Juxt Art » flash mob http://jackwhitsitt.com Art of Jack Whitsitt, a Washington, DC Based Artist and Information Security Architect Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:31:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Zombie Raid 70′s Style http://jackwhitsitt.com/2010/03/zombie-raid-70s-style/ http://jackwhitsitt.com/2010/03/zombie-raid-70s-style/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:20:30 +0000 admin http://jackwhitsitt.com/?p=603 Ok, I know. Lot’s of zombie pics on this site. This batch, however, while they are from the same raid I posed about last time, are actually examples of what I really wanted to accomplish visually. One of the ideas had been to take a retro/70′s documentary style film strip of the event and have the film developed as if the shots were taken from a tourist camera while said tourist was running for her life. I used a half-frame 35mm camera and some slide film.  I then projected the developed slide film through one of my old-school film-strip projectors and took digital photos of the projected results. The results are awesome and I feel like they really tell a story. Enjoy:

]]> http://jackwhitsitt.com/2010/03/zombie-raid-70s-style/feed/ 0 Zombie Raid! in Washington, DC http://jackwhitsitt.com/2009/09/zombie-raid-in-washington-dc/ http://jackwhitsitt.com/2009/09/zombie-raid-in-washington-dc/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:10:18 +0000 admin http://jackwhitsitt.com/?p=549 In keeping with the zombie theme I keep bumping up against (in fact, as I write this I’m on my way to dragon*con in Atlanta where I will – you guessed it – dress up as a zombie), Paivi and I attended a staged “zombie” raid in DC a few weeks ago – this time as photographers.  There weren’t as many zombies as we had hoped, but the effect couldn’t have been better. The zombies: Scared a woman back into an elevator, scared Starbucks patrons by clawing windows, broke a metro escalator by riding down at the same time, converted innocent bystanders on the metro train to zombies, mixed and mingled with Scientology Protesters in costume, and finally ended up at the MTV Real World DC House where they convinced one of the cast members to put on some makeup and a zombi-fied tshirt.

For the raid, my goal was actually to create an 80′s style fim strip of the raid (to be projected)using a cheap half frame 35mm camera.  I did get some great shots, but I had the camera 90 degrees the wrong way the whole time (horizontally positioning the camera resulted in….vertically framed shots. ugh).

I’ll try and figure out a fix for that later, but for now I wanted to post some of my digital shots from the raid. I think they’d some of the best shits I’ve gotten in awhile. In keeping with the theme, though, I did break one of my rules and really played with the colorization of the shots to make them feel more apocalypse-movie than they did by themselves. Let me know how you like the results?

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