Profile avatar
chris.ashworth.io
On here: mostly photography. Elsewhere: Created @QLab.app, and building the @Voxel.org theater in Baltimore.
384 posts 703 followers 115 following
Prolific Poster
Conversation Starter

track meet at the Archbishop Curley school in Baltimore, May 16 2025.

today it rained

today in Baltimore

today in Baltimore

this evening, Baltimore

August 2023 #blackandwhite #photography

watching AI become a left/right political trigger is so disheartening gang we don't have to keep doing this to ourselves, we have big curious minds that can explore new ideas with subtlety & complexity smart people out here just slamming down their personal judgement gavel so darn early on things

April 19 2025, Pennsylvania

"how are you doing?" "including today's stomach-churning slide deeper into authoritarianism, or ignoring that part?"

every time my kids want to play a video game i have to set aside at least 30 minutes to enter an admin password 10 times and download 7 updates. fun!!

self portrait, this morning

camera / photos

current emphasis on "stupidest"

currently working with a manufacturing company in China to see if they can fabricate a particular kind of LED lights for an artistic installation, and their website is a dreamy DELIGHT

i wish we had a chart listing rich & powerful men alongside how many times they've changed a diaper

#photography

today's mood (thanks to @jklabs.net, who is donating all profits to the Trans Youth Emergency Project) my-store-1112fc.creator-spring.com

Every once in a while, I get an unsolicited message from A Random Confident Man, who aspires to give me copy-editing notes about errors in my writing. The notes are either stylistically debatable or flatly incorrect. why are men like this. i can not fathom how women or famous people exist online

i am 1 million percent not in the mood for online april fools stuff, but this morning my youngest daughter woke up an hour early, replaced my shoes with sparkly shoes, re-drew the family calendar to be july, filled my office with horses, & opened every kitchen cabinet. it absolutely made my morning

kids inspect a chicken coop. New York, August 2023 #photography

oh, you know, cooking dinner, contemplating authoritarianism, downloading copies of my social security statements on the off chance it implodes and that helps me in some way; a typical Saturday afternoon in America 2025

self portrait, december 2022 #photography

umbrella and shovel, june 2023 #photography

untitled, august 2023 #photography

my daughter and her best friend carrying the class mascot to the finish line of a one-mile run Baltimore, 2023 #photography

much love to all the "i'm young and hot and in the club" music but i'd like to put a call out for some artist to try tackling "i'm middle aged and hot and making my kids' lunches" music

in all these years of making QLab we've never bothered to count how many people are actually using it... until last month. turns out over 100,000 different computers in the world ran QLab in the last 5 weeks, and about 10,000 unique computers run it per day. this is blowing my mind.

"open hearted romantic who doesn't fuck with pseudoscience" often feels like a real lonely place in the humanity Venn diagram

i woke up at 5:30 am on a day neither of my kids had school and i was somehow still late for a 10 am meeting: the ADHD story

Every year I turn down more & more private equity companies who want to buy @qlab.app, but it's always amusing to peruse the website they think might convince me to say yes.

I hung back for a moment to take this photo of Ethan and @alecsparks.bsky.social marching down the fancy conference center bridge at USITT in Ohio. I had a truly wonderful time talking to many MANY people about object audio in QLab. We're SO excited to finish it up soon, and get it into your hands.

Sophie Maguire (a landscape architect with a background in dance) and Helen Garcia-Alton (lighting designer) experiment with special plant lighting instruments from ETC for an upcoming installation scheduled at The Voxel this summer.