Middle East Upstairs

I shot for Performer Magazine on Thursday Night at the Middle East. Excellent, excellent bill I must say I was pleasantly surprised. Four bands: Plain Janes, Faces on Film, Taxpayer, and Aberdeen City. The rest of the photos are on this flickr set, some 800 with standard flash exposure, some 800 f/5.6 at sync speed, some 1600 with fill flash, some 400 dragging the shutter -- a little bit of everything.


posted by Ricardo De Lima @ Saturday, August 27, 2005, , links to this post




Last Nail for Fort Point

Ding Dong Fort Point: 322 Summer Street (where my studio is located) along many other buildings has been sold. I've said it once and I'll say it again, Boston is about two years from being completely culturally irrelevant. I would love to be very wrong about this.


posted by Ricardo De Lima @ Saturday, August 27, 2005, , links to this post




110b 4x5 madness



I bought an old (1960s) Polaroid 110b (aka Pathfinder Land Camera -- a rangefinder) with the intention of modifying it by adding a graflok back to it in order to be able to shoot 4x5 film. These cameras have been converted to use pack film before as well as what I am trying to do. There are several people that will do this sort of conversion for you but they are hard to find as Guillermo AKA William Littman of the Littman 45 Single continues to harrass people by waving his patents around and threathening with lawsuits and horrible prose.


posted by Ricardo De Lima @ Tuesday, August 23, 2005, , links to this post




Seven


I signed up for the VII seminar in New York in October. I am psyched since I stupidly missed them last time when they came to Tufts University right before Lauren Greenfield brought her Girl Culture show there. The image on the right is Clay Enos, one of the few existing photos of the VII group (the one in the Canon ad is photoshopped to make it look they are all in one location)


posted by Ricardo De Lima @ Monday, August 15, 2005, , links to this post