And God wants to kill himself it would seem. Again with the 40 hours of random music it played 7 songs in a row that were all by bands and/or members of bands that have killed themselves. It was a set that started with Elliot Smith’s – Needle in the hay, followed by Nirvana’s – Jesus Doesn’t Want Me For A Sunbeam. These two I knew about, but the next one on the list I had to consult Google about. It was Nick Drake’s Pink Moon apparently Nick Drake took to many pills and died. This was followed by Joy Division’s Colony, and well I only knew that there was an untimely death in that band because of D. talking about this movie. The very next song was the big lizard one from the Dead Milkmen and well Dave Blood killed him self there. Then this is where it gets random! Roy Buchanan came up next doing a cover of Hey Joe. I have one album of Roy Buchanan and I don’t even recall listening to it before but Google informs me that he kicked it via hanging while in jail for public drunkenness. Then Pennywise doing a cover of Brown eyed girl came next, While the band is still rockin out Wikipedia tells me that their original bassist Jason Thirsk Killed himself in 96, then the last one was Joy Drop – I Sometimes Wanna Die while the was no one in this band that has killed themselves the song title makes it get lumped into this list as well as the song was banned from Radio and TV after September 11th because of fears that it would make the nation to depressed to continue living. ODD!!! Perhaps there are random musical coincidences in my winamp all the time and I have never noticed! Well God, Winamp, go away!

At least that is what my winamp is trying to tell me :) I am listening to my entire library on random today and out of 40 hours of music it has landed on all my rockabilly/hillbilly & old country music. The Super suckers have come up twice! What are the odds!

OK Update the super suckers have come up twice since i posted this!! WTF?!?!

Last night we went for some dinner at the best place in for food in Vancouver period! Dadeo New Orleans Style Diner and this is a Polaroid of it!

Camera: Polaroid SX70
Film: Polaroid 779 with a blue holga filter
ISO: 690
Date Taken: October.29.2007

Ahh yes the Days before digital camera’s I would like to take everyone on a trip in the way back machine so let’s all climb on board. Is everyone in? Mind your fingers and toes! Alright I would like to roll back to the days before digital photography was even a term. Back to the time when photography required patience! Back when you had to wait (sometimes for weeks) for your photos to be developed and returned to you, only to find out that you cut the tops of people’s heads of in every shot (Damn That Parallax Error) Now imagine someone saying that you don’t have wait forever to see your photos. What if I told you that you could see them Instantly!! welcome to the heyday of the “Instant Camera”. I heart Polaroid’s!!! In fact I spend way to much time energy and money playing with a medium that is guaranteed to give me inferior image quality, filled with caustic paste that will quite possibly cause cancer in any rats that may eat our garbage, and look remarkably like it was taken in 1977 even if it was this afternoon, but damn it is so cool! Now ask anyone who loves playing with instant fun what the coolest Polaroid ever made was and they will most likely tell you that about the SX70. I wont go into detail about all the things that made the SX70 and the time zero film cool because it was a little bit before my time! however I have modded (its not much of a mod really I removed the ND filter and I scale the lighten darken slider to darken) my camera to be able to use the regular Polaroid 600/779 . This is by far the coolest 1970′s camera Polaroid ever made, it is jam packed with ahead of its time features! To start the camera is a SLR meaning what you see is what you get! No parallax anything! second the camera focuses via the large Sonar disk a the top so it can focus in the dark well! It has a flash system that I unfortunately don’t have so when its dark out the SX70 just has ridiculously long shutters (like over a min sometimes) but with the right colour filtration you can make any Polaroid long exposure look awesome! Expect to see a lot more of this in upcoming days!

I have had a Black & White dark room that has been in a box since I moved from Edmonton! Not that I haven’t had the chance to play in the darkroom for our last building had a very nice darkroom set up with big sinks and a lot of plumbing! It was fun but it wasn’t mine! I was always worried I was going to step on someones toes or that when I went down at 2:30 in the morning that some one was already going to be using it! Silly I know but I am a little odd with these sorts of things. So in the last few weeks I have been slowly dusting off the old enlarger and setting up our laundry room as a darkroom! Loads of fun, but I have always had a desire to work in colour. So after some searching craigslist provided me with a inexpensive colour enlarger and last night I tried my first colour prints ever.

Now getting real true colour can be tricky but i am shooting with holgas and modified brownie cameras so i am not really to concerned about true colour! When i get a chance i will give a little write up on the process.

Yup I ordered some Moo + Flickr cards from moo.com. Everybody seams to think that I am crazy to have bought one of each though! I dont get it. They are wicked printing! I was really expecting some diluted colour and spotty printing. I am very happy with the quality. I will have them in my camera bag so the next time you see me ask me for some MOO!

This is a shot that i took a bit ago now! It is some expired and crossed processed film from a rainy day a month or so ago.

So In the vain of a darren night I feel that I need to blog loaded! SO here ya go the second loaded blog in a week :) this time I took pjhotos :)

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So we were having B-fast at the Tomahawk last Saturday and we all decided that we need to go camping! so we did. This is on the beach at Dinner Rock Campground taken with the Seagull. The Camera I am learning to love more and more!!!

These jeans looked like they were carefully picked vegetables in an apple basket or something. Taken on Cordova Street near the Cambie.

Camera: Canon 5D
Aperture: 1.4
Shutter: 1/1600
Lens: Canon EF 50mm 1.4
ISO: 1600
Date Taken: Oct.17.2007