
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
I Would Like to Be a Jellyfish

Rice Paper

So I have a rice cooker and I realized that it creates this crusty, scabby, skin film after it is done cooking. It initially creeped me out and I am still not sure if it is supposed to be doing that but I decided to make 'paper' out of it on my night of card making for my storytelling/bookmaking class, which just happens to be one of the best classes I have ever taken because we sit down for 6 hours and make things [we are required to make/draw/find 5 'cards' every week as a sort of homework]. I had known ahead of time that rice paper isn't called rice paper because it is made of rice but because of the specific ethnicity that produces it, so I thought it was funny to actually make paper out of actual rice. I couldn't decide which picture I liked better and since I'm learning photoshop I just stuck them together [one probably would have sufficed]. I love the more metallicness of the abstract of the first and how in the second you can see every detail and it feels warmer.
Slide Projector Slide Projector Mine Mine Mine



I lied when I said I would wait a week to go to Urban Ore and almost peed myself over all the beautiful equipment they have in, including slide projectors! [They also had an enormous collection of beautiful enlargers and typewriters...Urban Ore makes me wish I had a car...and money...and floor space...] I was so excited I immediately had to get one. The problem was actually finding a functional one. I ended up finding one that had most of its parts in place, although I think it is missing a lens or something that helps to make the picture bigger. It only focuses at a certain point which is only a depressing 2 feet from the wall, but as of right now I am too excited about it. It is one that slides like a cartridge not a carousel which, unfortunately, means a lot less slots to fill. It has a remote which focuses the lens but does not retract the slides themselves, although it does reverse/forward the order though if pressed and slid out manually.
I would have liked to have gotten a carousel projector but the most functional looking one was a 3 prong setting and could not be tested. I might just have to go back. The thought of carrying 2 projectors back onto public transit [along with 2 giant glass bottles that used to hold hypoclear and fixer and a huge file index of the loneliest postcards ever written...soon to be posted] had been too daunting. I got it for $16, though I probably could have gotten it for less if I hadn't been so excited. I also acquired a small box of slides from someone's 1998 trip to the Alps.
So far my idea to double up on the slides to get a new image has been working...sort of...I end up shooting slides across the room or losing them inside the projector. I would also love to try and distort the actual projection more [wall surface wise] and maybe even set about to destroying the slides themselves. Everything is always a work in progress...
ps. I bought the slide projector Saturday and am only now posting this...
Monday, September 14, 2009
Bunny Fishing
Street Shadows
Friday, September 11, 2009
4 Corners


The Cuckoo Clock


Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Mythology for Young People


I have a thing for myths...I used to read them when I was little, I don't remember why. I also love old books. Currently I am working on a project that combines books, fire, and mythology[mainly Prometheus]. It's an index of Ancient Greek Gods, Goddesses, Heros, Places, etc...and was published in 1925. I found this at the annual Franklin and Marshall College book fair in Lancaster, PA this summer.
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