A trip down the alt-process road

I had the opportunity to sit through a 5 hour Gum Bichromate demonstration today. Way fun. The process involves a few nasty chemicals and a lot of time. It's so cool though! It involves making a three color print (based off of a CMYK model usually) with light sensitized water-colour pigments. They're beautiful images if one can overcome the technical difficulties involved. I highly recommend check out Christina Anderson's website (http://christinazanderson.com/) to see some of the phenomenal work she produces in this medium. I hope to be able to create something even a fraction as brilliant as she has with it. Made one single color exposure today that we will have to see if it produces anything worthwhile.

Earlier today i was trying to figure out a set of images i would like to attempt to print with in the gum and started to recall my "journey" project, which i already talked about a little bit. It doesn't exactly match up with what i've been doing in my photography class so far this semester, which may throw everyone for a loop, but i enjoy the possibility of building a 3-part image that would have a vague narrative format. A starting point image, a now image and an end... which according to the whole concept with the journey project, there really is no destination, so it wouldn't really be a period to the sentence but more like an ellipsis (who gets the reference? nudge nudge...)

Anyway, i was going back through the images from that trip and looking at what i had in order to get some ideas of what i want to do. I shot these three color images with the delightful Kodak EliteChrome slide film, which has such a beautiful quality. I'd never used slide film before (and haven't since b/c it's kinda pricey) and absolutely adore it. It just feels good to me. *shrugs*
So things to think about. we'll see where it takes me. at least it keeps me amused in my down time. i spent a good fifteen minutes just trying to visualize a basic layout for it. sad, i know.
i have better things to do. like reading The Táin

Also reminds me, with the slide film bit, about how sad it is that kodak discontinued their kodachrome slide film. I never used it, nor did i know for a long time that it was anything other than a simon and garfunkel song (shhhh don't tell). I guess it was such a specific process that there are few places that can even process it anymore.
Just another film process left by the wayside as technology keeps trucking along.
Not trying to have a tirade about digital photography and how it's taking over.
we'll save that for some other time.

"Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, Oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away..."