Posted by Jason on February 28, 2004 
so today i decided to go to gavin newsom’s first town hall meeting in san francisco. i was there early and sat on an isle seat five rows back from the front. hundreds of people were in attendance. i shot the above image with my trusty holga, the best $20 i ever spent. i’ll do a proper scan after the negative dries.
the most intersting thing i found was one of his aides who was using a canon digital rebel. hold the camera up, snap, check out the lcd, delete. hold the camera up, snap, check out the lcd, delete. this guy must go through batteries like crazy. on one shot, he and i were both behind this woman who was facing forward and newsom was ahead of her. had i brought a proper camera, i would have taken a wide angle shot of her with newsom blurry in the background ahead of her. it would have been a great shot. but this guy was behind me: shoot, check, delete, shoot, check, delete. i almost stopped him and suggested the shot to take. i’m not sure any of his even turned out. it’s great that digital cameras speed image capture up, but it doesnt actually speed up humans.
Posted by Jason on February 26, 2004 today i found a deal on a new 1U server; the price was good so i jumped on it. i grabbed some unused ram and picked up a pair of new disks. i can’t wait to get the machine moved to the colo.. it’s going to be very nice. i’ll move web and database servers to it, and leave email and shell users on the current machine. it should be fairly balanced. anyways, it will let me work on software without disrupting shell users. i will probably take the machine to the colo some time this weekend (when is jon installing his machine?). the new system has 4 times as much memory and 38% higher clock speed as the current system.
Posted by Jason on February 23, 2004 a friend i took photos of came over after dinner so i could show him how i make prints. for some reason, i couldn’t focus. nothing came out. and i’ve printed from the same negative before, no problems. i apologized, showed him the microwave trick with prints, then took him home with some of the 5-sec-interval test prints for show and tell, along with the promise that i’d work on his prints.
now i have my first signed model release form.
Posted by Jason on February 19, 2004 
this is from the roll i shot the other day. delta 3200. i shot it at 1600 and developed in pyro for 18 minutes. the plastic lids on my developing canisters aren’t cutting it. i may keep my eye out for metal lids (will these work on my metal canisters?).. then i’ll be less skiddish about inversions.
i’ve decided my goal for the summer is to build up my body of work. shoot shoot. develop develop. print print. and the new thing — show show. i’m very slowly drumming up interest in my work.
my own taste in photography changes so much it’s difficult for me to pick any of my own work to show. but this summer my goal is to work around that. once i like an image, that’s it — it’s in my new collection.
i was in emeryville today. i saw a bunch of places that would be excellent for portraits.
Posted by Jason on February 18, 2004 today i shot a roll of delta 3200, shot at 1600. i shot it in the morning before it was fully bright out, during the day when it was very sunny and warm, and tonight when it was dark and partly cloudy. all this on the same roll. i developed the roll in pyro.. and the negative looks great! i cant wait to see how it looks on paper. probably scan some frames tomorrow morning.
Posted by Jason on February 17, 2004 
i went out on a short walk while the rain was only misting. i was trying to shoot up a roll of film to have something to use for the pyro developer. my first roll came out interestingly. i got two good images from it..
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