Hey Jim...sitting here at
work on my 7th night a bit bored, thought I would write you. Tomorrow I
finally get a day off after all the experiences overseas and then coming
back directly to work for a week. I was originally planning to tame the
wild jungle that my yard now is but with all the rain that's impossible.
My current plan is to sleep, sleep, sleep!
Anything
new with you? Traveling much? Now that I am an expelled ----------- (camera club name)
person I have no chance to talk to you (the only real part I miss!).
What you been up to?
Am
starting to develop and scan the most recent work, here are some
samples. There should be lots more in the coming week. I still have not
started developing the 5x7 film. Shooting in the dump was both hard and
easy. I have many friends there now, so had about 95% access to
photograph (a few folks still unsure and or shy) so that was easy. The
hard part was the extreme heat and physical difficulties of hauling
everything around a dump site (lost about 20 lbs), and dogs that urinate
on your camera bag!
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Am
doing some new things in the coming months. I plan to make up a career
type magazine of some kind for the next show (if that ever happens). A
thick magazine with photos dating back 15+ years along with contact
sheets, emails, blogs, video captures etc etc. Want to make it into a
visual diary type thing, like a wild scrapbook, fun to browse, read and
scan. It might be 100 or so pages (depending on how big you can print
the mags on blurb). In the past I have been happy with the magazine
style results from Blurb.com so want to make a best of type thing that
is fun and that I can throw on the table for people to look through at
any future shows. Probably will take a long time to complete, as I have
to look through thousands of negs-emails-blogs-contacts and
scan-edit-place what works for me.
My
other new thing is that I am preparing to do my first documentary film
(video). The subject would be Fred --------- a tough old fellow
at the garbage dump. Fred has been doing great work for the last 9 years helping
the people there. I want to tell both his story and the dumps story,
this time on VIDEO. Am learning how to make movies now, how to edit, how
to shoot, how to record good audio. I am purchasing a bunch of used
equipment to help me get this done. I expect to get started early in
2017.
Am very excited about the new film that will be developed and these 2 new projects.
Hope
your shooting lots and making some great photos. Every time I was in
Europe (visited Germany, Austria, Czech Republic and Italy on my Thai
visa run) and saw graffiti or details on buildings I thought of your
work.
