Absinthe Radio - music of a bygone era
Music is very important to me. Perhaps the best proof of this is in the darkroom worksheet that I prepared a few years ago. When working in the darkroom, I had to take meticulous notes in order to reproduce a print precisely from a given negative. Among entries such as exposure, ambient temperature, paper used, and other technical details, I put in a field for music. You see, music has a particularly strong effect on my mood and I found that my prints would be different if I was listening to a different genre of music.
I have been listening to Wally’s broadcast over at Absinthe Radio for some time now and I check in on the website periodically. The playlist runs the gamut from Al Jolson to Jelly Roll Morton: a musical selection of the 1920’s and 1930’s.
While poking through the news section, I rather enjoyed Wally referring to the images on his site as “weird, daguerreotype like ghosts”. I admit that the first thing that I thought of upon looking at the images on the About page was that they resembled the images you get before clearing a daguerreotype in Sodium Thiosulfate after development. The image in this post shows the wild purple, green, and blue tones that you see on an uncleared but developed plate.
