old idea.

Here is that idea I was trying to work out. It's supposed to be a view inside of my house in San Francisco so that you could see inside from the outside, and through the roof to the city beyond: a mediæval perspective on things. Gradually I decided on the sharp uptilt of the floor, and experimented with the angle of the room. I added the ceiling beams and hints to myself of the furniture and windows as I switched from side to side of the room in successive views. After arriving at the 8th one, I decided to go with #7, maybe combine certain elements of the last two and proceed from there after I colored in #7 a little. I thought that #8 had twin contrary diagonals in the floor and the orientation of the room implying movement of the viewer in time, but it dynamically cut off the right side - the doorway wall and stairs. #7 was more ordinary dynamically, but the compositional situation wasn't such a problem. It had to be 'sette'.

1,2,3.

4,5.



6,7,8.

Looking at these now, it strikes me that it would be cool to make this into an environment incorporating optical illusions and crazy furnishings like are used in the exaggerated perspectives of opera sets... wonder how that would all work.

'new' camera equipment.

Today my Kodak Duaflex came from eBay. I'm going to do some ttv. Djaza says she wants one too, and my postman Edgar is also intrigued. It's going to need a 'trap', but I'll do that tomorrow. I just felt like playing with it a little today. It's a duaflex 1 twin lens reflex from 1946 - 1951. Here's the first three sorta good ones; the rest were crap.

Subway kid
This one I took off the computer screen - kinda lackluster. It was a girl kid I saw on the subway. She reminds of those dead Victorian children in the coffins. Halloween is coming up.


A baseball (ala Zurbarán).
being thrown from the hand of a mid-century ghost.


Rush seat
and a messy corner of my place.
Fun! These will all be better when I make the 'trap'.
Whataya think, egg_shell?