Two Pictures, Two Links

in Maine:


"People, people... seriously. These things need to not be here. Do I have to make a third sign?":


Artlog.com, a new art community website started by a friend of mine. It's very well built, and there are tons of great events and galleries listed, primarily in New York City. Certainly worth registering if you dig art or live in that big apple.

There's never been a better time to start reading plays about Betsy Ross, if for no other reason than that my friend Cliff Campbell seems to be writing one per day; he just started, so you only have three to catch up on. http://thebetsyrossplays.blogspot.com/

Two links

1: My new website. If you have a blog yourself, could you do a favor and link to it? It would do wonders for my google results. Thanks a million.
2: My first publication in an art magazine.

out to Chicago and back

some more

Coney Island Redux

This time on film.

You can't quite make it out here, but the billboards read "The Future Of Coney Island".






This is what you get if you ask about my wooden camera: you get your picture taken. Thank you for inquiring/posing.


It turns out that Jessica is the freak!

debate/circus

There's no people like TV people.

Tunbridge World's Fair

First of all, those who like photos and blogs: check out Blogger's newest feature, Play, which consists of a continuous slide show of whatever images are being uploaded to Blogger at the moment.

Now a couple of 4x5 portraits from the Fair:


This would have been 4x5, but I had a light leak problem. So much for the error-free streak:

The 4x5 negative for this one came back completely unexposed:



Not at the fair; tennis courts near my house:

Also not at the fair; this is actually the loading dock of Color Services Inc., in Needham, MA, where I get my negatives processed. Maybe if I keep linking to their page they'll give me a discount?

seven for seven?

Very pleased with this batch from the view camera; no glaring technical errors on my part, no equipment malfunctions, and the pictures basically look like I hoped they'd look. (I implore you: click, make bigger)

(Note the wacky depth of field in this next one: that's what you get with a front-swing camera movement):






And lest you forget the kind of crazy detail you get with 4x5 inch film, here's a moderately hi-res scan of the warning sign in the last image:

September

I can't figure out a way to satisfactorily make these show up both big and sharp on the main blog page, so I will repeat my invitation: click to make 'em bigger.

catskills: the good, and the bad & ugly

Kettleskill Falls. The two white specks, lower middle of the frame, are Liz and Eric. Dahl.

Dahl's response: "Now listen closely children and let me tell you a cautionary tale. When you graduate college there are a wonderful plethora of choices you can make! You can choose to be the ambitious banker, working long hours into the night so that you can pay for lovely-wonderful delicacies like health insurance and a house! You could also choose to be the diligent grad-student, industriously advancing your education/delaying your immersion into the terrifying real world. Or you can be the studious paralegal, making money and logging the necessary hours to pad your resume, so as to have a shot at Yale, the glorious Xanadu of college graduates. Or, you can choose the lazy artist's life, making money by teaching rich children what they should already know and then frittering that money away on flaccid personal "artistic" projects and cheap beer to keep the demons at bay. IS THAT WHAT YOU FUCKING WANT?! DO NOT AVERT YOUR EYES FROM THIS UNSHAVEN MONSTROSITY!! THIS WILL BE YOU!! REPENT!! REPENT OR DIE!!!"