breaking tradition!
"sold mah soul" from the beautiful nightmare series by matthew yates
HELLO SEATTLE!
rosanna here wanting to start our blog dialogue on the eve of our departure! yep, we are leaving tomorrow for seattle, the wet city! we are way behind, excited and tired, but we will make it! we cant leave in the am as we hoped because my trusty isuzu needs new tires and new lugs [?!] sooo…
it is matt’s birthday tomorrow by the way, and we will make it as nice as we can on the road. i hope we get to spend the night in las vegas, that would be glamorous for the b’day boy, heh?
anyway, signing off now, be back tomorrow!
besos
r
Hi Guys and happy birthday Matt!
Looking forward to your arrival. Michelle and David are working on the format of the Holga gathering on Sunday the 23rd.
We are just getting the word out about it but I have no doubt that the ‘community” of the plastic camera will get the word out to be here at 1pm on Suday to share images and ideas.
It’ll be great to see what everyone is doing with their toy cameras these days. My designer Ron Au, an amazing designer, has just received a holga from a friend of his and is very excited to learn more from everyone.
See you soon,
Marita
Comment made on November 13, 2008 @ 5:38 pm
Hi guys!
I hope you have a wonderful road trip! I do love road trips myself.. hmm, where can I go for my next one?
I’m in San Francisco now doing the photo thing for the SPE West conference, and will meet you in Seattle on Tuesday.
Can’t wait to show you around Seattle, go to Mary Randlett’s lecture, have the Holga meetup on Sunday, and drink COFFEE!!
xo
Michelle
Comment made on November 13, 2008 @ 8:51 pm
hey all! we are a bit behind schedule given that my car is not ready yet… hmm. but what i say is better safe than sorry soo we will be driving out this late afternoon/early evening and see where we get to. we are very excited to get up there and meet everybody. we also cant wait to show you all the goodies we have prepared for you all, i think you will be pleased and hopefully the public will be too. it is fun playful stuff, traditional with a twist!
we’ll check back with you later, probably tomorrow.
i have posted the show link on my facebook page, later on i will also post the blog’s.
ciao ciao!
r
Comment made on November 13, 2008 @ 11:39 pm
Hey guys,
I’m also very excited to see these, “traditional with a twist goodies.” Myself, I’m putting the final touches on the suit cases and will be framing the remainder of the show today!!
Happy birthday Matthew, hope you win a million in Vegas.
Have a good trip guys.
da-
Comment made on November 14, 2008 @ 7:51 pm
Hi everybody,just envy you all to be there!and with road trips… in america, i’m dreaming…Hope to share this pleasure soon,enjoy your meetings & photos, besos, scarlett
Comment made on November 14, 2008 @ 11:42 pm
hey you all! hey dave! scarlett! how nice to see you’re on here too! everybody, scarlett is a fab french photographer+holga lover so i invited her to this blog, scarlett feel free to post your info so people can check out your photos…
sooo, we have been incommunicado for a while cause we had to try to catch up with the miles and the hours, but here we are, about one day behind on schedule because my mechanic, although trusty, couldn’t get our isuzu ready for us in time. the good news is we are safely on the road now with brand new flamin’ tires! we were in vegas last night for about an hour and a half just to check it out and had a blast taking some shots with the canon eos20d+lensbaby [see attached if i can figure it out!]. we are now about 170 miles north of las vegas in the little town of caliente where we spent the night! after a breakfast at the brandin’ iron and after having edited pics we are now ready to get on the road again and eat as many miles as we can! plan to cross into idaho and then oregon to hopefully stop into pendleton [home of the fab sweaters and blankets!]. sooo, this puts us into seattle towards sunday late afternoon, if all goes well. we hope this doesn’t inconvenience anybody… we’ll do our best! look out for pics! besos r+m
Comment made on November 15, 2008 @ 8:41 pm
hello again.
we are in oregon, baker city. it is about 2am, we are pretty exhausted. had another little problem with isuzu today…ran out of gas! the gas gauge didnt work properly and we were fooled! luckily and thankfully, two mexican ranchers stopped and filled our little 1-gallon tank so we could get to the next gas station in ely, nevada! thank you guys! so here we are now, expecting to arrive in seattle tomorrow late afternoon if all goes well and it should! the good news, with all the $$ we poured into isuzu, the gas mileage has been amazingly good. that helps.
anyway, anybody come up with more ideas for the holga event? today in the car we talked and decided that we both very much liked to call it what michelle first called it: “the holga schmooze”! can we call it that? also we think the mix between projecting work and having portfolios and prints on tables for people to peruse thorugh casually [a' la photolucida/photo la/review santa fe] is the best. we need to set a deadline for receiving images from people [20 each?] so we can all jury, we’d say wednesday given that we will need all the time we can get to install the show. also we thought of marita’s coffee connections and asking them if they could provide coffee+cookies for the event in exchange for mentioning them through blog+website? what do you all think??? ok ENOUGH! goodnight! r+m
Comment made on November 16, 2008 @ 10:21 am
good morning crew! we are on our way! on the oregon trail towards you…
please let us know what you think of the holga schmoooze ideas…
besos
r+m
Comment made on November 16, 2008 @ 7:21 pm
hey! we are here, we love it!
we are almost ready with the show, my last piece is going up in 5 minutes! see you all tomorrow, friday or sunday! we are super excited! marita and benham ROCK!
Comment made on November 19, 2008 @ 6:58 am