Tonight is the opening of the Under $100 show at Off the Wall Gallery @ Dirty Franks Bar. DoN is delighted that his photo, Chick, has been selected by the jury to be included in the show. Chick was shot with a 35mm camera on black and white film, developed in the darkroom at Philadelphia University by DoN (gotta say that as much fun as Photoshop is theres nothing like un-spooling the film in complete darkness, then developing the negatives with liquid chemicals; whoever invented this process must have been touched somehow by a higher being). The negative was then scanned and enlarged in the computer and printed on pearlized photo paper on a digital printer. So even though in theory the image can be endlessly reproduced, the piece in the show is one-of-a-kind since the printer no longer feeds paper properly and the printer heads are worn out. DoN now uses Shutterfly for most of his photo printing and sometimes Kodak. Its so much more cost effective to produce art this way since all the hassles of paper jams and ink running out are handles by a vendor plus they do a really good job. DoN now uses the rather expensive Epson printer to print letters and such; maybe he shouldnt have tried to feed through that thick watercolor paper just to see how it would turn out.
In a Kerouac-ian manner, DoN is posting this from warm and rainy Florida, so he wont be at the opening tonight to hang out with the groovy art crowd Dirty Franks attracts but hopes that the party is fun and that Chick wont be coming home to roost in DoNs studio but will find a new home instead.
