Filed under: family, favorites, food, holiday by ramune

The Soft Moon – Parallels

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It’s that time of year again . . . and this year changed my life. My brother picked up four ostrich eggs (one full and three blown out) as well as some tiny (quail?) eggs to mix it up a bit this year. It was a bit intimidating to start out on a massive egg, but once I got going I was hooked. I didn’t have a plan going in, but just took it a step at a time and am pretty psyched with the results.

My brother boiled the one full ostrich egg and used it as his “battle” egg for our Easter egg wars (clearly there was no competition). After he opened up the egg, we were all pretty grossed out by the translucent quality of the egg white.

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Filed under: experimental, photography, polaroid by ramune

Memory Tapes – Bicycle

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As you can probably tell from previous posts, I have struggled a bit to get results I am happy with when using The Impossible Project’s film. I recently got my hands on their new PX 680 color test film and am really excited about it. I love the colors and the photos are coming out a lot clearer (this might be due to my new controlled way of covering the film when it is ejected from the camera, and not a new quality of the film). Can’t wait to shoot more of this film!

On another note, this bicycle looks really sad. I am surprised the seat is still on it.

Filed under: experimental, photography, polaroid by ramune

José González – Far Away

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The other day I showed my friend Hoi the pile of Polaroids I had gone through to select the twelve that will be in the Polaroid Retrospective II show (which opens Saturday, April 9th). It was interesting to see his reactions to the photos, because he was not as into some of the photos I had decided were definitely in, and he really liked some that I thought had too many things wrong with them . . . like this one. I still like this Polaroid, but for a number of reasons I didn’t think it would fit with the rest of the photos . . . so it’s going up here instead.

The image is dark brown because I was playing around with using a cold/hot clip to warm up the photo during development. I think it may have stayed under my arm a little too long, but I still like how it turned out . . . especially that unintentional !.