first shot with the holga
August 26, 2010
Ambassador Bridge, May 2010.
Fuji Provia 400X.
Posted by jodi on August 26, 2010 at 5.13pm
photo
July 19, 2010
Could have been taken 25 years ago were it not for that horrible 1990s cladding on the “Square One” building.
Posted by jodi on July 19, 2010 at 8.39am
photo
July 5, 2010
This is a good place. In some ways, it’s the best place. You should go there.
Posted by jodi on July 5, 2010 at 3.33pm
low fi
May 12, 2010
The wee Harinezumi digital camera continues to entertain and surprise. It processes images slowly, and some strange and unpredictable things happen if the camera is in motion while shooting. Attempt to grab a quick shot while driving, and buildings seem to slant while the ground remains level:
Walker Power Building
Another drive-by, with the distant buildings perfectly perpendicular and the construction fence in the foreground all slanty:
Detroit from Riverside Drive
Jostle the camera a bit, and the image will slip and slide in blurry blocks:
Woodruff in my garden
Here’s the shot of woodruff in the garden that I was going for:
The downtown Detroit skyline shot with a slightly moving hand:
Detroit looking normal:
Posted by jodi on May 12, 2010 at 8.37pm
don’tcha think
May 8, 2010
The only photo I took today at Windsor-Essex Change Camp. Which was a blast, a wealth of great ideas and passionate people AND I may have found a place to direct some of my volunteer energies that has nothing! whatsoever! to do with the arts community. At the end of a long week fraught with conflict in the world of artist-run, it was much welcome to hook up with the people who can get me a place at a different table, being part of a conversation about a community initiative that has long been only a passive interest. Stay tuned.
I’m going to write a post soon (soon, I mean it) about some of my upcoming summer projects both big and small, arty and dorky. Some of them are quite exciting! Others, maybe not. We shall see. But for now, here’s one new little project that Peter and I started this morning with the goal of making the world a better and less irritating place in a subtle but important way:
Removing misuses of the word “irony” from Wikipedia entries.
I created an account (This is not irony) and made my first edit before heading out the door for Change Camp: an entry on the Clash song “Train in Vain” (you might need to click through to the flickr photo and view full size to read it):
Not-irony free:
Definitely an improvement.
If anybody wants to help out with this project, let me know and I’ll send you the password. Because the gods know there’s a lot of not-at-all-ironic stuff going on out there, giving real irony a bad name.
Posted by jodi on May 8, 2010 at 6.04pm
buying local
April 25, 2010
Saturday was Dr. Disc day, the long-awaited opening of Windsor’s Dr. Disc Records in their palatial new quarters at 471 Ouellette Street. Peter and I are avid record collectors, and as our collection is currently in a period of rapid expansion in preparation for an exciting! new! project (which I PROMISE I will write a little bit about this week), and because we just plain love this store and have ever since our youthful days spent happily shopping at their (sadly departed) flagship location in London, we headed downtown to celebrate the reopening by showing them some good old fashioned loving. And by “loving”, I mean “cash on the barrel head, hon”.
Shiny!
The store’s been open for less than a day and already someone has discarded a Tim Hortons coffee cup on an empty bit of shelf. A sort of christening, I suppose. (No, we did not buy either of those records you see above there).
This new location is two floors, with all of the used vinyl upstairs. There was a whole second room up there that was mostly empty but for some (empty) record bins, so I foresee lots of exciting expansion there. Here’s hoping this means all of those milk crates of overflow vinyl will soon be up off the floor and more readily accessible to those music lovers like us who are pushing geriatric, because y’all, I just can’t crouch for an hour sifting through those crates like I used to.
What we bought:
1. Half Man Half Biscuit Dickie Davies Eyes (an extended single, which normally we don’t collect, but we make exceptions for bands whose work is hard to find)
2. The The Soul Mining
3. Sleater-Kinney Dig Me Out
4. Tom Waits Mule Variations
5. Lene Lovich Stateless (Peter said “don’t know much about her but she looks like a weirdo so let’s get it”, a strategy that has worked out for us in the past)
6. Iron Butterfly Ball
7. Jerry Jeff Walker Mr. Bojangles
8. Marianne Faithfull Rich Kid Blues
9. Alanis Morissette Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
10. The Shins Wincing the Night Away (containing the song that was recently stuck in my head for a month or more, making buying this possibly a bad idea)
11. Dwight Yoakam Hillbilly Deluxe (yes, I like this. Shut up).
Posted by jodi on April 25, 2010 at 9.37pm
across and back
April 22, 2010
North America’s most traveled international border crossing is eminently photogenic even through the dirty windshield of a moving car.
Here’s one taken last month from the parking lot underneath the bridge.
Bonus! In the tunnel, coming back home.
Posted by jodi on April 22, 2010 at 8.48pm
arrival
April 18, 2010
Flying into Windsor Friday afternoon. It’s awfully shaky, but the turbulence was nasty. About two minutes before the video started, the plane did one of those stomach-flipping drops. Fun!
Windsor sure has a lot of swimming pools.
Posted by jodi on April 18, 2010 at 6.38pm
construction along windsor’s riverfront plaza
March 27, 2010
Other than the sewage drainage work across from Louis Ave. (that’s the big long pile of dirt) and the planned new bandshell stage (work for which hasn’t started yet), we don’t really know what’s going on along the waterfront with all this construction. It had better be good, as it’s looking like the bike path might be closed for a while, just when the weather’s getting to be pleasant enough to ride in.
Taken with the Zumi, looking out the car window.
Posted by jodi on March 27, 2010 at 9.05am
love
February 15, 2010
Posted by jodi on February 15, 2010 at 6.00pm
