Mom Polaroid
Here’s another Polaroid I took, this time of my mom at her condo in Aptos.
As I’m working on these Polaroid scans, I realize, to get these shots I’m carrying around this fairly cumbersome camera (Mamiya RZ67-II) and ending up with a scanned photo not much better resolution than that of a camera phone… in fact, I think my iPhone takes sharper pictures when comparing the scans. But still, there’s something about the look of the Polaroid that I like. I’ve always thought sharpness was overrated anyway. One thing I don’t like about digital is that most images come out clinically sharp. I like a little softness in images.
Santa Cruz Polaroids
Here are a few more Polaroids taken over the last few days.
I’ve been shooting these Polaroids lately anytime I’m shooting for myself. I’m not really sure where I’m going with them. They don’t really have a theme or pattern. I guess I’m just shooting Polaroid to shoot Polaroid while it’s still available because I like the look. I guess that’s good enough. My friend and assistant Emily say’s to “think of it as a journal..they are personal and it doesn’t need to be consistent. Photograph what you love when you shoot Polaroid and fuck worrying about the purpose.”
Weekend Polaroids
Some Polaroids from this weekend. More in the “Last Polaroid” section of my website.
A Change Is Gonna Come
I’m in the process of a good sized website update. It’ll be a mix of newer work and work I’ve done over the last year that I’ve been a bit too lazy… I mean, far too busy… to get prepped for the website. I’m also in the process of doing a minor website re-design. I posted a while back that I wanted to completely redesign my website… but that hasn’t happened yet due to indecisiveness on how I want the new site to look. After all, it’s not like I want to redesign my site every few months, so I better be happy with it. So, for the short term I’m upgrading my Livebooks site in order to add larger images and along with that I’ll make some minor changes to the look.
Rickenbacker 330
I love guitars. If I could, I’d have a room full of them. Now, don’t take this to mean I play the guitar. I play a little, but I’m very bad. I can play bits and pieces of songs I like, but I don’t think there’s one song I could get although way through.
This weekend I decided to buy a Rickenbacker 330. I’ve wanted this guitar for a while. I can’t really explain what made me pull the trigger and buy one this weekend. I honestly hadn’t even thought about it in a long time and I certainly don’t have a need for a new guitar (I already have a nice Gretsch Hollow Body)… but as can happen when browsing the Internet, I ended up on a video of Dan Auerbach (whom I’ll be seeing in concert on the 13th at Bimbo’s) and he was playing what looks to be a vintage Rickenbacker 330 Rickenbacker 360/12C63. That seemed to be all the motivation I needed.
