inkiworld asked: Hey Justin!!
I love your polaroids! :)
It seems your scans have a lot of texture of the polaroid it self. If I scan mine, the texture of the white border (witch I love) seems to fade away.. Do you edit them in photoshop? or is it just my scanner? :) Hope you can help! Thanks!
Greetings, Alissa
Hi Alissa,
It’s probably your scanner. I auto level using Photoshop but that doesn’t really do anything to the border. You could try and play with your resolution (I scan at 300dpi) and that may solve your problem. My scanner’s not the best in the world (a Canon MP480) but it gets the job done. So it may just be your settings. Good luck!
Justin
My story of a story of a run in with J.D. Salinger
I’d meant to post this last week after his passing but I kept procrastinating until it was out of the news cycle and virtually off topic again. Anyway. When I was in college I briefly dated a girl whose mom met J.D. Salinger. Being a newly-minted English major, this excited me to no end. (At the time, I felt like I had practically met him myself.) She told me that when she was eighteen she worked at a summer camp near Cornish and one day her and some of her female coworkers decided to play old Jerry a visit. Being a group of eighteen year old girls, he let them in, hanging out on the porch, giving them beers and regaling them with the story of a recent interloper who showed up at his door, claiming he was Holden Caulfield. Salinger apparently answered, “Like hell you are!” and drove him to the nearest airport in a fit of anger.
What I always inevitably think about when remembering this story is: those few tales of random people speaking to him at the post office or in town about all the novels he’d written since “Hapworth” may be truer than we think. And that somewhere, there’s another person writing a blog entry about how the father of someone they dated in college crashed Salinger’s house claiming to be Holden Caulfield.
Today my grandmother took me back into school since I no longer have my car on campus. On the way there we discussed my hobby of crocheting and how her mother, my great-grandmother, was the one who started the passed down craft in the family. I never knew too much about my great-grandmother since she died fairly young, but I came to find out today that she was a seamstress in Boston and actually constructed part of Grace Kelly’s wedding dress in 1956. She also worked from home making garments when not in Boston.
It’s nice to hear about my family, and that maybe I am more similar to them than I thought. How come I was never taught to sew!? I wish I could apply both merchandising and design into my major.
How was I unaware of our family’s footnote in fame?
Threw Christmas tree onto [frozen] charles - 25 (Mass Ave Bridge)
You threw your xmas tree onto the frozen Charles River from the Mass Ave bridge, I saw it lying there as I ran across the bridge. Brilliant. Man, woman, straight, gay, married, single-regardless we might be soulmates.
I saw this driving down Storrow on Saturday!
A Speculative Wes Anderson Filmography, 2013-2075
A Bright Wall in a Dark Room’s imagining of the rest of his career. Highlights include:
The Last and Best of the Peter Pans (2017). The death of J.D. Salinger in 2015 at age 94 seems to have shaken Anderson and plunged him into a period of reflection. He isolates himself in an apartment in the Upper West Side of Manhattan for several months. The screenplay he emerges with is an account of a wealthy young heir (played by unknown John W. Stillman, Jr. in a breakout performance) who becomes the first male to graduate from a prestigious eastern women’s college and subsequently strikes up an odd friendship with a self-sacrificing Pakistani ice cream man in Central Park. Some hail it as a return to form. Detractors agree, noting it is a return to the very specific form of youthful, damaged elites in a romanticized New York City interacting with near-mute foreign-born stock characters. Reviews are mixed.
The Sisters Tagliatelli (2019). Anderson seemed here to be self-consciously addressing his reputation for consistently writing thinly developed female characters. “Three chic, mysterious women (Kat Denning, Kristen Stewart and Emma Watson) silently and mirthlessly sit around an apartment in Venice smoking for two hours and listening to Leonard Cohen,” complains one critic. “Barely a movie,” grouses another. The film is light on dialogue, heavy on “Famous Blue Raincoat.”
Seen Those English Dramas! (2037). A well-received 3D concert film of Vampire Weekend’s legendary thirtieth anniversary performance at Madison Square Garden. “Two timeless institutions make rock music history together,” enthuses one respected Internet commenter. “A bunch of twee old farts reliving the Noughties,” gripes a college-aged Internet commenter.
