Filed under: doodle, postcards by ramune

Siriusmo – Nights Off

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I’m a bit behind on the postcards and hope to catch up in the next few weeks. In the meantime here is Postcard 9. Not sure what’s going on here but it kind of looks like seaweed.

Every week I draw a one off postcard and mail it to someone. If you would like to be that someone, email me here with your mailing address. I will only use your address once to mail the postcard and then I will delete it from memory. Please also let me know if you receive a postcard from me. I know one has already been lost in the mail so I want to make sure everyone who has asked for a postcard has received one. Thanks!

Filed under: film, mamiya m645, photography by ramune

Gorillaz – Rhinestone Eyes

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A few weeks ago a very generous friend gave me his old Mamiya m645 medium format film camera! I’ve wanted either a Hasselblad or a Mamiya for a while now and was thrilled to say the least when he gave me his Mamiya along with three lenses . . . what a perfect companion to my Holga! So far two of the three lenses are not working (not focusing properly), so I will have to look for a place to fix them at some point, but in the meantime at least I have a 55mm lens that’s working splendidly.

I tested out the camera with a roll of Kodak TMAX 400 film the other day while walking around DC. The tones are exactly what I have been craving and felt like I was lacking with my digital camera. I cannot get over how rich the blacks are in these photos. It was a bit tricky because there is no light meter in the camera, so I had to guess for all of my shots, but with the exception of a few slightly under/overexposed ones I am really happy with the results. What’s great is I didn’t have to do anything in Photoshop (except for clean up the dust that was scanned). Here are some of my favorites from that roll.

P.S. This new Gorillaz tune has been on repeat in my car and I just cannot help boppin’ to it. I am sure I looked a bit silly today at the coffee shop with my headphones attached to my laptop, trying not to dance in my seat, while easy listening played in the background.

Filed under: doodle by ramune

Benoît Pioulard – Together & Down

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I have been playing around with this fantastic procedural drawing tool called Harmony by Mr Doob, and I cannot stop. It is so much fun to draw with, especially if you have a tablet. At first I just drew massive curly flowing lines, and after I was sufficiently impressed with the tool I tried to control my lines a bit more. I still need to perfect my use of the different brushes, but I like how this one turned out.

As of now there are 10 different brushes, although more may be added as Mr Doob develops them. I really like the simplicity of the tool since there are no color options or sizes, it’s just black. You can probably expect to see more of these “Harmony” sketches here in the future.

Filed under: doodle, postcards by ramune

A Hawk and a Hacksaw – Fernando’s Giampari

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Does this bird have only one leg or is the other one directly behind it? The world may never know. Either way, here it is . . . postcard 8. It’s a showdown.

Every week I draw a one off postcard and mail it to someone. If you would like to be that someone, email me here with your mailing address. I will only use your address once to mail the postcard and then I will delete it from memory.

Filed under: events, exhibit by ramune

Photo by Vincent Gallegos

Thanks to everyone who came out to the DCist Exposed photography show opening this past Saturday night. I had a phenomenal time and hope you did too. It was great to see such a variety of photos all together in one space showing the many facets of DC. I also enjoyed catching up with people I hadn’t seen in a while, meeting new people, tasting delicious liquors from Leopold Brothers, and of course being completely and utterly surprised to see my sister in the line outside the gallery. She took the bus down from NYC without telling me and walked up from the bus stop to LongView Gallery. It was definitely a highlight of the evening.

Unfortunately I didn’t take many (if any) photos opening night, so here are two from other kind photographers at the show.
Top: A woman looking at my photo
Bottom: Me and my sister

Photo by Davin Tarr

Filed under: photography, travel by ramune

Mark Mothersbaugh – Zissou Society Blue Star Cadet/Ned’s Theme (Take 1) (from The Life Aquatic soundtrack)

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To follow up last week’s postcard, I am posting some diptychs I put together from my visit to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. I absolutely love that place and although it is a bit pricey, it is well worth visiting.

Filed under: doodle, postcards by ramune

Four Tet – Plastic People

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I’d like to think that jellyfish dance to Four Tet. How could they resist undulating their spindly tentacles to his beats? I don’t think they could. Next time I am at the Monterey Bay Aquarium I will play some Four Tet to the jellyfish and see how they react.

P.S. I would like to apologize to my friend Jim and anyone else with cnidariaphobia (my word for the fear of jellyfish). I hope this one does not terrify you . . . I assure you it does not sting (much).

P.P.S. I have been corrected, it was a fear of rays, not jellyfish . . . I’ll save that for the next postcard.

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