from the hard drive or hardride

I usally won't post digital works here. However in going through the harddrive I found some images I want to share with you while I am off at kinkos working on the paperblog.

This first image made me remember an art show opening tonight at somarts that might be intresting its called I am crime..heres a link   ..http://www.somarts.org/iamcrime

these were the images I mentioned in an earlier post "police stop muni"  ok--have a nice ride

all shot with 20D CANON in 2009

back from the meat world

Hi there readers, I want to send out a special thank you to the three of you that commented on my writings and photos that third comment was what I was waiting for to post, but right when it came I was caught up in the process of my friend Cameron Falconer making a couple of frames one for him and one for me.
 Well they got finished and I got started on a Misster Pissta  issue of  the Bicycle Siren zine(paperblog), the first I have made in a while and the first ever edition of the bicycle siren in color!

   Somewhere in there i got invited to a photo show at 111minna which took place on 29 februrary at 111 minna. I was trying to finish the zine and some bags to visit Sacremento but it was my birthday weekend and I decided that as fun as a road trip to bicycle geekfest premerio I would rather spend it in Kinkos- the zine is almost done and I will offer it up here when it is completed.
    I have been spending time in the San Francisco Rec&park City Photography Center at the Harvey Milk Building at the west end of Duboce Park or if you prefer  the street address- 50 Scott Street. I used to be a member in the 1980's before the building was rebuilt, now that the darkroom has repopened and it is better than ever.
    I have been excited about putting my polaroids through the canon copier at kinkos to get an 8X10 negative printed on transparency film which I can then make a contact print with at the darkroom it has a scanning process but it seems to be the simplest way to get a wet print from a polaroid and it has satisfying results.
Anyway here is todays Misster Pisstas Streets photos-I took these pictures the 5th of march. I had to take some photos of this building before it was gone. It was called Bluepeter building.. heres info aBOUT it http://www.bluepetersf.org/..  they thought they had it saved..
anyhow its not there today..

OK gotta work on the zine...

stay on two wheels..  misster pissta.

(in the photo of the side of the building you can see the wasps nests that were in the boarded up windows)

Police stop MUNI train

I live on a Muni LRV (light rail vehicle) line so the various different noises the train makes become second nature, some of the conductors ring a bell if there is a pedestrian on the right of way ,some honk the horn ,some only honk for cars , and then there is the sound of the brakes , well there are at least two distinct sounds, from what I   under overstand (I just learned how to use strike through!!) there are three seperate braking systems on the LRV's( more on that later). One of them ,which I assume must be the standard one they use at the lights and what not is a short hydraulic sounding PFFTT, followed by a slight sound like sanding sheetrock right before you paint, this is the one I hear most of the time.

      Once in a while there is a different sound ,it's a louder release of air with a loud clunk after a few seconds followed by a much louder sanding sound that sound more like metal on metal , once in a while this will be interuppeted by the sound of impact and thats what I heard the other morning. I looked out the window and it was a patrol car that got hit (last time it was an 18 wheeler). Well I grabbed a camera and went to make sure everyone was still alive. This was about dawn of the last day of 2011.
      I got down to the corner and one of the officers was guiding his partner back on the sidewalk (UMM.. we have to stay out of the street) , I asked them if they were alright and they both said yes thanks. I then asked them if they wanted me to call 911.. they almost laughed. I took a shot with the digital camera I had grabbed and it looked really bad, I had just put a roll of 3000 speed in the polaroid  180 the night before ,so I went back inside and fetched a tripod and the polaroid I was back outside just as the first responders were arriving.
  You would have thought there were free donuts ... the sad thing is no matter who was a fault the taxpayers are paying for this one, not like when the 18 wheeler truned into the train next to him little more clear cut in that instance (couldnt find my photos of that)..in any case it barely made the papers some of the LRV conductors I talked to said that if it was MUNI's fault it would have been on the front page.

FILM--

two on two -bessa R2C 21mms skopar (made by cosina)

I like film, it never crashes unlike hard drives, and old negatives still work when damaged,
the life span of a self recorded CD is known to be shorter than that .
 Film cameras for the most part are ready to take a photo quicker then the digi counter part, of course you don't know what you exposed till process the film but most of the time its all good.
polaroids give you the feedback instantly but they are a bit hard to open, compose and shoot while riding a bicycle (my motive means).

In any case here are three shots that I would not have got if I didn't have a quick camera at ready--

I just snapped and cropped digiphotos of the prints......someday I will get a scanner working...
enjoy and ...stay on 2 wheels   misster pissta

It didnt have a flat, and the look he gave me, but it sure gave me a double take as well.. (canon autoboy aqua!!)

this is one of the reason I like taking the boat even with a loaded bike you just roll it on trailers? no problem..BART on the ohter hand..leakytube,stinky box..(olympus sylus?)

New Year,new blog new attitude,

 I don't know how you found this blog other than the fact that I'm skitching on the comment section of the bike snob nyc LOB HELP US.. in any case I am happy to present to you--

 my new trashbucket of images, I bring home from my travels about and awheel (I don't really walk that's just for the comment section).
For the most part I will try to stick to film images but as we all know its not what you're shooting, its the shot. With that in mind I give you my premirre posting.
enjoy
MISSTER PISSTA





I was going to Japantown with double ears and I went through opera plaza she went on up Golden Gate..I got stopped by this sight on Van Ness right in front of the bookstore...

three formats ALL ODD?

 I had the Polaroid on my back so I tried to take a shot with it first, pulling out the meter and putting on the portrait attachment ,you know making an image, well after the print was pulled from the camera and developing, I took out the Fujica Mini Half Frame I had in my front pocket for another couple of shots, I develop the polaroid and realize its way too dark,(see upper left photo) That made me worry about the half frames exposure is touchy sometimes on the fujica anyway

FUJICA mini  (1/2 frame) expired fujifilm200

  Ive been in this guys face for like 3 minutes now hes gonna wake up right.
wrong ,just to make sure and becuase the elf.jr was in the bag I took another shoot this time with the flash and the APS camera so there you have it a spread of three formats of one theme. I like the fact that he has a rolling paper in his hand a grinder in his lap.. I really missed out by not taking a picture showing how crowded the sidewalk was ,a lesson for next time.. I bet the bag of WEED was gone shortly after I left.. I don't always have 3 cameras but I usally have two..just in case

.and no I didnt take his bag of weed...

next time I promise bicycles......