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oh no fun. Although filth can photogenic right? Here it’s all gravel and sage brush (several varieties!) and jack rabbits and little cactus and other sharp and pointy plants.
If you delve past the mini marts and the self-storage places and the strip malls, there are some beautiful shots
Let me set this stage a bit. It was 1992. I was a junior in college at Appalachian State, a small NC mountain school known for it’s hippies. I only had a couple of classes in the way of my degree. I didn’t do math. I didn’t do any class before 10 am. I didn’t do much really except beer bongs and water bongs. I did play mud volleyball once but that is beside the point (I saw photos but I don’t remember it).
Anyways – this is the ONLY computer in the COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVERTISING DEPT
and there were like, 10 of them.
Cameras had film and there were two flavors available to us (black and white and color – although there were tons of grades of film). Digital was not invented for the masses. You had to do the settings and focus and fstop and everything manually with math and memory (both I was totally low on). Only one kid had a laptop and I suspect he was from the future, back auditing life in 1992.
Ok – so this class I had to take was Black & white photography. 7-10 FARKING PM on THURSDAY. WTF? No clue what I was thinking. So we learned the formulas. Then we learned to wrench open the can of film and process it in the phone booth thingy and then we had to go through the space time continuum and set numbers on machines and print and burn and dodge and such by the light of amber bulb (no computers). THEN we had to mat them. Matting is composed of math and rulers and T squares and L things. And Math and cutting and exacto knives and math. Figure and cut back mat. Figure and cut front mat… then WTF – cut the hole with an exacto knife after pregaming the class. Tape photo to back of front mat and then spray adhesive something or another.
anyways to make a novel short – I can’t remember 😳 but I know I’m sober now so maybe can do it well.
Let me set this stage a bit. It was 1992. I was a junior in college at Appalachian State, a small NC mountain school known for it’s hippies. I only had a couple of classes in the way of my degree. I didn’t do math. I didn’t do any class before 10 am. I didn’t do much really except beer bongs and water bongs. I did play mud volleyball once but that is beside the point (I saw photos but I don’t remember it).
Anyways – this is the ONLY computer in the COMMUNICATIONS AND ADVERTISING DEPT
and there were like, 10 of them.
Cameras had film and there were two flavors available to us (black and white and color – although there were tons of grades of film). Digital was not invented for the masses. You had to do the settings and focus and fstop and everything manually with math and memory (both I was totally low on). Only one kid had a laptop and I suspect he was from the future, back auditing life in 1992.
Ok – so this class I had to take was Black & white photography. 7-10 FARKING PM on THURSDAY. WTF? No clue what I was thinking. So we learned the formulas. Then we learned to wrench open the can of film and process it in the phone booth thingy and then we had to go through the space time continuum and set numbers on machines and print and burn and dodge and such by the light of amber bulb (no computers). THEN we had to mat them. Matting is composed of math and rulers and T squares and L things. And Math and cutting and exacto knives and math. Figure and cut back mat. Figure and cut front mat… then WTF – cut the hole with an exacto knife after pregaming the class. Tape photo to back of front mat and then spray adhesive something or another.
anyways to make a novel short – I can’t remember 😳 but I know I’m sober now so maybe can do it well.
Oh hells no, I will shell the money for pre-cut mattes! There is no way I am touching exactos and glue! I would end up with three fingers cuts off, my face glued to the matte and the house on fire.
And your photography experience in college sounds much like mine in High School, I am sure I attended some classes without the assistance of herbal creativity but I can’t remember them. My Senior year I was a Yearbook photographer which meant Yashica Mat TLR was a permanent Hall Pass, so I would go out, smoke and then wander the school shooting “candids”. Thankfully, I did all the developing because many of those candids involved my friends and I doing things which would get us, minimum, expelled.
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