Chores

...as in, I need to go and do some.

p.s. The new camera is shooting a fine, fine 6x9. Go ahead and click. It's got some detail.

Feel of the print

Indeed, I am printing some new stuff. I have been in the darkroom (technically, the chems are still out) and waving hand-cut cardboard shapes on reclaimed wire hangers above photo-sensitive paper for fun.

It's really for the craft.

I am also learning that I print much better with good music. I will update my muxtape very soon to reflect the darkroom music. I even stopped printing halfway through to reroute some speaker wire and old 2-ways to pipe right into the laundry-er-darkroom for my listening pleasure.

Ultra-low numbers on these shots from my TLR and a secret bit that I've added on. Lush.

Now I'll take another break to get some food together for dinner and polish off some dishes. Maybe. See there's this new (old) camera sitting here without a shot to it's name. It's big. I am inspired by a fellow photog to name it Gozilla! Mine's a little shinier so it must be...

Robot Gozilla Prime!

3 new exhibitions coming extremely soon. The DNC is slow and empty compared to my schedule.

The RZA rocks my world.

I was just thinking, "I only want to show what I really fucking love..." And then rethinking:

Isn't that what you're 'supposed to do, as an artist', at all times?

But I haven't done that really, at least made sure that I did that and that only, not what I think someone might like.

and then I hear "Money Don't Own Me" by The RZA and I know that it's right. It's the only way to go from here on out.

Work with Purpose

I don't have enough time from work to do work. That being said, it's a darkroom kind of a day.

And that's game.

I made it to 600 posts.

It wasn't difficult. That initial sentence made it sound like it might be. I wish that I could brag about the fact that I put up a new image at every post, but I did not.

Still, there are so many more than 600, sitting around here. It makes me wonder what one would do with all of them, besides back them up onto disc. Future media won't be compatible, will it? An archive of pixels, made from an archive of film. Who will acknowledge film in the next 100 years? What about the next 20 years?

I hope to be still at it, even then. I hope film will still be there.

Till the next milestone

five nintey nine

putting in some work

A Day Off

It's been too much work, lately.

As I approach

the 600th post, I realize that I don't blog much any more. I want a new layout and a new blog altogether that doesn't have to rely on blogspot. Honestly, I don't have time for the project.

If anyone is interested in assisting with something built via another platform or set of code, pixelpost, php, what-have-you, get in touch. Maybe we could trade.

Time is always the enemy, it seems.

Sunday

Well I have new film in . so that's a good thing. Got some old print film, even some Precisa. It's going to be a good summer.

oh damn. I almost forgot to tell you. I made you a muxtape. I might update it at least as regularly as this, I hope. I'm not contributing too much here lately. But I'll let you know when I do in this space.

Part of the Process

I have already spent hours on this latest clean-up. This isn't Spring Cleaning, but more of a culling of photos, scans and negatives that just don't need to be around, taking up space, etc. Piles of them. Everything on the hard drives will get a look and must survive the "why do I care about this" test. That's what's going on.

Why should you care? Well, it can lead to a lot of discovery. That means that the stuff that I normally keep for myself or haven't even been able to get to or show will come to the front, finally. All the secret stuff, a good three years worth, is sitting around in books, bits, bytes or emblazoned onto photographic paper. Most of it will be around soon, for everyone's eyes.

In the meantime, I have a show up and one to help create. If anyone knows of a gallery with a solid rep and a 'call for artists', send mail my way.

The next month will be interesting as some changes are due. One stable and good thing has been going for a year though, and I am very thankful for that. I was reminded that I will be another year older soon. I commented that it's been a challenging year, one that has had big elements of testing and change for me. What I didn't say was that it's been on of the best years I can remember. Those times of testing and change have been internal, trying to find out what makes me tick and how to keep things together in the midst of great times as well as trying ones. It's been a great year of learning, I think. About me, sure, but also about how it is to be me. Even further, how it is to be me in relation to others, how I might be perceived and how I can really act and react.

This is the good stuff. So thank you.

Monosandalsim

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