Walking the dog
She pulls toward the same hedge every morning. I have started to look forward to it.
May 26, 2026
Jared Kuvent
Creative Community Technologist — writing, photography, and experiments at the place where technology meets people.
On rebuilding the admin
Third admin. Same domain. Different question this time.
May 20, 2026
On Craig Mod's latest
Craig Mod's new piece on walking and writing routines. The middle third is the part to read twice.
May 15, 2026
The mental cost of building your own tools
There is a tax on building your own things, and it is not the time. The time is small. The tax is harder to name.
May 8, 2026
A weekend in Joshua Tree, and the golden-hour problem
Three of us drove out on a Friday afternoon. By Sunday I had taken four hundred photographs and was certain about only two of them.
April 14, 2026
What a personal site means in 2026
The personal site was never really about the technology. It was about having a room. I think the room matters more now, not less.
April 2, 2026
Why I shoot JPEG when I travel
I shoot RAW at home. On a trip, I shoot JPEG. The difference is not technical; it is about what I am willing to commit to a future version of myself.
March 28, 2026
MaineStreet in winter
There is a gay bar in Ogunquit that stays open through the winter, and walking up to it on a February Tuesday is one of the more quietly moving things I have done in a while.
March 12, 2026
Maine in February, by car at night
Five days on the Maine coast in the worst week of February. Most of the photographs I kept were taken after dark.
March 10, 2026
Watching ceramic workshops, learning nothing about ceramics
A friend invited me to a slip-casting workshop and I went with no intention of making anything. I came back with notes that have mostly been about my own work.
February 19, 2026
The flower-fall, end of project
A small ritual I have at the end of projects that I am not sure I can explain.
February 4, 2026
A small script that changed how I read
I wrote a forty-line Python script in an afternoon. A year later it has more or less reorganized my reading life.
January 22, 2026
A bike shop I keep coming back to
A small bike shop on a corner I do not live near. I have been going there for a decade. I think I have finally figured out why.
January 8, 2026
An evening light study
Six frames, two hours, one tripod, and a city that did most of the work.
December 9, 2025
Big Sur, the weekend that didn't happen
I had a long weekend planned around the coast, with three locations and a packed itinerary. The fog had its own plan.
November 4, 2025
Workshop weekend
Two days in a converted warehouse with eighteen other people, all of us making something different. The point was not the thing.
October 12, 2025
Walking a burned forest
A forest that burned two summers ago, walked through this fall. What's still standing is mostly fallen.
September 30, 2025
The lake at dawn
Three minutes between when there was no light and when there was too much.
September 18, 2025
Save CCP: small institutions, real loss
The Centre for Contemporary Photography is under threat. This is what is actually at stake, and why these fights matter beyond the institution itself.
August 22, 2025
Camping next to the car, alone
A two-person tent next to a Mazda in tall grass, four hundred miles from home. The whole point was the silence.
July 11, 2025