Posted by roy at 04:04 AM on March 19, 2010 in Photography.
At poker night a few weeks ago, somebody came up with the brilliant idea of getting my polaroids up on the wall (like all conversations in the evening involving beers, we stumbled upon this conclusion after meandering around in different ideas).
I picked up some wall-safe sticky pads from Target last week, and started working on it:
Makes me want to shoot more with the Polaroid now, especially portraits. Unfortunately, I just discovered that the going price for a 10-pack of Polaroid film is now $40. Ridiculous! I used to think $20 per pack was insane...
I'm down to my last 3 packs. I'm going to cherish each shot by only taking portraits.
Posted by roy at 09:55 PM on March 18, 2010 in Music.
giddy up and gold mine different place, different time all the stars are in their prime pastel trailer park, stars so bright to hide the dark all is quiet in the yard
giddy up and gold dust, all the cars turn to rust you've got no means for wanderlust pastel trailer park, stars so bright to hide the dark all is quiet in the yard
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Posted by roy at 03:32 AM on March 17, 2010 in Ramblings.
While I have a hard time identifying my favorite movie of all-time, I can definitely say that in terms of view count, "Spy Game" tops the list. For some reason, this movie was always on TV back in school. And every time, without fail, we'd end up watching the whole thing.
Posted by roy at 03:43 AM on March 15, 2010 in Photography.
First off, I want to link up to Spike's Tabulas. He's 50% of the ever-so-talented tulyfoto, which does wonderful photography out of NC.
As I've found myself with a muse once more, the creative side of my brain's kicked into overdrive. This has ranged from picking up piano again, to writing (crappy) short stories, and to taking a *lot* of pictures.
Spike, if you ever find yourself in SoCal, we gotta go out and do some photo shooting, cause I could use your expertise. There are three projects that I want to work on.
First is the ever-so-popular Polaroid in pictures meme. In my defense, I came up with this idea independently without outside influence back in college. The notion is to generally take a Polaroid of an object, then take a photo with that Polaroid in the shot. Here's an example I pulled off of Flickr (although my interest is less in human objects and more in inanimate objects):
I would love to do a set of these. With the iPad hype in full swing, it would also be interesting to see if you could pull off the old "transparent" PC trick like the one I did a few years back:
Project #2 would involve a light pen and some patience. Han helped me out with the initial run when I was back in NC:
(Seriously wish I had done this in RAW). The concept is "angels among us" and it uses long exposure times to allow you to do some light painting (yes, there are tons of better examples). I wanted to try this in black-and-white with people helping each other in common tasks (maybe holding out a hand to a fallen kid), and use a light pen to quickly draw wings.
Third was something I was playing around with briefly in NC this last time. I'm actually quite interested in overexposure portraits. There's something very stark about photos which are purposely overexposed (but still have some semblance of details):
The idea photo shoot would be either mid-day to sunset in the desert - gotta imagine the contrast in an environment like that would be amazing. Photo subjects? Not sure. Definitely human subjects, but not sure what would work there.
As I was writing this post, I remembered where I (probably) picked up the inspiration for the overexposed project (besides Holga photography): Kanye West's "Can't Tell Me Nothing" video.
This video probably tops my favorite list in terms of cinematography; what Hype Williams pulled off in the desert with the stark minimalism would be my inspiration:
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Posted by roy at 09:18 PM on March 14, 2010 in Music.
I'm not sure how this band flew under my radar for so long, as their Motown/soul/rock vibe is quite possibly my favorite type of music. This band is talented.
I felt that Sunday afternoon nap temptation creeping up on me, but the Noisettes have successfully awoken me. I wanna go dancing now.
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