With Christmas always comes some fun photography stuff and this year was no exception. Not only did I receive a Spinner 360, a Nishika 3D camera and a film scanner, my main man spoiled me with a Rebel T1I DSLR! I have to admit….though I have pretty good control with the Holga, there’s really not much to it. So I’ve got a lot of learning to do!

Petunia:

Pietje:
 

Nancy:

The last little bit from Christmas I still need to take down:

And my fave from the photoshoot for my sister’s band Valleytown:

I think I’m in love.

Please welcome Petunia!

She’s pretty amazing.

They’ve torn it down.

Yep, it, along with the Space Needle, are now a pile of rubble. But we took a day this summer to enjoy it one last time….

Jus chillin.

Nice day for it.

There she is.

All very sad, except for Scott apparently.

Interior amazingness.

One last time.

Pearly whites.

A collection of sorts.

:O

Oh, THIS guy.

A really nice, but extremely hot, day that I will remember forever.

Trying out my new Holga Fisheye lens.

I really loved how this multiple exposure turned out. Too bad the band broke up.

This was a bad cut from the people who processed my film, but I like the juxtaposition of the two images the more and more I see it. I need to get a negative scanner so I can better crop these weird ones.

This quilt looks sooo good in black and white.

My second annual crazy Christmas tree shot. Here’s the first.

This is also a second annual weird Tulip shot. The last one was much more trippy.

This looks so ominous. But just the broken up band again.

I guess I really do just shoot the same things roll after roll. But it’s really fun to see how different they come out every time.

Shot anything fun lately?

As always, if you hover over the pic, it’ll give you my typical little blurb.

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Last night I went to a Tuneyards concert at the Wexner Center in Columbus and it was AWESOME. The first band left something to be desired, but man oh man, I am smitten with this band. I had heard Bizness and thought it was cool, but when I realized how this music is made, I fell head over heels. Plus it’s UKULELE! IN LOVE FOREVER.

Quite a lovely setup.

And added to my gigposter collection. The sleeve for this record was purchased by Merrill of the Tuneyards at a thrift store, turned inside out and printed on. This highly amuses me.

I love discovering new (to me) music.

Some of the high school art contests we participate in set up in this way. I thought it would be an easy way to setup/teardown quickly and was very easy to organize by class and to build upon through the day.

Anamorphic…..look at the reflection, not the paper!

Handmade Paper Pulp Paintings.

Gloss Medium Photo Transfer, Watercolor

Pop Art Mixed Media: Colored Pencil, Sharpie, Pencil, Watercolor

Gloss Medium Photo Transfer, Watercolor

Reductive Linoleum Print

Classroom Contour: Tempera, Sharpie

Special Place Oil Painting

Cut Paper, Elmers Glue Resist

Something interesting and kind of life affirming happened at the art show. About half way through, a sparrow flew in through the open door and circled around the ceiling of the gym for AT LEAST an hour. It was exhausted and couldn’t figure out how to land anywhere. All the kids and I were really depressed about it…just watching it struggle. Eventually, it grabbed onto one of the gym lights near a window and didn’t move anymore. I figured it had finally freaked itself out for good. After we got things cleaned up, one of the science teachers and I killed the gym lights and tossed a ball of paper up to see if we could knock it down. All of a sudden it took off and smacked into a window and caught itself on it. We grabbed a trash can and finally captured it. We released it outside and it immediately took off, but it did a 180 and flew back towards the school. It met another sparrow who had been waiting right outside the window it was resting near. They took off together side by side.