New Studio Visit Site

The Office of Johnston empire grew a branch over the weekend. Here is the new site for my studio visit project. The visits will also now be featuring on Metro Magazine online starting in July.

In The Studio 

Old Timey Special Effects

A very fun little video posted by Swissmiss.

Cigarette Card Friday

Scent themed.

This cigarette card is an instructional on how to fume oak.

Archives: part two

I found some more and scanned them in again on the lousy work scanner. I was so devastated that I lost the negatives from this roll I took at the Big Joe Flour Mill in Wabasha, Minnesota before they tore it down. I had some great "abandoned industrial" shots. Which I don't know how much I like to shoot that type of photography much these days but, that's where I started. I also took a really neat lamp that I've seen Pottery Barn or some place replicate.

Archives

Over the weekend I went home for a night and did some digging through my old photo boxes. Most of them I took when I was studying photography in high school. The scanner I used to scan them in wasn't so great but, you get the idea. Below is definitely one of my most favorite pictures I've ever taken. The photo came from a project I did in high school which, at the time I tried to pull off as being concept heavy but, really I think I just knew the photos would look cool.

Flickr link.

Active Tumblr

I signed up for Tumblr a long time ago and recently took to it. it really only makes sense since so much of what I post about is visual. So, here's what I've been looking at lately.

Office of Johnston Tumblr.

Civil Rights

I'm a huge fan of Harry Belafonte. Here's a terrific video of him, Marlon Brando, James Baldwin, Charlton Heston, Joseph Mankiewicz , and Sidney Poitier discuss the Civil Rights Movement, on the same day as MLK’s “I have a dream” speech. August 28, 1963.

Cigarette Card Friday

Greece themed. 

This Cigarette Card Friday is an ode to the
Jelatis-Hoke family, wonderful family friends.

Also, I really want to go to Greece sometime. 

The Stowaway

Hollister Hovey posted about these enchanting prints about "A young English boy who toils away at home and school, runs off to the docks, stows away on a captain's ship and has adventures on the high sea." Currently the prints are up for auction at Heir Antiques.