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True: My show starts in one month.
Truer: I am 15 sheets short of Fuji Rembrandt G2 18×22 paper. Yodobashi said it should get in this week.
Truest: The trouble all along is that I was going about things the wrong way.

After talking things over with Onishi sensei last night at the Urayasu Photo Otsukare-Kai, I realized that pinning up the prints in one long line around the gallery would be lame. Onishi suggested taking a cue from the Urayasu show and print on several sizes of paper. My closet still had 20 sheets of unused 11×14s which today I spent the day printing with. Finished up with a few more 10×12 sheets, and hope that the variety in paper sizes will help dynamize the show. Physically hanging the work ought to be interesting. Before then I need to get to a rental darkroom in Yokohama to spend some quality time with a dry mount press to flatten the prints.

p.s. Digital Noize is just SICK.

a hospital visit

1. The best part of this evening was meeting Mai and suggesting pictures for her upcoming exhibition. She brought several inkjet 8×10s covered with thumbnails of her work- all of it was fantastic which made it hard to choose.
2. The worst part of this evening was finding out that Yodobashi Camera still does not know when they’ll get in the photo paper shipment from Fuji film, but even worse the paper that I need is forbidden to be reserved or special ordered. I left my name and number and was told that they’ll pull me two packs of 18×22 paper when it gets in. It would be best that it gets in before my show starts. I’d hate to have to lose consistency by printing the remaining photos on Ilford paper.

Tonight’s Pictures: