Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Monday, January 22, 2007
Raleigh, NC
Two photos from a recent photographic expedition in Raleigh.
The first is something I collected on a rooftop somewhere off of Peace Street. If you can't read it, it says "Stop living in a cage" and next to it is a brown-bagged 40oz and a bag of someone's left-behind junk. A pretty compelling image in person.
The second is less of a collected "thing" and more of a collected "scene." A little building on little Kinsey Street, with a chicken weatherwave that was going nuts because it was super windy out. The combination of small building, chicken, tree, and blue sky was worth collecting.
Collected by lauren at 6:26 AM 1 comments
Friday, January 12, 2007
PEOPLE WHO WORK TOGETHER
This photo serves to document my fellow Koroberite, Jillian, and her last day as such. Happy, bright-eyed, her whole life ahead of her. Also in this photo: Oficemate Elise and Trafficer Christina. At TCBY in Eastgate?
Jobs.
Collected by lauren at 1:53 PM 0 comments
Tags: coworkers
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Found in the childhood closet.
At first glance, this may look like a polaroid that was once attached to some sort of ransom note. Apparently, Sesame Street's Bert & Ernie once kidnapped a small child in the 80's and held her against her will in the storage room of a dentist office.
The picture was in fact consentual, however(at least to some degree, as she seems to be trying to politely escape their clutches). It's still really odd that it was taken in a dental stock room, though.
The little blonde girl survived this potentially traumatizing incident, moving on to accomplish many great things, like creating this very weblog.
Collected by frohnece at 10:45 PM 1 comments
Tags: charlotte
Libby.
Mom's baby. She doesn't know the outside at all, other than the space between the side door and the car, & the car and the door at the vet's office. I don't think she understands what she's looking at when she does this.
Collected by frohnece at 2:58 PM 0 comments
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
A bus parked between two power lines in the middle of an open lot in Durham
In all the time that I've frequented Durham this is one thing that has always garnered my attention while driving on Barbee Road near Southpoint. It's across from a farm and next to a berry field. An old bus parked between these two power lines.
Why? How did it get there? Who put it there? Who decided, man I have this bus that I need to get rid of, oh here is a good spot?
I wonder how long its been there.
I'm going to take a better photo of it someday.
Collected by lauren at 6:46 AM 0 comments
Things collected three years ago...
Part of this little project was inspired by a tiny art venture I did about three years ago when I lived in Mill Creek in Chapel Hill. I took my polaroid around with me for a week and took photos of close up details of places that I frequented. I pushpinned my six favourite photos from the batch on my wall in two rows of three in what I thought was most aesthetically pleasing arrangement based on their visual elements. I kept them up in the other places I've lived since, and my plan was to continue to take these kinds of photos in places I lived and spent a lot of time so that I could save those details and remember what they meant to me at the time, rather than what they mean to me now.
In all honesty, I don't think much about the power cord attached to the neon Cosmic Cantina sign that haphazardly hangs over a wood beam or why the Schoolkids logo is a fish or what they are trying to say by having so many worlds painted on the side of Syd's, where I used to get my haircut regularly and would always forget that they only accepted cash or checks and I would always have to leave my license and go withdraw money and come back to pay. But I have these little pieces of the world from three years ago collected in my oh-so-satisfying stack of polaroids to remind me.
Collected by lauren at 5:58 AM 0 comments
Tags: chapel hill, first collection
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Poladroids....
Cameras.
Things.
Sharpies.
Collecting our world. On instant film.
Collected by lauren at 11:24 AM 0 comments