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5/19/03:

La beta updata

So despite this 75-hours-a-week-summer of mindlessly clock-punching my way down to South America, I'm managing to get a little web-site work slowly but surely out of the way, with no small thanks due to advantageous insomnia. Transitional - a blogroll-style archive of a few hundred or so links cluttering up my favourites folder - is now up and running. Admittedly, I don't intend a whole lot of user-friendlyness or precise organisation, but they're all good for a random direction iffin' you need to get outta here.

Next up - currently sorting through another few hundred or so frames of negatives shot from my weeks in Rio de Janeiro last winter. Hopefully I'll get some scans done this week. I've put a up a couple of samples, mostly to test this pop-up script, but also because these two images in particular surprised me when they first appeared in the proof sheets. I've always been fond of empty street scenes, a la Atget, but realised in Rio, complexly populated as it is, there's just no such thing as emptiness anywhere (even at 5am).

While randomly snapshooting and still unconsciously trying to empty out the frames, the few figures that still appeared inside seem, in the image, so fragmented, as if behind a backdrop or a blue screen. It recalls one uncannily noticing people wandering into the background of vacation pictures. I then also wonder where my own image has travelled off to. I've plenty of other frames with this strange detatchment.

I expect to have at least a little digi-portfolio of many other Rio images, and possibly some better re-organisation of Betacorpo.net done by the end of May. Critiques are always welcome and appreciated. Tchau tchau.

posted by jeremy @ 12:09 PM