New camera arrived this morning. This is a mint condition Polaroid Land 250 – easily the nicest one I’ve ever seen, and I paid nine dollars (including shipping) for it. I am stoked. This will probably become my default medium-format camera, and I will likely turn one or two of the others into pinhole cameras Read more >>

I told myself yesterday that no matter how much snow fell, if my interviewer was in the office at 9am, I would make the drive and show up for the interview. I can write a lot of exposition, but it can be summed up in two words – okay, one. Hellish. Oh my god. The Read more >>

My stuff is up at Polaroid (look for “Brianna Privett”). I have a stack of new emulsion lifts I’m doing this week, plus about twenty five images that have yet to be added to the gallery at brianna.org. Now that it’s up, I’m wondering why I picked those exact images to submit. In the brain Read more >>

Here are the two cyanotypes that turned out in today’s session. I printed four, two with negatives from Polaroid 665 P/N BW film and two with digital negatives I made a few years ago for printing kallitypes. The digital negatives have WAY more contrast than the regular ones, largely because I edited them to be Read more >>

So, right after I am talking to J. about the poisonous nature of potassium ferrocyanide, I look over to see my cat LICKING last night’s test photograph that I had brought out to show him. Which is still TOTALLY COVERED IN CHEMICALS. Jesus, I am so glad I don’t have kids. I threw the test Read more >>

I mixed up a batch of photo chemicals last night around eight, ferric ammonium citrate, potassium dichromate, and…what was the other one…oh yeah, the poisonous one, potassium ferrocyanide. I only made a little mess. Hopefully none of us are poisoned yet. Anyway, today I was really looking forward to contact printing some cyanotypes, but we Read more >>

Thanks for all your comments on the last entry, guys. I can’t believe how that one little bit of news from Polaroid motivated me yesterday. I did so. much. work. on my gallery yesterday. Now I just need to make a huge film order and I’ll be content on the photography front. By the way, Read more >>

Got two bits of good news. Polaroid’s website is going to include some of my altered Polaroid work as part of their artist’s portfolios. The communication was really spectacular from the company, and of course I’m thrilled to pieces about it. Number two, I have an interview and Big Financial Behemoth on Thursday morning. Wish Read more >>

Today’s to do list. • Clean out office and set up photo station • Write real journal entry • Strips! Hagar first. • 3,000 words, baby. Every day. • Do some yoga, once J. gets out of the living room for five minutes. • House cleaning!! Bathrooms, floors, kitchen, dust and tidy library • Maybe, Read more >>

I found a trial copy of a database progam called Life Balance, that is sort of an uber-to-do list maker. You can set broad goals like “Keep Life Organized” and “Take charge of physical well-being” and then create specific tasks and goals within those categories that are reflected in sort of a basic accomplishment pie Read more >>