Comments on: Joys and Losses

By: Existential Angst - Scooter in the Sticks

Existential Angst - Scooter in the Sticks — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 04:06:08 +0000

[…] see the struggle in my face. There’s less laughter and song. I’ve begun to look like I […]

By: Kitty

Kitty — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 01:29:07 +0000

On a personal note, “Yesterday I was 18, and today I’m 65!”

How’d that happen?!

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 12:33:57 +0000

In reply to BWB (amateriat).

*Raises hand*

I’ve had a steady diet of being startled by people passing. Celebrities, old girlfriends, friends and relatives. It will only stop when I’m gone myself. But I’m not as haunted by it as I once was. I hope it’s not because I’m just getting used to it.

The film shooting and processing procedures are feeling a bit clunky to me right now. More so in the darkroom where the process and timing are no longer second nature. Even the mixing of chemicals. Had to spend some time with my darkroom notebook trying to divine how I did things. Managed to process 8 sheets of TXP last night. Will make contacts and a few prints today.

I plan to make small print folios as well. And I’m grateful I never dismantled the darkroom. It was there waiting for me last night. Just turned on the water, mixed the chemicals and floundered on…

By: BWB (amateriat)

BWB (amateriat) — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 03:52:53 +0000

I think most of us have a fair number of “if only” days, and, for those of us of a certain age (damnit, I want to form a scooter club called Scoot Riders of a Certain Age…raise your hand if you get the reference), the passing of someone like Ballin (or Prince, or…well, you know) brings those thoughts/regrets to the fore, if only for a fortnight. I’ve had mine, but in recent years they’ve come around with less frequency; I’d like to say that it’s because of a more acute sense of time’s passing, and how much I may or may not have remaining, but I can’t be certain. To quote another famous singer: regrets? I’ve had a few.

Film, and view cameras: sounds good to me. Over here, the wife, after she has her last original joint replaced (early November) is planning to dust off her Rolleiflex and get back to working with it after a decade-plus strictly shooting digital; there’s a chance I’ve been an influence here, as I never entirely gave up film, merely cutting back for logistical reasons, although I’ll be ramping up things as I clear out and set up the basement for darkroom work, first for film processing, then for setting up her enlarger and related stuff. (I know what I’d like to set up down there, but it’ll be all I can do to get filtered running water going, as well as making/keeping things as dust-free as possible.) For myself, I want the ability to make small b/w prints to create folios of specific work in, although I’ll mostly still be scanning and digitally printing like I’ve done for the last 20 years.

Good luck with the (sort-of) new photographic forays!

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:36:04 +0000

In reply to RichardM. Generally I'm like you and have no desire to relive earlier days. But there are times I realize how bad my decisions, or indecision could be, and wonder how things might have been different if only...

By: RichardM

RichardM — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 19:46:32 +0000

I remember the song but not the artist. Jefferson Airplane was one of those groups that I heard on the radio but never looked for their albums. I think it was before my time…

I occasionally think of earlier days but don’t dwell on it. I wouldn’t want to live those days again. Happy to be where I’m at today.

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 18:46:17 +0000

In reply to Steve. Where did the time go indeed. I either wasted it, or am in denial of how much I've actually done. That assessment seems to vary depending on the day...

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 15:50:11 +0000

Steve, you and I are very close in age, and your thoughts are my thoughts. Yes, where did it all go?

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 14:28:14 +0000

In reply to Poppawheelie. Thanks for sharing the information Robert. I had forgotten about The Matrix. Different world back then.

By: Poppawheelie

Poppawheelie — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 14:14:36 +0000

From my FB page: MARTY BALIN PASSES AWAY
Marty Balin, co-founder of Jefferson Airplane and then Starship passed away at 76. Per NBC News: Balin was a galvanizing member of both the band and the San Francisco scene, and in 1965 helped launch a club in the city called The Matrix that hosted many groups of the era, ranging from the Airplane, the Doors and Janis Joplin to the Velvet Underground. Living in San Francisco sometime later, Lynne met Gracie Slick at a show of Gracie’s art.
The Airplane issued several albums into the early 1970s, played both Woodstock (1969) and Altamont festivals.
The group splintered in the early 1970s but several members, including Balin, Slick and Kantner, reunited as Jefferson Starship in the mid-’70s, and Balin’s high tenor voice became a centerpiece of the group’s sound via hits like “Miracles” and “With Your Love.”
RIP