SHRED OR DEAD

Taken from Jason Edwards post on his flickr. The trip to San Francisco over the reading week was more or less spearheaded by Mr. Edwards as it was his grad project to go and shoot the 20×24 inch Polaroid camera at LeftSpace.

Jason shot four images (which I’m sure will be making his portfolio site shortly, the 4×5 documentation materials being at the Lab right now), my two favourites being his self-portrait while shaving (epic believe me, I was out of the room while he shot it, and was pretty blown away when I returned), and a portrait of the gentleman who put us up (put up with us?) in SanFran, Andreas Brændhaugen.

The other four members of our expedition who shot big Polaroids (all self-portraits) were Yvonne, Brendon, Amanda and myself. We are all going to be submitting our portraits as our images for this years Emily Carr grad catalogue. We figure it’s probably unprecedented that one, let alone five persons submit 20×24 Polaroids into the book. I am personally behind this because it says something about our year and the kinds of mediums we find valuable.

If you’re wondering what a camera that takes a 20×24 inch Polaroid camera looks like:

also again from Jason‘s flickr. The camera actually looks very similar to any large format view camera, only it’s got a really fancy back on it that feeds the Polaroid film through, and also, it’s really fucking big. Oh and hey, I guess there is a preview of what Jason’s self portrait looks like (he is holding it).

Anyways. I’m moving sometime this week, hopefully Wednesday if I can locate a truck or something. And it looks like there is going to be a lot of rain right through until next Thursday, which means I might not get to skate for a month (maybe more). So I’m definitely going to be trying to concentrate on that production I’ve been talking about. I’m also probably going to be doing a lot of writing over the next few weeks, as I’ve done some reading that directly relates to what I’ve been thinking about with my grad project. Well. Being busy is good.