Future Garb.
2/03/2006
Let's Go Mets
The Place: Coney Island. The Time: The Present. The dot on the man's lip: a tiny square bandaid.
2/02/2006
wellness
Of course, as part of my wellness campaign I found the cheapest health club in the neighborhood and joined up. I've been going for a few days now. Man, this place is filled with losers. I know that sounds harsh and I'm probably one of them, but did you ever see a health club where they've got a bunch of old geezers standing around smoking before going in, and the club even has one of those ashtrays outside with the club's logo: SMACK.
I climb up on a bike, in a row of bikes, in a grid of bikes with the big t.v. blasting some Insider Information about some very gorgeous stars that I suppose we are aspiring to be like or want to know more about. I don't. Everytime I come in I search for the remote control. I then get a bike that is as close to the remote as I can manage and very slowly, as I do my bike thing, I turn down the sound... slowly...
Nobody notices because they've all got the latest copy of some glamour magazine in front of them and buds in their ears... quieter and quieter...
And then the manager, an obese guy who looks like he just stepped off a tramp steamer, comes by and grabs the remote and turns up the sound again. I'm not ready to mess with him. Not yet. Maybe a few more weeks.
I think I saw my grandmother there the other day (she's 92). She said she was going to start working out again now that the kids were finally out of the house.
Well, it's a nice place and I'll keep going - but I'm telling you - the place is filled to the brim with what I'd call bad influences. Oh - upstairs - I found one guy drinking from a brown paper bag. Now it might have been some sports drink - but I don't know. He was wearing a raincoat and sneakers and it wasn't raining.
I climb up on a bike, in a row of bikes, in a grid of bikes with the big t.v. blasting some Insider Information about some very gorgeous stars that I suppose we are aspiring to be like or want to know more about. I don't. Everytime I come in I search for the remote control. I then get a bike that is as close to the remote as I can manage and very slowly, as I do my bike thing, I turn down the sound... slowly...
Nobody notices because they've all got the latest copy of some glamour magazine in front of them and buds in their ears... quieter and quieter...
And then the manager, an obese guy who looks like he just stepped off a tramp steamer, comes by and grabs the remote and turns up the sound again. I'm not ready to mess with him. Not yet. Maybe a few more weeks.
I think I saw my grandmother there the other day (she's 92). She said she was going to start working out again now that the kids were finally out of the house.
Well, it's a nice place and I'll keep going - but I'm telling you - the place is filled to the brim with what I'd call bad influences. Oh - upstairs - I found one guy drinking from a brown paper bag. Now it might have been some sports drink - but I don't know. He was wearing a raincoat and sneakers and it wasn't raining.
2/01/2006
Day 31 + 1
Now here keeping track of days since giving up the habit gets complicated. I don't even get the purpose of months at all. Why not just break the year into 365 days more or less. Wouldn't that make everything easier? I'll meet you on the 300th. The process I'm working on is going fine. It should be finished on the 68th. Et. cetera. Well, what's wrong with that? It'll be great for people who have given up some bad habit to keep track of how many clean days they have under their belt. You won't need to figure out crap like how many days one month has, or count on your knuckles. What do I care if January is based on some old Roman God that looks forward and back at the same time? Or any of the other obsolete Gods of yore. I say just go for good old consecutive numbers.
Oh, you say - but what about leap year? Same as now. Same as now. Just have one year that has 366 days in it every four years. Okay?
Anyway, in case you're wondering what else I've been up to - I'm starting to work on the 11th Man Book again (story by me and A.G. based on my photographs) and this time I've come up with a hairbrained scheme to at least get a couple of these books done. It's a combination process where I'll leave a blank page in the layout for where the photographic print is going to go, and have the text part of the book done at Lulu. That way I end up with a bound book - but with no pictures. So - I do the prints the usual way on the inkjet - and then glue them into the book on the blank pages. What you say? Insane? Maybe - but the idea is to only produce a few this way that can go off to publishers and agents et. cetera. Not to mass produce the book this way which would be insane unless someone wanted to pay a high price for each book. I mean, that's a lot of glue labor.
Besides that I finally got the kitchen back in working order. And orders have piled up again so I'll just be printing for the next few days.
* * *
Oh, and I've become completely infatuated with the wacom tablet. Yes, I'm now used to it. I don't use it for everything - but for any sort of retouching work - very useful. I set the first button on the pen to ALT so that I can do my sampling etc. without using the keyboard. I'm not sure what to set the 2nd button to yet.
Oh, you say - but what about leap year? Same as now. Same as now. Just have one year that has 366 days in it every four years. Okay?
Anyway, in case you're wondering what else I've been up to - I'm starting to work on the 11th Man Book again (story by me and A.G. based on my photographs) and this time I've come up with a hairbrained scheme to at least get a couple of these books done. It's a combination process where I'll leave a blank page in the layout for where the photographic print is going to go, and have the text part of the book done at Lulu. That way I end up with a bound book - but with no pictures. So - I do the prints the usual way on the inkjet - and then glue them into the book on the blank pages. What you say? Insane? Maybe - but the idea is to only produce a few this way that can go off to publishers and agents et. cetera. Not to mass produce the book this way which would be insane unless someone wanted to pay a high price for each book. I mean, that's a lot of glue labor.
Besides that I finally got the kitchen back in working order. And orders have piled up again so I'll just be printing for the next few days.
* * *
Oh, and I've become completely infatuated with the wacom tablet. Yes, I'm now used to it. I don't use it for everything - but for any sort of retouching work - very useful. I set the first button on the pen to ALT so that I can do my sampling etc. without using the keyboard. I'm not sure what to set the 2nd button to yet.
1/30/2006
Thank You J.
Hi Dave,
I received my print on (Skipping Boxes) Friday. It's beautiful and arrived in perfect condition! It will now join your Met Life/Flatiron print on my living room wall.
Thank you!
J.
* * *
I got a couple of e-mails about the search engine not working properly in the photography store. That was because I was trying to kludge the google image search engine for my own site. However, I went back to their text search and that seems to work o.k. Just not as nifty as seeing a thumbnail.
I received my print on (Skipping Boxes) Friday. It's beautiful and arrived in perfect condition! It will now join your Met Life/Flatiron print on my living room wall.
Thank you!
J.
* * *
I got a couple of e-mails about the search engine not working properly in the photography store. That was because I was trying to kludge the google image search engine for my own site. However, I went back to their text search and that seems to work o.k. Just not as nifty as seeing a thumbnail.
Crane's Museo Silver Rag
I asked David at Crane papers for an eta for the Museo Silver Rag paper which I guess I've been raving about. Here is the happy (for me) reply:
Hi Dave,
Thanks for all the kind words. We are having the official launch of this product at the PMA show Feb 26-Mar 1 in Orlando. The paper will start shipping immediately following the show...only 4 weeks to go!
Best regards,
David
Here are some more specs from the PDF that David sent me:
SPECIFICATIONS
Museo® Silver Rag™ is made to archival standards:
• gloss finish
• 100% cotton
• internally buffered
• no optical brighteners
• pH: 7.9-8.5
• weight: 300 gsm
• thickness: 0.015” (380 μm)
• designed for pigmented inkjet inks (bold is mine)
• brightness: 90
• robust, damage-free packaging for
large sheets
I'm trying to time my paper buying now so that there's not much of the old RC type papers left and when this paper comes to market. I suppose it seems strange to get that excited about a paper - but this ink / printer / paper combination is as close to air-dried fiber darkroom print as I've seen. I can't claim to have seen every possible ink / printer / paper combination - nor can anyone, so I think it's fair for me to make this extremely positive appraisal. In other words, I'm using photo black K3 inks with the 4800. Who knows what the results will be with dye-based inks, or other ink formulations.
Here are some more specs from the PDF that David sent me:
SPECIFICATIONS
Museo® Silver Rag™ is made to archival standards:
• gloss finish
• 100% cotton
• internally buffered
• no optical brighteners
• pH: 7.9-8.5
• weight: 300 gsm
• thickness: 0.015” (380 μm)
• designed for pigmented inkjet inks (bold is mine)
• brightness: 90
• robust, damage-free packaging for
large sheets
I'm trying to time my paper buying now so that there's not much of the old RC type papers left and when this paper comes to market. I suppose it seems strange to get that excited about a paper - but this ink / printer / paper combination is as close to air-dried fiber darkroom print as I've seen. I can't claim to have seen every possible ink / printer / paper combination - nor can anyone, so I think it's fair for me to make this extremely positive appraisal. In other words, I'm using photo black K3 inks with the 4800. Who knows what the results will be with dye-based inks, or other ink formulations.
1/29/2006
1/28/2006
day 28
Took today off. I joined a gym yesterday and today went on the old stationary bike for the first time in years. After that I returned home and took a nice long nap.
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