happy SX-70 Day
Paphos, near Aphrodite’s Rock (Petra tou Romiou) earlier this month.
And of course the photographer climbed to the edge of the cliff to take pictures.
I stayed behind, safely, with my SX-70.
These are the results.
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Travels and Daydreams
Tag: film scans
January 28, 2013
Monday
How it felt today
Weekend fun
Downtown self-portrait
Road-trip
Have a good week everyone!
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January 25, 2013
portraits: Happy Aloha Friday!
Put on your Aloha shirt and go get a pau hana drink, it’s Aloha Friday!
Usually I’m not one for traditions, but this one’s great.
Especially if you’re in Hawai`i and you can have that drink looking at the (super quick) sunset and the Pacific waves crashing on the beach (I hate you).
Okay, this was a little nostalgia-toned post.
I think I once made a darkroom print of this image. The little hula dancer must have graduated college by now.
I’m old. (Where’s that drink?) :)
Happy Aloha Friday, everybody!
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November 30, 2012
Athens, some time ago
I took these back when we still had a lab that developed slide film in Nicosia, so it was many years ago. (Five? More? Time goes by so fast when you live so close to a black hole.)
I barely remember the trip. The whole slide film is a series of shots from the plane. The takeoff at (the old) Larnaca Airport, pictures of the coast, and clouds and sunshine from the plane window, then landing at Eleftherios Venizelos in Athens.
Then there are these six shots from the Parthenon at dusk.
These days whenever I hear something about Greece it’s all sad. The country, it seems, is under attack. Bankers and corporate barbarians at the gates. Nazis in government. And too many people either supporting or tolerating evil. (Any number supporting Nazis is too many.) Just writing a sentence with the word ‘Nazis’ in present tense boggles my mind. Have we gone back in time? Are we living in a Philip K. Dick novel?
So now I’m going back to looking at my pretty slides.
The Parthenon is 2,450 years old.
It’s my favorite place in Athens.
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November 23, 2012
two London Clock minutes
I have two tiny stories published as part of the London Clock, a wonderful new literary venture by the London Literary Project, champions of poetry and flash fiction.
Every story is a London minute, exactly 60 words.
The first is called Dark City.
The second, Accidental Discoveries, is accompanied by part of an Impossible Polaroid of the same location (see below.)
It’s so much fun writing flash fiction. And these tiny stories, they fit anywhere. My next one out in the world is published on the back of a postcard!
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November 12, 2012
Impossible Monday
It’s Monday, so of course I don’t want to do anything. This is what happens when you forget to stop working on the weekend. So. Much. Writing. Editing. Submitting. Mind swimming.
So, great time to look at some pictures!
These were taken with the older Impossible color film. (Got the new one, haven’t used it yet.)
By the way, notice how crisper that last shot is. That’s because the nice people at Vintage Instant tuned my Land camera last month.
And because I used the new scanner adapter to scan it.
Me: What are Newton rings?
T: (points to previously scanned Polaroids) That. And that.
Me: Oh. (Orders scanner adapter.)
Best Beach Restaurant. I like how proud they are of their establishment. (Pretty good food, too.)
One of my favorite lifeguard tower shots. Where did those colors come from? Does it matter?
And finally: my Impossible Nicosia.
I took this last week at Ledras Street when I was visiting my favorite apples at their post-wandering event.
I showed the picture to the kids.
Instagram, they said, and laughed.
But they were only kidding. They knew what a Polaroid was. The μηλιά kids are geniuses. I ran another mini writing workshop for them and they wrote genius funny stories.
I can’t wait to see what they do next.
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November 10, 2012
finally, fall
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September 29, 2012
Views from a Castle
It feels weird that it’s fall and I am in Cyprus and not away in school or rushing off to hand in a thesis.
At the same time September and October are perfect months to wander around the island, as the immense summer heat subsides and the tourists return to their wintery homelands.
There are so many places I haven’t even seen yet, or that I’d like to visit again.
These are some old pictures, taken with a medium format Mamiya and color slide film (remember those) from a previous trip to the castle of Kolossi.
Cyprus is full of treasures and nice locations. All you have to do to find them is go off your usual main city streets and just look around. And wander.
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July 16, 2012
On the Road to Las Vegas
I don’t know what made me think of Vegas.
Maybe it’s the heatwave we’ve been having.
Or sending out a story that takes place somewhere between Las Vegas and Baker, CA.
Or a Hunter S. Thompson interview I read in the Paris Review.
Either way I found and scanned these pictures, taken with my old film Canon from the passenger seat somewhere outside L.A. circa 2001.
xoxo
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July 14, 2012
too tired for pictures
Book Ex Machina has a brand new website!
Matchbook Stories Issue 1 was featured on Design *Sponge!
I took new Polaroids, some are on the Impossible Project website!
And now I am exhausted, probably from excessive exclamation mark usage.
:)
be back soon xoxo
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