UNBOXING

I understand there is a sub-genre of vids on Youtube that show
geeks unboxing shit they’ve bought.

Well, drool will not be outdone, geek-wise, and presents you with
a series of unboxing fotos.

Ten 10-sheet boxes of Kodak Portra 4×5 film.

And, speaking of unpacking…..there’s a group of folks in Ottawa
who ride their motorcycles (mostly Harley’s, of course) down to
the market. They park them in long rows, hang out and wait for
people to be envious.

I suppose that’s kind of like posting unboxing videos.

The problem, as far as I can tell, is that those who do that are
really only showing you what they can buy. But buying your
status is nowhere, man. Don’t show me what you can buy,
show me what you can do.

CANADIAN GEOGRAPHIC

The latest issue of Can Geo has a bunch of stuff in it about Capital
City. One of the features, written by Ottawa Magazine editor Sarah
Brown, is about culture in Ottawa. She hilighted 3 fotografers; Dave
Trattles, Remi Theriault and yours truly.

Sarah writes about my work on the block, fotografing addicts, but
for some reason the powers that be at the mag decided to run a
couple of shots of mine of dancer John Phillips and painter Dave
Matte.

The complete story is here.
This is Dave Trattles
Remi Theriault here

CAMERA COMICS

Between July 1944 and 1946, the U.S. Camera Publishing Company
published a comic book titled “Camera Comics” in an attempt to get
kids interested in the growing hobby of photography. (via)

WELCOME HOME DOUG AND GARY

Because I was planning on editing all summer, bringing projects
to conclusion, I thought I would revisit my American work. I put
about 120 fotos into a pile and started to move them about, to
look for an order, to (dare I say) look for a message (or at least
a feeling).

While I was editing this work I couldn’t get the movie The Deer
Hunter out of my mind. That’s a movie I don’t like very much, I
think it’s overwrought. But for some reason I couldn’t stop think-
ing about coming home from a war to a country that is not facing
the fact that they are fading fast.

So, in the end, the sequence I arrived at is a polemic. I just hope
that there is some poetry there, too.

You can see AMERICAN STATES here. Please click on “fullscreen”
for good bigness.