WALK AROUND TOWN

I've taken long walks in Brooklyn and in Manhattan. For the most part, I much more enjoy Brooklyn walks, but they are both very different experiences. Both give me new ideas to add to my script and inspire creative thinking--but I think walking in general does that quite often(inspire creative thinking).

I went and dropped off film to get developed. The first 3 rolls from 2 cameras that I've been testing out. I decided to test them by just taking pictures with them, in an earlier entry I talked more about that. I took a roll of color film with each camera and then a roll of black and white with the camera I preferred using. I'll find out which camera actually looks better once all the film is developed, but I have a sense it's going to be the one I prefer using, it seems to be a better camera--that's the older Canon, big clunkly metal frame, with a satisfying click of the shutter release and a 50mm prime lens.

Sheesh, people are certainly not exaggerating when they discuss how expensive film photography is, I'm already concerned about uprooting my bank account. I want to learn to use a dark room(I don't know how, not at all) and so I went and visited a lab space that was suggested to me by a friend of mine. They are very nice there, and supposedly well priced in comparison to competitors, but I wouldn't know. To me, it's all a whole lot of cash. That's when it feels like it would be awful nice to just be rich, because I could figure out everything I want to know and not also be worried that I wouldn't have a place to live or food to eat if I keep it up. But, I know there are so many things I wouldn't have tried or learned about if I hadn't been scraping by, sometimes what it is that comes to you is that which is most useful to your personality. So, cheers! Hopefully I get a call about work soon, I've got some projects I'm excited about facilitating and they will take a little cash, though not hideous amounts. I feel positive today, so I think it ought to all work out within due time. Chug chug chug(that's the sound of the train picking up pace...)