Independence day.

Here in Little Italy we celebrate the freedom to shoot off fireworks in the middle of the street while buses and cars wait to pass. Probably the most unsafe yet wonderful fireworks display I've ever experienced.

Today's listening:

A friend at work shared this album with me earlier this week and today I discovered it's great listening for a day of being productive at home. Some Ra Ra Riot and some Vampire Weekend, all goodness. The gorgeous album cover almost matches my shirt today.

The only thing better than a three day weekend is a surprise three day weekend.

Dearest perfect apartment,
Andrew and I are looking for you. Please turn up without difficulty.
Sincerely,
Cheryl Andrey

What developed.

I had nearly forgotten about these rolls of film that I shot this spring. I had to dig around in some boxes to find my darkroom bag so I could get the film out of my Holga. I'm not totally sure how I feel about the 35mm adapter that I bought for it. I chose to get that so I don't have to spend a lot getting my 120 film developed, but I'm not loving the results yet. I'll shoot another roll before I decide to ditch it though. And of course, my broken Pop Cam...I'm so glad it broke. The results are always so ethereal and dreamy, and full of color. I'm beginning to think it has some major delay in the shutter that I don't notice because it always seems to produce remnants of images that I know I never shot, like my feet, or things that would have been to the side of something that I did shoot. These images are typically blurred, as if I wasn't holding the camera still while it was shooting. It's sort of eerie and lovely all at once. But anyways, some of my favorites from these two rolls of film are below.

Today:

- I love Cleveland. More than usual.
- Went to Made in the 216 and got inspired.
- Treated myself to one of the Pantone mugs I've been eyeing for a year or so.
- Ate delicious sample food at Whole Foods and homemade chocolate chip cookies.
- "Voted best burgers and wings in Little Italy"...I'm pretty sure they won by default considering every other restaurant in Little Italy only serves Italian food, not burgers and wings.
- Finally developed some rolls of film I've had in my cameras for months.
- I'm getting even more excited about the wedding now that the flowers that I'm growing for it are finally starting to bloom.
- Starting to pack random things, although we still don't know where we will live.
- I need to learn how to properly sew a zipper into something.
- Drawing, drawing, drawing.

Summer storms.

Wonderful, wonderful things.