Tuesday, July 24, 2007

herald and hark...

our upstairs neighbor who i was [this] close to introducing myself to... frightened me away by belting hark the herald angels sing in full operatic vibrato while bounding up and down the front entry stairs.



i just needed to borrow the laudry key. i locked MY laundry key in the laundry room.

i have aquired a cold, and i'm not sure if it's from the pools i've been jumping into at odd hours of the night... or a reaction to the few sporatic cigarettes i've smoked lately... or a reaction to the aforementioned pools? either way chicago is somehow giving me a severe sinus headache. good thing i am going to milwaukee this weekend.

i never thought i'd live to see the day when i would say 'good thing i'm going to milwaukee'

dear friends Nadine Reinke and Matt Austin will have pieces exhibited in the CoPA Exhibition opening up in Milwaukee this friday night at 7pm. Nadine has just finished a very lovely website, which features in addition to her work some really awesome photographers like my new favorite Gabi Vogt, and of course Zoe Bare.

monday i was very pleased to have been asked to the Marwen Arts Center by Kris Brailey as a guest artist to show some of my pinhole work. Kris is doing a workshop at Marwen for CPS teachers one of whom was Greg Foster-Rice's mom. A very sweet lady. Thanks Kris I had so much fun!

I've gotten alot of responces and injuries about my cameras so i thought i'd post some info on them below. enjoy!

one of my favorite cameras to shoot with right now is my converted Polaroid 220 land camera.




i have removed the face plate in order to override the automatic light meter. this lets me run the camera on bulb. i work with exposures from 3 secs- 5 mins. these cameras take pack polaroid (i use fuji fp-100) and before i loaded the film i put a brass pinhole on the inside of the aperature. this gives an interesting circular vignette to the image.









i do however love turning unusual objects into cameras as well and this one is a decorative planter i got at target. i just hammered a hole and attached a brass pinhole on top of that. this camera works with 11 x 14 paper negatives.












And to conclude something completely unrelated to photography for the sake of sanity... a music report! Katy and i were at the empty bottle on sunday, to see the lovely St. Vincent . Her tracks on myspace do not give justice to the energetic live performance of her and the band, check it out. well worth seeing live. I'm a sucker for eletric guitar with violin.

7 comments:

Crows Feet said...

oh i just read about her in a magazine! i wanted to check her out! was this our new upstairs neighbor making these atrocious noises?

Anonymous said...

chiara... i love reading your blog. and the pinhole work is so nice. hope you're having a good summer and say hi to lovely nadine and elise. keep it up girl!

Crows Feet said...

yes it even said so in my horoscope

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