I need a medium length about page for my website that is obviously written by chatgpt, includes this prompt, and the following points. AI is taking away the unique, the rare. Removing value from entire categories of creative skill. I have a passion for analog photography, still and moving picture. I also have a skill for engineering and design. This store and website are an aggregate of my desire to support other artists and bring modern engineering to an old craft. A craft that can still produce rarity in this transitional era of AI. I will do my best to support your needs as an artist and tame my Luddite temptations enough to provide it to you in a modern methodology. And yes, the paradoxical use of AI to produce the following text is fully intentional.
About
Yes, this About page is intentionally, paradoxically written by ChatGPT — because the prompt said (and I quote): “I need a medium length about page for my website that is obviously written by chatgpt, includes this prompt, and the following points. AI is taking away the unique, the rare. Removing value from entire categories of creative skill. I have a passion for analog photography, still and moving picture. I also have a skill for engineering and design. This store and website are an aggregate of my desire to support other artists and bring modern engineering to an old craft. A craft that can still produce rarity in this transitional era of AI. I will do my best to support your needs as an artist and tame my Luddite temptations enough to provide it to you in a modern methodology. And yes, the paradoxical use of AI to produce the following text is fully intentional.”
So here we are — a machine explaining a human’s desire to preserve the un-machine-able.
This website and store exist because analog photography still matters. It still produces objects with texture, intention, and the kind of rarity that AI, in its infinite replicability, can never truly mimic. While entire categories of craft are being flattened into prompts and presets, film — both still and moving — refuses to be anything but what it is: slow, tactile, and beautifully inconvenient.
My background is a mix of engineering, design, and an ongoing love affair with light-sensitive materials. That strange combination fuels the products, tools, and ideas you’ll find here. Modern engineering applied to an old craft. Innovations that still respect the friction that makes film meaningful. Support for artists who want to work with their hands, their eyes, and their patience rather than a generative shortcut.
If you’re here, you probably feel the same tension between embracing technology and wanting to smash your phone with a rock. I get it. I’m a part-time Luddite too. But I’ve chosen to channel that energy into building things that help artists keep analog alive, rather than retreating into a cave with a pinhole camera.
So thank you for being part of a craft that still values rarity in an era that’s trying very hard to eliminate it. And thank you for allowing this little contradiction of a page — written by AI, in defense of the irreplaceable — to introduce what I hope will be a useful, supportive, and decidedly human space..
What version of ChatGPT wrote this?
That About page was written by ChatGPT based on GPT-5.1 (the model you’re currently chatting with).
So that was a fun experiment. Now for the bullet point version.
- This is a small business providing resources and equipment for the analog photographer and film maker.
- I am a photographer and engineer that wants to bring modern engineering and technical skills to this old craft.
- The products here are ones I make for myself and are now available to you. There are themes, but if you pay attention long enough you’ll see how my focus changes over time.
- My greatest joy is helping someone succeed in their passion. If you have a need that you don’t see solved here (or anywhere else), reach out.