Been exploring the East Marion Cemetery on Long Island’s North Fork, and I came across this article about the painter Mark Rothko’s gravesite there. His family has been petitioning to move his remains back to Westchester County. The Times piece is over a year old, and I can’t figure out if he’s relocated, so to speak. Need to make another trip.
A recent weekend in St. Louis, Missouri. I don't think I have ever been to an American city that fit my worldview so completely. A vast, time-traveled older Center, with layer upon layer of story, of rise and fall, rebirth. I'll be returning with a bag full of NC160; a Nostalgia trip in realtime.
It got me thinking of a project (we all need projects) on how reflections add another layer of distortion to what we see—as if our daily vision weren't warped enough, the cities we live in impose more layers of mirrored un-reality. See more images here.
I love my Polaroid 320 pack film camera. It's just so "iffy" and I never quite know what I'll get. Since film for this beast—not to mention batteries—is getting scarce, I'm left with using a cool French shareware app to emulate the look of those craptastic emulsions. Poladroid is dead simple: drag your favorite images onto the icon of a Spectra camera and it spits out an instant film version, which takes about a minute to "develop."
Check out these iPhone grabs made lovelier in the Galleries.
1 Comment | in Lo-rez | tagged Digital, Polaroid, iPhone | Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 4:30PM | eperlan Share Article | Print Article