Hi,
Tuesday, September 25, 2001, 9:17:16 PM, you wrote:
>> From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>
>> . . . I no longer have any cameras or lenses so it's a moot point.
> I know I've been away for a while; did I miss something?
Not much really. Shel has renounced Satan and all his works, which
apparently include cameras and lenses. In the quest for perfect
photographic purity, and the eschewal of all technology that post-dates
Leonardo da Vinci, Shel is now making photographs by wrapping his subjects
in chemically treated linen. The linen comes from his own organic flax
plantations in Patagonia, tended by Mennonite virgins. He formulates the
chemicals himself according to instructions from a book long thought to be
lost that was written in the late 16th century by John Dee, royal necromancer.
Shel has several quarries round the globe from which he obtains the natural
ingredients for the chemistry. The miners are drawn exclusively from men who
find the work in the Serra Pelada diggings a little too easy-going and modern
for their taste.
The development process for these 'photolinenograms' involves storing the
exposed linen wrapped in large oak chests in Renaissance churches in Tuscany
for several hundreds of years, with no agitation. However, thanks to his
rigourous new regime of eating only locusts from the Judaean desert, Shel hopes
to extend his already long life (150 years so far, I heard) and dedicate
the next 2 centuries to maintaining the correct balance of humidity
and temperature in the Tuscan hill towns through a long cycle of
alternately chanting and playing the nose-flute while running on a treadmill
attached to a bellows which blows air over a glowing fire of old-growth Canadian
maple charcoal.
So not much change really.
---
Bob
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