Laird’s Photo Phollies

                                      L, Johnny’s Command Center at the Last Chance Garage. R, the trailer he made into a library. L, a Hopper painting setting the scene. R, an inspiration piece.

They’ve always gotten along with other as species, cats and dogs, but not always the cats with each other. There have been close friendships, irrespective of species.                         The one on the right is Elliott.

  It’s about 25,000+ image files on my iPad. Not all of my graphic work by any means but a big chunk of it and an organizational nightmare at that. In accordance with Apple’s mellow 80s wisdom, the files have no names or usable IDs that can be searched for. The only search is by eye, scrolling through the days, weeks, and months to find what you want and don’t remember any dates for.  Many of these have been used as is in my various blogs, Facebook posts, and large-scale multimedia projects. A great many others are what you’d call “inspiration images,’ ‘raw material,’ or ‘work-in-process’ for graphics that may or may not have been completed or ultimately used. Most of the work-in-process material is not included, because  not that much dreary sequence iteration is needed to see how much work can go into something designed to get a few seconds of attention, a chuckle, a ‘yes!’, curiosity, a response of some kind. For the multimedia-inclined, graphics is not a sideline or a...

Are these photos? Not in the strictest sense of the word. Why it’s here early. I have an expansive definition of photos. My iPad app containing all of these is called ‘Camera,’ meaning it’s all just electronic files, whether they were originated optically or by graphic means. Many contain photographic elements, some do not, but I don’t care. They belong here at Photo Phollies along with all the other stuff. (Even videos and gif files.) Most of these posters I made up for Facebook. Let’s take a look…