A bit of odd scheduling this week kept me from much film development, but I did manage a successful close to an excellent Friday. I'm celebrating with a look at a
stamp (yes, a postage stamp).
There aren't many postage stamps out there with 12,500 dpi (linear) scans of genuine Ansel Adams prints as their raw material.
This is one:
An Unnamed Peak, Kings River Canyon, California
National Archives no. 79-AAH-8Ansel Adams
As regular readers (and Adams-philes) know, the Mural Project images are based on original prints roughly the size of an average piece of typing paper. Neither stamps nor murals are quite what Adams was burning & dodging for when he created these prints. However, I would put it to you that it still makes for one heck of a stamp.
As a side note, if we have any readers who can shoot HD video of this location, please feel free to let me know. Just post a comment. Thanks.
An Unnamed Peak
Good news: My kludge worked. Feeding this Blogger blog to Twitter via TwitterFeed and having Facebook catch the Twitter RSS seems more effective than just letting Facebook catch the blog's RSS.
Definitely not what I had in mind... but I'll get over it.
RSS Repair!
Our RSS feed to Facebook was broken, so I rigged a feed via Twitter (Blogger to Twitter to Facebook). Let's see if it works!
RSS Repair?
I'm expecting to get my hands on a stack of Adams-related paperwork today -- possibly some FBI security-related stuff, if we're lucky. That (and the non-decaf chai burbling next to my desk) has me pretty charged-up and in need of a creative outlet.
How about you pick an image from our
Facebook collection of Mural Project photos and I'll cobble together a wall-hanging, a t-shirt and a postage stamp for our
Zazzle collection (there's some free shipping thing going on).
Cool? What's your favorite image?
Tuesday -- Contract Day?
One last thing: I neglected to mention that I've finally posted the image of mountains (and a bit of tree) in
Glacier National Park, Montana, as a straight poster/print/wall-hanging in Zazzle. So, if aprons and ties aren't your thing, how about a colossal, gloss-canvas, wood-framed presentation?
Or maybe just a poster for a college student's wall?
Either way, proceeds go to gas money for the necessary road-trips to faraway locations. We're on a budget, y'know?
Glacier National Park
At long last, I have finally cracked and made a Facebook page for
The Mural Project Movie. The RSS from the website's blog passes to it. The full collection of Mural Project images (at least the ones currently mounted at Interior) are in place. All we need are a few million like-minded individuals to "like" the page -- oh, and to finish the research and principal photography. And editing.
Back to work!
Well, at least it's not a pair of Ansel Adams sneakers.
