The Permanent Collection by Scooter Vagabond
December 2nd, 2008 4:01 PMExtremely Limited Edition
Click each of the photos and read the caption to consume this praxus.
SF0 Logo
I freely admit that I've never been much of a writer, or a book-binder for that matter - but conveniently not all books have to have words. I speak of course of the photobook.
Picking the Pics
A Photobook, hrmm, but of what? I dug into my photo library and picked out 24 of my pictures taken over the last year or so, and sequenced them as a string of dyptychs.
SF0 Catalog
... then I thought, you know, I bet the other folks who have already finished this task would like a little plug. So I cranked up photoshop and created a catalog page pimping SF0 and the other extremely limited edition books created so far.
Materials
I uploaded the photos I'd chosen as well as the SF0 plug page to the Walgreens photo lab down the street for printing. I picked up the prints and got to work. Materials: Black 4x6 landscape photo album Scissors (not actually used here) Double Sided Tape and of course the freshly printed photos.
Completed Product
Assembly was relatively quick, but I had to cleverly use the double sided tape to slide the photos into the album - many of the pockets were really tight. They felt good. Here we have the completed album
At the Library
I strolled down to the closest library...
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Noted the rather extensive security system designed to keep my new book safe.
Peering
Hrmmm, where to put it...
This will do
Ahh, this will do - only 3 books separate my little book and "I married a communist". As it should be.
Huzzah
And there we have it! The remainder of the photos are the photos in the book in sequence. They are meant to be interpreted as a sequence of dyptychs (except for the last photo of course). eeek, I'm late!
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18 vote(s)
Arietis
5
susy derkins
5
Waldo Cheerio
5
JJason Recognition
5
Morte
5
Soren THREEdux
5
Mr Everyday
5
artmouse
5
Lincøln
5
zer0gee
4
saille is planting praxis
4
Jellybean of Thark
4
rongo rongo
2
Loki
3
Augustus deCorbeau
5
Pip Estrelle
4
Juliette
5
Shazbot [TKC]
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Thanks for the wonderful review and vote Susie! Hey, I heard you on the last podcast (from last year I think?)- you're famous! :^)
I'm really impressed with both the quality of photographs and the presentation. Did you really take all of those? What kind of photography god are you?
Ahh Waldo, flattery is the sincerest form of bribery? (+comment vote for you)
I took all of the pictures that I used for the book over the last year or so, with the exception of the Sutro Tower image that I used as the background for the catalog page. I found it on flickr's creative commons search - here's the original taken by Tolka Rover, before I cleaned it up / photoshopped in the logo/books/text.
You are doing some high-quality tasking, sir. Keep up the awesome work.
you are a fantastic photographer, sir. those are gorgeous. the cover alteration is pretty damn spiff, too.
Very nice. I particularly like the picture of the man with an eye on his hand.
Thanks, that one is a self portrait.
I was born with a spare eye on the back of my hand. It often comes in handy for checking under the bed for spare change or... monsters!
loveitloveitloveit, honored to be the first one to vote. Gummywow, the book. Moving. Wonderful. And the catalog, such a classy thing to do.
You, sir, do rock.