twelve hours in a dark room
If anyone asks me tomorrow what I did today they will probably be presented with about 50 workprints that I spent the past 12 hours making. Those 50 were the “good” ones that were the result of about 180 sheets of 8×10 paper that I processed from 9am to 9pm. When I make workprints I try to use one sheet per negative but I think the average comes to about 1.7 sheets per frame. Usually I can use a zero filter for about 30 seconds, and then another 25 seconds with no filter and come up with a decent enough print to let me know how the picture looks.
An in-house darkroom is indeed a wonderful thing. Man, am I tired…
For their musical contributions to today’s printing extravaganza, I would like to thank: Eminem, Metallica, Tool, Johnny Cash, Astrud Gilberto, D.J NuMark, the Beastie Boys, Smokey and Miho, Michael Jackson, RJD2, Dr. Dre, Ugly Duckling, Blackalicious, Frankie goes to Hollywood, Modest Mouse, an Unplugged Nirvana, Guns N Roses, Yoko Kanno, and Handsome Boy Modeling School.
my god what an eclectic scope of music. Guns N Roses? I would have never suspected.
Comment by Adam — 1/23/2005 @ 5:45 pm
oh yes. “live and let die”, “November Rain” are excellent. I think I listened to the new Eminem album twice as well. That has nothing to do with G&R though. Smokey and Miho is a nice Bossa Nova duo- Miho being Miho Hattori from Gorillaz, Ciba mato, and um.. oh yeah, that one song with the beastie boys on hello nasty.
Comment by john — 1/23/2005 @ 5:57 pm