Also when silver nitrate contacts bare skin, it turns it black.
20 . Student . Ryerson . Image Arts . Canadian
This River I step in
Is not the river I stand in.
The photographic essay of my everyday life with bits and pieces of things that catch my eye thrown in.
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This River I Step In;
This River I step in
Is not the river I stand in.
The photographic essay of my everyday life with bits and pieces of things that catch my eye thrown in.
My Flickr
My Postcards • Ask me anything
This River I Step In;
I’ve spent the last two weeks or so printing wet plate collodion prints onto metal mirrors. Here’s some scans of a few of the prints that ended up covered by silver crystals (the snowflake like dots around the image).
Local Talent and a cold beer at Layla’s Bluegrass Inn on the Broadway Strip, Nashville 2013.
I just want to curl up in a ball and have April done with already. By mid-April, I have to have:
Put together, edit, and publish a portfolio book.
Film, edit, and export a 20 or so minute video and incorporate it into a hybrid projection based piece of art.
Create 10 or so unique Wet Plate Collodion prints on metal mirrored surfaces and glass, then mount them in wooden frames that I also have to create and decorate and assemble.
Finish this damned essay finally.
Study for exams, and finish a seminar.
And all the while, work four shifts a week.
In a few years, this view will be completely gone once 10 York and 1 York rise on both sides of the street. 1 York’s construction has already begun wedged between the elevated Gardiner Expressway, Harbour Street, Lakeshore Boulevard, and York Street.
Just beyond 1 York’s construction site, the old Toronto Harbour Commission Building sits alone, now dwarfed by its neighbours. Built in 1917 at the end of a wharf on reclaimed land jutting out into the harbour, subsequent landfill projects now has the building high and dry.
10 York will be built in the parking lot in the bottom left hand side of the photo and will wedge itself on a triangular parcel of land between the two ramps of the Gardiner. The nearly complete L Tower at Yonge and the Esplanade can be seen topped out in the background.
My night at the Ryerson Library to finish off this essay turned into a Big Fat Greek Wedding screening / stroll through Toronto restaurant reviews in the search for something to eat.
My room’s thermostat is set at 24 degrees celsius and I’m in paradise.
“More Turns” by Bill Sullivan
New York photographer Bill Sullivan has created an interesting series of 48 anonymous urban portraits, all taken as people (strangers) approach the camera through a subway turnstile. So, the framing is consistent throughout the series, and we’re able to soak up the details of people lost in their own thoughts while in transit. (Read More at Lens Culture)
I first encountered this series when it was displayed on the glass partition between International and U.S. Departure Gates at Toronto Pearson International Airport.
I scored last minute tickets to today’s National Ballet of Canada’s performance of Romeo and Juliet! Swordfights are always better with dancing men in tights.
