Thursday, August 25, 2005
Two posts from Toycamera.Com that prove that I'm a whore...
These are two posts from a forum I'm on. I thought to re-tell the story but it's just not that interesting to me. There was a photo meet-up in Tampa which was cool as hell. Everyone else has posted already and they rocked so I gotta throw down with some work and here's what happened so far.
Post One:
Okay this is not a slam directed toward people who do this regularly or to people who Photoshop or anything like that but today I did a thing that might actually keep me from eating my lunch:
Some of you know I am without a darkroom since the summer semester ended. Okay I just bought one, a darkroom, from the someone who bought up the University of Tampa's stuff earlier this year but between getting the space cleaned out and being a lazy bastard it hasn't come together yet in the actual form of a darkroom.
This is where the shame comes into play. I have like ten rolls of film I shot on the meet-up. I did get the rolls processed. I figured, it's my least favorite job in the lab and it'll protect my images so okay, good rationalization, I feel absolved.
Now it's been over a week.
I found out the lab won't open til Sept 10th, dear god in heaven have they no mercy, plus I'm still a lazy bastard so I went and uh, boy this is uncomfortable to say, paid to have some of my B/W printed, only like 21 shots out of a 120 but still I feel sooo dirty, soiled actually. I'm scum right? Oh I feel gross.
Anyhoo they tell me by noon tomorrow I'll have them back and then by Friday evening I'll post.
I think now might be a good time to cross a few more debauchery type items off my list of things to do before I die.
Mike
This really is just about me and not directed toward anyone else. And actually debauchery and food mix well. I'll be eating Thai.
Post Two:
Yeah I'm a little worried about that too. Where I might take some time to build a print, I'm pretty sure those bad boys are hitting a scanner at about 90 mph and headed straight off a printer.
I figure I can use them as a sort of baseline experiment, you know, here it is untouched; now let's see what we can make of them into. My plan is to post the best shots tomorrow but then to maybe re-post once I've worked on them.
It's just that Dave and Erika and the Rev, one badass mofo of a photographer, have posted and now the board needs to see what the face of true incompetence looks like.
Seriously, everyone has posted such great stuff. I'm a little afraid. It's the planet Mars presentation I gave in the fourth grade. I shouldn't have waited til the end, way to much pressure.
Mike
By the way, if anyone is interested, I had a curry/coconut soup with chicken and shrimp that probably wasn't strictly speaking a Thai dish but was hot.
I had really wanted to go into the lab with virgin prints but no dice, vanity and a calender contest got the better of me and so we'll see, I just hate to let other people have my negatives. Why not just let them fuck my wife and kick my dog. I really feel worse about this then the posts even say but I need hang with my boys from Tampa (Did I really say, "...hang with my boys"?). I mean come on Rev busted a foot and kept shooting.
Post One:
Okay this is not a slam directed toward people who do this regularly or to people who Photoshop or anything like that but today I did a thing that might actually keep me from eating my lunch:
Some of you know I am without a darkroom since the summer semester ended. Okay I just bought one, a darkroom, from the someone who bought up the University of Tampa's stuff earlier this year but between getting the space cleaned out and being a lazy bastard it hasn't come together yet in the actual form of a darkroom.
This is where the shame comes into play. I have like ten rolls of film I shot on the meet-up. I did get the rolls processed. I figured, it's my least favorite job in the lab and it'll protect my images so okay, good rationalization, I feel absolved.
Now it's been over a week.
I found out the lab won't open til Sept 10th, dear god in heaven have they no mercy, plus I'm still a lazy bastard so I went and uh, boy this is uncomfortable to say, paid to have some of my B/W printed, only like 21 shots out of a 120 but still I feel sooo dirty, soiled actually. I'm scum right? Oh I feel gross.
Anyhoo they tell me by noon tomorrow I'll have them back and then by Friday evening I'll post.
I think now might be a good time to cross a few more debauchery type items off my list of things to do before I die.
Mike
This really is just about me and not directed toward anyone else. And actually debauchery and food mix well. I'll be eating Thai.
Post Two:
Yeah I'm a little worried about that too. Where I might take some time to build a print, I'm pretty sure those bad boys are hitting a scanner at about 90 mph and headed straight off a printer.
I figure I can use them as a sort of baseline experiment, you know, here it is untouched; now let's see what we can make of them into. My plan is to post the best shots tomorrow but then to maybe re-post once I've worked on them.
It's just that Dave and Erika and the Rev, one badass mofo of a photographer, have posted and now the board needs to see what the face of true incompetence looks like.
Seriously, everyone has posted such great stuff. I'm a little afraid. It's the planet Mars presentation I gave in the fourth grade. I shouldn't have waited til the end, way to much pressure.
Mike
By the way, if anyone is interested, I had a curry/coconut soup with chicken and shrimp that probably wasn't strictly speaking a Thai dish but was hot.
I had really wanted to go into the lab with virgin prints but no dice, vanity and a calender contest got the better of me and so we'll see, I just hate to let other people have my negatives. Why not just let them fuck my wife and kick my dog. I really feel worse about this then the posts even say but I need hang with my boys from Tampa (Did I really say, "...hang with my boys"?). I mean come on Rev busted a foot and kept shooting.
# posted by Mike : 12:36 PM
