Darkroom BAM

I've been in my darkroom for about 10 hours over the past two days. And I managed to get a couple of things that I thought were okay. Except that the whites were mostly grey which I didn't realize until after the pictures had dried. I guess Photoshop could change those whites right quick, but I'm not sure if I'm willing to do that yet.

So here is the better part of what I've been working on...

This one (^) and the first one are actually from the same negative, if you couldn't already tell.

And this one is from the same negative as the second one...this is just zoomed in on the right side. Why didn't I just put the similar ones together? Well, because they didn't show up next to each other in the selection window and I would rather type this out than drag and drop their images now.

Anyways, I'm pretty excited about these and the ones that will be coming later. Let me know what you think!

PS. I didn't realize how small those images are. Maybe I'll put up some larger ones later.

PPS. The rotation on those was pretty arbitrary. It was kind of hard to discern the bottom from the top.

Al-Qaeda6969.com

Wait, and I'm serious, I want to make an Al-Qaeda6969.com. The rival religious group will be AL Qaida, headed by the radical fanatic Al-h'Ands.

A New Era in Song Titles

Let it be known that one day an album will be made wherein the song titles will all be based off of song lengths interpreted as area codes. Thus, a song that is 3 minutes and 13 seconds (3:13) will have something to do with Detroit, MI (or Grosse Pointe). Or the title of something that is 5 minutes and 86 seconds in length will deal with St. Claire Shores, Harrison Township, Roseville, or the rest of Macomb County, MI.

New Blog Idea???

So I was reading the newspaper today and it was talking about a recent US/Yemen attack on al-Qaida operations in Yemen. It then went on to say that "Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula said in a statement, dated from last week and posted online Sunday, that the first airstrike was conducted by U.S. jets."

Essentially, one of these days, I think an al-Qaeda blog is in order. I tried to see if al-qaeda.blogspot.com was open, but of course someone took it.

Chicago Brick Glass

N. Washtenaw and W. Medill

I'm sure you can guess whose apartment this is.

Muzak

I was just listening to this song and thought that it was pretty. It's kind of a compromise between static and Arvo Part.

It's by The Holy See off of their album Fucking Physics and is called "Untitled 03" - 299kbps.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ETTJKY2L

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I just found this blog via the Postcards' myspace page. I haven't really flipped through it yet, but it sounds way awesome. It's gotta have something good. The premise of the blog is that this guy works at a radio station and is given CD's by Canadian bands that are fated to never make anything of themselves, and these are the ones that he likes most or that stand out to him in some way. It might be notable that the Postcards are included in this list of ne'er-do-wells, but perhaps not.

http://weirdcanada.com/