I was online today purchasing some sort of Age-Defying, Youth Enhancing, Wrinkling Asskicking moisturizer. I am 26 years old and am just starting to see the beginnings of lines on my face that are eventually going to mature into wrinkles.

Full-on panic-mode… ENGAGE.

It’s been a decade since I bought my first car – a blue 1972 Dodge Dart that I spent $500 for at an auction. Five hundred dollars worth of freedom. It feels like ages ago, but it was only ten years.

I pulled straight A’s throughout my entire grade school career. However, sometime around 7th grade,  friends and boys and hanging out suddenly became more important, and things went downhill. This trend continued into highschool, when I purchased said car.

I failed Physics the year I bought it. I didn’t fail because I couldn’t do the work. I failed because I couldn’t show up. I spent more time in parks and diners and just driving around than I did in class.

So I had to go to summer school. My summer science teacher, as it turned out, was the very same who had failed me in his Physics class. I’d interacted very little with him during the year, since I usually wasn’t even out of bed by the time his class began. He was a late-twenty-something, sloppy-haired, beardy man who looked like he’d crawled out of a 70’s era skateboarding video. He was having a fairly well-known affair with a married English teacher. In my infinite 16-year-old wisdom, I hated him. I hated him because I thought he was a pompous, English-teacher-shagging, has-been scenester who had had the audacity to fail me. I mean come on – I’m friggin’ awesome. You don’t fail me.

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I was contacted recently by the lovely Cassi Heitmann about having a display of my prints for sale in the Heitmann Gallery. Of course I jumped at the opportunity, so beginning tomorrow, Friday April 3rd, and for at least the next three months, I will have a display there. It’s a gorgeous gallery space and although it’s very new, Cassi seems like a very smart and talented lady and I think her gallery has huge potential. I’m really excited about the opportunity to display there.

So if you’re in the area of Lancaster, PA, go visit! The Heitmann Gallery is located on the very first block of Lancaster’s famed Gallery Row, right above Metropolis on the second floor.

Heitmann Atelier & Gallery
104 West Chestnut Street
2nd Floor Front
Lancaster, PA 17603

www.heitmannateliergallery.com

Well, 2009 is off to a fantastic start. I just had the most kickass birthday weekend ever, Barack Obama is being inaugurated today, and now this:

Polaroid is transforming itself from an analog Instant Film Production Company to a global Consumer Electronics and Digital Imaging company.

Production of analog Instant Film stopped in June 2008, closing the factories in Mexico (Instant Packfilm production) and the Netherlands (Instant Integral production).

Impossible b.v. has been founded with the concrete aim to re-invent and re-start production of analog INTEGRAL FILM for vintage Polaroid cameras. (Continue reading…)