Seattle- The Polaroids
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jwycheSeattle saw my last Polaroids. I had 30 shots of expired film to describe my experience there.
Here are my best six. From left to right, then top to bottom, the shots are:
1. The library, as seen through some wire mesh. I’m going to go live at the Seattle library and be a bum there. I will read all the books and from time to time I will go to Elliott Bay to visit the stores.
2. Olympic Sculpture Park. If my trip taught me anything, it’s that I love dots. This sculpture, which I must say, really challenged my notion of what sculpture is, was a series of transparent color fields punctuated by these dots.
3. This was also at the OSP, inside a building there. There were a lot of children playing in front of this thing.
4. I don’t remember where I saw this guy, excited that he was in the display window of a bike shop and I was all, “?????” and “<3 <3 <3 <3”. So he got Polaroidized.
5. This was at the library again. Because that is my new house.
6. I took this shot from the loft of Bauhaus, where I had a hot mocha very slowly. Someone’s paintings were on display there, someone who really really believes in orange underpainting. Random note: there were so many young street musicians. Damn me for not picturizing them.
1. You know what is wonderful? Coops. You know what else is wonderful? Produce. You know what else? Fractals.
2. The first of many, many red-room fails.
3. I’d say there are three predominant colors at the library. One is the red from the previous shot. Another is the whimsical biohazard green of the escalators. And another is the mermaid-scales blue that the building beams make in conjunction with the sky.
4. Oh, the failure.
5. I’m gonna write a letter to the new mayor at home that says more public art, please.
6. Third time- not the charm in this instance.
1. Seattle Art Museum! Flip that car, flip! Flip!
2. Bracketing did not save any of these Polaroids, more’s the shame.
3. Apparently this artist sometimes produces pieces entirely in fireworks. Too bad I forgot his name. He’s obviously very into the fourth dimension, which you don’t see enough of these days.
4. A metal tree looked very at home with so many bare-branched live counterparts. I wonder how this looks in summer, whenever everything else is blooming?
5. That is Nik.
6. That is the Seattle Convention Center. Nik got a camera- his pictures of that thing are better.
1. Here’s the flight out. Too bad none of blues showed up to this party, cos it was really pretty.
2. Believe it or not, there’s a mountain in this shot. Mt. Saint Helen, to be exact. Alas, expired flim, you slay me.
3. The flight in. Yes, I never get tired of taking airplane shots. Nevarrrrrr.
4. A vortex into which all tourists must inevitably tumble. There was a guy in there with every Prismacolor marker known to man and he was coloring on hats. It made a big impression on me.
5. This shot would have been so much cooler on NON expired film, damnit.
6. This one would have, too.
Oh yeah and. Let me get these to you by way of putting my digital on ISO 640. And then let me notice that mistake and go ahead and not redo it or anything. Lordy. Anyway, have a happy day, people of the innernetz.
Here are my best six. From left to right, then top to bottom, the shots are:
1. The library, as seen through some wire mesh. I’m going to go live at the Seattle library and be a bum there. I will read all the books and from time to time I will go to Elliott Bay to visit the stores.
2. Olympic Sculpture Park. If my trip taught me anything, it’s that I love dots. This sculpture, which I must say, really challenged my notion of what sculpture is, was a series of transparent color fields punctuated by these dots.
3. This was also at the OSP, inside a building there. There were a lot of children playing in front of this thing.
4. I don’t remember where I saw this guy, excited that he was in the display window of a bike shop and I was all, “?????” and “<3 <3 <3 <3”. So he got Polaroidized.
5. This was at the library again. Because that is my new house.
6. I took this shot from the loft of Bauhaus, where I had a hot mocha very slowly. Someone’s paintings were on display there, someone who really really believes in orange underpainting. Random note: there were so many young street musicians. Damn me for not picturizing them.
1. You know what is wonderful? Coops. You know what else is wonderful? Produce. You know what else? Fractals.
2. The first of many, many red-room fails.
3. I’d say there are three predominant colors at the library. One is the red from the previous shot. Another is the whimsical biohazard green of the escalators. And another is the mermaid-scales blue that the building beams make in conjunction with the sky.
4. Oh, the failure.
5. I’m gonna write a letter to the new mayor at home that says more public art, please.
6. Third time- not the charm in this instance.
1. Seattle Art Museum! Flip that car, flip! Flip!
2. Bracketing did not save any of these Polaroids, more’s the shame.
3. Apparently this artist sometimes produces pieces entirely in fireworks. Too bad I forgot his name. He’s obviously very into the fourth dimension, which you don’t see enough of these days.
4. A metal tree looked very at home with so many bare-branched live counterparts. I wonder how this looks in summer, whenever everything else is blooming?
5. That is Nik.
6. That is the Seattle Convention Center. Nik got a camera- his pictures of that thing are better.
1. Here’s the flight out. Too bad none of blues showed up to this party, cos it was really pretty.
2. Believe it or not, there’s a mountain in this shot. Mt. Saint Helen, to be exact. Alas, expired flim, you slay me.
3. The flight in. Yes, I never get tired of taking airplane shots. Nevarrrrrr.
4. A vortex into which all tourists must inevitably tumble. There was a guy in there with every Prismacolor marker known to man and he was coloring on hats. It made a big impression on me.
5. This shot would have been so much cooler on NON expired film, damnit.
6. This one would have, too.
Oh yeah and. Let me get these to you by way of putting my digital on ISO 640. And then let me notice that mistake and go ahead and not redo it or anything. Lordy. Anyway, have a happy day, people of the innernetz.
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