Tuesday, July 28, 2009

walking, thinking, listening to guitars


i have a few events that are stressing me out this week. but they are about 1/3 finished. i had been planning for today's gathering to be terrible, but it wasn't. i am hoping that tomorrow's event will go better than expected too. 

i have been listening to that sonic youth album quite a bit. and that is helping. last night i went on a walk for an hour, and i didn't even have my dog with me. i just listened to that album and looked around closer at parts of my neighborhood that i don't usually walk by. it helped. here is a picture from the show, which is where i was exactly one week ago at this time, sipping my guinness out of a plastic cup at first avenue with my dear friend.

Monday, July 27, 2009

focus




i am sad today, but wanted to do a post about something that wasn't.

so i am doing a post about my two old polaroid cameras, the 350 land camera and the amigo 620. both of these were inherited, and i just purchased some film and instructions via ebay. the 350, which was made between 1969 and 1971, works, and i am currently trying to master the processing time. i took a test snapshot of my house and will post it on here as soon as i can. it is an interesting model and who wouldn't love the accordion-style bellows? haven't loaded the film into the amigo yet, but stay tuned for further updates on that. looks like that was made around 1982.

my textile project will resume this week and i will post some shots of that too. worried that the ideal size might exceed the requirements for submittal into the competition at the fair.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

so no one told you life was gonna be this way...

i have some friends that are doing some pretty exciting things right now, and i am very proud of them. one of my friends is going to be a new mother in a couple of months, a role that's coming a little sooner than she'd expected. another friend is just settling into her new house, and she's not exactly sharing it with someone as she'd planned. a third friend is in crazy new love, reeling, every day richer and more exciting than the one before. but she has to navigate a bit of a complicated family situation in the meantime.

all of these women are in somewhat revolutionary situations, situations that were a little bit outside of the plan, that simultaneously excite and terrify each of them. i am proudly right behind them on these journeys. i am happy, they are energizing for me to share and i'm proud to be by each of their sides!

i hope that someone will be saying "i have a friend that is going back to school and starting a new career" soon, about me. that can be my next challenge. i am already "simultaneously excited and terrified" of that happening.