My Album Is Online

"Wherever You May Be," the debut album from The Sub-Phonics is online. It is streaming at the RPM Jukebox and will be available for download eventually.
I would've posted it sooner, but with work and school and looking for work and life in general (see yesterday's post) I've been a bit out of sorts.

Did You Ever Meet Someone.......

You really click with she seems to get you and you think you get her? And you finally work up the nerve to ask her out and she's kind of vague about answering. So then you let it go and then a friend of yours runs into her and she casually mentions she has a boyfriend. Now I've been going over it in my head and every girl I've asked out since Eighth Grade who had a boyfriend always told me. Should I be upset because she wasn't upfront with me?

On the Verge of...

either insanity or something insanely great! With all the snow and ice putting a damper on my outdoor photography, I decided to join the RPM Challenge. It's an interesting concept, use the shortest month of the year to record an album's worth of music (10 songs, at least 35 minutes.) I've never pushed myself to create more than a song or two, especially with the labor intensive process of recording on your own. I'm almost halfway done with two weeks left and I think there might be something to it if I can actually finish.

Love....Or Confusion?

He spent a few weeks getting to know her, asking questions that would clue him in to what she might like. This girl was different. He knew that dinner at the Olive Garden, followed by a movie wouldn't entice her into spending an evening with him. As he skimmed the morning paper before settling into the crossword puzzle, he noticed an upcoming performance of the Royal Festival Dancers. "Aha!" he exclaimed. So he bought a pair of tickets for a matinee show and planned the perfect date. She would love the performance, followed by dinner at a nice, yet reasonable restaurant. There was not even the slightest possibility of failure. When he saw her in the elevator the next day, he would ask her out.
The next morning, he dressed in his best suit and followed his morning routine of getting a coffee and the paper in the lobby. She walked over and said "Good morning." After exchanging pleasantries and a little small talk, he started describing the performance to her. As he was getting to the point where he'd ask her to go, she blurted out "Oh, it's great! I saw it last week."

I Pity The Fool.....(A Character Study)

The worst thing a romantic can have is hope. I think that's why situations fall apart, relationships fail, and misery abounds. Because the hope that you can make things right, that this time will be different, that you won't wind up alone at the end of the bar, that the one you love isn't going to walk out leaving you bitter and confused, that kind of hope is dangerous. Hope leads to despair. Despair leads to agony. It's a vicious cycle. And we continue through it because the hope remains that next time will be different. Will it? Everything has it's reasoning. Change is inevitable. Do we grow closer together or do we grow further apart? Sometimes things just come to a natural end. And it isn't the happy ever after in Disney movies. So one day, you decide to regroup, to start again. Because this time is going to be different.... Wish me luck!

Been A While

Wow! So much has happened since I last posted. I put together my portfolio, got accepted into a stock photo agency, graduated (again!), took a photography workshop, got dropped from a stock photo agency, put together another group show, all while the world financial markets were teetering on the verge of collapse. How interesting is the time we live in?

On the Passing of Polaroid Film

I suppose it is more profitable to sell out to a mall developer than it is to run a factory. They would rather concentrate on selling crappy consumer electronics than the products that made the Polaroid name what it is today. Sure, they say they want to license the manufacture so their "loyal customers" will still be able to get film. I'm sure some companies will try and take them up on that, but how easy are they willing to make it? Will the costs be prohibitive? They're coming to market with a printer that uses "zero- ink" to print a small photo. Wouldn't it be cool to combine that in a camera with the style of an SX-70?

Is it that we are losing another means of creative expression? I love my digital and messing around with Photoshop and all that, but there's something about clicking the shutter and waiting to peel back the print. Or even watching through the mylar "window" as the image develops right before your eyes.

When I look at the situation, it really isn't all that bad. So I've missed out on my chance to use Type 55, but I still have a couple of packs of the smaller format 665 that I shot with yesterday. I know there are many other people who do creative stuff even with the cheap, crappy One Step cameras (I've got a couple of those myself!) And it's going to be tougher to find film. By the end of this year, it will all be gone. Sure Fuji makes great color and B&W packfilm. But is the local camera store going to carry it? And eventually, we'll either have to give up using these great cameras (mine are older than I am) or get into a bidding war for the last box on ebay. I'm not sure I'm ready for either eventuality, but I know the day is coming.