time flies

the time is zipping by... and i'll be back in Louisiana in 9 days. we did the cd in the first days i was here; then listened and mixed and edited for several days before Michael went back to the states. now my gigs have begun, but will soon be over. as always just when the time comes to leave [wherever i am] i want to begin a lot of projects...

i found some collages i had begun a year ago, and left- as well as some 'sample' music projects i'd begun and left... as well as having brought cameras with me to make photos [and i have only been shooting snapshots with the digital cameras]... i found some great lenses in several brocante... but i have NOT been making any real photos. the plan is to go out and shoot some today when i get up...but it's 4.30AM and i have been burning dvds from the sessions, making clips, as well as from the MIA show... all night... so... i fear i wont be getting up early. but then, the magic hour for shooting is never "en plein jour" [in broad daylight] ... i missed an opportunity today as it was very cloudy, which could have made for some dramatic shots... but got lost in digital media land. voila!

i have a few days off to play around- have been interested in doing some transfers, ala' rauschenberg... but then, i'd do better to do that at home when i have more time. right now, the focus is on the music... and photographs, of course...

[c] 2008 doug duffey

zurich and solothurn

zurich: a shot from the airport window- with some pasted-on bird on the glass

below: solothurn- from the car

we got up at 5AM and drove michael to the airport. he flew over with me to make the new cd- and was here for 10 days. while he was checking in, i shot the top shot- afterward, driving home, i made some random shots.

we hit some thrift stores en route and i found some great lenses & filters for my 'real' cameras; some old 8mm movie; and a very old reel-to-reel tape of what looks like "field recordings" recorded in Africa in a very nice old metal cannister which says "eastman kodak" - there again it might be a movie, i didnt go past the 'leader'- and some cool old black and white foto books of europe, sicily, switzerland, etc. those finds made getting up early nicer.

[c] 2008 doug duffey

shots from bern & interlaken

we went for a day trip to show michael [rasbury] some of switzerland before he went back to the USA. he and i walked around bern and shot some things- here are some of mine done with my little exilim [the older one]
bern:i didnt shoot much in interlaken:

[c] 2008 doug duffey

shots from the hood

we've been recording daily since i got here may 6- and haven't been had time to do anything else; but did manage to get out yesterday and go around to show Michael some local color.
[c] 2008 doug duffey