Another roll of photos taken around the trailer to keep me going. I can't develop any of these, but I continue to shoot Tri-X at 1600 (the film no doubt purchased from Jensen's general store in the village) and hope that it will all work out.
Roll eps16 (cont.): Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa (June 1966)
In two years of living at Parsons, this was the first time I had ever seen a man and a woman together on campus. He is of course a senior, and the girl is just visiting for graduation.
This wasn't because there were no women students, you understand. But unless you were an upperclassman and had a car, there was no way you'd ever get to interact with them.
Roll eps16: Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa (May 1966)
Making music for each other was an essential way to pass the time. Several of my roommates played stringed instruments; some played more than one. I developed a lifelong love of folk and old-time music from rooming with these guys.
A student protest -- the first, I think, in the history of the college. Apparently something to do with discussion of the school's academic problems in the student newspaper.
This is what student protests looked like before administrators started to use armed force to suppress them.
Mercury intensifier is a combination of hydrochloric acid and potassium dichromate (corrosive, poisonous, and "acutely and chronically harmful to health" -- Wikipedia). I bought mine in little packets from the same drugstore that provided the rest of my supplies. Another reminder of the very different world of photography half a century ago. It was simply assumed that you were not an idiot -- or wouldn't last long if you were.
No Christmas shopping in 1972 was complete without a drive two hours each way to Tower Records in L.A., so Melanie and I mounted an expedition with our friend Susy and our roommate Karen. The first stop was lunch at one of my favorite restaurants in the world, Canter's Fairfax, which happens to be in the neighborhood in which Melanie grew up.
The two people shots are great examples of an effect of 2475 Recording Film. All three women look like they have an identical shade of skin. In fact, as you will see in pictures to come, Susy (in the middle) actually had a lovely olive Mediterranean complexion. They all look alike here because it's not just their epidermis that you're seeing in the photos.
After eight years of undergraduate education (it's a long story), I finally graduated more or less by chance with a BA in Philosophy. But my interests were in epistemology, symbolic logic, and the philosophers of the Enlightenment, so I never did take a course specifically about Plato or Aristotle.
I must, therefore, cast my bread upon the waters and trust search engines to eventually find the few people who might be interested lurking in the long tail of the internet.
@bosak that was a very cool thing to read. Thanks for sharing it. One of those things that feels obvious after reading and surprising that it hadn’t been discussed as an interpretation previously (apparently - I’m far from an expert on that time - as a history major in college my focus was more Byzantine/Ottoman time frames)
I think that I have found a wee bug in #phanpy. I posted my picture-for-the-day (a photo of roof tiles) about 20 minutes ago. It showed up instantly in my stock Mastodon web browser, but still hasn't appeared in my phanpy feed. However, it has already appeared in two phanpy notifications (likes), where it can easily be seen. So phanpy knows about it, it's just not showing it to me.
@cheeaun OK, happened again this morning. Posted a photo, made an immediate edit to text (within a minute, I think), and now it's not in my phanpy timeline. (Not a big deal, but I thought you might like to know.)
My EOL project - organizing, scanning, and showing 15 years worth of photography (1966 to 1976 and 1980 to 1985) - has shaped up a bit differently from what I planned a month ago.
You'll remember that I opened up the first of two boxes full of negs, proofs, and prints, saw that there was no order to them and no documentation, and decided to just pop rolls off the top of the stack and scan them in the order that chance had left them.
Well, my scanner has stopped working with 35mm film strips (6x6 and 6x9 still work ok). It's the film transport, not the optics. Does anyone know where I can get a 20-year-old Nikon LS-9000 fixed?