Friday, October 14, 2011
I met this man while out biking, he runs a sound system/spotlight business, with tons of great old trucks and a ww2 era anti air spotlight. The real gem of his shop was 2 old restored band organs that were in the back. His friend had devoted his life to restoring these things and writing scores for them(which are paper rolls with plugged out holes marking notes). They are "self playing", one was piercing and shrill, but had a great snare, and the other was warm-toned and gorgeous. He also had a bunch of letters from people commending him for his mobile sound work, one was Ted Kennedy. I was using my friends camera when I took these, and forgot to set to camera RAW, which sucks since I couldn't work on exposure and color which all of these desperately need. Nonetheless, I like these pictures because it was the need to take them that led me to meet this man and see all of this history. I think their value is less about artistic form and more about narrative and documentation.
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