Web site. Says Alt text Management. Has three boxes: "Not started: 8" "Pending: 0" "Approved: 0" A list of galleries with individual per galley not started, pending, approved stats. Below that is an Edit image alt text box.
Double sole docs
Small black plastic back of a camera with a Dynmo label “Gertrude”. The sides have some blue painters tape holding the back tight.
Same boots. No splotches. Inside.
The left side is a brick wall, russet perhaps, with graffiti on it it goes from left to right at an angle. Coming from right to left at an angle meeting the wall is a transparent twin—bricks with graffiti. To the top right is a saturated sky going from cobalt at the edges to a paler blue. Vignetted.
A picture of a sidewalk going from you to the horizon. Vignetted. A deeply saturated cobalt sky fading paler. The sidewalk is a warm salmon. There’s a brick building to the right with windows reflecting the scene. Dark shadows of light poles are spaced along the sidewalk. There is a tiny pedestrian at the end.
Image is as wide as the two feet in orange docs with black laces that are the focus. You can see a bit of a flat bottomed white linen shirt leading down to blue jeans with a half cult.
Blue jeans upper leg. Dark splotch of ink. About 4”/10cm x 2”/5cm
A mostly dark photo with a bright blob in the middle left edge. A fence rail middle bottom to the blob. Green long thin plants with small leaves along the fence. A dark bush along the top left side. The right side is a large bush with five lobed leaves; they are purple. Three plants are in the center going vertically. The leaves are variegated mostly purple like the five lobed leaves with a lighter purple edge. At the very top between the plants on the edge is a muted small white building going horizontally.
The entire picture is muted and had a light flat purple tone. It’s almost monochrome shades of tinted black to light purple. A tower made of stone. The view is from the bottom looking up. You see a partial window grate with an arch. The tower goes almost to the top of the frame which is filled with sky. A bit of tree leaves peeks in from the top left.
Vertical stack of four black and white photos from a retail photo booth. Subject is a white male with a shaved head and a large white beard. He wears glasses. The beard is only visible in the third picture. From the top: I am holding a small black camera up to my eyes. My fingers are long and thin. Second: I am holding the camera vertically. The third has no camera. My thumbs are touching my temples, my index fingers are pointing up, the rest of my fingers are curled closed, and my brow is furrowed. Finally, I’m holding the camera covering the bottom half of my face. I’m visible from mid-nose up.
Four boxes of film. On the left is a large box containing five rolls of film. A black and white picture of two men’s faces. They both have glasses and mustaches. Text: Lomohraphy Lady Grey black & white 120 film 400. To the right three small boxes stacked on each other. From the top down dark blue with white text “Fomapan”. Blue text on yellow 400 black/white negative film Action. Next box Purple with white text “Lomochrome Purple XR 100-400” To the right white text on silver 1x120. Bottom box background is a muted landscape with an Ancient Greek building with half a dozen columns. Text “Lomochtomr Turquoise color negative file 120 XR 100-400. To the right white text on silver “1x120”.
From left to right: three small rectangular boxes stacked on top of each other. Bottom is black with white text: 120 black & white film 400. Top two are white with black text: Ilford HP5 (red text) plus 400 120. To the right a tempels box, side vote. At the top white text on dark blue 120. White on medium blue Portra 400 5 rolls. Red on yellow, Kodak professional. To the right a yellow box. At the top white on dark green 120. White on medium green 500 TX 5 rolls. The same red on yellow text as the last box.
Right hand white make with five splotches and smears of dark purple ink
White man’s hand holding a vaguely oval ball of tightly wrapped purple yarn.
Inside of a white man’s forearm. Lots of prominent veins. Two small bruises in the bend of the elbow. You can see a watch band.
Post from Erika West “GET IN THE GOKART SHINJI” followed immediately by Zoe Tunnell’s post “SHINJI GET IN THE GO KART”
Tall thin young woman with dark brown hair and glasses is standing in front of a whiteboard with a drawing of a uterus and ovaries with a few spermatozoa moving in. She has a wide tooth-baring grin and her two hands are up making air quotes.
A ball of multicolored yarn labeled 44 tsuyama with some Japanese. It’s light blues and grays and darker browns.
Screenshot from Apple Maps. "Send Noods" with a noodle soup icon
Browned piece of meat surrounded by rosemary. Caption: So much beef you can make a shehacol on it.
10 rectangular swatches of fountain pen ink. On the left they are all labeled by name u set the heading “fountain pen people”. On the right it is “non-fountain pen people” and the top 5 are labeled “gray”, the bottom five “black”.
Ball of yarn. An oatmeal gray.
The back of a white sheet of paper. You can see the barest hint of a sentence from the other side.
White paper with “This is Sailor Itezora” written in gray ink.
The back of a white sheet of paper. Hints of a sentence are visible.
White paper. From the back side we see three sentences with a few dots where the ink is almost through the paper.
White ceramic dinner bowl. The botttom half is a pile of small grain white rice. At the top is a large piece of white fish heavily covered with a dark red powder. To the right is a pile of thick pale green shreds of vegetable.
Dot grid paper. Dark gray ink spelling Ainezu. Underneath is a medium gray spelling I am a cat.
Text from the third or fourth paragraph of Bereshit 33 in English and Hebrew. The last two sentences of Hebrew are circled in red.
10 orange habaneros with black char facing up in a cast iron pan. Two are rocking back and forth.
She is sitting in front of a bookshelf with her face turned out of frame. She is wearing a Boston IVF fleece. Her dark brown braid runs from the top of her head down off-screen past her waist.
A screenshot of a draft alert that says “The fountain pen showed up! You can’t see the silver sparkles in the ink. It has an attached image—here’s the alt text Fountain pen on pale pink paper with small white circles. It is dark gray with many silver sparkle dots and silver accoutrements including the nib. In a light gray ink the paper says: “Sailor Pro Gear 21k <B>. Wearingeul Half Moon with Dimmed Light” There are two cross-hatches and two squiggles.
Two and a partial hotdogs in buns topped with chopped kimchi and red chilis peppers and minced garlic.
A large wooden handled cleaver on a white cutting board.
Stainless steel skillet on an induction hob at 160°F/70°C. The top third of the pan is fennel fronds. The middle third of the pan is fish filet. The bottom third of the pan is chunks of fennel bulb and white onion. Water barely covers it all.
A white ceramic bowl filled with of a tomato broth jam packed with small short cylinders of pasta. Bits of asparagus and some white beans around the edges.
I’m in a hospital bed. Pic is from waist down. You can see a white blanket covering me all the way to my feet. IV tubing lays on top of it.
White guy’s [my] right forearm from just past the elbow to just below wrist. On the right outside edge you can see there’s a tattoo—water, cattails, plants. In the clear space you can see a bunch of veins.
Small white girl child standing on the left. Waist up. She has light brown hair which is pulled back into a messy bun. She's wearing a red and blue striped hooded sweater. Her arm is bent with her hand spread out at the base of her neck. Her mouth is slightly open and she is staring intently at a black and chrome motorcycle. Its handles are inches away from her face. She is as tall as the motorcycle.
White ceramic plate with a two-stack of large waffles. Some maple syrup.
Paper plate. There’s a dark brown piece of toast peeking out from underneath a thick spread of white ricotta which is covered with a dark brown honey.
Two sheets of overlapping white paper. Lines of handwriting. On the front sheet they’re lined through. Each sheet has a large blob of metallic shimmery bronze ink at the top.
Book cover titled Maddy Kettle: The Adventure of the Thimblewitch by Eric Orchard. A dark blue sky. In the foreground is a white girl with short blond hair in an airship At the top we have a bear and raccoon in the go goal of a hot air balloon.
Dark lighting. The inside of a light enameled pot filled with water and about four dozen quail eggs clustered together in the middle.
Paper bowl with brown plastic spoon in plastic tablecloth Dark red soup with various lumps of things in it.
It looks like a honeydew with green splotches.
Paper plate on a white plastic table cloth. Top left is a quarter piece of dark brown shmurah matzah. Center is another quarter pieced topped with four slices of ivory sablefish. Under the fish you can see hints on cream cheese and even smaller hints of thinly sliced green tomatoes.
A paper plate on a table with a plastic tablecloth. On the plate overlapping the edge are three large fragments os shmura matzah mostly covered with cream cheese. Two of the fragments are topped with a dark smoosh of mixed fruits.
Large stainless steel stock pot sitting on grass with the interior burning with a large fire coming out of the top. Some of the burning material (which is all black and gray from burning) is moving as it curls from the heat.
The same large stainless steel stock pot; you can see the dried lulav wrapped around inside. In front is a small red fire extinguisher and a blow torch. To the side is a brown paper bag with dried pita inside.
Large stainless steel pot. Wrapped around inside are dried lulav, aravot, and hadassim from the last two Sukkot.