Washington, Connecticut
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
'ZINES!
Last fall I set myself a project of creating a series of photo collections tailored to fit the MagCloud print-on-demand magazine medium. I had several projects in mind, beginning with what I've called my "Off Topic" pictures made on my 2012 Giant Drive-in Theater Road Trip. There was nothing casual about the Off Topic pictures. I thought it was essential for me to take every opportunity to make the sort of pictures I post here in all the new-to-me places I might wind up while chasing the DI theaters. Just doing the primary project without looking up to breathe never seemed like a good idea.
Turns out, I like the Off Topic pictures as much as the primary project.
This past summer I was designing a personal project (a large PDF album for a fifty year reunion of a scholarship group) and decided to check out MagCloud for the first time in several years. I learned that, unlike a few years ago, I could work directly with InDesign and produce my own design, not limited to pre-designed templates. So I did one and ordered a copy as a proof. Of course it doesn't look like digital prints from one of my photo quality printers, but it conveys a solid representation of what my intent was for the pictures and offers a lot of good reproductions for very little money. The magazine format also lets me sequence the pictures and lay them out in ways that I hope let them enhance and reinforce each other. I made and ordered proof copies of a couple more issues and have studied and evaluated them off and on over several months. Now I've decided to activate the MagCloud sales mechanism and make the 'Zines available.
You can view the projects at the links below, and decide if you're interested. You can buy a print magazine with a free digital version for all your devises or just buy the digital. Of course, if you fall in love with one of the pictures, you could contact me to buy a full tilt print.
Here are the links to the product pages at MagCloud:
Off Topic: Cross Country, 2012
Off Topic: Pennsylvania, 2007-2008
Off Topic: VA/WV, 2015-16
https://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/1642479?__r=6137
All three in the "collection" should show at each link. I've found that MagCloud's packaging of the magazines is well designed and protective, and with my test orders I found that when ordering more than one they bundled them into a single package for less total shipping cost than getting one at a time. However, last I checked international shipping was prohibitively expensive.
Monday, March 23, 2020
Sunday, March 22, 2020
Saturday, March 21, 2020
Friday, March 20, 2020
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Partial Shutdown, 3/19/20
Torrington, Connecticut
Rural and small town northwestern Connecticut is not under lockdown, so I decided to go up to Torrington and have a look around, since I could certainly avoid any "social contact," much less mingling with groups of people. The streets and sidewalks were not exactly deserted, but vehicle and foot traffic were drastically less than normal on a Thursday afternoon. Restaurants are on orders to function only for take out or delivery. Most of the ones in the center of town had home made signs declaring that they're open for take-out/deliveries, but several others were just plain closed. A downtown drug store was doing only curbside pickup or deliveries. A used clothing thrift store was open. The several art galleries that are part of a downtown renewal effort that has been going well, were all closed. A large indoor children's playspace in former Main Street storefronts, part of that urban renewal, was of course closed and dark.
Click on any of the pictures to get a better view that will make the signs more legible.
This is not what Main Street, looking north from the Five Corners, usually looks like at two in the afternoon, even on a rainy day.
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
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