[alt-photo] Re: Malin's map

[Diana Bloomfield]

Hey Trevor,

Oh-- ha--  I didn't check the map closely enough to see that someone  
doing alt processes was living in Saudi Arabia.  You're right.  I  
suspect you won't get any visitors anytime soon.   I live in North  
Carolina, also kind of distant and foreign to many (though not to me  
as I'm a native)-- but may as well be on another planet with regard to  
alt processes.  Though some numbers of people are scattered far and  
wide throughout the state doing really interesting alt work, I've  
discovered, and the numbers seemed to have picked up significantly  
over the last few years-- surprisingly.  Or maybe they just started  
making their work more visible, via the internet.

I've met several people from this particular list over the years, and  
although not awkward-- no one has ever been exactly what I expected,  
or as I had envisioned, based solely on his or her work and posts.   
Well, I take that back-- one person was exactly as I had imagined.   
Not sure what that means, but at least the encounters have always been  
positive.

Good luck with your transparency/printer search.  Seems to me the  
chemical distributor would be the biggest challenge, so the rest  
should be easy.

Diana


On Jan 5, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Trevor Cunningham wrote:

> Diana
>
> I was making a joke, but one based on logistics rather than  
> socializing (although, I've oft imagined chance meetings of Internet  
> acquaintances as potentially awkward). I currently live in Saudi  
> Arabia and largely doubt a tremendous amount of alt attention in  
> this neck of the woods. However, I have found a chemical distributor  
> and may be getting back into a workflow if I can find suitable  
> transparency substrate and a decent printer.
>