Structures and strangers — finally hanging...

On Saturday a crew of Nashettes and the Atkins hung the show at Salt.  All the extra help was much apprreciated after an unplanned visit to a local cath lab and couple of hospital night sleep overs during the week. Only one missfire, because of its size we wern't able to hang the five+ foot wide Pancake Breakfast, the catalog cover shot.  It was replaced with ZCBJ Lodge #298 — Box Butte County, NE (2006) — see the bottom of the post.

The opening was fabulous with Salt doing the wine and cheese and maybe as many as 100 attendees — it was pretty steady from 3:30 up until about 6:00PM. Many thanks to Jane, Jason, Paco and the entire Salt staff. Eric Zygmont covered the event for the Baltimore Guide.

Here are couple of shots by KHH and her always present iPhone.  The ugly one, the last one is of course mine.

A loose artists proof — KHH

TRN from behind - KHHThe show catalog.  It is gorgeous, we are selling copies of it for $50.  Slideshow version here at Vimeo.

The Show Catalog - JEN

We sold a bunch of stuff.  Here is the deal:

All sales of photographs are transacted with Friends of Patterson Park (FOPP) and may be eligible for a tax deduction. Salt will accept payment and and ensure 100% of the funds get to FOPP.

The photographs are part of a “Salt Tavern Limited Edition” which is limited to three prints of each photograph at each offered size.  All photographs are signed and numbered by the artist “au verso” on the rear of the print.  At the buyers discretion unframed prints may also be signed in the lower right front below the print itself.

All photographs are printed, using an Epson 4900 Printer and Ultrachrome HDR Ink on Epson “Signature Worthy” Hot Press Natural Fine Art Paper.  The artist personally printed each print.  When displayed using conservation materials, prints made with this ink and paper combination can be expected to not noticeably fade or change color balance for approximately 100 years.  A certificate of authenticity will be provided with each print.

The prints on display are each numbered #1 and were framed by the artist using Nielsen Bainbridge Profile 97 Aluminum moldings.  Each frame contains a back mat of 4 ply museum board; the front mat is either 4 or 8 ply museum board depending on the size of the print.  The frame also contains a conservation-grade backing sheet.  The backing sheet is foam core in the 16 in x 20 in frames and museum board in the 24 in x 32 in frames.  The 16 in x 20 in frames are glazed with Tru Vue® Conservation Reflection Control Glass (Conservation), the 24 in x 32 in frames are glazed with Tru Vue® Anti-Reflection Glass (AR).  Regardless of size the all frames have a Tyvek dust cover installed.

Prints numbered #2 and #3 will be delivered unmated and unframed in a clear conservation bag. 

10 in x 14 in framed (#1) are $275, unframed (#s 2 and 3) are $200

16.25 in x 24.25 in framed (#1) are $475, unframed (#s 2 and 3) are $400.  The large images are also avaiable unframed in 10 in x 14 in (#s 1, 2 and 3).

Unframed prints maybe signed on the front in the border by the artist at the buyers request.  This signature can be revealed or hidden at the buyers discretion when they have the print framed.

Unframed prints can be delivered within one week of purchase.  We ask that the buyers of the framed prints allow them to stay on display until the end of the show to encourage sale of the unframed prints and the creation of larger benefit stream to FOPP.

ZCBJ Lodge #298 — Box Butte County, NE (2006)


Pearl Dive

Another stunner by SO. iPhone to Poladroid to the blog. No review on the place yet, just a snap of the gritty sign — in DC at 14th and Corcoran.  

Now...  as Paul Harvey would say, here is the rest of the story, a serendipitous story it turns out.  Sunday, I was talking to guy, a docent, if they call them that, at Longwood Gardens. I think he was dispatched to tell me about the professional photographic rules, assumed from the equipment, certainly not the photographic income level. Once we established that I was not an artist for hire, the conversation turned interesting and about DC. He tells me his daughter is the pastry chef at Black Salt, a place I have been known to frequent, and that she had taken on additional duties at another one of Black's restaurants, also in DC, somewhere near DuPont. I don't know that he told me the name but we did discuss the the prescence of a Bocci court upstairs. I now know the name, Pearl Dive. Have to check it out. Hope it turns out as good as Black Salt and the sign. Cheers Bill.

BTW, Bill gets around and we were also talking about the traffic jams and the lobsta' rolls at Red's Eats on Route 1 in Wiscasset, ME. 

Pearl Dive — 14th and Corcoran, Washington DC

Get baked!

At Baked and Wired in G'town.  Ghost post — Urban Dictionary required to decode "Get Baked". Ghost distantly related perhaps to Ned, so operating with a 3GS, ergo no Hipstamatic yielding in addition to Baked and Wired cupcakes an upside-down tech cake.  Hipstamatic here simulated in Photoshop CS5, not on iPhone4 but on flush Mac Pro with JennieW actions. So go and get baked.

Another

stunning iPhone snap by SO — like the Tabard and the Chucks in a deluge. On Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown this AM.  This one scores with the Jack Rogers sandals to boot. Fan girls of the world unite!

Serendipity

across the better part of a decade.  Lots of frames within frames.  The SO dropped the top two into my box yesterday, immediately reminding me of some shots from July of '04.  First two frame the Severn in Anne Arundle County, MD the second two the Potomac in St. Mary's County, MD.  The upper iPhoned by SO yesterday the lower mine snapped via Canon 10D in '04. Top two clearly resonate better.  Fortunately, me not so... err... structured anymore.  

Black, white, like salt of course...

with an occasional splash of pink.  All from Salt, some by me, most by SO, all in squares, black and white squares, like a New England front hall, all with the XZ-1...

Now with valet parking?  Hah! Not likely.

On deck

Paco creates some concotion

Darren (the Murphy doppelgänger) preps a Silver Bullet

Iconic abscence

Waiter, waiting... patiently

Deal doer?

Sputnik POV

 Stoly alley

There is a one bullet limit

For Murphy

Tongue tied

The party's over

On the stoop

Looking across Pratt along Collington

Alas the evening ends

Pseudo Polaroid ala Hopper

Inspiration struck the SO on an arctic night in DC.  Visited Tabard Inn for craft cocktails at the soothingly vintage bar.  Spotted the Hopperesque lovely captured by iPhone snap below, backlit perfectly in her jewel of an office next to the Tabard's lucky Buddah.  Order the Emerson from Chantal.  Transcendent, whispers the SO.