Creosote Photo
... ramblings about photography and stuff ...
Monday, March 11, 2013
All work and no play
Sunday, February 10, 2013
San Francisco's tawdry nostalgia
There is a certain tawdriness to San Francisco, especially when the sun is shining. But it's an honest tawdriness- a tawdriness of historical reference. It's a nostalgic tawdriness - so maybe not honest at all, or as honest as how Kodachrome convinces you of its veracity; preceding and replacing even your memories like some Bualdrillard thesis. It's strange because it doesn't have the brick and mortar of sturdy midwestern nostalgia - a nostalgia of the turn of the century, the depression and the new deal. It's a clap-board nostalgia of cheaply remodeled facades that have worn into a kind of patina of mid-century modern reminiscences. It's a weathered time capsule of an era that was never elegant, or sturdy. It's a nostalgia for a discarded era of plate glass and strip malls, plastics and frivolous pursuits. But it's also more than fast cars, surfing, bikini movies and mirrored wall tiles - it's also a nostalgia for a cast off disposable reality that promised a new future when the old one was tired and worn. It's interesting that what's left is a tired and worn reminder of what was never replaced.
Sunday, December 2, 2012
berkeley, california
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
berkeley, california
I'm always fascinated with what happens when two lights collide - visually but also in their meanings. There's such a fantastic confluence of light between the slightly violet of a foggy dusk and the harsh green of cheap security lighting. It's a lot like Berkeley itself I suppose. It makes for dramatic pictures anyway.
Sunday, September 9, 2012
rockridge, california
Sometimes fate aligns the colors in the world and presents you with an opportunity and a camera and a moment.
Sunday, September 2, 2012
crested butte, colorado
unfortunate framing and exposure, but it makes me nostalgic for my childhood. I recently went back to Colorado and, though so much has changed in our post-walmart homogenization effort, there are still moments of what I remember as solid. A rough hewn timber romance of some ancient mountain town - it becomes a marker, a meter of what's substantial.
Via Flickr:
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