After a lot of coffee and cereals I decided to release the first part of “The Signs That Mock Me As I Go” for publication.
That was the easy part.
Now I need to figure out how one can show a group of work online, that is more of an object than of an image. Very tricky. For example, I could easily come up with a smell for the exhibition (I am an eye-nose type of person), but I find music very hard to deal with. Give me a cd and I can listen to it forever. Every new song that comes up deletes whatever came before in an instant. As if I only had memory for one single song – always the last song I heard I will remember for as long as I do not hear anything new. It is different with sounds, strangely enough. But I am probably the worst music customer ever, with maybe 3 records that I have bought in my whole life! Considering that my partner is a part time musician, this is actually horrifying to admit.
So now … how do I deal with music for this video that I need to submit? … Dang. Hopefully I remember where I put those 3 records I was talking about.
Shadow ./. breaking & break marks on a bridge.
I have not posted anything for such a long time that I guess I am going a bit overboard. But then, in a way, I am still thinking about doing a story book about the fantastic corner of Frankfurt, where I am living right now.
So many ideas … so little time.
Guess I do have favorite spots.
Another lucky shot at eBay a week ago!
“Collodion And the Making of Wet Plate Negatives”, from Eastman Kodak Company, was printed in 1929, and is a very nice illustrated handbook (and price catalogue!). It is hard to believe that all these perfect images on the cover and inside are in itself probably made from wet plate negatives.
I am definitively more interested in the shortcomings of collodion – or let us say, in the possibilities, these shortcomings offer me – than in the perfect image it can produce.
But 1929 makes me feel nostalgic. A bit.
I have not read the whole book yet. Maybe I will add a note or two to this post 
As my collodion workshop quickly approaches, I am randomly looking around eBay to find interesting material related to the topic. I find it quite hard to believe that collodion was wildly used not so very long ago – where did all the stuff go? Because it is rather difficult to find anything useful or interesting.
So you can just imagine my big smile when I managed to place the winning bid on this piece of glas with a stereoscopic image of the anatomy of a man’s ear, dated somewhere between 1880 and 1900.
I am really inspired now … Ears, anyone?
As I am currently preparing to shut down Lassal-LIGHT, to make room for Hunter/Lassal, I found this little image on the site. Nostalgia!
He does not quite fit under that piece of furniture anymore. So nowadays it is me who needs to get his ball when it rolls under there.
They grow up so fast …
I need some more empty wooden boxes of wine for my photography books.
Anyone wanna come and have something to drink?
:o)
Found this one yesterday while walking the dog through some darker areas of town. Does it not make you feel like “Spring” all the way?
Um … Maybe not. I will keep looking.
Nothing like walking the dog to get to know where you live – while chasing the season.
Sorry I have not been updating lately. There is A LOT happening – and quite amazing things, too. I hope I can share some of it soon.
In the meantime: Happy Springseason to everyone!!!
Ramblings after complaints from my BF:
Yes, there ARE elements of spring in this picture: red tulips and yellow daffodils, although I have to admit that they are hard to see in this very small version of the image …
And no, is not a backyard, but the rather sad frontyard of a local church that I passed some days ago while taking my dog out for a stroll.
More complaints?!?!
:o)
