Back at Memorial Day we headed down to Monroe to hang out with Steph's family and to celebrate Jessica's graduation. Seemed like an appropriate holiday to revisit American Gothic.
Caleb. New York, May 2010.
As mentioned, Ryan told me about the bleaching, so here is a photo of him.
OH SHIT. My world just got asploded.
As mentioned, I went out to San Diego to hang with Jon Canlas and while there Ryan Muirhead told me about recovering the negatives of Fuji FP100C (and in my case 100C45) by bleaching the back. This means I shoot the instant film, can give that away to whomever, keep the other chunk you normally throw out...let it dry...take it home and bleach off the black crap...and...I've got a negative.
OH MY GOD. I kept 8 of my "negatives" from shooting at Film Is Not Dead and bleached them out today. I have 6 more to scan...but here are two more (one this post, one next post).
This is Troy, one of the many people who came out to be our models...he and his wife Clare are awesome and both bring a great style to being photographed...makes our jobs easier for sure.
Above is Troy's negative. I converted it to black and white as it had some weird green blotches..which translated really nice in monochrome.
OH MY GOD JON CANLAS IS A BADASS AND FILM IS COMPLETELY NOT DEAD.
BELIEVE IT!
Find HERE, NOW, Andrew and Alexis being photographed by Deb in SAN DIFREAKINGEGO as part of my time with Jonathan Canlas's FILM IS NOT DEAD workshop.
SO MUCH MORE TO COME HOLY CRAP.
I don't have enough time in the day.
It has only grown since this. This was photographed over memorial day weekend in Monroe on Fuji 100C45. #nerdnotes
I feel that this is truly John Yam.
Gonna try to catch up a bit. I have so much stuff hanging around I just haven't had time to get it out.
First, here is Alison. I shot so photos of her and long-time friend and general badass John to celebrate their engagement.
She's first...John is next (in terms of posts).
More jank from the road. Can't wait to get scans together from a billions rolls.
(phone photo of fuji 100c45 instant film)
[ed. note: reuploaded scanned image later]
I'm still on the road sans computer so here is a totally bobo phone post. It's a phone picture of a 4x5 fuji 100bw45 of Garrett in his awesome backyardpatiothing. I shot helen back there too, but differently. Film shot to come eventually.
We just went to council crest and saw mountains. Pretty great.
We head to San Diego today by train and we are both pretty excited about it. I'm hoping to find a way to shoot 4x5 out the window or some such.
[ed. note: fixed the image...uploaded a scan later]
I have so much freaking film to scan....until then...here's a shot of Damien playing at the bottletree.
There are pros and cons of living pretty much everywhere. There is green grass almost everywhere I've been (though I don't think anything could get me to live in Knoxville again). Some towns are overhyped and some don't get the love they deserve. Birmingham (and Alabama) has its fair share of pitfalls, but we've got a ton of great things as well.
One of these is a venue/bar/restaurant called The Bottletree that has, over its three years, really made a name for itself by having an outstanding atmosphere, solid food (with veggie and vegan options), welcoming staff, and an endless supply of tchotchkes all over the walls (it is hard to choose a favorite weird LP from the walls).I'm not trying to make some sort of half assed review of this place, I'm just saying people love it and it lives here. That makes me happy.To back me up, here's Sarah showing some love. (To be fair, I asked her to give me a thumbs up, and I fully know this is super cheesy, but whatever.)
Some musical nomads came through my town and made their lean-to out of The Bottletree for a few hours. Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground blazed an outstanding sonic path for mister Damien Jurado this past Thursday, to the delight, I'd say, to all in the house. Members of (new crush band) Kay Kay backed him as he presented loads of songs from the recently released Saint Bartlett.
The bonus to all this lovely music is that the glorious and talented photographer Sarah Jurado has put on her management pants and came along with the whole crew...AND let me follow her around with a camera. I still have other film to develop but here (above) is one I like from this first roll. More to come (as well as eventually better scans).
Yep...polaroids on the ground in dumbo.
Brian Murphy in dumbo when I was in New York in May. He's on his phone, in case you were wondering (which is unlikely as it is pretty obvious. Why did I write any of this?)
Hung out with Brian Murphy in D.U.M.B.O. while in New York at the beginning of the month. Yes, brian T. murphy*.
*he's not in this shot.