Black and White.
Yes, it HAS been a while. I could list the reasons I haven't been very active for the last... well.. months, but I'd really come short in terms of actually respectable excuses.
My life really didn't get too exciting since I started writing on LJ, and I'm kinda tired of filling these pages with useless rants about it, instead I've decided to turn this into a photojournal of sorts (you might have noticed most of my updates include a picture or two at least lately). I'll be uploading art, pictures and other short anecdotes when the time comes.
So yeah, that's my return, techincally.
Anyway, the following are some scans of (the best pictures in) the three albums I slowly collected last year between the months of august and November.
(You might wanna close other windows because this crap is HEAVY)
Somewhere around October, Kioshi and I went to teotihuacan to get some sweet-ass pictures of the ancient city to fill a small photography album and report.
That stupid, STUPID chain.
Unluckily for us, it wasn't quite the sunniest day ever...
... Which kinda shows in all the pictures.
Some surfaces seem flat because of the film we used (I usually recommend Tri-X 400), ours was 125, I think.
You may also connect some imperfections to the fact that it was 8 am and we didn't know what the hell we were doing so far away from our bed at that time of the day.
I didn't quite understand depht of field at the time, either.
Notice the tiny people in the back and compare them to the structures.
Now, this ain't Mayan at all, of course. Aztec civilizations came in some time later...
... the point is, I watched "Apocalypto" and Mel's interpretation of prehispanic culture in it is out of context, anachronic and overall racist. The movie is full of shit, really.
People who made these, they're not savages, you know?
We'll skip a century later away from this rant and into (late) Colonial Architecture...
This is the temple of Santo Domingo, a few blocks away from the core of Mexico City.
This was the first actual convent in Mexico, built around 1527.
Of course, it's gone through several states of construction and modifications.
There was a flood somewhere in 1629, but it didn't quite affect this temple or the small market right next to it. People were batshit insane abour religion at the time.
The entrance.
Some holy liquid placebos.
I think this was Santo Domingo...
... or maybe this other dude, I'm not too sure anymore.
The entrance again, this time with longer exposition.
Window inside one of the small chapels
Outside again, hot day. Notice the difference in depht and texture with the previous pictures. These ones were taken with a Tri-X 400 film on a very sunny day.
The following ones are from my neighborhood for another project called "The place I live in", yeah, I know the title sounds like grade school homework.
A coffee shop pretty near my house, tasty.
Stairway to my rooftop.
Mistah wion.
Shandi teh boxer.
Subway electrical stairs.
Usual sight in the city.
Promises and prayers at the local church.
The original sign in the church' backyard read "this garden is yours, take care of it", but some wise ass changed it to "This is god's garden, take care of it"
That'd be it for the night.
-JaZ
My life really didn't get too exciting since I started writing on LJ, and I'm kinda tired of filling these pages with useless rants about it, instead I've decided to turn this into a photojournal of sorts (you might have noticed most of my updates include a picture or two at least lately). I'll be uploading art, pictures and other short anecdotes when the time comes.
So yeah, that's my return, techincally.
Anyway, the following are some scans of (the best pictures in) the three albums I slowly collected last year between the months of august and November.
(You might wanna close other windows because this crap is HEAVY)
Somewhere around October, Kioshi and I went to teotihuacan to get some sweet-ass pictures of the ancient city to fill a small photography album and report.
That stupid, STUPID chain.
Unluckily for us, it wasn't quite the sunniest day ever...
... Which kinda shows in all the pictures.
Some surfaces seem flat because of the film we used (I usually recommend Tri-X 400), ours was 125, I think.
You may also connect some imperfections to the fact that it was 8 am and we didn't know what the hell we were doing so far away from our bed at that time of the day.
I didn't quite understand depht of field at the time, either.
Notice the tiny people in the back and compare them to the structures.
Now, this ain't Mayan at all, of course. Aztec civilizations came in some time later...
... the point is, I watched "Apocalypto" and Mel's interpretation of prehispanic culture in it is out of context, anachronic and overall racist. The movie is full of shit, really.
People who made these, they're not savages, you know?
We'll skip a century later away from this rant and into (late) Colonial Architecture...
This is the temple of Santo Domingo, a few blocks away from the core of Mexico City.
This was the first actual convent in Mexico, built around 1527.
Of course, it's gone through several states of construction and modifications.
There was a flood somewhere in 1629, but it didn't quite affect this temple or the small market right next to it. People were batshit insane abour religion at the time.
The entrance.
Some holy liquid placebos.
I think this was Santo Domingo...
... or maybe this other dude, I'm not too sure anymore.
The entrance again, this time with longer exposition.
Window inside one of the small chapels
Outside again, hot day. Notice the difference in depht and texture with the previous pictures. These ones were taken with a Tri-X 400 film on a very sunny day.
The following ones are from my neighborhood for another project called "The place I live in", yeah, I know the title sounds like grade school homework.
A coffee shop pretty near my house, tasty.
Stairway to my rooftop.
Mistah wion.
Shandi teh boxer.
Subway electrical stairs.
Usual sight in the city.
Promises and prayers at the local church.
The original sign in the church' backyard read "this garden is yours, take care of it", but some wise ass changed it to "This is god's garden, take care of it"
That'd be it for the night.
-JaZ