Florida from my eyes.

well we finally return from our roadtrip and we are exhausted but satisfied. i know matt already went through most of it so ill just chip in a little wordage and some digital photos (i sent off a 60$ processing order for all the film i shot so ill have the scans up in a few days).

matt and i

So basically we woke up on Saturday morning and left Chicago with st. Louis as our destination in mind. it took roughly four hours to get there but we were greeted by thousands of people watching and participating in their st. patties day parade. So we shot there for a while then booked it towards Nashville, which was probably an 8ish hour drive. when we got there we were amazed because it was a beautiful city and everyone was wasted. later that night we found a hotel outside of Nashville, slept, ate, and then continued onwards toward Florida. blah blah blah we get to Daytona Beach and it is completely dead. like i was suprised to NOT see tumbleweeds rolling across the street. we were very confused because its fucking SB2K7 (spring break 2007) and there were signs all over the place that basically said, 'welcome to daytona beach spring breakers come get wasted and fuck this town up!' but no one was there... so here are some images from D. Beach.

After the disappointment's of Daytona Beach we headed south to our actual destination and home for the week ahead Hobe Sound, Average age 97. But don't get me wrong it was a beautiful town with a really nice beach. there was just no one within our age group and we DESPERATELY searched.

the next day we decided to trek down to Miami. and man was it a great idea. probably one of my favorite cities everrrrrrrrrrrrrr. the colors and architecture and people and stores are awesome. and the beach is beautiful tooooo white sand and really nice green blue water. Most of what i shot in miami was film so ill update this in a few days, but i did get a shot of some drunkass trying to catch a seagull. i was amused. so was he.

Drunkass ^^

the rest of what i shot digitally was on the way home. so here they are.

naturally we stopped at dinosaur world ^^ outside of louisville

matt was an excited little boy.

this is a 13 foot gator! DANG THATS A BIG GATOR!

Sup Sup.

We're home again. And scared shitless to send out all our film to get processed, but it needs to get done. I'm pretty exhausted and need to sleep but I'm going to give a brief run down of the trip and show some digital snapshots along the way.

Alrighty, well first my apologies for no updates this week, even if we did have a way to upload images onto Trev's laptop, we had no internet all week, so here's the quick overview of everything. We'll probably be posting the next entries in sections of cities visited.

First we left last Saturday and headed for St. Louis as I stated in the last post. It was a good time and relieving to stop and hang out for awhile. However lugging a view camera around along with an RB67, a 30D, and a 35mm slr...sucks. After St. Louis, I realized choosing 1 or 2 formats only was necessary.




We then headed to Nashville which on the way we drove through the Chattanooga mountains, they were amazing.







We ate at a place called Demo's, the food was great and everybody was wasted cause of St. Patrick's day. It was awesome. We stayed in Nashville, like I said in the last post and that was sweet. We then headed toward Florida and didn't stop until we hit Jacksonville where we went to Steak and Shake. We were dedicated customers of Steak and Shake...until this visit. The service set us back almost 2 hours. So that sucked.





And a note to anyone who's driving through Jacksonville, do yourself a favor and listen to Ryan Adams' "Jacksonville City Nights." But don't roll your windows down and sing at the top of your lungs while stuck in traffic. You'll successfully get the entire city of Jacksonville to hate you. Not that we did that.

At around 1 a.m. we were passing Daytona Beach and figured that since it's spring break(ish) for most people, the town will probably be a crazy party. We were sadly mistaken but ended up staying there anyways, which turned out to be pretty cool. We had to check out the next morning by 11 so me and Trev got up at around 8 to shoot a bit before we had to go.




At 11 we checked out of the hotel but went and parked somewhere so we could stick around and photograph the area a little more. We'll post more of that stuff when we get our film back.

We then headed toward our original destination, Hobe Sound, where we were staying for the week. A little known fact: we were the youngest people in Hobe Sound...ever. But they have a couple pretty awesome beaches.





We stayed around there that night, well kind of. We drove to West Palm Beach, but again, no one was around at all. So we drove back. The next day we decided to try out Miami, since it was only an hour and a half away or something like that. Miami was awesome.










We'll post more soon, can you tell I'm exhausted? Have a good week guys.

Chicago to Nashville

Sorry guys, we've got no way to post any photos so far on the trip. We forgot our card readers at home and we've only got unprocessed film other than that. Anyways, for an update we headed out of Chicago this morning at 8:30 and we got to Nashville at around 8...30 ish tonight. As soon as we saw how awesome Nashville was we decided to get dinner there, roam around til 11:30 and we're now at I think Country Inn Suites or something like that. It's nice. We also made a detour earlier today to St. Louis and shot some St. Patrick's day festivities for an hour or so. The weather's getting kind of warmer and the accents are getting stronger, it's awesome being around completely new areas that are so unfamiliar to us. The car's running like a champion and we just downloaded some Tom Petty tonight so we'll be set for tomorrow.

The hotel is giving us free "hot breakfast" tomorrow morning. Sup.

Florida...2 more days...sup!

These images are now hanging in the display case on the 11th floor of the 600 building now thanks to Jennifer. Thanks Jennifer! Even though this week has been less assignment-driven than all the rest of the semester, it still seems much more hectic: getting things together for the Civic Arts Foundation Competition, finishing midterms, skipping English Comp II, and also outputting what we did this past weekend. Not to mention getting things and ideas together for the Florida trip. We're crossing our fingers that the color neg film we ordered 2 weeks ago gets here by Friday. If not, that means we'll have to spend much more money on much more film. Heyo...Alright, well. Now more project proposals to write, goodnight.

Here's two more from last weekend.






-Matt

A quick review

I'm kind of in a hurry to edit the images for the Civic Arts Foundation contest I'll be applying to so I quickly edited some of the digital photos from the weekend to give a quick run through.

This past weekend we went to Rockford to visit our friend Kristen before she moved to NYC for good. It was a really good time and we got some good shots, too.

Here's a few digital snapshots to help you get an idea of Rockford.



















We then headed toward Champagne-Urbana and stopped in Bloomington-Normal for Denny's on the way.



We got to Champagne around 7 and explored the area and shot a bit until around 11. Then my friend Rojo came home from a party and we hung out with him and my other friend Danny and their roommates for awhile and walked around Green Street. Thanks everyone for letting us stay over this past weekend, it's much appreciated.
















Have a good one guys, more shots from this weekend will be up soon.


p.s. we're going to florida on saturday. sup.