The name of this blog was always meant to convey my interest in the science of film photography. (I recognize that if the name were factual it would be filmchemistry.) I really didn’t know anything about physics at the time of naming the blog, but there was a song I liked then called “Dog Physics” and filmphysics was alliterative without the words starting with the same letter, so it worked.
I worked in the arts at the time and took pictures regularly. Now, I am training to be a psychologist and work in a lab that applies a mathematical theory to explain and predict human behavior. I don’t have the people around me that I used to shoot with now, so I’ve felt disconnected from the artist in me recently, but I’ve grown more connected to the name I’ve given to my internet self.
In hindsight, at the naming of my blog it seemed I was anticipating a change: a phase transition in my life as an artist to my life as a scientist. One difference between those two roles is that the artist is a documenter and the scientist is an explainer. One answers “what?” and the other answers “why?", though maybe they are the same thing in the end.