Haunted Curio Shoppe

My tiny home studio is used for recording music and working on photography. The motif is “Haunted Curio Shoppe” – and is heavily influenced by my Assemblage Art – which I have posted here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ky6r These days I don’t commit the doo dads and curios and trinkets to boxes – but use and reuse these creepy things in many photographs. If you look a…

The Swabian Cheapskate

Adding to the “anemoia” theme of somehow living the 1930’s, the first Lap Steel Guitars were produced in the 1930’s – but I am sure some earlier in someones garage or workbench. Joseph Kekuku was the first to “discover” sliding a piece of metal across a guitar. It started out as “The Hawaiian Sound” or Slack Key. I couldn’t resist trying the Recording King…

Digital Rangefinder Blues

I know cameras are just a toolTaking photos is their lotI have the Leica rangefinder bluesUnder my collar I’m feeling hot Some Range Finders cost too muchSome are un-ob-taniumWhy do I want one, what’s the fuss?I think I’m going insane-ium The evil devil says “go buy”That you only live just onceI suppose before I dieI’ll be that buying dunce Angel tells me to be…

Girl With Leica

I have a cheesy Leica Digilux – 1 camera. Its Leica’s first digital camera. It was made by Panasonic but does have a Leica lens. They are collectors items so I’ll probably sell it. Here we see a young fine thing using said Leica.

Fujifilm vs. Kodak

As I had expected – Fujifilm has a serious problem – and I very much hope they can get past it. Their cameras – based on what I think is the best digital camera idea that has come out since film – which is basing their digital cameras on their “color science” (and even some of the other great color science – like Kodak’s…

“SHE”

I was to be her petShe made me sneeze and sweatShe left before we metA day I can’t forgetBohemian Love Jones?Feel it in your bones?Does it cause gall stones?Makes you write bad poems?”She” is not a human beingPrettiest thing I’ve ever seenHer shunning is rather meanOh how she primps and preensShe’s made of finest metalFiner than a roses petalTo buy her my soul I’d…

The Blairstown Witch Project

Way back in 1991 or so I visited my old county – where I grew up – Sussex County, NJ. I visited Blairstown and Stillwater. I came across this spooky place. Here’s a list of famous people from that area – Jeanine Garafalo – Newton, NJ – my home town. Blondie – went to college at an all girls college called Centinary – in…

The Last Fifth

The way I see itWe’re dead luckyIf we live till 80Throw our ashes to seaDrink your time on earthOne Fifth at a timeFifteen years to lifeCommit love like a crimeThe first fifth a kidThe second a teenThe third for a familyThe last Halloween!

The “Influencer”

The more I hear and read about internet “Influencers” the more I long for the days where mannequins in store windows were the influencers.

Fujifilm, Kodak and Man Ray

Man Ray was in my grandfathers generation – in fact they were born close in years and passed away within one year. Man Ray was mostly a black and white film photographer, but did experiment with color in the 1930’s. He used a process called Carbro where you take three photographs – red, green and blue and layer and filter them. When I graduated…