I’ve been in new york for the last 3 weeks and it’s been amazing. Linked, built, and got some advice from a lot of people in the print industry. I’m on the right track. Just need to disregard the things bringing me down. I’m doing a fashion lookbook drop sometime this week. I will make a newsletter for everyone to get first dibs as subscribers.
In other news
I just got back into photography, I’ve been taking photos for 15 years but stopped due to not really getting “in” with the crowd back in my hometown. I looked at my portfolio a few months ago and thought that it wasn’t that bad. It just wasn’t “work” and that was a time when everyone back in my hometown was dick-riding everyone with a following to get more “jobs”. I said what I said. Anyways
I got a Pentax 17, a brand-new film camera that was released this year. It’s a half frame so I get 48/72 shots per roll of film. So I enjoy the economics. I used to shoot a fuji 6x9 (8 shots) and a fuji 645 (12 shots), so it’s great to blast through rolls.
It looks good, feels good, and shoots good IMO. I’m also a Ricoh fiend and own a few Ricoh point and shoots, so I feel like I had to throw money at Ricoh Imaging to show my devotion. I’ve been shooting all black and white. I never really shot black and white back in the day. During the pandemic, I saw Parasite in black and white (even before I saw it in color), and basically, with black and white you have to have the composition and the mood speak for itself, and after getting some shots back I think that might be the move for a while (I’m also a fuji person, fuck Kodak, and all the fuji film stocks are bye bye) so I guess I’m stuck with either ilford or cine still!
Example pics
I’ve always liked low ISO film and have been shooting a lot of Delta 100 and PanF 50. I used to shoot a lot of cinestill 50 back in the day. I like how full it looks. I’m on the hunt for a more serious camera, either a Makina 67, Mamiya 6 (I love square format), or a Hasselblad 500 c/m (square 😛) we will see.
Anyways, thanks for reading. New stuff soon. Even if not newsletters. This trip to New York validated what I was doing. Hopefully, photography breaks me out of my shell and I can link with more random people in St. Louis and start going crazy with the newsstand. Or get a 1-way ticket back here and start my Bushwick DJ camo hat with orange embroidery arc in my 30s.