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Tobagonian Bus-Waitian
Image by Gary Bridgman
Digital pic of a 35mm trans taken of a C print (gurgling up your optic nerve) of a woman inactivity on a bus (or selling used shoes) in Scarborough, Tobago (Trinidad & Tobabo), West Indies, 1990. I shot the image from a moving automobile from approx 12 meters. I can’t remember if I was driving or not (the right-side driver position in T&T’s automobiles has scrambled my spatial memory on this point) This particular transparency will be mounted in one of my shot-up roadsign photographic sculptures, behind a huge buckshot hole. A proper scan of this image is coming.
It will be used in one of my shot-up roadsign photographic sculptures
When I was living near Oxford, Mississippi, in 1999, I began making "wall sconces" out of dilapidated highway signs that the local Mississippi Department of Transportation field station had consigned to its recycle pile.
Some signs that I acquire already have bullet holes, but most of these holes have been rendered by my grandfather’s Ithaca 12 ga. shotgun, using .000 buckshot, and occasionally 9mm or .45 rounds depending on what kind of heat my tiny helpers are packing.
I often cut lines into the sign, connecting the holes. This dates back to my original intent of building a planetarium projector out of shot-up signs and displaying new constellations designed by rednecks. The lines make them look like constellation charts.
Once I shoot and cut a sign, I build a low-tech light box on the back of it and mount 35 mm slides (frames removed) on the white plastic surface. Each fragment of film is lined up behind a bullet/pellet hole.
The whole contraption is framed out in scrap lumber or with more of the white Lucite sheets, deep enough to wire it with a couple of compact fluorescent bulbs. i tried rope light and it sucks mostly, not that ropelight’s inventor gives a rat’s ass about this particular application.
The conceptual corner that I had painted myself into at one point was the demand of a photographic technique that matched this setting.
"What’s the point of inventing a new language when you don’t have anything to say?" I asked myself, you know, rhetorically (does that mean "in the mirror with a two-beer buzz-on")
I wanted to get inside the heads of the sign-shooters, find out what they were trying to prove, and then establish the same thing with a camera. It finally occurred to me that they weren’t saying anything. They just like to blast the shit out of stuff while they’re driving. Wouldn’t you?
So my breaktrough came when a friend showed me the DVD of Masaki Kobayashi’s 1964 film, Kwaidan. [I know this is beginning to sound like I am showing out and putting on airs, but it's actually pretty common for people in West Tennessee to have DVD players these days.]
One of the characters was a Samurai, practicing the martial art of Yabusame, or mounted archery [search for that attach and you will see what I mean]. So while I was watching this guy shoot arrows at a square cedar block while riding at a full gallop, I realized that the Southern pastime of shooting road-signs from a moving automobile is basically the same sport.
While purists from both camps would oppose any comparisons, both sports involve steering with your legs, drinking rice-based beverages (saki and Busch Light), careful marksmanship and a lot of ancestor worship.
So now I shoot most of my photographs from the command of my Asian pickup truck, often through the rear and side mirrors.
Kendal Street, Cowra
Image by State Records NSW
Kendall Street, Cowra
Dated: c.1937-40
Digital ID: 12932_a012_a012X2441000092
Rights: www.records.nsw.gov.au/about-us/rights-and-permissions
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Burnt Trabant
Image by oliverchesler
Whenever someone forgets to fill out a customs form when sending me a package I need to head crossways Berlin to the Vat office. I found this burnt Trabant near the Customs building. The Trabant was the East German automobile built by SEB. They are pretty loved here and are stated to bring good luck. I guess the owner of this one must have had extra bad karma. Sometimes they were used to smuggle East Berliners to the West. When the Wall fell many were forsaken but this day even though you can get them for a good price they are considered collectors items. They were originally supposed to be three wheel motorcycles and are underpowered (some have only 2 cylinder engines). They were prefabricated out of Duroplast a type of plastic. Time magazine titled the Trabant one of the 50 worst automobiles of all time.