So far in life my biggest claim to fame is that I once got to go backstage at a Mighty Mighty Bosstones concert in Atlanta. I know ladies, try to keep it in your pants. It was a really great experience. Well, honestly, there really wasn’t much to it. There the band was, sitting on a dingy old couch chilling out before the show doing much of nothjing. But for an old ska-core kid like myself, it was still pretty neat!
I’m pretty blown away to announce that my first solo gallery show opens this week at Homer Council on the Arts in Homer, Alaska. ‘At Road’s End: Analog Photography by Clay Duda‘ will hang in the HCOA gallery for the month of May, and in the main hall at South Peninsula Hospital for June and July 2024.
The First Friday opening reception is tomorrow, May 3 from 5-7pm at Homer Council on the Arts, 355 W. Pioneer Ave. in Homer. If you’re in town and interested in that sort of thing, please stop by and say hi.
In the summer of 2023 I was cruising the aisles of the local Salvation Army thrift store in Homer, Alaska and came across some old slide projector carousels and a Crown Royal bag sitting on the shelf. I peaked in the purple bag and pulled out a couple dozen old slides with pictures of family, mountains, glaciers, and other Alaska stuff.
“Pretty neat,” I thought to myself, “maybe I’ll scan these and see what’s on them.”
I paid $1 for the bag and tossed it in my truck. Little did I known the histories and memories it contained.
Like pretty much everybody else in the analog world, I was pretty stoked to hear about the release of a new color film stock by Harman Technologies. It’s not every day (or even every decade?) that a new 35mm film stock is developed from scratch and released into the wild during the age-of-digital-everything. Even though I mostly shoot black-and-white, I coughed up $35.97 to buy three rolls of the new Phoenix 200 “experimental” film from the Film Photography Project store in early December 2023.
“Hey baby I just want to take you home,” the Ouija Beegees song ‘Twilight Zone‘ starts out. “Get high and watch the Twilight Zone.” — and who doesn’t, I guess? Or at least you can let the song take you there.