Pavemental

I spent an hour or so teaching a friend how to use his Canon EOS-1D Mark II and he gave me an old 35mm (doh!) Ricoh 500 rangefinder as payment. His excuse was that he thought I collected old cameras, which I definitely do not. I’m not trying as hard as I should to give up 35mm film and couldn’t resist putting a roll through it. The focussing tabs and the film winder on the bottom are nice features. There were lots of blank frames so I guess the shutter is sticky but this picture is one that worked.

Meanwhile, my new book is ready! It’s called Pavemental and has 22 wonderful photographs in it. Unfortunately, I’m too busy working on a DVD to post any more information. If you’re desperate, just send me cash.

Summer eez finished?

I’ve been catching up with work so too busy to post much here.

Top Blog

A plug: Deleting spam messages from the comments was getting to be a chore. I felt like someone cleaning graffiti off their property every morning, but then I discovered MT-Blacklist (via this Learning Movable Type site), which is excellent and if you use MT becomes a must have once the spammers have found you.

And plugging back: Yesterday, much to my surprise, this site appeared in the Guardian’s weblog as ‘Top Blog’.

NB: I’m now using Wordpress.

The Long-winded Way to Blog

This usage of ‘Recorded Delivery’ stickers as a form of graffiti is fairly common in London. I suppose the top one here might be serving some other, practical function but generally it always seems like a bit of cheat to me. Certainly cheap anyway. I see plain paper sticker art less often but I’ll keep an eye out for it next week.

I’ve transferred all the old entries from GreyMatter and this is the first test using Movable Type.

Unlikely to be Found

I try to avoid repetition but it’s hard to resist sometimes. People place all sorts of things on the button boxes at pedestrian crossings. I’ve previously taken pictures of apple cores and other discarded food, bottles, drinks cans, that sort of thing.

I suppose what I have to avoid is displaying them as a set or making a book with this one as the cover.

Small Pockets of Resistance

I’m winding myself up to get rid of my weapons of 35mm consumption. This may be one of my last 35mm pictures. Compact digitals are near enough to 35mm quality and I hardly use my SLR. Some e-bay links may appear later but I think I’ll be burning rolls of 120 for a little bit longer.