go mordecai!!!!

well.

it's movie night at the EP. i'm sick with the flu and kylie is broke, and so we've resolved to stay in this saturday night. sometimes i wish i was gay and that kylie was gay so we could be gay together. we would be the perfect couple.

we are watching the royal tenenbaums again for the umpteenth time. i will not go into all of the various reasons as to why this film is amazingly amazing. i will just say that i love it so.

with that being said it should be pretty obvious as to why i took the above polaroid. also, i wanted to pay a little tribute to a flickr friend who single handedly leaves me the best comments.

"can we get somebody over here to kill these mice for us?"Royal

"no! they belong to chas. or he invented them anyway."Margot

"get him to stick them in a fucking cage or something."Royal

oh well, ok

i didn't take this photo today. today it is very dark and rainy outside. i wish i could take a picture of the shitty sky that mirrors my shitty attitude. but instead i am rescanning a happy, sunshining polaroid from a few months ago, because someone ordered this print for an 8x10 enlargment.

i am in no mood to throw a rediculous peace sign at the clouds. fuck that. i'd rather give them the middle finger.

i know i am being over-dramatic and that today isn't really that bad. i am just annoyed with working weekends, and my shitty boring desk job sucks. doing customer service and pretending to care about peoples opinions is driving me crazy. i would much rather be home, working on my polaroid project stuff, nursing my cold... which i am pretty sure is the flu, since i woke up numerouse times, sweating profusley, coughing uncontrolably, and unable to breathe through my nose. i am a wreck. the sky is a wreck. everyone around me is a wreck. but such is life eh?

i have one more week till the art show. all of my nails are bitten down to their cuticles.

well wishers

i am making a new resolution: to blog more. instead of waiting for some crazy hell-fire incident to occur in my life i will write regularly, about the photos i'm taking and how they reflect what's going on in my life, because i can not really get into all that on flickr. i think it annoys people... so with that being said here goes:

toady was pretty good. kylie (my roommate/best friend) and i played in the yard. it was my day off and my biggest priority was polaroid taking, cookie eating, and lawn chair lounging.

i feel bad sometimes bc i am always volunteering kylie into the photos, but just look at her. she is a natural and she is beautiful. i hate having my photo taken. i am awkward and i am uncomfortable in my skin.

the original shot i wanted to do was to have her stand beside this utility fan i have and to have her hair blowing all crazy in her face, but alas, the fan was not nearly as high powered as i would have liked (imagine someone blowing out a birthday cake).

we sat there in the hot hot heat- me focusing meticulously and her laughing hysterically at the fact that the fan was only blowing one strand of hair. so we gave up.

10 mins later we were in the street being dumb and dancing around and doing cartwheels. she had on a sharp little raincoat and i saw it: the shot of the day! "wait!!! hold your hands right there - like you are tying the coat together" - half demanding, half laughing at the sound of my stupid ass.

sometimes the most beautiful moments can not be staged. they just sort of happen... and being silly girls in the middle of the street, watching and waiting as the rain falls on our faces is all the perfect shot requires (well that and a sx 70 alpha).

god i love summer time.

dan

today has been a lovely day.

my friend dan came to visit from denver, we had peach yogi tea, then drove out to deltona - the country. we ate spanish food, and i took a pola of him that turned out to be a double exposure mess-up. i quite like it though. mistakes can be incredible embellishments and sometimes a greater depiction of the moment then the clearest, most pristine replicas. 

when i got home i picked up a package that came to me in the post today. i knew who it was from...raymond! i ripped the package apart and shreeked with joy to find 1 shiny beautiful cartridge of time zero polaroid film. i have never had the privilege to use time zero film before. in 2006 it was discontinued, then after polaroid announced it's end to all instant film the price sky rocketed. now, if you are lucky enough to even find it, it will run you anywhere from $50 to $100 for a single pack. raymond is a great friend. if it weren't for him i wouldn't have even begun taking polaroids... the fact that he knew to send me this film means a lot. a hell of a lot. i am touched.

i am also touched that a close friend drove 30 mins out of his way today to help me sort through 100's of photos to chose from, for the art show, and that he so graciously lent me his external hard drive. each scanned image takes up more memory than my computer can hold. so without this i wouldn't even be able to prepare a single photo. i am touched that jean and bernd went through every single image on the web and made a list of the photos they would like to see enlarged. i am touched by all of the support i receive from my lovely friends, as they encourage me along when i begin worrying that i will fail. i am touched when complete strangers take the time to share their kind opinions and reassure me of my vision.

today has been a lovely day.

ginormous polaroids

well despite distressing times (newly single) and hectic-ness with work, and so on and so on...

i have managed to get some work done on my secret project. yaaaaaaayy!!!

these are samples of the giant polaroid prints i will be selling at the urban outfitters in jacksonville and orlando in the next couple of months.

i've only completed 4... i've got a very very very very long way to go. so if i don't answer my phone for a few weeks you know why.

also. i've had a tough time picking which ones to enlarge. it's hard for me b/c i am the picture taker and therefore biased. so if anyone else in the world reads this and has some input to share i would be eternally and creatively grateful.

here's the link to the photos:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/courteouskitsch/sets/72157604378073381/

and

http://www.flickr.com/photos/courteouskitsch/sets/72157604580258461/

and

http://www.flickr.com/photos/courteouskitsch/sets/72157603888566526/

and finally

http://www.flickr.com/photos/courteouskitsch/sets/72157605346105424/