Of course, I don’t mean to suggest that On The Road is dying… or that beat literature is dying, for that matter. Dharma Bums remains one of my favorite novels, and the beat writers and poets will always occupy a special place in my heart. But this particular book has definitely seen better days, like …
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365.183 Killer 2:40-3:02
Open a new tab and go find a way to listen to Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Killer, especially the little section from 2:40-3:02. (This would be the version on theSamdhi album from 2011, the one you can find a youtube of with relative ease, or could as of 4:50pm Central Time today…) That rather manic bit of sound is …
365.182 Knee 4
Quite frankly, I think this should be printed up at around 40×60″ and hanging in a gallery. I don’t have much to say about it beyond that, though it’s amazing what one can do with some cheap LED torches, an off camera flash, and a CTO gel… D7000. Nikon 75-150mm f/3.5 Zomb-E Series. ISO100, 1/10th …
365.181 Tricolore, maybe
Three colors of light… 1) Tungsten, from a mini maglite. 2) Cold Blue LED, from a cheap flashlight. 3) Fuorescent/Window Green, from the plastic filter that came with the SB700. I have some things I want to do with this setup, and this shot wasn’t the one I intended to use (though the one I …
365.179 pretty nothing
Other pictures from today’s shoot had a stronger suggestion of narrative than this one, but none caught my eye the way this one does. And others were lined up better, with the camera more closely aligned with the pins than this one, but no others had the color variation or intensity of this one. So …
365.178 oolala oo-laalalala oolala oo-laalalala laaa
Believe it or not, this wasn’t manipulated much. Sure, I pushed the saturation and blacks a bit, but most of the color here comes thanks to some man-made and in-camera trickery. Lighting provided by overhead incandescent, hard led, and diffused sunlight, which led to the orange in the left half, the hard white and blue …
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365.171 Askew
Have you ever had an idea for a shot, spent 20 minutes setting it up, 20 minutes trying various arrangements, angles, subject/camera positioning, but finding nothing that worked, then glanced over, saw some groovy light happening, and snapped the shot in one go? Well that’s what I just did… and here I thought (read: hoped) …
