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ART 53, day 14

2016/05/05 — Leave a comment

This Is Fifty-Three, day 14

More scanning (and, occasionally, re-scanning) yesterday. I made it through all the SX-70 and 600 photos—and much faster than I had expected; with the number of re-scans needed to get rid of Newton’s rings, I thought it might take several days. Instead, I kept going until I had finished the lot.

Now I just have about a dozen type 100 prints, which is much simpler, since I only have to be concerned with the usual dust removal—no re-scanning!

And there was much rejoicing…

(5 May 2016)

 

 

ART 53, day 13

2016/05/03 — Leave a comment

Today, I scanned. I have accumulated just over 30 Polaroids since January. Usually I scan them the same day, but I haven’t been doing that.

This is probably going to take me a while—particularly if I am to keep plugging away at the book.

Why will it take me a while? Well, it all comes down to the vagaries of scanning film, with Polaroids adding their own peculiar brand of fun to the mix. Continue reading

ART 53, day 12

2016/05/02 — 1 Comment

(I changed the title of this series of posts—finally!—because Working on the new book sounds really lame. Anyway…)

Today, I began raiding a past project for some layout ideas. From July 2009 through June 2010, I worked on creating one new layout for each day. For the most part, I succeeded (though there were a few days I had to play catch-up). Not all of the layouts were great, but I gave myself a new set of constraints each month to force myself to try a bunch of different stuff. Continue reading

Working on the new book, day 11

2016/04/30 — Leave a comment

I’m up late. By the time I post this, it will be a few minutes past 1:30 in the a.m. At the last minute, I decided to skip the poetry reading I would normally have gone to; instead, I resumed looking at photos— Continue reading

Working on the new book, day 10

2016/04/28 — 2 Comments

Despite getting some decent catch-up sleep last night, I did not feel like going through a bunch of photos several times over today, so I opted instead to copy the rest of the poems to the InDesign documents I set up a little while back.

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A slight break in the action…

2016/04/16 — Leave a comment

Taking a slight break from work on the next book to work on a paying gig (yay, copy editing!) and do a little bit of overdue cleaning. Updates will resume in about a week. (The poetry and love notes posts will continue, however.)

In the meantime, the 2016 Pulitzer Prizes will be announced on Monday. Tune in to hear no mention of my name whatsoever! (The fact that I entered is enough for me.)

(16 April 2016)

Working on the new book, days 6 & 7

2016/04/12 — Leave a comment

Wandering through iPhoto land now—approximately 12,000 images covering 2006 through 2010, with a few scans of photos from the 1970s and 1980s.

There was a slight hiccup to deal with first: i.e., accessing my old iPhoto libraries. Continue reading

Working on the new book, day 5

2016/04/08 — Leave a comment

Looking through old photos is a strange process, a weird mix of surprise and nostalgia. The photos I have accumulated on my computer cover a difficult part of my life; even after deleting a number of photos, I still manage to come across an image here or there that I overlooked, or that reminds me of something I’d prefer to forget. At the same time, I’m also reminded of my willingness to experiment with the medium—my Views from a Parked Car series comes to mind—and that I’d like to publish a photo book some day.

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Working on the new book, day 4

2016/04/07 — Leave a comment

Yesterday was day 4 of finding possible photos to go with the poems that will comprise the next book. I now have the Delicates and Do-overs sections left to go, and then I can move on to my iPhoto libraries. Continue reading