Revenki's photos

September 1998.

September 1998.

September 1998.

September 1998.

Near Zabriskie Point. September 1998.

The first apartment I ever rented out of school was in New Orleans East -- it's the one on the second floor above the green Blazer in the picture on the left, taken in November 1997. Then, the place was newly overhauled, freshly painted, and recently re-roofed. Nice place, but unfortunate location. The picture on the right shows the same apartment building on March 9, 2006, following Hurricane Katrina. Note the height of the bathtub rings. When I went by this place again in 2007, it had been scraped down to the foundation slabs. Like many of the apartment complexes in New Orleans East.

Mushroom cloud thunderstorm along I-10 east of Beaumont, September 4, 1999.

A wannabe roll-cloud along I-10 east of Beaumont, September 4, 1999.

Ominous cloud formations along I-10 east of Beaumont, September 4, 1999.

A really disturbing dolls-head, found in the stamp sand at an old copper mill. June 1994. Added some severe manipulation of the color curves. Really brings out the eyes. And not in a good way.

A really disturbing dolls-head, found in the stamp sand at an old copper mill. June 1994. I've always been both drawn to and repelled by the weirdness of this picture, and I remember being a bit spooked even while taking it. This version is pretty much as-is, only gamma-shifted to enhance the B-W contrast a bit. Time and exposure to UV and the stamp sand had turned the doll head's hair pink and its vinyl skin a ruddy grey. If you click on the map link, you can actually see the stamp sand on the satellite view, stretching a half-mile out from the mill and several miles south along the Lake Superior shoreline. Couldn't get away with creating a moonscape like that nowadays.

The Reagan Building in D.C., August 1999. I worked across the street in 1991, when they were driving the foundation pilings for this building.

I rode out Hurricane Georges at a friend's second-floor apartment in New Orleans (Metarie, actually), September 28, 1998 (nine years ago yesterday). Much hoopla, little hurricane. After the curfew was lifted in Jefferson Parish, I retrieved my car from the Lakeside Mall parking deck and headed home -- and was promptly struck by a drunk driver at Severn and Vets, not a hundred yards from where I'd parked for the hurricane. He was apparently rushing to Breaux Mart for some more beer. Cost my insurance company $3600 in repairs, but at least my Blazer was still driveable. The drunk yat's car was most likely totaled. Punch line: because my truck was still registered out of state, the LA state police didn't want to bother assigning fault, and the other driver didn't even get so much as a ticket.

Since Nikon doesn't provide any accessories for the Super Coolscan 5000 ED with which to scan 110 film (for reasons now obvious to me -- the film sucks), I made myself a film carrier for the negatives. It consists of four layers of bristol paper (heavy white art paper), 5cm x 5cm, taped together along the edges. I cut a 19mm x 14mm hole in the middle, and then made small slits between the inner two layers of paper through which to slide the negative. The whole thing is a bit more square than it appears in this picture. It's a little tricky to get the prepped negative into the scanner without bumping the negative out of position, but it can be done with a steady hand and foreceps.

It had to start somewhere.

Protest weirod.

The day after X-Day. (Old-skool...actually created the oldfangled way, with photocopies and rubber cement.)

None can resist.