Bodie.

2008-09-26T21:00:00.000-07:00

So... changed this thing up a long while ago to take it in the direction of abandoned houses. You know, nostalgia or memories or whatever... but since then I've not been to many abandonments that have been very fruitful. Plenty of places that you can't get into easily but not too many photos. Here's a post though of some digital photos from Bodie, CA, a famous ghost town. A few of them were snapped by my brother Harry. This may last it may not... probably not, but it may be an every 3 months updated type thing.

blue bird.

ye olde school house.

This was a jar of mayonaise... now it's white dust...

Newness

2008-07-22T23:03:00.001-07:00

new direction. soon.

Just...

2008-06-26T20:38:00.000-07:00

been working, skating a little, traveling a little, and shooting a lot! check the flickr if you feel.

Busyness...

2008-06-13T18:50:00.000-07:00

The Bedouin Jacks

Rest of the trip.

2008-05-23T19:55:00.000-07:00

Lots of new photos and not the patience to write out and type much... so here's part of the rest all together... this is pretty much only one story, but lots of the other photos can be seen on my FLICKR.

Death.

One afternoon we went by a city park... it was FULL of couples on dates, literally every nook was taken. After going there I can see why you'd take a date there.

The whole place is like one huge sand castle, really cool from the outside and kinda fun to wander around and climb on. Then you get inside...

It's got an aquarium built in... sounds cool...

until you realize it's some sick laboratory filled with specimens they've found in the extremely polluted Nile river...

like this desecated seal carcass.............................. soooo coated in dust and rot.

oh look honey a rotting alligator and turtle!

this case was smashed to bits... from what I could tell they broke the glass, climbed inside, drank 3 orange sodas and 2 cokes and threw the cans on the ground, then stood the huge aligator carcass up on its nose, then left....

The next day we went to the zoo... it was closing right as we arrived but the owner decided we could come in.. he walked us around and took us into an employees only section of the lion building... A tiny hallway maybe 6 ft. wide and 30 ft. long, one wall of little barred cages like you see in the photo below... full grown lions chomping on bloody meat bones and roaring freaking loud... This was the last picture on my roll, and it was taken seconds before they opened up one of the cages and brought out a full grown lion, disturbing its feeding time, into the tiny hallway right next to us who are three strangers with strange smells to the lion who is also surrounded now by like 6 people... and then they encouraged us to grab its facial hair so they could take photos of us with it............................................. put that thing away now! it was terrifying and thankfully they took no for an answer as we all backed away slowly. After that the owner got pissed when I refused to pay him an extra tip for releasing lions on us and kicked us out.

Day 2

2008-05-13T23:17:00.000-07:00

Took a long taxi ride into the middle of nowhere to the camel market. Rather depressing in the end, lots of whacking with sticks and animal abuse. Still fun to wander through and photograph. Still really bummed the lab basically screwed over 90% of my color film. But here's some salvageable things.

Are you sure about that?

This is Abdula who took us to the Egyptian museum. He got way pissed when we said no to his restaurant suggestion which was a tourist trap. In response he stopped talking to us, drove twice as fast, and almost ran over two young girls.

The museum was really cool but no photos alowed. Tonsssssss of old papyrus with drawings/writings on it that was amazing to see. Also some crazy animal mummies, a huge 20 ft. alligator one, lots of cats, and a hippo... More interesting after this day, and they should be up a lot faster since I have everything scanned now.

Egypt. Day 1.

2008-04-29T21:34:00.000-07:00

The previous day we flew in to Egypt and took a walk in the afternoon after checking into our hotel. 5 hour flight to JFK in New York, then 11 hours to Cairo International Airport... epic. The President of Algeria was flying in that day so there were guards and red carpet everywhere.

We went for a walk that night and found some crazy egyptian pizza that was amazingly good.

This is for someone's funeral.

The first real day... woke up at about 5am due to jetlag and couldn't sleep anymore. We eat in the hotel buffet and Harry, my brother, spills syrup everywhere when the lid comes off the syrup bottle while he has it completely inverted and is squeezing...

Then we head off to the pyramids. It was a crazy day, tons of people trying to hustle you, and/or just get free money from you for nothing, asking for "tips". Nobody wants us to walk there (they want us to pay them for a taxi ride) and they tell us it's very far, but it turns out to only be a 10 minute walk. We get there and we're told you can't walk up the street to the entrance, that it's for cars only. You have to rent a horse or camel from them in order to get up there... lies, and we kept walking up.

The pyramids themselves were amazing to see and just to try to imagine how they were built and how genius it all is. Sad to say nobody really takes care of them... lots of garbage strewn about in the sand around them, saw people throw their empty soda cans over the fence into the Sphinx's area right in front of everyone around them, and there are ropes around the pyramids to keep people off of them but the guards around the ropes will hold them down and tell you to come across them in order to take photos on the pyramids and then they want tips for letting you cross the line. Overall it was sad to see, considering it's the last remaining wonder of the original 7 wonders of the world.

This says that anyone who enters will die...

We took a tour around on horses and our guides heckled us for more money constantly. We stopped and got up on a camel to have our pictures taken, a tourist trap, and the guy there was super energetic and kept calling me mustache. They want money for doing this too, though you already payed for the tour. Then instead of taking us to the Sphinx they tried to take us shopping... we walked away from the tour with them desperately trying to convince us to come back, then when they gave up on us they still asked for tips before they left.

this guy was sketchy and got way pissed when I refused to give him 20 dollars when he asked...

cornball

We see the Sphinx and are harassed by more people. They come up and try to fix your head scarf that they give you when you enter. I had mine around my neck and had to literally grab a guy's wrists and shove him away hard in order to get him to stop... so insistent on helping you arrange it and then they want money for doing so.

The camel we got up on kept grunting and making constant funny noises.

Overall it was a beautiful day and lots of great sights, but overwhelming amounts of people trying take advantage of us.

Hido

2008-04-22T18:42:00.001-07:00

Bummin.

2008-04-19T14:07:00.000-07:00

forget color film for a while. so severely unimpressed with my entire trips worth of color. shot some black and white thank God, but the color stuff is seriously 90% disgusting. I dunno if it was a bad batch, or what, but seriously, not expired, not anything but normal and it's just done for... anyways, day by day egypt trip with photos coming soon.

Half Format

2008-04-15T18:27:00.001-07:00

While waiting for my film from half way around the world to be processed, dropping it off tomorrow, picking it up the next morning, here are some half frames. Olympus Pen EE.

Safe and Sound in the Sound.

2008-04-12T10:07:00.000-07:00

Back from Egypt, it was a crazy trip, food poisoning/hallucinating/vomiting for an entire day, on my birthday actually, the city of the dead where people have moved in and live in homemade shelters and in the tombs themselves amongst graves due to overpopulation and crowding, and going to the zoo only to have the manager take us into a tiny back room and release lions into it with us; to name a few of the trips adventures. I wrote a daily log of what happened, perhaps I will scan and post it if anyone's interested. Tons of film to be developed.

Kohlton and Seth have reawakened my love for my yashica and have motivated me to lug it's fat, heavy form around with me in my backpack again. Last of the abandoned house photos, I promise.

From Egypt with Love

2008-04-07T14:05:00.000-07:00

this is what a riot looks like.

BRB

2008-03-31T18:03:00.000-07:00

brb...

My brother may bring his laptop on the trip... if he does and there's internet/time I will post up some photos perhaps some night. Lots more abandoned house photos from the slr and yashica, but for now here's a break from black and white. Kodak E100GX slides.

see it?

Shivers 3

2008-03-29T14:40:00.000-07:00

Throwing the rest of these up, I leave on a 10 day trip to Egypt on Tuesday and I have a ton of photos to share and would like to get some more of them up before I go!

Shivers 2

2008-03-28T23:18:00.000-07:00

Shivers

2008-03-27T21:39:00.000-07:00

in honor of going into lots of abandoned places recently, and a random abundance of photos which fit a general theme, here comes a mini series over the weekend. A mixture of Holga and Diana+.

Trichromy

2008-03-26T18:09:00.000-07:00

Trichromies... Arista II black and white film... three separate pictures taken with filters to represent the Red, Green, and Blue layers of a normal color photo... RGB... I guess this is how Technicolor worked, black and white film with filters, or so I read. When overlaid in photoshop and screened you get a color image in which anything which has changed or moved becomes a neon ghost of sorts. I want to do more of these in the future, but it can be a tedious process.

oh boy

2008-03-22T09:14:00.000-07:00

Sorry But...

2008-03-21T19:58:00.000-07:00

even more snapshots from the XA... more spontaneity without technique or thought. The light leak is aggravating sometimes but beautiful at others...

common sense says no, but the answer's always yes... the floor was sagging and cracked where you enter, having to hoist yourself up onto the ground floor, or venture into the basement... no thanks... a whole roll from my slr and a couple yashicas coming soon.

more snaps

2008-03-15T17:27:00.000-07:00

explored a new and very abandoned/sketchy house today and shot a whole roll there, and have a roll of color slides coming back soon. Here's some more not so exciting snapshots from the Olympus XA.

Bessie

2008-03-07T22:53:00.000-08:00

shot these on a break at work today... doing elementary school class group photos right next to a farm... they're all super dark which is a bummer, obviously a camera fixed at f13 and 125 on an overcast day is not going to be light... but with some photoshop levels they are still cool. Taken on the good old Holga with some burnt saran wrap inside as a nice little texturizer. Also self developed in Rodinal.

Sleeplessnessess 2

2008-03-03T07:32:00.000-08:00

Sleeplessnessess

2008-03-01T09:46:00.000-08:00

death?

at night all the televisions long to go out and see the real world

Rigged

2008-02-28T09:04:00.001-08:00

35mm in a 620 camera... mega pano, may be worth doing again sometime. Night shots in a few days and whatnot.

Snaps

2008-02-25T18:01:00.000-08:00

some cross processed snapshots with a new aperture priority camera... Olympus XA. Two more rolls of snaps coming... since these are so... great... They do have a different feeling to me, a lot more movement than the photos I usually take with my slr which obviously takes more time to take a photo with... these are more captured moments rather than scenes. or something. It's pretty janky, but I like it.

Some Slides

2008-02-22T19:31:00.000-08:00

meh... but excited for some future endeavors... lots of film to be scanned from a new little camera, and a new technique to try out and post... soon...

looks so much better square... power lines galore.

guess this was a practical joke... stopped while driving past it one morning... next day I went by and it was all gone.

essentially of nothing... but I liked the two colors together...

California Roll, the last

2008-02-13T21:49:00.001-08:00

My favorite from this bunch:

Steezy Stance

gimme gimme more gimme more gimme gimme more -britney spears

2008-02-09T18:53:00.001-08:00

more 3200 to 12800 action... the indoor shots...

Delta 3,200 pushed to 12,800

2008-02-08T18:48:00.001-08:00

Here's half the roll, the outdoors results... it was crazy taking these, even on this partly overcast day I was up around F22 and shutter at 1000, most of them are shot through my polarizing filter acting as a neutral density filter because it was simply too bright to shoot otherwise. Tomorrow has the indoors results. I have another roll of 3200 that I will probably take more time to shoot now that I know it will turn out at such high speeds... I was skeptical so I shot this one all in one day.

I likes this:

one lone surfer... no waves...

I like kitties. And I tend to like to put them in the lower left corner if you can recall the one from one of my older ultra color posts. In a year or two maybe I can post a recap of all the kitties I have photographed.

2008-02-07T18:17:00.000-08:00

here are a few diana + shots I didn't post... I have another roll of them to scan still that expired in the 50's I believe that came out great, and another roll of 35 from california... but before that I'm gonna put up the roll I just picked up this morning, Delta 3200 shot at and pushed to 12,800, which sucks because I thought I was pushing it to the limit but it turned out cleaner than a lot of normal 3200 stuff I've seen.

diana+

2008-02-04T00:17:00.001-08:00

still unsure about this beast... it doesn't like to be tamed... Holga is crappy, but it still comes out elegant and smooth... this Diana+ seems hard for me to use still, or at least very disgruntled and non-compliant, unexplainable mishaps on every roll... one came out extremely grainy (see beach chair photo), lots of photos just randomly jacked that I didn't post, and then I use the mask in it so I can get 16 shots on a roll and you can see some weird outline of it on the photos (also see the beach chair photo and others... I dunno... I like that I'm excited when it gives me anything, and I do love some of these photos it let me have, but I'm bummed that I never know if I'm shooting in vain.

Ostrich ranch

red filter + cloudy setting =

2008-01-31T22:36:00.000-08:00

all the finer things

granny's birthday bash

a timeless classic

see the resemblance?

taken by sara

california roll

2008-01-28T20:29:00.000-08:00

random roll from california, 5 more I think including the diana+ stuff coming... in no particular order... not sure how I feel about the red filter, sometimes ok... often times just too much contrast.

long live the farmhouse

2008-01-26T11:40:00.001-08:00

lots of photos from california waiting to be scanned, but first these.

it's rather eerie to go it alone in a place like this... your mind plays all kinds of tricks on you and you get super alert.

lots of chair photos.

there were lots of pictures around, all from the same party, I tried to see if it was from this abandoned house before it was abandoned which would be amazing, but I didn't think they were.

the good life

going upstairs was terrifying... holes in the floor, waiting for someone to jump out at me, or to hear someone come in or walk around downstairs... it was time to leave.

Diana Dreams

2008-01-23T21:36:00.000-08:00

Bon Voyage

2008-01-16T19:09:00.000-08:00

Firsts, I grabbed this Brownie box camera off the shelf at a local antique store and realized it had film inside it... I finished the roll and got it developed, nothing of mine came out, but 4 photos from the past came out really well on it, considering they were exposed over 50 years ago...

And Lasts, another roll of "ultra color"

I swear people were getting it on in this trailer...

double exposure, kinda cool

mob house

Lots

2008-01-15T19:46:00.000-08:00

lots coming... I will try to make a post tomorrow night before I take off for california until monday... that way when I come home with 10 new rolls of film to be developed I won't be as overwhelmed. Here's a few older ones.

Oldies

2008-01-13T19:10:00.000-08:00

from the last time I was in Spokane.

Diana+

2008-01-11T00:10:00.000-08:00

not sure how this thing handles yet... I took it shooting at night obviously and also once in the morning before work when the sun apparently wasn't up enough for even the cloudy aperture setting to pick up much, so only a couple shots came out... should have more in a week or two after I get back from California.

about a minute and then some exposure at night with the bulb setting...

two seconds exposure on bulb setting

Blech

2008-01-08T22:44:00.000-08:00

first digital photos in a while, got a bookshelf from Ikea's "as is" section and then doodled it up with Sara.

lasts.

2008-01-07T14:58:00.000-08:00

more and more

2008-01-05T02:42:00.000-08:00

Almost two short series of 3 photographs each.

more 35

2008-01-02T23:20:00.001-08:00

wonderful when things at first glance turned out worthless with motion blur... then you realize days later that it makes complete sense and chance has given you a more interesting photo than you intended... Predator vs. prey, owl vs. rodent, image vs. reality, you know all kinds of artsy things...

blowing it... going back soon for a legit composition.

To...

2008-01-01T10:06:00.000-08:00

...make up for the harshly bad pinholes, here's some hopefully not as bad night photos... kodak ultracolor400... could be a little more ultra, but I'm pleased.

Obviously a photo mission...

sextuple exposure.

Hmmmmm

2008-01-01T00:59:00.001-08:00

kinda discouraged by my pinhole results... though I did use the most disgusting color film imaginable, so maybe other film would be better... hmmm... Some I like, some I don't, they all had a gnarly red cast to them.

Family on Christmas... yawn...

Turtle on Christmas... yawn...

house in the woods on Christmas... yawn...

This one's a bit more exciting... me driving at night...

This one I really like though the film is gross and any other color film would be better... it's sara running through the woods with me chasing her. completely abstract, but I love it.

last couple

2007-12-29T10:43:00.000-08:00

getting too much film back on monday... 220 holga roll with probably many light leaks, two rolls of ultracolor from the a-1, a new roll from my diana+, and a legit roll of pinholes from a converted 35mm camera.

2007-12-22T01:43:00.000-08:00

I want my bike back... I popped the tire now and haven't been able to ride it anywhere.

big boy so its legible

New Hype

2007-12-19T23:27:00.000-08:00

really hyped now I bought an slr... though it's a nice break from toy cameras and muddy negatives, it won't take over. Heres some from the first bit of two rolls.

a classic...

super hyped it has the ability to double expose

as seen through one of the two viewfinders in my other new camera.

maybe

2007-12-14T21:34:00.001-08:00

i dunno... maybe theres something wrong with me, but this is possibly the most interesting photo blog i've ever witnessed... not the whole thing, just the top post about uncle dirty. it's freakin amazingly interesting and bizarre and the best photo material ever.

'Zine

2007-12-12T22:22:00.000-08:00

I'm going to be making a 'zine, hopefully in time for Christmas... actually two, one more of a surprise inspired by dave, and another that I'd be hyped if others would submit some photos for. So, I guess we'll see if it happens by whether or not i get some photos from da homies or anyone who reads this thing! Old photos, new photos, any photos. Just send them to wraycharles@gmail.com, send a decent or nondecent scan, or host them on your photobucket or whatever and send some direct links... send as many as you want along with your full name and location, also add bits of info if you want, or a caption, or a story or anything about the photo. Hyped.

More Haunted House and More

2007-12-10T19:03:00.000-08:00

expired film is crazy, seems like the further in on the roll i got, the more protected and preserved it was, equaling better exposures.

my favorite house photo:

man...

2007-12-09T23:24:00.000-08:00

Labor and industries claim, going to the hospital in a day or two............ work related injury, just when i'm coming off of my jacked foot/ankle i decide to see what it's like to do things one handed for a while... don't click the second photo.

semi humorous artists rendition.

not so humorous real thing...

Finishing apples and drinking a cup of tea as you read this.

2007-12-04T23:16:00.001-08:00

Basically the same photos just taken on the Holga on some more 1968 or 69 expired film

more medium format

2007-11-30T18:07:00.000-08:00

Slide film.

2007-11-29T19:52:00.000-08:00

the days pass by so quickly, I am working on apples but I swear it's still tuesday when it was supposed to be done in my head... soon.

hmmmmph... better ones tomorrow.

The Good News.

2007-11-26T23:42:00.000-08:00

Hopefully wrapping up Apples tomorrow or the next day!

This is the craziest thing I've ever seen... for all you photo nerds.

2007-11-14T23:26:00.000-08:00

more holgas...

recipe

2007-11-10T09:58:00.000-08:00

for disaster.

use front part of camera and turn it backwards so that the shutter trigger will be on the outside and you can trip it manually with your fingy.

cut up an old tin and bend it into "camera housing"

paint the inside of that tin so that light doesn't bounce around and mess things up too bad, but be sure not to use actual black paint, and for better measure be sure not to use flat paint that would work best, choose glossy so that the light can still bounce around easily and mess things up.

make a mask for your film and tape it inside the back of the "housing". realize later that it's obviously not going to be wide enough and your photos are most likely going to get messed up from light going to either side of the mask.......... duh........... too late now.

cut slits for the film to pass through. tape the edges afterwards so your film doesn't get scratched any more than it already will.

tape a lot.

tape a piece of a broken light bulb over the shutter because most cameras have a piece of glass there.

splice two rolls of 35mm together and use them to wind your film across, one being the takeup spool. tape around the 35mm cans and where the film leaves and enters them so that hopefully no light can enter there and tapdance on your film. tape a viewfinder to it. go outside and get stared at.

friday

2007-11-09T17:26:00.000-08:00

a couple days of silence, but here's some holgas.

2007-11-06T07:32:00.001-08:00

the watchdog

the watched

the dead

fatboys

2007-11-05T19:02:00.000-08:00

I've been overeating, but the funny thing is that the weight has only been going straight to my left foot...

Bell &Howell 35J

2007-11-05T08:02:00.000-08:00

These are from the camera that I put a smaller lens on, and because of it, it made these crazy vignets depending on what aperture you put the camera on (cloudy, partly cloudy, and sunny are the options). Because it opens more on the cloudy setting it doesn't vignet so much, but on the sunny setting you get a fully circular photo... kinda cool. A few more of these tomorrow.

you can really see the vignetting difference in these next couple.

I like the camera's reflection in the wing in this one.

2007-11-04T07:59:00.000-08:00

The rest of the pinholes and one bonus.

this one is my favorite, the light streams in the lower left please me.

where a lot of horror movies start.

ghosts reading goosebumps

this one's no pinhole, nor is it really usable unless it's black and white... but it looks rugged and its birds, so it has to be a good photograph right? Jesse point your flashes! More from this weird vignetting thing tomorrow.

Two

2007-11-02T00:07:00.001-07:00

days worth of photos. Matchbox pinhole camera, I suggest you try this at home, super cool and easy.

More Verichrome

2007-10-31T08:46:00.000-07:00

the last worthwhile pictures from the roll... not so many. I at least learned my Yashica won't sync with flashes when I don't know that I should change the lever in order to make it sync haha.

Expired

2007-10-30T18:46:00.000-07:00

Kodak Verichrome, expired 1968, sent through my yashica. More tomorrow.

Folgers

2007-10-22T20:28:00.000-07:00

through the bell and howell that got a new lens the other day I ran a roll of ilford 400 really quick over a few days, not really shooting anything particularly interesting or good... or knowing its shutterspeeds or what speed of film is recommended for it... I decided to develop it in coffee, which you can find instructions for all over the internet. I don't own any chemicals, so i had no fixer, which in turn lead to almost all images being fogged over when I brought the film into the light, since not all of the silver halide or whatever had been removed from the negs, so it kept exposing basically when I brought it out to dry, plus fogging from the coffee itself... here's a couple from it, basically the only ones visible... Trying it again soon when i can develop in the correct temperature of water, with fixer, and the right coffee measurements and with spindles that won't gnarl my film. Go on, now you try, failure is part of the fun, and it's impossible to fail.

crazy light leaks and developing splotches, but you can see some trees/a horizon around the huge black blotch

more of the same, but this one's rad, my eye obviously... what a gem!

crazy amount of levels in photoshop to make this one visible, there were a few more like this, but they were even more boring and pointless than this stoplight.

the reason

2007-10-16T23:58:00.001-07:00

the reason everything is on hold and slowly moving... doing homecoming dance photography long into the night... wonderful. I've attended the Masquerade Ball (pictured below), A Black and White Affair, and A Night to Treasure... more dances in one week of work than I attended in 10 years of middle school through college.

Another new member.

2007-10-14T19:42:00.000-07:00

let me talk about cameras more, rather than actually showing photos or anything of interest... a junker bell and howell 35j got a nosejob today from a camera that takes a different kind of film... we'll see what happens... Apples is coming along... will take an extra week than thought, but it is almost there.

New Family Members

2007-10-09T22:13:00.000-07:00

Random antique store nearby, found both of these and got them for 15 bucks. A Kodak Brownie Hawkeye, and an Ansco Shur-Flash.

In the words of Moominsean, "an old camera deserves old film." Thus the Brownie gets some 35mm from 1972 (back when they had cooler colored film canisters apparently) though it's supposed to digest only 620, and the Ansco rightfully gets a roll of BW 120 expired 1968. I may never get a chance to drop film off again working 6 days a week, but when I do there will hopefully be some gems.

Moved out

2007-09-30T10:24:00.000-07:00

by the way I'm all moved out of my house and into a house in Renton... then I found this fairy tunnel in the closet next to my room that goes on forever.

no. way.

2007-09-29T17:44:00.001-07:00

Sorry to have shattered all faith in myself. But, believe it or not... it will be done within a week or two, then it's off to dvd production. finally got the glitches on the run and some motivation back.

hmm

2007-09-26T21:52:00.000-07:00

26.5 hours of overtime

2007-09-21T00:02:00.000-07:00

more photos from the rolls that've been laying here dormant for weeks now... the grain is insane since it's way expired and beaten up in the cross processing.

this one's from an old roll of like 2002? 2003? I forget expired film that I pulled out of some disposable cameras I bought at Value village for a doller... it actually has really really good color to it or so it seems thus far... we'll see about the rest though.

oofda

2007-09-12T21:54:00.000-07:00

slacking, I apologize... but not slacking considering I worked 13 hours today from 5am till 6pm, and will work the same tomorrow and basically worked the same yesterday... probly average about 66 hours or a bit more this week... anyways, here's a photo from the cross processed roll from '87 again... the grain is crazy since it's so old and the processing.

more filmy

2007-09-09T20:34:00.000-07:00

my scanner is being weird about scanning color negatives, so lets move on to a roll of 2004 expired tungsten E6 film... why shoot film that's going to come out completely blue? I dunno.

it's the first roll I ran through my Frankenstein brownie starmeter, I need to install some sort of bar to keep the film further from the lens cause most of them are out of focus and it's a focus-free camera.

new film finally

2007-09-08T00:51:00.000-07:00

one a day again... here's the first from a roll of ektachrome that expired in 1987, almost as old as I am. Cross processed as well.

Seriously...

2007-09-04T20:52:00.000-07:00

watch this. NOW.

whoah

2007-08-20T00:20:00.000-07:00

random spurt of motivation to capture the last tape from Montana, and edit the montage.

Good version...

or youtube...

frankenstein

2007-08-19T20:22:00.000-07:00

I bought a Brownie Starmeter, made from 1960 to 1965 and set out to chop it up into something 35mmerable. took forever, but was worth it... basically had to file out everything except the film advance wheel and the trip for the shutter and then melt plastic over the holes I left in the body of it. If anything comes out of it other than horribly bad light leaks I will be very happy.

The Fun Begins

2007-08-17T18:00:00.000-07:00

Expired film with a capital E... Who knows what will come of it...

been a few

2007-08-12T17:13:00.001-07:00

here's a way botched photo of jake on the harmonica... burned out in photoshop beyond all sense, and still blown out, but hey, it makes it look at little rugged and cool?... maybe...

509

2007-08-10T07:22:00.000-07:00

Rap video

hype

2007-08-09T20:26:00.000-07:00

won some film on ebay today... 5 rolls. 3 expired in 1969, 1 in 68, and one in 67. Four black and whites and one color.... who knows, something may come of them, or nothing at all! the suspense!

TGIAF

2007-08-09T07:26:00.000-07:00

Two for one on Patty's balcony.

yup

2007-08-08T07:26:00.000-07:00

another daily.

Zvereff Returns

2007-08-07T22:45:00.000-07:00

Daniel is finally back from his travels abroad... he has an amazing artwork journal posted from his trip which you will all love, fun for the whole family.

day 2

2007-08-07T07:34:00.000-07:00

from our trip to montana... in the viewfinder these were cropped so much tighter and righter, but I've never shot 120 film in my yashica before and it apparently handles differently... plus I instinctively thought it was 220 film so I shot it as if it was 24 exposures rather than 12... which probly resulted in the halos you see.

if you haven't seen...

2007-08-06T22:38:00.001-07:00

you must.

Bonus

2007-08-06T16:17:00.001-07:00

bonus photo of the day...

a yashicaroid, or polaroid shot in my yashica tlr... developed quickly in a toaster oven hence the warm colors, pulled appart and destroyed.

New Slang...

2007-08-06T01:31:00.000-07:00

going to try something new... rather than sitting dormant for a week and then posting up 30 photos... I'm going to try to just post one new one per day, unless there's a small run of them of the same place that go together, then those will go up together... here we go.

cross processed holga on 35mm

2007-08-04T14:55:00.002-07:00

this one's kinda cool... right below nich's ollie you can see the fire we had the night before when we were camping, double exposure weirdness.

bon voyage

2007-08-03T21:34:00.000-07:00

I found a raft and went out to sea. See you in a few days.

road trip

2007-08-02T21:33:00.000-07:00

went to spokane on sunday... saw some good friends...

then some of us crossed the handle of idaho and ventured into...

Kevin with the only skate photo from the whole trip... back 180 in Idaho...

we camped out in the mountains on monday with the help of some amazing locals Ben and Lucas...

the heat called for mucho swimming...

Just when I thought it was done... my car broke down on the way to seattle, so it was back to spokane for another night with the itty bitty kitty named Hello...

and a roll of b+w

2007-07-24T22:43:00.000-07:00

firsts color

2007-07-24T16:30:00.000-07:00

the idea........... (powerslides around jake (filming) not shown)

the aftermath

good things.

2007-07-19T23:02:00.001-07:00

oldies

2007-07-18T13:16:00.000-07:00

this roll layed unscanned on my desk for about two weeks or something... here's a couple from it...

more holga

2007-07-11T00:41:00.000-07:00

super 8

2007-07-10T19:49:00.000-07:00

though tons of film and time were wasted and came out unexposed due to a faulty camera motor, or something of the sort, there was enough footy from my super 8 rolls to make something...

SOMETHING (right click, save as... or click and wait if you're patient)