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Hello NACA West!

I’m headed to Spokane, WA with my sister this week to present Bush League at NACA West – Looking forward to the trip and can’t wait to see what’s going on at the conference.

Here’s the trailer for the film, please stop by and chat if you’re there!

Diamond on Vinyl Teaser

Here’s JR Hughto’s first peek of his new fiction film Diamond on Vinyl – how’s that for a great title. Congrats to JR and his crew, I can’t wait to see the final product.

Homemade Cyanotype 4×5, The Kitchen

Here’s my second try at exposing a homemade 4×5 cyanotype negative, this time looking into the kitchen. It’s a seventy hour exposure, plus or minus, at 5.6 on 135mm lens. The blue one is the negative, the black and white is after it’s been scanned, inverted, and flipped. It’s surprising to see how much information is revealed in the positive image.

Contaflex Test

My Dad picked an old Contaflex 35mm camera up on ebay for me a few months back and I finally got to test it. The built in lens is really nice; the camera itself is too pretty.

It has a really interesting example of early automations. Once the ISO/ASA is set, it lines the appropriate shutter to f-stop numbers automatically. Compared to today’s cameras that’s no big deal, but this one does it all mechanically – no batteries or motors in it anywhere.

LIKE + BUSH LEAGUE

Please help me get Bush League into the ArcLight Doc Festival in Los Angeles by “liking” the YouTube video below (you have to log into youtube) and liking the video on the ArcLight facebook page (link below). The ten film trailers with the most “likes” will screen at the festival next month, which would be really cool. Please help me with your clicks!
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For facebook cut and paste this URL, Bush League is the first video:

https://www.facebook.com/ArclightCinemas?v=app_187933831285064&app_data=vote_entry_id%3D967629&ref=nf

For Youtube like the video below:

MidTerm Review, BL Press Kit and Press Release for RTCV 167

For my students to download, the midterm review, a sample Press Release and Press Kit (text portion):

Midterm 167 StudyGuide

MoMAPressRelease

BL Press Kit2011

Homemade 4×5 Cyanotype Negative

This came out way better than I thought was possible. This is a forty hour exposure taken out my front window with a 4×5 Crown Graphic camera on a homemade cyanotype negative. The blue image is the cyanotype, it’s a really old chemical photo process that you can mix by hand and spread on to a substrate – in this case card stock paper. I scanned the blue neg then desaturated and flipped to a positive in Photoshop and was shocked by how much detail it produced.

Occupy San Diego

Here are a few shots from the Occupy San Diego march today. For the record, I did not see Tony Baloney.

INDENTURED to screen at UNSPOKEN film fest

INDENTURED is screening this month at the UNSPOKEN film fest (a human rights conference) in Utica, New York Oct 13 at 9pm.

Here’s the film guide to the event.

Oct/Nov Screenings

There’s lots of good news coming in from Washington D.C. about the possibility of new legislation to address the status and living conditions of foreign laborers on US military bases abroad. Thanks to a connection from Sarah Stillman who wrote a great piece for the New Yorker magazine last summer INDENTURED is in the hands of a highly motivated attorney who’s working hard to make things happen in Congress. Feels great to have finally broken through and found the right place, scratch that, person for the film. It looked bleak for a long stretch. In the meantime, I’m in touch with some workers in Afghanistan via facebook who are getting shafted by a Turkish company on a US war contract there. There aren’t too many options but I’m trying to cook something up to help these guys out.

On the other end, Bush League will screen at a special event at Rutgers University, New Brunswick campus Nov 17th at 7pm. This is a exciting opportunity to present the film to college students and faculty from several departments. I’m really looking forward to this one.