Hi!
My name is Tahmid (Tuh-meed), But I go by Mr. Lampman online for branding/anonymity reasons. I've been advised to market myself as a "digital creative" in order to
get more engagment. However, I only just do photography/videography professionally for work.
My avatar's name is Lux btw.
I got introduced into computing in primary school. In the back of my classroom's bookshelf
was this one book by TIME on the state of robotics in 2014. I reread that book so many times, that I still vividly remember the images, because I was fascinated by all the different
types of robots that people were making, from rescue snake-like drones to nanobots.
Later on, my primary school offered courses on the basics of computer science due to the "Computer Science For All" initiative
pushed by the the government at the time. I found myself breezing through the exercises they gave us and wanted something more.
I got what I asked for when I came to secondary school, in the form of my 7th grade math teacher, who used to be a software engineer for Hong Kong's banking systems in the 90s.
We ended up having discussions about computer science which led to him giving me the jumping off point to immerse myself in programming.
As my graduation gift from secondary school, he gave me his whole collection of programming books. The funny part was that I gave him the Communist Manifesto as his retirement gift that year too in return (true story).
While I do take classes for Computer Science, I prefer to do it recreationally due to the instability of the tech sector for the past 5 years and so.
I was always interested in how electronics worked, my first few atttempts led me to destroying stuff. However, as I grew up, my skills improved
and then I started to put things together.
My first big project at the time would have to be modding my GameCube controller. I did a full button swap as well as implementing trigger stops, I vividly
remember the trigger plates taking me an entire week to get rid of the stripped screws that held them in place. I also learned how to sand down things for the first time as the Z button was poorly molded.
Soon thereafter, I proceeded to mod all of my DualShock 4s with various mods such as back buttons, light up buttons, as well as USB-C.
I soon found myself in the hobby of retro computing. I prefer to go for tech in the early 2010s, when I was in my early childhood
(also the peak of Steve Job's Apple) as I found that transistional period the most fascinating as we were going from skeuomorphism to minimalism in the consumer tech space.
When I came into my freshmen year of high school, I failed to get into any extracirriculars that I enjoyed (which was really bad because you needed club credits to graduate).
But one of my teachers who I was talking to referred me to the media division of the school student council. I was immediately taught the ropes and flung into recording plays and concerts in a matter of months.
I was expected to study countless movies, both old and new, to understand the filming techniques of the cinematographers as well as how the video editors approached editing. Although it seemed daunting, tt felt so fun to record footage and later editing them into a work I could be proud of.
Video Editing ended up being a decent side-gig for me at the time too, so honestly I'm glad that I ended up this path instead.
To the left is only the first frame of the video of my first ever edit, which was me trying out some L.U.T.S that pirated. I would show how atrocious it was, but I lost that video file.
I initially had no interest in photography, finding it too boring. In a twist of fate, for my first ever professional role, I was expeced to take photographs too.
I found myself pretty decent at it, translating my videography skills to taking stills. I found it was much more relaxing than videography at times too,
so I found myself doing it casually and steadily improving.
Here's the first ever picture I've taken, truly gallery worthy.
So this is a thing I started working on in late 2025, I needed to get a simple pixel animation done for an intro of a client project, however I couldn't commission anyone in time, so I had to do it by myself.
I compiled Asesprite, a favored program by pixel artists and spent 12 hours learning all that I needed do draw 4 16x16 sprites just to have a simple talking animation. I found it really cool how I could represent something in just a few pixels.
Here's the little goober I made for that client work! :3
Later on in 2026, I got into the flat vector art aesthetic, due to one of my favorite creators. I started taking pictures of objects and drew them in basic vectors to draw a simplified yet recognizable version of that object.
I don't have much time to create art, but I usually upload them to the site whenver I can.
