Unplugged #22: Adventure is about making choices, inside the print revival, a visit to the new local darkroom, and how the world got so ugly

A regenerative time of year.

Oct 18 • 

Alex Roddie

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Experiments in deconvergence: the Mudita Kompakt e-ink smartphone fails in the Cairngorms

A field review of the minimalist e-ink smartphone that couldn’t.

Oct 12 • 

Alex Roddie

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Unplugged #21: Alex’s madcap climber era, what endures when adventure ends, and the great fusion of all things

I’ve been spelunking in old journals in the name of book research.

Oct 4 • 

Alex Roddie

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September 2025

The illusory permanence of all things: a night of analogue counterculture at Eleven41 gallery

The story of Analogue11, my first photographic exhibition – and a phase shift in human meaning

Sep 26 • 

Alex Roddie

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Unplugged #20: Analogue11, a creative wellspring, from the Gothic to the divine, and memory on fire

Yes, it’s been yet another Alps-based personal creative revolution.

Sep 12 • 

Alex Roddie

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The time capsule

Secrets contained in a family box camera from the 1950s

Sep 8 • 

Alex Roddie

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August 2025

Unplugged #19: Thinking long-term, an upgraded film scanner, fear and finding out, and a phoenix rises from the ashes

Where is this thing going?

Aug 8 • 

Alex Roddie

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July 2025

Alpenglow inspirations: iPhone photography in the Alps

Making the best of a flawed – but valid – photographic tool

Jul 29 • 

Alex Roddie

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Unplugged #18: A doomed landscape, the pleasure of creation, against compression, and getting back your time

Drawing together the threads for a larger audience this week

Jul 18 • 

Alex Roddie

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Experiments in deconvergence: it starts with a wristwatch and notepad

Simple first steps towards radically changing your life. Less time looking down, more time looking up.

Jul 4 • 

Alex Roddie

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June 2025

Unplugged #17: Anti-conquest mountaineering, drones on Everest, end of an era in Glen Coe, and the edit is the adventure

I don’t identify with having a fear of heights, but tackling some issues has helped me on the rock… and it doesn’t have to be about ‘conquering…

Jun 26 • 

Alex Roddie

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Experiments in deconvergence: Is the cyborg mountaineer still an artist?

More than a century ago, George Mallory wrote that adventure qualifies as art. Is that still true today?

Jun 19 • 

Alex Roddie

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