This Roll of film has traveled from florida to California, but it captured all rad people.
Scootering has Brought me to meet some of the coolest people, along with shooting some rad photos.
Jona Humbel
Jona Throws down the gnarliest tricks Falling hard goes with doing gnarly tricks
Joe Calzon
Casually chilling on a boat. Got the climb it to win it.
Joe battles the big set.
Chandler Marshall
getting speed on the back trail of is house. Shortening his life span with cancer sticks.
Giving the duck a hard time, not realizing what the duck is really capable of .
Damn good Pizza by the slice.
SD8.
KC korning Ripping the Super long TSI down a rail
At Claremont.
There is something about analog black & white photography, that is hard to catch, hard to describe. There is a feeling, you will not achieve with a digital SLR camera and each shot is telling you a story, that wouldn't be told if the picture would be coloured. For me, shooting in black and white (and the endless grey tones inbetween) means bringing out the rather raw and art side of photography. And at the end of the day, photography is a damn art; just like painting or making music. It is light painting - photo graphy.
Zagreb, Croatia, train station: so many possible ways to go...
Music engraved in vinyl
A storm passing through....
Juraj taking full advantage of this perfect table/bank setup...
Through my work in a museum here in Slovenia, I also had the pleasure to learn a lot about alternative photography and its extraordinary possibilities compared to your average digital photos. The term alternative photography is actually not used for analog photography (which has been the most normal thing until like ten years ago digicams appeared), but for much older forms of photography, that go back until 1839, when the first "light writing" was presented to the world. Besides digital and analog photography (on film), there are a lot of different techniques of how to make a photo. But all of these can be broken down to two elementary things you need: a camera and a light-sensitive plate. Most of this photographic processes produce a negative, that has to be then transformed into a positive print, for this step you have again a whole load of different processes. One of them is the cyanotype process. Maybe you have already came across a cyanotype, it is a print in intense blue colors, also called prussian blue. It was invented by John Herschel in 1842 and is pretty much unchanged since then. All you need are two chemical solutions (potassium ferricyanide and ferric ammonium citrate), a negative and sunlight. When mixed, the two solutions are getting sensitive to light. Just apply the liquid to a piece of high-quality paper, dry it with a fan and then contact-print your negative in the sun. The exposure time varies between 5 to 15 minutes, depends on the negative. To sum up all this scientific stuff, I just suggest you to try it out. Cyanotypes are probably the easiest process when talking about alternative photography, and the results can be awesome. Also you get the chemicals either on the internet or in better photography and film shops. Getting the right paper and exposure needs some experimenting, but hey, in the end, thats what it's all about!
Some middle format negatives and a leaf enjoying a sunbath
There is no need to fix the prints with chemicals, water does it all
6 x 6 cm middle format negatives turned into blue positives
This print was done with a digital negative, printed on a transparent plastic sheet. As you can see on the edges and in the grainy picture, I used the wrong paper haha
Getting the exposure right for every frame is impossible, but some of them turned out quite good.
I recently got back the last roll from my Lomo Kostruktor from the laboratory. It's good to see that slowly I am getting to grips with this camera, almost every shot is good in one or the other way, while the first roll was more or less all black. Because of the lack of adjustment possiblities, the Lomo reacts in its own way to different light situation. But shoot a few rolls of that good good film and you'll get a feeling for the thing! This selections features more and less good shots from three different places I have been to during the last months, in Croatia, Slovenia and Austria.
Juraj scores an overcrook on one of this smooth marmor benches in Vienna. Who tells you benches are for sitting?
This are the woods behind the place I work at in Ljubljana. Quite in the city centre and still wild nature.
The sun begins to set: island Pag, Croatia
some daisyfield in Vienna
While taking the shot, the security approached me and told me not to make a picture of the building. Accidentially pressed the release button.
Where the magic happens: working in the darkroom.
Blurred the candles...
Zagreb, Croatia: it was way too early
Ljubljana's spring is quite good. Alright I would say. text and photos: David Tiefenthaler
I've been accompanied by a little rangefinder minolta at my journeys for quite a while now, and since it normally takes me longer to finish a roll of film, developing it afterwards often brings many surprises.
Just about that, enjoy this moody selections and top it maybe with few hazy tunes.
If you haven't heard about Ty Segall yet, you maybe have been living under a rock over the last 4 or 5 years. In this time, he put out more albums than you can count on 2 hands and gave the world some of the finest rock'n'roll tunes to date. Segall is one of the most interesting and versatile figures in rock music today, so listen up. Ty Segall loves fast-paced rock'n'roll, sweets and comes from the Bay Area, San Francisco to be more exact. The town has a prospering garage rock scene with bands like Thee Oh Sees (their frontman John Dwyer is one of Segall's closest mates) and The Fresh and Onlys hailing from this area. He started to play in some punk rock bands while attending college before he went solo with only 19 years of age.
How it should be: crowd going crazy, band going crazy
Playing guitar and drums simultaniously, he also spent some time playing as one-man band. When he put out his first albums, Segall played wild, angry garage punk, every song was about 2 minutes long and like a shout in the crowd's face. And yeah, this crowd was and is still going all crazy at his shows, for example this little story he told Noisey:
Noisey: The last time I saw you play was at the Hoxton in Toronto. Ty Segall: Oh yeah. Was that the one with the bouncer coming up on stage?
Yeah. What happened there? The bouncer was being a complete asshole. He was just rough handling all of these kids that were stage diving. I tried to talk to the security when we play, like, “Hey man, the kids are probably going to stage-dive and jump around. Don’t interfere unless someone’s getting punched in the face.” And this guy just really, really rough handled the kids, shoving them really violently, giving them insane whiplash. And I kept telling them, “Don’t fucking do that!” And he kept doing it, so I just grabbed him and tried to push him into the crowd. He was way bigger than me [laughs] and we had a bit of a stand off. And then the guy falls! [laughs] He was being such a dick. He was seriously hurting girls. Like violently shoving girls. It was just insane.
The first two albums he released, the self-titled Ty Segall and Lemons show his rather raw and wild side, shredding the electric guitar and screaming his lyrics out to the world.
The best thing about his music and his journey as a musician is that you can clearly see how he developes, how he tries different things and just never slows down. Known for his rapid-fire release speed, he released an average of 2,14 albums per year - from 2007 on.
Besides his solo paths, he also runs different collaborations with some close friends and fellow Bay Area musicians. There is the Ty Segall Band, in which he plays with Mikal Cronin and others. They put out Slaughterhouse, a heavy piece of a record with a lot of fast pace guitar shredding and wild, aggressive songs. The most outstanding track is maybe this one, a cover of a classic 60's song. You won't encounter a heavier version of this one, I promise.
Other non-solo projects include a collaboration with his bandmate Mikal Cronin, Reverse Shark Attack. A short and gnarly piece of an album. In 2012 he teamed up with White Fence to release something a little bit different, the dreamy, power-pop inspirated LP Hair. It's a slower than his other works, more laid-back and is full of good vibes.
Speaking of 2012, one thing has to mentioned: in this year Ty Segall released three full-length albums. Three fucking LPs. Besides Slaughterhouse and Hair also his solo record Twins. The title is a reference to his divided personality he pointed out in various interviews. While going totally crazy on his shows, he seems more like a down-to-earth guy when it comes to everyday life. Twins all about fuzzed out guitars and heavy, hooking melodies.
The latest solo record he released sees Ty Segall taking back a step from his wild garage punk roots. Sleeper is an all-acoustic album he put out last year, while struggling with the death of his father. It shows off a different side of the prolific rocker: slow and melodious, this album is easily his most stripped-down one to date. The lyrics circle mostly about sleeping and dreaming, no doubt that Segall reaches the peak of his songwriting with this LP.
I really wonder how this guy can be so prolific and still deliver solid-to-awesome records all the time. One of the most interesting minds in rock right now, thats for sure. The only question is which tracks and albums he is going to put out in the future, one can only be excited about his stuff.
To finish off this little hymn on Ty Segall, I picked some of my all-time favourites. Listen through, you won't be disappointed!
Our Barcelona connection is still in operating mode and our man Iñaki Gil is holding it down there for Alchemyst. This time he packed up his homies and went to a local skatepark to get some nightshred. And damn, they really destroyed the place with the right vibe. All these guys shred and are way too underrated.
"I think the video has such a nice vibe because it evolved naturally, we were not forced into filming any of it, it's just the result of a sesh with the homies" - Dani Cardona
"We were actually missing some friends who ride with us on a daily basis such as Pablo Fernandez, Luis torres, Max Sabartes... It makes me wonder how much better the session could have been if they had made it, but it turned out being a crazy one anyway. At about 12:30 am right after Damia's bs lipslide on the large part of the pool the lights of the park turned off and we headed over to Yago's place to grab some beers and have a late dinner" - Iñaki Gil
Isaac Miller Lip slide
