Art & Adventure with PJ Ortiz Luis
The online portfolio of Pacifico "PJ" Ortiz Luis, a storyteller utilizing different mediums of art including film photography, dance, and performance poetry.
long story short...we [SDSU] haven't been invited to Schools for Fools for the last 3 or 4 years. we were actually put on the wait list to compete, and were informed a school dropped out in February, giving about a month to mobilize and practice. that month of work definitely paid off, because SDSU ended up winning the entire jam! below are the battles:
vs UCLA
vs UC Berkeley
vs University
of Washington
vs UNLV
[Final Battle]
prelim:
when they made me battle NOBODY:
top 8:
final 4:
i will be putting up the bboy battle videos tomorrow. stay tuned! or just subscribe to my youtube account to make it easier, and to view future videos automatically.
i'm still fairly new at developing my own film. i had a roll of found film i was going to wait to develop when i started doing color. i've done google searches to see the effects of b&w chemicals on color film, with really nothing concrete...so i thought, WHY NOT...
the verdict: processing color film in b&w chemicals yields b&w negatives...[the negatives themselves come out brown]
I've seen this mantra floating around amongst people film photographers...and personally, I think its a little pretentious. I do understand what it means, and definitely agree that no amount of megapixels can match the "full frame sensor" that is film...however, it also makes people who use that slogan look ignorant to the benefits of digital photography. Being a lover of film, I definitely acknowledge that it is not the best medium for certain subjects. Digital's double-edged sword advantage of being able to take multiple shots without worrying how many exposures you have left lends itself well to fast moving objects and people with average to below average photo taking skills.
If it were up to me, I'd make everybody adopt the following quote into their mindset:
below are some of my digital photos from my recent trip to San Francisco. [yes, I own a digital camera!]
i finally got myself a scanner to directly scan my negatives. my film development process is now almost fully self-sustained aside from getting the chemicals needed to develop. i'm still trying to get the hang of scanning though...
these are shots from a test roll of Ilford HP5+ respooled, then loaded into a Kodak Tourist:
