Save the date – Nov. 20, 2009

Invitation -- New York & Adjacent Canada - Photographic installation by Robyn York

But their legacy remains, hewn into the living rock… Of Stonehenge

Awesome. I wish I had time to spend the weekend in Toronto.
I wonder when Rochesterhenge is…

Here is a link for the curious.

Title credit: Spinal Tap, Stonehenge

What would Adrien Brody’s mom say?

“Would you rather hear me talk, or listen to Al Green?”

On Al Green, playing on the Dryden loudspeaker:
“Isn’t he wonderful?”

On homeless men, hired to be Santa Claus for the weeks preceding Christmas:
“But basically, they are sad lonely people. They’re not Santa Claus. Santa Claus doesn’t exist.”

On photographing bars the morning after:
“I guess I should have done more of that. [Sigh] I should have done more.”

On this photograph:

“They must have thought I was crazy, running like that. Stones don’t run away. But some stones do.”

On selling her student project to the MOMA:
“They offered me $25. I said, “That’s ridiculous,” so they offered me $50 and I took it.”

On some audience-douchey question as to which camera she uses:
“I can’t tell you.”

On colour or b&w:
“I cannot make up my mind, which camera to use, which film…”
“I’m promiscuous in my photography but very loyal in my family life.”

From lecture at the Dryden theater, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, Oct. 8, 2009.

Well this might take a while to figure out, so don’t you you rush it

Postart Dot Ca is FINALLY updated.

Not complete, by any stretch of the imagination, but at least I have more than 1 body of work up. Whew.

Title credit: The Frames, Seven Day Mile

And nothing happens in the end, but I remember when I could remember when.

The last of Polaroid film stock expires next month. Will it go the way of the spotted owl? Will Urban Hipsterfitters and Overpriced Polaroid Distributors be able to save it?

Nan Goldin’s Owl Polaroid
Photograph: © Nan Goldin

For my favourite pregnant lady

via: The Observer

Title credit: The Weakerthans, The Last Last One

Torn in between here and running away (pt. II)

Miniature George Eastman House via rochestersubway.com

This is my current desktop background. Whoever made this (someone at the design-savvy Rochester Subway site, I think) gets two thumbs up. It makes me grin and think of the “Nathan Lyons Entering the Eastman House after 15 years” photograph from two VSW auctions ago… everytime I see it. It also makes me pre-miss Rochester. Is that a thing?

Title credit: The Frames, Seven Day Mile

Yeah, we are proof that the heart is a risky fuel to burn

One of my classmates from undergrad has a great looking show up at Karsh-Masson Gallery in Ottawa. Those photographs make me awfully homesick. I used to live in The Kimberly. It had a lovely wood-panelled entrance-way.

Nice work, Mr. Stewart. Bien. Can’t wait to see what’s next.

Title credit: Songs:Ohia – Being in Love

Beards of Summer 2009

The previous Douglas Coupland image made me think of this…

Bunch of savages in this town…

the ebay kodachrome sharks are making me reconsider my steadfast hold on shooting exclusively in k64.

Jerks.

Greedy people wreck everything.

Is Kodachrome the new Polaroid (and was Polaroid the new Lomo?)?

Oh great… now every hipster with a 35mm is gonna be gumming up the works at Dwayne’s.

{Photojojo » Photojojo’s Guide to Kodachrome}

Hey Everybody! Don’t use Kodachrome – trust me, you will hate it. I’ve heard they are discontinuing flash memory… QUICK! Stock up on SD cards or CF cards or whatever your expensive digi-cam uses and get out there and take some JPEGs! or RAWs! Before they are gone!