Open for Bidness
The first round of prints are up - some bargains and the best of the prints from the first double exposure project with my good friend Sarah Carr.
The double exposure part of this is the most exciting - I'm looking forward to seeing it grow. If you want to get involved, please let me know. All you have to do is shoot a roll of film and send it over to me to shoot on top of and process, if we are happy with the results the best will go in the store and all profits will be split between both photographers. Genius!
I have some grand ideas for the store and I hope it will grow into something more. But for now, have a browse and let me know what you think. I'm pretty excited. I've felt like I've been stuck in a bit of a creative rut for a while now, and this feels positive. Its nice.
Lots more prints are still to come later in the week, and the first 9 customers will get a free print from the lucky dip bin!
You can find the store HERE and like it on facebook HERE.
Some Things
Picking wildflowers, eating this seasons asparagus, processing film, drying lavender, welcoming the sun.
Crouch End Coffee Tour: Blue Legume
This is something I have joked with friends about starting pretty much every time a new coffee place opens in Crouch End. One shop opens, the next week its a coffee place. You can't swing a cat in Crouch End (a quiet, refined suburb of North London, for those of you not of these shores) without hitting a coffee shop filled with push chairs, cake and cool kids with specs on carrying a camera and/or a Flashback Records tote bag. I thought it was about time someone dedicated some time to doing a tour of all of them. So here we are.
One rainy Sunday Matthew and I thought we would try out the Blue Legume that had opened at the top of the village, which seemed like a perfect excuse to start this tour. I've never been to a Blue Legume before (I believe they have other branches in nice places like Islington) but heard good things. Mostly from their website which Suzi and I looked up when we saw they had opened and said to one another 'oh how novel a coffee shop in Crouch End!'
It was rammed and there was a queue of people looking irritated that the tables were all full - it was pouring with rain outside - but my eggs royale was superb - Matt was a bit disappointed to get hashbrowns out of a bag rather than home made on his 'Hash Brown Stack' (2 hashbrowns on eggs?). The coffee was ok? It came in those tiny cups with handles so small you can't hold them. I hate nonfunctional coffee cups. Five demerits to the Blue Legume for nonfunctional coffee cups.
Expect more thrilling accounts such as this to roll in as the weeks go by.
Swisstergram
Zurich rather unexpectedly has one of the best Natural History Museums I've ever been to.
I spent most of the time drinking beer beside the river/lake and reading the Hunger Games. Don't judge me.
Stoned (again)
You guys I was in this room for the better part of an hour. I'm pretty sure boyface fell asleep on a couch while I was drooling over the earth's bounty on show at the American Museum of Natural History that day.
Hey Buddies
I really feel like under exposed as all hell is working here for me. I love the faded colours, a nice surprise considering I really didn't expect any of these photos to come out. Yashica delivers again. I'm going to make out with that guy now BRB.
I've been musing over the idea of opening a secondary store forr photo prints. Is this something anyone is interested in? I just can't decide.
Carr vs Tanner (part 1)
We're going to make it a regular thing. Its really interesting seeing what comes out - we both shoot on totally different cameras (she is more of a lomo girl, I'm SLR all the way). I love Sarah's photographs, she captures stark, man made, symmetrical structures in such an interesting way, with so much thought and purpose - I took a day trip to Hackney City Farm and the Columbia Road Flower Market to try and contrast this with a bit of ny usual haphazard way of capturing life in action. Its an interesting contrast (and it was loads of fun!).
I'm thinking about getting prints of some of these I love them so much.
You can check out the full set HERE and Sarah on Flickr HERE.
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