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...of putting the house back together.
Things are moving along slowly at the house, but they are moving.
EVERYTHING has been removed from the house to be cleaned, except for a few oversized pieces of bedroom furniture that would have had to go out a window and be lowered, in order to remove them from the house (the way they came in years ago.....we have very narrow butterfly steps...only small pieces of furniture can be carried up the stairs.)
Those pieces were cleaned on site. The inside of the house has now been "de-sooted"! .
Larry has a meeting on Monday with the carpenter, plumber and electrician and hopefully he'll find out when they can start the priming and painting .
I want these people to start doing their thing!!!
Meanwhile, Larry has decided there's no reason he can't put in the new kitchen ceiling.
This is one project I'm glad to get done.
If you remember, Larry replaced the ceiling not too long ago.
He put in the drop ceiling tile system.
You can choose from a large variety of tile patterns.
The first time around I saw a pattern that looked and was described as beadboard.
I thought it was exactly what I wanted for my farmhouse kitchen ceiling.
Unfortunately, sometimes things look different in person.
After Larry installed it, we were rather disappointed.
It didn't look AT ALL as I had imagined it would look. Instead of beadboard, it looked like the inside of a corrugated shipping container.
Larry even volunteered to just scrap the tiles and order new ones if I wanted.
In the end I decided to just live with it for awhile.
Time's up!
I'm liking my choice this time 100%!
It's not even done yet, but I am liking this ceiling 100% better!!
Just the first of about 100 projects Larry will probably be tackling these next couple of months.!
Sunset converted to black-and-white and with rows sorted from lightest to darkest, top to bottom. Made with Processing.org.
Took the original mono and thought, what if I use one of the colour presets in lightroom. I tried the colour creative cross process 4. MMMMM? Not sure.
The original can be seen @ www.everydayparanoidvisions.wordpress.com
Trying a new process using used hypo-fixer. This should contain silver and I have been working many experiments to see if i can release that again for some type of VanDyke print. Adding it direct will result in fainter blue. Finally tried following:
- a few ml of used fixer
- add some Copper Sulfate (not much)
- wait till it has reacted (it will become brown or dark)
- add same volume of 25gr/100ml concentration Ferric ammonium citrate (same as used for Cyanotype.
Paint on paper or linen
- let dry for short time
Expose in UV or Sun (about same time as normal cyanotype.
- The paper will have before exposing almost white / light green color
- after 3 minutes it will turn yello
- after 10-50 minutes it will become coffee with milk color.
Contrast seems to have more gradations (see the middle grass halm)
Development:
- I rinsed it in water with a drop of vinager (pH of my water is 8 so i have to bring it down slightly)
- for this print i added some Potassium ferricyanide which changes the color from brown to mor blue especially on the borders.
- Dry the print as normal.
Canon F1 50mm 1.2
Agfa precisa ct100 slide film cross processed in Tetenal Colortec c41
These cross processed agfa slides looked very green, i scanned them as positives and let some of the green out to get back some colors. The edges from the negative holder turned pink, which I didn't crop because I kind of liked them.
Strength: the motion of the egg whites is visually interesting
Problem/Solution: picture is grainy, add more light and reduce ISO
Problem/Solution: the buttons on her shirt are not centered, have her move slightly
Problem/Solution: too much space on the left, crop
Strength: the egg is well centered
Taken in New Orleans, Louisiana
This is my first Calotype negative and salt print positive combination that is worth showing after a steep learning curve. Many thanks to Wlodek (paperlink) for sending his instructions and several encouraging emails back in May--it has taken this long to reach this point!
Negative: Pelegry process with no whey. Borden and Riley marker paper. Developed in gallic acid. Waxed with some graphite pencil masking of the sky to lighten.
Positive: Salt print on Arches Platine 310g paper. Iodized (floated) with ammonium chloride/sodium citrate/gelatin.
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It sounds like Morton Feldman playing doom metal. A ten-minute rumble of bass piano cadences interrupted by spirals of right-hand arpeggios. This playful-solemn solo piano-storm thunders along gracefully and we could happily release whole boxsets of this stuff, but this isn’t even the main gist of blue twenty: Quasiviri, which sees the tape series return to its beloved “one epic track per side” safe space.
Rather, the funereal baroque-gone-serialism of the piano piece is what the ‘proper’ music industry calls a B-side, as it is an instrumental run-through of Choro Tempore, the release’s ‘A-side’ pop song, arranged for piano.
And what does the real Choro Tempore sound like? Well, obviously not very pop, except by our warped standard. It’s a blizzard of time changes enacted by belly-slapping, octo-stringed fuzz bass, drums, vocal harmonies and psychedelic synthesiser. Yes, OK, it’s a Blue Tapes prog record.
A big monster of a song that builds and builds and double backs on itself in myriad internal musical conversations and could be at least ten separate songs - or a symphony - but is obviously best as this weird hymnal, minimal rock piece.
I find the best way to listen to Choro Tempore is endlessly, on a loop, as the piece flips mischievously between its ‘rock’ and ‘classical’ forms - the janus faces of Quasiviri, a preternaturally talented Italian trio, alternately grinning and howling at us, as they scramble the mind cells of the listener that little bit further with each iteration.
Choro Tempore also sounds like a pop record because it was mastered by the guy who does Muse’s stuff, but sounds like it eats Muses for breakfast.
Praise for Quasiviri:
“Superheroes should be psychedelic motherfuckers. Quasiviri sometimes sound to me like a pop Oneida – and if anyone are superheroes, then its fucking Oneida. It’s that muscular, fuck-you bass – which sometimes just settles into an up-middle-fingered stomp and then stomps all over your face. It’s those mind-scrambles of organ. It’s the fact you can fill up a fuck of a lot of space with just three instruments and a sound to die for. But it’s not just wig-out mayhem. Quasiviri is tight, clear-eyed, ultra-focused and purposeful rock that just happens to share a sound with your dream psychedelic record. It isn’t prone to noodling, or playing jazz chords with 20 notes when one note repeated 20 times will do just as well. Also it’s playful, and funny, and why isn’t it this stuff that people are obsessing over now? Be not apologetic. Play like a superhero. Walk like a motherfucker.” - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
“Think Ian Curtis and Primus. Then forget and forgive me about that, and press play. Quasiviri.” - Komakino
Built for Andromeda's Gates on Eurobricks. I went with a function over form mentality for this build, as the processing plant actually works. You can fill the hopper, then open the trapdoor to let gold down onto the conveyor belt, which in turn is used to fill the dump truck. See it in action here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM0qFY4JgKE
See more pictures here: www.brickbuilt.org/?p=1998