my kind's your kind

a diptych made up of two polaroids i took in colorado a while back.

let's do it again

another polaroid 450 test shot.

i've been pretty awful lately about putting together playlists for this blog. normally i'd have one up for the summer by now, it's just hard to find the time and energy. still, i did just put together my first true attempt at a dj mixtape. take a listen if your ears are in need some some noise ...

  

have i doubt when i'm alone

another couple images made with the polaroid 450 during the reynosa shoot.

here i go and i don't know why

i haven't shot much with polaroid land cameras -- i've always had one laying around, but mostly just for fun. i picked up a rangefinder 450 model specifically for the reynosa shoot. these are a few of the initial test shots i took while i was trying to figure out how to work the thing. (turns out the focus was busted. it doesn't matter much, i guess, given the lo-fi feel i we were going for. the camera's in the shop now.)

i see you everywhere

part of the trouble project that i posted about a couple days back is that i've been taking a polaroid portrait of each person in the film (and the poet). here are the first few. (i've been having some trouble with the scans -- so these colors aren't quite right.)

matthew

barbara

bonden

bonden no. 2

i saw it in your face

i used to do this thing where i'd make everybody i meet take a polaroid picture and sign it. i haven't for a while now, but the other night i went looking through those old shots and i sort of wished i'd never stopped. i turned to my friend and asked him to pose three times.

no one even knows i'm here

i found this picture in a box full of things i planned to throw away. i'm glad i saw it and thought to save it. i don't know why i would have wanted to get rid of it in the first place. it's weird how the photographs we make can feel like worthless mistakes one day and beautiful images the next.

where it ends, in the night

the impossible project film seems to be getting better. (or maybe i'm getting better at using it.) here are a couple shots taken with the latest black and white film they have on offer -- as usual, these were shot with an sx-70.

i wanna plan something nice for the weekend

   

summertime clothes

  

so. i'm back.

late at night the feelings swim to the surface

i wonder if i could be your mirror

cannon beach shot on tz artistic film with an sx-70

life's been crazy these past couple weeks -- moving, traveling, etc. -- and this little blog of mine has suffered. i never did get around to posting my usual seasonal mix. it seems a little late to fix that now, so i'm gonna cheat and just post a set that i put together last weekend. you can download it from soundcloud, should you feel so inclined.

(UPDATE: I took the mix off my soundcloud to make more room for other bits and pieces. you can still download the mix by right clicking here.)

everyday there's a way to do it just right

polaroid portraits shot in vernonia, while snow was still stuck to the ground.

what compels me to go

when we got to vernonia, we went looking for an old mill. we found it, sitting beside a lake, filled with graffiti and snow. it had no roof. i'll post more soon.

how do you make forever?

a few more polaroid 'tychs from the weekend in rhododendron:




top image was stitched together from polaroids shot on softtone spectra film, the bottom from 600 film.

and we are far from home but we're so happy

thanks and the giving of thanks

i sat down and wrote out a list of things that i'm thankful for. a poem in the form of a list. but, for whatever reason, it just doesn't sit right. maybe i'm not done with it. that, of course, isn't to say that i'm not thankful for beautiful weekends like the one i just spent in a cabin in rhododendron full of truly great company and too much food and walks over fallen trees and movie making and lessons in dream-catcher weaving.

that is just to say that i'll leave it to a song that's stayed with me to finish this post:

i'm so blessed to 
have spent that time
with my family and the friends 
i love
with my short life i have met 
so many people i deeply care for.
-- red cave by yeasayer

to the end i'll never know

near kate's house, there is this ridge filled with palm trees that always pulls at me. it seems so right. it seems like i ought to live within walking distance. it reminds me of the way birds rest on telephone wires, all spaced out just so. anyhow, my diptyching continues, again with two softtone polaroids taken with a specrta system. if you look really hard, you can find kate, somewhere in here.

it's always good to see you again

i'm not sure if it was the steely sky and the light it threw on everything, or if it was just the tug of nostalgia for a place the reminds a little bit of home, but last weekend, as i walked down echo park avenue in los angeles, i felt this need to take pictures of nearly everything.

pictures of palm trees and telephone poles, of mission-style homes and sloping streets full of bouganvilla. and also, apparently, of unicorns stuck to store fronts. (i spent the weekend wondering what sort of store pastes an angry unicorn head above its entrance. my last night there, i found out: a store selling 80s and 90s work out clothing. obviously?)

amanda's work with diptychs has been rolling around my head lately. both of these images were shot on softtone polaroid film with my spectra system.

in the mornings i rest here

portraits on softtone spectra film. (the last two are by kate and james, in that order.)