the village buzz

this is an old promo shot for an akron band called “three.” i checked for about five minutes, and couldn’t find any relevant links, but i am sure if you spent a couple minutes on myspace, you might be able to find a few.

i had no idea what i was gonna do with this shoot, so i took jarrod along for an extra set of artistic eyes.

i had just picked up an old f1.2 lens at some kinda rummage sale a few weeks before, and i really wanted to try pushing tri-x as far as i could with that lens. it ended up that the lens only fit on a pentax k-mount body, and rendered all metering useless. it wasn’t that big of a deal. i eyeballed it, and i got some good negatives..

i wanted to shoot in a dark basement, lit by only a tiny incandescent bulb, and we found such a corner of their practice room. i started noodling around, and realized that there was not much of a shot there, so i saw an old drum head in the corner, and knowing that jarrod was all artsy like, said.. “make me a ouija board!” and tossed him a sharpie.

within minutes, he inked this one up..

the ULTIMATE cool thing he did on it (and you can see it if you have good eyes) was to put the numbers on the bottom like 1 2 “THREE” 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 .. i thought that was the coolest thing ever.

haven’t heard from chad or stef in years, but i hear from tony every few months..