My friend Katie Waugh, who’s a new MFA candidate in fibers at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, recently worked on a project where she needed photographic documentation of the performance. She also created a video, and I contributed this along with about 23 other frames that day.
What’s not apparent is how incredibly cold it was. We were using my coat as the dropcloth. Thanks to my student, Maggie, for the photo.
We shot out in the cold yesterday… here’s one of students right before we did individual portraits with sheet film for making cyanotypes later this week. It was overexposed, and bleached out quite a bit before I scanned it on an awful scanner in a PC lab at the school.
Ike was pretty brutal to our family’s beach house on the Bolivar Peninsula. So brutal, in fact, that it’s gone. Before (from Google Maps street view):
And after (via Mom and my brother Ryan yesterday):
Ryan erected the flag pole and flew a flag that they found.
I finally got my scanner hooked up at home. Oh how I miss the simplicity and power of the Flextight software with the Imacon. If I could only find a spare $18k.
My first day of teaching is today. Only thing in my way is a 15 minute bike ride to the train station, an hour on the train, and about 25 more minutes on the bike on the way to the school. Oh, and here’s hoping there are bike racks out there.
It’s easy to get off track and think no progress has been made on a project when you don’t look back at what you’ve done. So tonight I sat down and went through all of the images I’ve shot for this project I’ve been doing with Stacy. Sometimes the edits are so clear (like, why in the world did I think that image would work??) So here are some of the more recent images that I had forgotten about. I don’t know that they’ll all work in the end, but that’s what your feedback is for:
We both like eggs, just hate cleaning up after making them. Well, ok, I hate cleaning up, period.
Loved this place… amazing light shop in Philly at Christmas. Busy busy busy.
