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May 14, 2012
Detroit, Michigan: April 28, 2012. Taken with the Harinezumi digital.
Posted by jodi on May 14, 2012 at 8.09pm
a visit to athens, ga: march 21-23, 2012
April 3, 2012
Friends visited with: 7
Restaurants visited: 3
Bars visited: 2
Summer dresses worn: 3
Record stores visited: 2
Thrift stores visited: 3
Records purchased: 33
Times REM was heard on the car radio: 1 (!)
Former students bumped into: 1
Things consumed include (but not limited to):
-sweet potato fries
-Grit tofu
-2 hotel bagels
-jasmine tea
-corned beef sandwich (P)
-2 whiskey sours (me); 1 whiskey sour (P)
-vegetable pad Thai
-red wine
-hummus
Peter bought me a lovely pair of lace-up espadrille wedges at the Goodwill out on the Atlanta Highway. I wore them right away but now that we’re back home it’s too cold.
Posted by jodi on April 3, 2012 at 10.39am
motown fan bag
March 28, 2012
This lovely, orphaned inner sleeve was found in the record bins at The Thrift Store Formerly Known as Potter’s House, in Athens, Georgia. Being close to downtown in a college town full of music geeks and hipsters, the records here are always pretty picked over, and this day there was nothing we’d even consider buying (plus there were tons of sleeves with no records, tons of records with no sleeves, and much mildew and water damage: why do thrift stores put that stuff out at all?). So I was unable to slip this sleeve inside another record and bring it home, and had to be content with taking a photo. But check out these seven groovy gifts! A mobile with pictures of your favourite Motown artists with attractive Op Art designs on the back? Yes, please.
Posted by jodi on March 28, 2012 at 2.13pm
athens georgia, february 2011
February 24, 2012
Shot with the Holga and Lomography CN 100 film.
Posted by jodi on February 24, 2012 at 8.41am
first shots with the fisheye
February 20, 2012
Peter gave me this camera for my birthday in December 2010 and the first two rolls of film have finally made it through the scanner. Here are the first two pictures shot with it pretty much as soon as it came out of the box:
Jesus and Pookio, all got up in their birthday finery. Fuji S400 film.
Our sweet Cleo, in her birthday finery also. Fuji S400 film. You can see in both of these that the placement of the internal flash in relation to the lens is a bit of a problem with this camera, the very large lens casting its obtrusive shadow over everything. Next time this camera is used indoors it’ll be with an external flash.
A few more shots from later on in the spring:
Discarded mattress in our alley. Fuji S400 film.
Michael Snow’s geese at the Eaton Centre in Toronto. Same film roll as above.
And from Pennsic, a couple of shots on Lomography Redscale 400 film:
House Redhair gate, sheet wall and pheons;
And that familiar Cooper’s Lake treeline.
Posted by jodi on February 20, 2012 at 9.57am
first shots with the voltron starshooter camera
February 19, 2012
I’ve finally gotten around to scanning a backlog of film negatives, with photos taken as far back as October 2010. I’m only halfway through scanning the images from the first roll of expired Fuji 110 film with the Voltron Starshooter, and so far it’s proving to be much more than just a silly novelty camera that transforms into a robot.
The Ambassador Bridge, which is the first thing I photograph with almost every new camera. Sorry about the spots; I cleaned up some but not all, and I think most of it is actually coming from inside the slide scanner I’m using (if anyone has tips on how to clean dust out of a Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 without opening it up, I’m all ears) (it doesn’t belong to me).
Here are a few taken during our October 2010 visit with friends in Milwaukee:
Lake Michigan, photographed right behind the Milwaukee Art Museum, which, incidentally, was a shooting location for the Transformers movie. Which I’m guessing probably had Voltron in it, although I haven’t seen it.
Our friend Michael, the Coolest Guy in the World, behind the Frank Lloyd Wright house he took us to see. Only half the house was completed before the original owner ran out of money in 1956, and Michael is standing in the area that was supposed to be/will someday become the bedrooms wing. If his friend who owns the house can afford to finish building it, that is. It’s already a million dollar half a house (and pretty amazing as-is). Anyway that’s why the outside wall is all insulation and tin or whatever, because it’s an unfinished wall.
Discount Liquor, a favourite place to visit when we’re in Milwaukee:
BONUS: a couple of shots of the Voltron camera hanging out in front of the Milwaukee Art Museum (which have been published here before, but whatever), the first taken with the Maxim camera and Lomography Redscale 200 film, the second with the boring old point and shoot digital. I don’t know why I didn’t take a photo of the museum WITH the Voltron; it feels like the nerdy meta-ness only came 3/4 circle.
Posted by jodi on February 19, 2012 at 9.32pm
photo
February 4, 2012
Old sign from the long-disappeared Hudson’s department store. Peter got his first suit in this store.
London Ontario, February 4 2012.
Posted by jodi on February 4, 2012 at 10.33am
flashback
November 30, 2011
Running to get into a low, rumbling muscle car after buying a couple of 40-ouncers felt just like being a teenager again.
Our friend has been working for years on rebuilding his 1971 Road Runner, and while it’s still a work in progress, it’s finally back on the road. Just look at that gorgeous front end. I kind of want to marry it.
Posted by jodi on November 30, 2011 at 7.43am
labour day weekend at pinery provincial park
September 6, 2011
Obligatory beach/sunset photos:
Posted by jodi on September 6, 2011 at 9.43am
the good idea book (pennsic edition)
August 18, 2011
I have a habit of carrying more than one notebook at once, writing down important reminders or excellent ideas and then forgetting where they are, eventually forgetting they ever existed at all. While queued at Troll to get into Pennsic, I pulled one such notebook out of my purse in hopes of finding our trailer’s license plate number written there, as we needed to provide it, have completely failed to memorize it, and had left the trailer behind at the hotel. The number was there right on the first page along with other notes about things in Windsor I wanted to go back and photograph, dated July 24 2009 (whoops, are those things still there, I wonder?).
Further page-flipping revealed a forgotten to-do list for Pennsic XXXIX (that’s 2010, for the non-nerds), detailed notes on F-stops and whatnot for a roll of film shot in 2009 that is still sitting unprocessed in the fridge, recipes I have yet to try, and various other small shames. None of which, of course, stopped us from filling up a few more pages with new ideas we came up with this year. Let’s see if putting them here will make the difference in whether any of them come to fruition (no, I won’t be looking back through this journal for forgotten ideas, because yes of course it’s full of them. Thinking is faster than doing).
Since we had SO MANY GOOD IDEAS (hah), today is just for Pennsic related good ideas: improvements to our camp setup, silly Pennsic projects and at least one absurdly huge life-changing dream project.
-Okay, right off the bat, good idea #1 is not necessarily Pennsic related, but: in the event that our dear friend Ghita were to become queen of the Middle Kingdom, we’d need to find silly ways to celebrate that in style, and there’s always a chance it could happen at Pennsic. So: Midrealm Royal Grilled Cheese Party. Wherein we will create hot irons in the shape of a dragon (Middle Kingdom badge) and a jaguar spot (emblem of Gh.’s consort, Ix) with which to stamp our sandwiches, which will be cut in four because that’s classy, yo. If it never comes to pass that our dear Gh. gets to bask in the royal attention she so richly deserves, well then, we’ll just have a grilled cheese party in celebration of something else, because the sandwich branding thing is obviously going to be amazing.
-Bog Bingo: bingo cards containing common sights and sounds of our neighbourhood (The Bog, obviously). Things like men walking by shirtless in SHORT kilts (Catholic schoolgirl short), a whole raft of fake accents (English, Scots, and Pirate being probably the most common), Scotland the Brave played on bagpipes, people running around warning of tornadoes that never materialize, references to famous people who are rumoured to be part of the Great Dark Horde, people walking around in nothing but their underpants. Et cetera.
-a Scrabble board embroidered on fabric that we could roll up for travel. This is actually one of those forgotten ideas from about 15 years ago that we resurrected for this year’s list. I will probably sew this on the machine rather than by hand to ensure another 15 years don’t go by before we can play.
-this one is very important: get a shower cap so that my delicate curly hair never, ever has to touch the horribly iron-rich Cooper water ever again. After 18 years at Pennsic I’ve finally figured out that I could save myself a lot of grief and frizz and just wash in bottled drinking water.
-start using oil lamps on the dining table instead of candles, to avoid the wax mess everywhere. We’ve already started implementing this one by purchasing a lovely ceramic oil lamp from a Pennsic merchant.
-further to the oil lamps idea: build a small folding table the same height and width as a picnic table that can be set at one end and hold all of the candelabra, which we still want for ambiance even though we’re tired of the mess. This table can get waxy as all get-out, we don’t care. I might add a shelf below to hold the spare candles as well as all of the decks of playing cards we like to keep out but which clutter up the dining area. For reference: the picnic table we used this year was 84cm (33″) high, 71cm (28″) wide.
-from last year’s list of abandoned projects, I still want to produce a broadside that we can distribute as a fun alternative to the Pennsic newspaper; called The Bog Standard. This might not happen because of our next idea, which is HUGE:
-create a Pennsic-based environment for a Zelda-like game. Yup, huge. This is one of those ideas that is fun to get totally into planning while on vacation but doesn’t fit practically into real life afterwards, but serendipity and networking are already on our side. Peter, Claire and I spent many hours working with one of our campmates on ideas for this, so stay tuned. Provided it doesn’t fizzle, I’ll create a separate category for updates on this project. Right now all we have are pages and pages of notes and a line on some software. Also: in our game the Pennsic newspaper will be called The Bog Standard.
-Peter needs a white linen hood with a cowl that he can throw on to protect his neck from the sun on hot days. I will make that hood this year and next Pennsic will be mostly overcast and cool because that is how things work.
-we need to put a few stitches in the decorative dagging around the edge of our pavilion roof to prevent them from flipping upside down so often. This one will get done on Labour Day weekend while the pavilion is set up at Pinery Provincial Park (because we want to camp in ostentatious style even when it’s only for three days, folks).
-also for the pavilion, we want to find some onion dome shaped wooden finials we can put on top of all of the wall poles.
-some notable items missing from our kitchen kit: spatula, measuring cups and spoons, lemon juicer, wire strainer, potato masher. This is pretty far from wilderness camping, in case you didn’t figure that out already.
-for next year, a reminder: after crossing the border, if we stop in the Kroger in Detroit and pick up some groceries then we can wait until the first rest stop on the Ohio Turnpike to eat a healthy lunch of whatever we want instead of stopping like we usually do at the Iron Skillet (ugh) near Toledo, where the only thing on the menu I can eat is a baked potato. Holy crap you guys, I’m really looking forward to not eating that baked potato already.
Posted by jodi on August 18, 2011 at 8.41pm
