Ryan submitted a new blog post: A Fever Dream On Film... and Now, Paper... Continue reading the Original Blog Post
Still hoping I'm not still asleep, can I really be this lucky? Even if it is a leftover dream from last night, thanks Ryan for a great way to start the day. You rock!
The most fun is always the ride! I sold my Woodie wagon about two years ago, drove it in 33 states over 45 years, raised my son and daughter riding in it. Then my grandkids. It was always fun to drive and enjoy. I have many photo memories of my cars in great places we visited. Not the car pictured. 1948 Chevrolet wagon redid the car three times over that time always improving. The 36 was a Codington built car we owned for about 13 years and drove it all over Midwest. "You got to drive em"
"it was visceral, wild and completely untamed"...WOW!! I think that is what draws us to Hot Rods each time we fire them up....Well said, Ryan, well said.
^right?! I just clicked through figuring they’d be long gone, and I think I got one? Added some other goodies I’ve been thinking about grabbing too.
I don't fall into luck very often, and this time is no different, but turn that into a numbered limited series poster and I'm in.
Great write up, about an interesting situation. Cameras are truly individual little time machines, that allow all of us, to generate captured frozen moments of time, whether its with ancient film cameras, or with what ever digital communication device we have in our pocket. While reading the recent thread on, The New Hot Rod Magazine by @sweet****2 , and all of the opinions posted about what the magazine was and what it isnt, in regards to its history, its refreshing to see such articles as the one Ryan has posted here. Through the modern day technology such as our computers, we have this H.A.M.B. website to use as a very cool, modern day, real time magazine, that we can actually respond to, contribute to and participate in. With the older magazines that so many of us have collected, all we can do is look at them and enjoy them with the words and pictures that were captured so long ago. But now with this realm of websites such as this, we can enjoy what others have captured and published, and literally look back in time! Thanks from Dennis.
This whole mess began with me trying to bring some order to my darkroom while yearning to write more. It started simple—posting old photos and rambling about them here, all confined to one thread because, let’s be honest, my writing has a short shelf life for most people. But the act of digging through the archives led to something else: making a few prints. Not for profit, not for posterity—just for ****s, giggles, and the sake of knocking the dust off my skills. And then the prints started to pile up. A looming stack of indecision. What the hell do I do with these things? The answer hit me like a slow-moving truck: why not reward the poor souls who wade through my drivel? Why not give away a few prints as a token of my gra***ude—or pity? So here we are. I’m going to keep doing this. Sometimes, it’ll be small prints, handed out for free like the first hit from a pusher. Other times, if I manage to stumble into something halfway decent, I might charge a bit for larger, more substantial prints—***uming my photography and printing skills can rise to the occasion. But let’s not kid ourselves. I’m not a professional photographer, and my printmaking is amateur at best. It’s all just part of the ride. It is what it is. Take it or leave it.
"Then I got to the front. There was a car show tag in the windshield. It had my name on it. At first, my brain couldn’t process it. I looked back toward the kitchen and saw Marcie, Keith, and Mary grinning at me through the window like kids watching a prank unfold. And then it hit me. Hard. I’d been “overhauled.” Really like this very cool back story!
Dammit, I opened the link early this morning when I got to work (I don't own a computer at home, never have), then got called out to the shop to help a couple of the fellas, so I was too late by the time I just got done reading to claim a prize....awesome pic, awesome story. Congrats to those that got a print.
Neat pic. I guess if you do more , it's a luck of the draw. Sub quote; " handed out for free like the first hit from a pusher." You think ? @Ryan
I can completely understand! This only comes true for a few of us and I happen to be one of the "chosen". Mine sat at Jimmy's body shop for 8 years getting attention on Tuesday and Friday evenings after regular hours but the difference is I had to pay for the body work......but it was a fraction of what "Joe customer" would pay. It's exactly what I wanted!!!! You've seen it, nothing special with zero finish work. The feeling is the same every time I look at it. Blown completely away! We're so lucky!
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