This may or may not move you

[orlovphoto]

But it's moving me across the country! And I'm able to print gelatin silver images and give cyanotype workshops wherever I go. How? Thanks to The Photo Palace Bus - a traveling darkroom I built this year.
If you have any interest in seeing this thing, need any help (in person - not over the internet, though I know, I know - you can google everything these days, right?) then check out the blog, contact me and I'd love to meet those of you who are not afraid of making a person to person connection

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[mishele]

I'm afraid......

[PinkDoor]

I'm confused......

[unpopular]

damn hippies and their fascination with busses!

[mishele]

Do we have to get on the bus?

[Bitter Jeweler]

Will you have candy on the bus?

[mishele]

I'll get on the bus, it just depends what candy he has....

[terri]

The link works now.

[Jaemie]

Gosh, I never got off the bus.

[unpopular]

If I eat too much candy, I'll be as big as a bus.

[davisphotos]

Sounds like a cool project. Diane Arbus drove Route 1 from Florida to Maine with a darkroom in the back of her car, this made me think of that. Unfortunately, I would be a complete idiot in a darkroom at this point, I'm pretty sure I've forgotten most of what I learned in school.

[orlovphoto]

Fear not my film-loving friends! You don't have to get on the bus if you don't want to. I can not promise candy, but I can promise a good time for all who know how to have it in the darkroom.

Yes - hippies do have a fascination with buses and I promise you that my NEXT bus will be indeed and Hippie Bus Extravaganza. This Bus is NOT a hippie bus by any means (other than it having me on board of course). This is an ambassador for Analog Photography - not a flop-house on wheels with some old couches and a solar shower....

Davisphotos - you are exactly one type of a person whom I hope to visit! I would love to show you the ropes again and possibly even bring you an enlarger and some other equipment so you can set up a darkroom again if you want to put in some honest manual work into your art again. People are giving me equipment and I am re-distributing it among the masses for free... So if you have a spot to park Gilli - drop me a PM

[unpopular]

LOL Orlov - only hippies tell "damn hippy" jokes anymore! I only said this because I've seen your photos!

If you come through Montana, let me know, I would be happy to help out with any bichromate workshops that you may be hosting. I can't offer any financial support, but I can help out with my time if you need a volunteer.

[orlovphoto]

Thanks man - I'd love to come through Montana (I'll be there next summer for sure cause word has it that's where the next Rainbow Gathering is going to be - so, yes, I'm a hippie since I go to those). I you think there would be an audience (that would be willing to pay) for a cyanotype workshop or a camera/photo show there that you can organize I would definitely show up there. Otherwise I might have to skip it on this go around. I'm running totally broke since my 'trusty' partner left me in the middle of this adventure because he found out how much actual work is going to be involved. Now I really don't even have enough gas money to get back to CA, but I'm not stressing too much - the Great Spirit will guide and provide.

At this point I'm going to have to learn a lot about self-promotion (something I despise, but I guess it's a necessary evil of being an artist these days). I'm hoping to find a PR person to work with me - I really think this thing can be really really cool and it can go far with a business-minded person on my team. I have some grand ideas - now to put them to use is a different story. So far it's been pretty impromptu, but a ton of fun for sure.

On the next trip I'll have a plethora of interesting things to offer like a bromoil workshop and a magic lantern slide show, so it should be easier to gather a paying audience.

[Bitter Jeweler]

While I tend to frown upon kickstart spam, yours is a cause I could support.
Have you thought about taking donations via Kickstart, or Paypal?