Travels and Daydreams
Tag: scans
February 11, 2013
random Monday | eclipse
My mind is currently occupied with writing, and designing things (including Matchbooks!) so here’s a random post with pictures of an eclipse circa I don’t even remember when exactly. I just found them when I scanned some slide films the other day and thought they were pretty.
Have a good week, 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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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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June 2, 2012
Paris
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April 13, 2012
Out Writing…
…and thinking of flying. Two of my favorite things.
So while I’m out you can gaze at some slides taken from a plane.
Because looking at pictures of my desk and papers would be pretty boring.
[I took these on a flight out of the old Larnaca airport. The building might have sucked, but taking off and landing always had a good view. As does the new airport.]
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April 9, 2012
testing the Impossible!
I got a Polaroid Land SX-70 off eBay. Loaded up a pack of Impossible film and started testing it.
Looks like its light meter is a little off as all my shots came overexposed.
I tested using my usual models and following some advice from my resident photographer and the super nice people of Vintage Instant and somewhere between the first and eighth shot I found myself so fascinated by the camera that I even went and read about its history. And watched old commercials of it.
But I guess my favorite moment was when after driving for two and a half hours I stood with sand beneath my toes and snapped the last of my first Impossible PX70 film shots. And this was the result.
Just like Laurence Olivier said: “And then, the Impossible happens.” I smiled all the way home.
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February 8, 2012
Cyprus. snow.
Yeap. We got the white stuff too (no, not the dust that comes from the Sahara, the other thing, frozen flakes that fall from the sky.)
Not in the city of course. (That happens very very rarely. About every twelve years or so.)
Slide film pictures, scanned and posted from snowy Mount Olympus. (Not really–but how would you know?)
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January 24, 2012
a birthday post
Another selves-portrait,* circa 1991.
Happy Birthday mom!
xoxo
*selves-portrait: taking a picture of another person and including yourself in the frame. [coined!]
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