many small notes, again. Starts and wanderings. Have been in the darkroom most of the time over that past ten days. That isn’t what I will post about… some of that is on instagram, vimeo, in forms that make meaning only to my interiors

This is another collection of things I wish I could have ignored. A lesson to myself about staying away, even in a passing way from those deadly school ground spaces of the camera land. There are some things, prompts, which could lead to better ideas — lessons even from the worst of us. More about those another time.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” — Coco Chanel

COLLECTION:
[Just developed in FX 39 and scanned my cache of CHS 100 II in 120. I’ve decided that’s my film for the winter (when I shoot only B&W, going back to color during “leaf” season). So, hoping it’s available again. I love it.] Hobbyists have seasons.. as do yentas

[My wife‘s anatomy instructor in Med shool died from long term exposure to it(formalin)] — too bad she had to attend such a poorly managed nursing school[ Samuel Merritt College] To the point of work exposure to cadavers, NIH has appropriate references to statistics, additional to that was a study by Serbian researchers about the point of greatest exposure, further, Johns Hopkins has an article on anatomy study — all these are just GOO-Fu away. Summary: the storage lockers are unsafe, those technicians who are smokers and/or heavy drinkers are more likely to have lung or liver cancer. Not so much anyone else.

[And I for one don’t don’t appreciate anyone pooh-poohing safety topics they don’t have the background to fully appreciate. I would have been dead long ago if I hadn’t been “paranoid” about certain chemical categories.] so, what is his background: purchasing agent for a softwood store. he is without credential or credibility.

Partial information is better than personal strutting :

[why would you want to alter a rather hard to find, expensive, top-of-the-line ‘Apo N” 150?] PERHAPS to build their world rather than defend, or conform in yours

And here was IS a list of prices … [Demand for analogue photography is surging, with the so-called ‘Newtro culture’ gathering momentum and pushing renewed growth in sectors that predate the adoption of digital technologies, such as knitting and vinyl records. In fact, the global film camera market value is set to reach almost £311 million by 2030, growing by 5.2% each year from £223.2 million in 2023.] A DREAMCAST.

JULY 2024	A	B	C
P 160	$59	60	65
P 400	$65	73	— NA
EKTAR	$55	59	60

howard bond.. note instructions about ‘mask’ — double negatives. https://library.syracuse.edu/digital/guides/b/bond_h.htm

CTEIN’S value over time: