Took this from the window of a trolley on a cold Detroit City Day. I like Detroit, but I would be tempted to shoot heroin, too, if I lived in the midwest. Bleak, man. Bleak.
Should I use up all my photos here? It is not like they are great. Just stuff I shot. That's the way I feel now when I look at them.
I gave in tonight and agreed to some Christmas. I put on Pandora's "Hipster Holidays." Instant nostalgia for a few years ago. Try it. It will put you in a mood. I want a no-pressure holiday without worry. Cocktails. Food. Friends and family. Gift-free, so to speak.
This picture freaks me out a bit. See the woman's face in the store window? I don't know where that is coming from. It may be a reflection from inside the train. I just don't know.
I am off for the next six days. Thanksgiving at my house. Drinks in the late morning/early afternoon if you want to come. Outside. Then dinner.
The next day is a Xmas tree farm with Ili's family.
But I want to make pictures. I want to shoot and shoot and shoot.
Just got a call back from the framers. The small Chatham print--22"x24"--will cost between $700 and $900 based upon which of the two frames I choose. Remember yesterday's rant about people who are too cheap to frame things properly? Holy shit. I still have two 45" prints to frame.
Looks like I'll be making frames out of sticks.
Xmas in the “Midwest” is grim and lovely. The pictures of Detroit made me nostalgic for Cleveland and Akron in a sadomasochistic fashion. It is this way in any large city in the North. Your photos of snow, sludge, and the apparition in the window made me think of this song. The perfect song for the season:
ReplyDelete“I could have been someone.
Well, so could anyone.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8
Soon enough with the great Chinese Climate Global Warming Hoax, the midwestern Paradise, Floridah will be submerged, and the sunstroked streets of Detroit will be decked out with palm trees strung with tinsel. People under the overpasses will be bartering sex for a thimbleful of water. It will be festive.
Oh, I will make you a stick frame for Xmas present. 4 by 5 did you say? We used to make em out of popsicle sticks in the good ole boy scout days.
ReplyDeleteHi cc. Hope you have a lovely Thanksgiving. Your posts always make me smile. Remember - "I think I love you."
I am NOT listening to Christmas music. Nopey. I want to be elsewhere - I think I say it every year. The Maldives look nice. The Serengeti always. Santorini. Sigh.
I, too, am a bit of a "frame-a-holic" having spent hundreds on framing a few of my kids elementary school projects (how great they look professionally done). I have to get on some vintage photographs of Provincetown that I found at an estate sale for my brother's family (they love it there as much as I do) done soon. And a few things I picked up
for my son over the year.
But a good frame job - yes. I understand.
Enjoy your Thanksgiving holiday, C.S.