i make the bed first

The lines

02before the phone, before coffee, before the day gets a say.
03it takes two minutes and the room holds still after.
04i come back to a made room every time i walk past it.

What it turns on

01before the phone, before anything
02two minutes, flat sheet, corners
03the room stays made all day

The whole take

Every frame here is from this entry's own footage. Every image here is a frame from a short stock film — chosen for the entry, from Pexels, and credited to the people who shot them.

The light moved 64 across this take, against 30.1 at the archive's middle.

A frame beside the entry i make the bed first

i come back to a made room every time i walk past it.

What the light column is

The figure in a row’s light column is measured off that morning’s own frame, on a 0 to 255 scale. Across the archive it runs 39.4 to 217. The line under it is how far the light moves across the entry’s whole take: 0.4 to 119.7, with quartiles at 5.6, 30.1 and 62.7.

An entry’s whole take is on its own page, printed on one sheet with the frame it leads on ringed. These two are what the two ends of that range look like.

i stopped making the bed

127.7 · 124.8 · 124.5held

Held. 3.2 across its frames, at or under the archive's first quartile of 5.6. 23 entries sit there, and you can see it: the frames are one light.

i stopped closing the curtains at noon

186 · 107.4 · 134.8 · 85.2100.8 across

Moved. 100.8 across its frames, over the third quartile of 62.7. The strip goes from dark to bright inside one morning.

Where the frames come from

Every photograph on this site is a still, lifted out of a short film and left to sit. The films are stock, licensed from Pexels and credited to the people who shot them. Nobody here filmed a morning, and a page about noticing things cannot start by telling you otherwise.

Every image here is a frame from a short stock film — chosen for the entry, from Pexels, and credited to the people who shot them.

12 entries carry a frame from a different clip. Their own clip is text on a warm ground with no footage in it, so scripts/stills.mjs matches each to the account’s library by subject. The live entry page prints “Every frame here is from this entry's own footage.” over the top of them. On this page those rows say so.

6 entries lead on a different one of their own frames than the archive’s first pick. scripts/stills.mjs chooses an entry’s clips off a search phrase, so the filename records the phrase and not the frame, and on those six the first pick did not show what the entry’s own caption names. Each now leads on one of its own other frames, and the displaced one is still here among the rest of the morning. Nothing was fetched and nothing was made.

Twelve of the 37 entries on a single clip carry the same problem with nothing to fix it: all three of their frames are that one piece of footage. They stay as they are.

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