Soot tags gather after fires in areas with low circulation. They are not, as commonly believed, ash covered spider webs.
oh, well then what the FUCK are they???
They’re made of sticky particles from a polymer or petroleum based fire, like burning carpet, drapes, upholstery, and clothes. Due to a static charge, they chain together and naturally gather near ceiling corners because the rising hot air pushes them into the cool spots by convection.
Because they’re formed by static electricity, they can only be removed with professional chemicals and equipment. Attempting to remove them improperly will only break the chain before all the soot can be captured, leaving the remaining soot to spontaneously reform the webs later. Even worse, trying to wipe or wash them away can firmly adhere the soot to your wall or ceiling, which will permanently stain it.
A natural phenomena that only coincidentally resembles the damned webs of transdimensional ghost spiders.
As most of my friends and followers know, I’m currently in my English credential program and learning all kinds of cool stuff about teaching. The topic I’m most passionate about is making learning accessible to EVERYONE, and I love that we can apply these same concepts to our Tajreen&Co videos.
Today we have a new episode out, PHOTOGRAPHY GEAR YOU SHOULD SAVE MONEY ON. This video is close captioned, includes a glossary of technical and industry-specific terms in the description for beginners or those who aren’t native English speakers, and is also all about saving money! Photography can get prohibitively expensive pretty fast, but @apio and I made this video with the hopes that it will help people save a lot of money on their equipment and thereby welcome more people into the photography world!
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Tajreen and I love going on road trips, and sometimes the pressure to take good vacation photos can get a little stressful. Over time, we’ve come up with tricks to get awesome adventure shots without sacrificing our sanity. Check them out in our latest video, 5 TIPS FOR BETTER ROAD TRIP PHOTOS!
Tajreen and I have been shooting together for about four years now. (Which, by the way, is CRAZY to say.) It started with weddings, then fun little portrait workshops to sharpen our skills, and soon one of us (if not both of us!) were slinging a camera over our shoulder every time we hung out. We’ve traveled all over California for forest shoots, desert shoots, and “that’s a pretty shrub, how deep are you willing to shove yourself in it for this picture” shoots.
All this time, we’ve been learning as we go. Tajreen has a master’s in film from UCLA, whereas I’m almost entirely self-taught. We realized that between the two of us, we have a lot of photography know-how to share. And because we’re piecing this together ourselves, it would be easy to break it down to teach to others.
We also noticed that it’s hard to find models who look like us and our friends in photography tutorial resources. Hiring a model and shooting them is a completely valid experience, but it’s not the only experience by any means. Tajreen and I have a diverse friend group who we love to take photos of, and sometimes the tips that work for shooting professional models just don’t work as well when you’re shooting with your friends.
We want to make photography accessible to everybody, regardless of their skill level. With that goal in mind, today we are launching a project we’ve been working on for months: Tajreen & Co, a photography channel on YouTube. We’ll be uploading videos almost every Sunday, and our first one, THE EASIEST WAY TO SHOOT JUMP PHOTOS, is out RIGHT NOW!! Check it out! If you like what you see, subscribe to our channel to follow our photo adventures. We’re really excited about what we have planned for this project moving forward, and we’d be delighted to have you along for the journey!
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