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Sketching plans for Mars habitation

Posted on July 10, 2015 by admin

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Olive & Boujee, outside and trying not to be moist

Olive & Boujee, outside and trying not to be moist, (clearly with different results.) #NothingIsOrdinary #CatContent 😻

journal time lapse I put some sheet film in my jo

journal time lapse

I put some sheet film in my journal in January for storage and exposure/experiments at work (when I still at the gallery). I rediscovered this sheet of Ortho film still there on the weekend. The varying degrees of opacity and indistinct marks read like a metaphor for the time that has passed since then, or something like that.

#NothingIsOrdinary #FilmIsNotDead #TimeLapse #OrthoFilm #wip #journaling #quarantine

glitchy touching. After @jthalmann1‘s @g44photo

glitchy touching.

After @jthalmann1‘s @g44photo Zoom workshop “In Defence of the Poor Image” (Hito Steyerl) yesterday I was really inspired to keep playing with my scanner to glitch images.
I’ve been thinking and writing about how touch is has become verboten with anyone you don’t live with, and discarded gloves ... And one thing (using black gloves to hide my hands [last pic]) led to another.
#NothingIsOrdinary #GlitchArt #ScannerArt #touching #gloves #impaired #wip #experimenting

curtain call. Today was supposed to be the instal

curtain call.

Today was supposed to be the install day for Spectra 2: Visible or Invisible Cities, a group exhibition with members of Gallery 44 and curated by Jessica Thalmann, that I co-coordinated with Elsie Nisonen for the Contact Photography Festival.

The exhibition and the panel discussion "City as layers of past and future”, with Christopher Hume, Jessica Thalmann and Chelsea Alexander, have (obviously) been postponed until the fall (at Gallery 1313). Fingers crossed we can look at art in real life together soon. Until then at least there’s Instagram - right?

#NothingIsOrdinary #Spectra2 #gallery44 #contact2020 #contactphotographyfestival #FilmIsNotDead #Gallery1313 @gallery1313 #quarantine

All the new (pandemic) words in my vocabulary (als

All the new (pandemic) words in my vocabulary (also in my word search). I’ve been experimenting with my typewriter and photographic image making.

#NothingIsOrdinary #FilmIsNotDead #WordSearch
#quarantine #royalite120 #typewriterart #repeat #CyclicalDays

Sculptural cyanotype studies using UV light. New

Sculptural cyanotype studies using UV light.

New paper is sensitized and applied in a less half-hazard (sloppy) fashion (maybe). Now all I need is the sun.
#NothingIsOrdinary #cyanotype #wip #quarantine

One of my favourite places to explore and photogra

One of my favourite places to explore and photograph in abandoned/vacant/shuttered factories is the men’s locker room.

For so many reasons, this locker room didn’t disappoint.

Of course this was also the day my TLR shutter failed, so I shot it twice to be sure it “turned out”. #NothingIsOrdinary#FilmIsNotDead #urbex #TLRclub #HappyAccident #all_is_abandoned #lockerroom #EdibleOil #porn

The Tenderflake files. 10 Kilos. Pressure Sensitiv

The Tenderflake files.
10 Kilos.
Pressure Sensitive.

I was able to shoot Bunge Canada once, but that was also the day my TLR advance “mechanism” and shutter stopped working as they should, (i kept shooting), and then the lab damaged the film (double whammy).
This is one of the happy accidents, that I recently rediscovered in the archives.
#NothingIsOrdinary #FlimIsNotDead #EdibleOil #urbex #ExploreEverywhere #TLRclub #TenderFlake

Somewhere in Burma, near the border of Thailand.

Somewhere in Burma, near the border of Thailand.
There wasn’t actually a line in the forest, but everyone knew “where” belonged to “who”. These guys all wanted to be someone, to escape, and do more in life than just survive.
They were also so capable of letting go and finding something to laugh about despite the shite circumstances of the lives they were born into.
They paused for a moment for me to take this photo - as they always did! - hoping, (i think), to convey everything they felt/knew in their stern expressions.
#NothingIsOrdinary #FilmIsNotDead #ABSDF #soldiers #burma #nostalgia #quarantine

The value of crude oil plummeted and gas prices fe

The value of crude oil plummeted and gas prices fell, but there was nowhere to go. So the cars were parked and forgotten about.

#NothingIsOrdinary #FilmIsNotDead #all_is_abandoned #AnythingCanHappen #NoPriceIsSacred #OverSupply #JunkCredit #SakuraColour #quarantine

High Park block party Years back there was a bloc

High Park block party

Years back there was a block length of vacant houses across from High Park in Toronto. I used to drop by as I could for a quick tour of whichever might be open. The interiors of the houses were always changing as the seasons came and went, boards were nailed over windows and then pried off, and vandals, transients, squatters and photographers passed through - the painted walls sweat and peeled to revel wallpaper, walls were defaced again and again with graffiti, the abandoned items in the houses were ransacked and trashed, and slowly they were all but destroyed inside.
Eventually, one house was set on fire, and triggered the city to approved the razing of the block for a condo development, or something like that.

#NothingIsOrdinary #FilmIsNotDead #urbex #ExploreEverywhere #TLRclub #all_is_abandoned

National Rubber Industries, was a building/site fo

National Rubber Industries, was a building/site for me that was the tipping point between a curiousity about the interiors of industrial sites and an inexplicable need (obsession) to photograph abandoned interiors, that I remember being the day I discovered the back door was literally open.
The site wasn’t “abandoned” with much inside, and was trashed almost immediately by vandals and scrappers, but if you were there when the light was right, it was beautiful.
The last photo of this random selection of I had forgotten about these pics I took from the roof of my old studio, and might have been when I realized the site was no longer occupied.

#NothingIsOrdinary #FilmIsNotDead #ExploreEverywhere #all_is_abandoned #urbex #rubber #HealthyObsession

It was sunny for a brief hour yesterday and so I m

It was sunny for a brief hour yesterday and so I made some more cyanotypes with the skins of things - this is a keeper.

#NothingIsOrdinary #cyanotypes #altprocess #quarantine #skin

one more preliminary experimental cyanotype of ski

one more preliminary experimental cyanotype of skins/barriers/exteriors of things. -7”x10” on arches paper

#NothingIsOrdinary #cyanotype #wip #StudioExperiments #quarantine #SkinsOfThings

another experimental cyanotype of skins/barriers/e

another experimental cyanotype of skins/barriers/exteriors of things.
-7”x10” on arches paper

Did you know peroxide applied to the pre-exposed sensitized paper becomes a silver tone when exposed to UV light?

#NothingIsOrdinary #cyanotype #wip #StudioExperiments #quarantine #skin

I’ve been experimenting with the cyanotype proce

I’ve been experimenting with the cyanotype process to make images with the skins/barriers/exteriors of things.
This is one I like.

#NothingIsOrdinary #wip #cyanotypes #quarantine

elements of urban blight - 2020 I discovered I ha

elements of urban blight - 2020

I discovered I had some already mixed cyanotype chemistry in the studio last week (yay!). The mask and glove are not items I collected recently - I’m currently banned from bringing detritus home and so I used ones I already had in the studio - but I’ve been thinking about the masks, gloves and wipes I see discarded in parking lots outside the grocery et-al, and wondering how it is people think it’s okay to be so careless.

Also, cyanotypes are really difficult to scan - if you have tips, please share.
#NothingIsOrdinary #cyanotype #cyan #quarantine #UrbanBlight

“... or let go.” I’ve been writing about pho

“... or let go.” I’ve been writing about photos I didn’t think to take, wish I took, or couldn’t take.

More making images with photographic means.

#NothingIsOrdinary #FilmIsNotDead #quarantine #wip #StudioExperimenting #cathartic #kodak #royalite120 #typewriterart

8 years ago I saw three F.X Schmid, 3-foot shape p

8 years ago I saw three F.X Schmid, 3-foot shape puzzles at three different thrift stores - at the time in my sleep deprived, new parent state I saw the puzzles as covert messages from the universe to slow down and make time for nothingness.
So I went out and bought the puzzles for the time of nothingness - last week it occurred to me that “time” might be right now.

Next up, the Pack Leader/wolf!

#NothingIsOrdinary #PuzzleOn #QuarantineTime #PrinceOfThePond 🐸

salt #NothingIsOrdinary #FilmIsNotDead #kodak #Ex

salt

#NothingIsOrdinary #FilmIsNotDead #kodak #ExploreEverywhere

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