tumbly.

One of the favourite lunch spots at work has a lounge walled in by floor-to-ceiling windows. Sure, the food’s yummy, but you know I love it for the light, too. (:

From the summertime.

I keep a dictionary & thesaurus at hand at all times. I only pull out the big boy here when the paperback-sized one fails me (which is…annoyingly often, actually). What I like about the big boy is the graded, inset letter dividers. (:

Japanese Garden, Washington Park
Portland, OR

Instant film → Polaroid → Film Types

I’m not saying that I used the “Type 100” section as a guide for searching eBay, I’m just sa— okay, yes that’s exactly what I’m saying.

What? My resolution was no new gear; a girl’s gotta buy film, yo!

I’m still working out a work flow, if you will, for dealing with & containing prints from the 330.

They’re all sticky when you first unpeel them, so no touchies! And that’s fine, but when you get on a roll (heh) shooting with it…what to do? I can’t pop them straight into my little notebook: they’ll stick to the pages (learned that lesson quickly). I’ve taken to carrying them for a few minutes to dry, but holding 3 and pulling more from the camera, it gets cumbersome. I’ll figure something out! (The cold clip you see is excellent, but only once the prints are dry.)

I’ve never lived anywhere with stairs inside. I still don’t, really, but my building does have 100-year-old (oak?) staircases and my 8-year-old self drags her hand down the banister every time we go in or out. (:

I do this a lot, shoot a frame completely out of focus. Here because I like the colours in the Japanese Garden so well.

Later, Sunday morning, November.

Nerdily excited about the 2 rolls from Portland, I walked around my neighbourhood (and apartment) and blew through a roll of Kodak’s BW400CN. (:

Sunday morning, November.

click. whirrr.

2009 New Year’s Resolution(s): no new gear (cameras, lenses); shoot more with film.

10 months in…

Okay, I bought the Polaroid 330. (Everyone says it doesn’t count since it was $15. :P)
I just dropped off 2 rolls out of the F5 which brings the ‘09 total to 21 rolls of film (F5, Vivtar Wide & Slim, and Holga)

2 months to go! (:

We do not know his name.

At the Vancouver Art Museum on Sunday, I came across this Stan Douglas installation, Klatsassin. It’s a mixed media (does that sound like 1991 calling to your ears, too?) sort of thing and I found the portraits before the video.

The portraits are fantastic (Constable, Prisoner, Thief, Deputy — there are 8[?] more in the museum) and quite large, which suits me just fine. I like to get eye-crossing-close to photographs to see what’s within the plane of focus and to let them overwhelm my field of vision.

Klatsassin Portraits (Constable) 2006

I found my way into the video presentation smack in the middle of the Prisoner speaking Tsîlhqot’in to the Frenchman who’s translating it to French for the Constable whose Scottish brogue relays it all to us. Then they reverse the process, all the while looking at the camera — though at one point, the Prisoner is clearly irritated and turns as best he can in his chair to speak directly to the Frenchman.

Turns out there are, get this, 890 variations of the 5-minute film. !! …I watched just the 1. (:

I think what I like so well about the whole thing is that Douglas pulled an historical event from local history, but one that’s not been done to death (e.g., Custer’s Last Stand) and thus has ground to give in the way of interpretations. I dug it (and spent the bulk of my art museum time there).

I’ve been on a bit of a roll with the Polaroid 330 this last week and I’m enjoying every frame of it. 2 packs of colour film gone with 3 more en route for my trip to Vancouver.

This morning, post-daily chai acquisition, I stood next to my car trying to line up a shot of just one of the lovely golden trees fluttering all over Bellevue. nb: rangefinder focusing on leaves is tricky!

(Should I really be calling these Polaroids? Sure they’re made in a Polaroid camera, but the film is Fuji. Hm. Calling them “instant pictures” isn’t right, either, or anyway it sounds silly. “Polaroids” gets the point across; I’ll stick with it. [Final answer.])