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Last Waltz Fashion

rachaelrice — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:55:17 +0000

I took some photos at a tribute concert called The Next Waltz at the Alberta Rose Theater in Portland, Oregon last week where my man Dan Haley sang This Wheel’s on Fire (Bob Dylan/Rick Danko). The cool thing about the show was that they played EVERY SONG from that concert, not just what you see on The Last Waltz Scorsese movie ~ which if you haven’t seen, you should immediately!

So many that night dressed like the original performers; I think we were all scouring Good Will stores trying searching for 1976 duds. After a lot of internetting and geeking out on the 70′s vibe, I took a bunch of photos. And I’m blown away by the similarities! Here’s my own little visual tribute to The Last Waltz, which includes the poster I made of my last show in Vermont.

Here are some photos and photo collages based on The Last Waltz, and taken from The Next Waltz. Hard to tell which are the newer photos!

from The Next Waltz

clockwise: Little Sue, Heidi Shu, Michael Hessling, Kris Deelane, and Miriams Well

I want to dress like Joni 24/7

Bob Dylan/Al James

Dan Haley

The Band and the other band...and Jeff Roseberg as Van. Priceless.

Adam East as Neil Diamond - nails it.

The Next Waltz photo collage

iPhone photography

rachaelrice — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:49:06 +0000

i’ve been completely obsessed with the various apps available for making iPhone photos look all retro and psychedelic. my favorites are Hipstamatic, Lo-Mob, and Tilt-Shift-Gen.

phone exhibit poster

these are pictures i took to exhibit at a “phone-tography” show for Geek Week at Langdon Street Cafe in Montpelier, Vermont.

i also made a 12:1 scale iPhone out of foam core and paper, and used the prints i made as the apps.

phone sculpture in my living room

the exhibit

you can see all the photos on my flickr stream.

i may never use a regular camera again.

you can also see a little video of the show that night of Geek Week:

Barre Side Street

Red buddha

deer scene 1

collage 1

oklahoma post office

kate sprout

angels celebrate

collage 2

circus scene

ganesh

horse

buddha shiva tea party

birthday party

collage 3

flower gun 1

sushi cowboy

ballet

gun 2

collage 3

psychedelic retro vintage rock posters

rachaelrice — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:34:24 +0000

i will always love retro psychedelic rock and movie posters.

but Tadanori Yokoo took it to a whole nutha level:

Emerson, Lake & Palmer concert poster, 1972

Movie poster: "The Trip" with Peter Fonda, 1968

i mean, how crazy are these? i love the how the registration is deliberately off, like in those turn-of-the-century offset screen prints or the WPA propaganda posters from the 30′s and 40′s.

"The Trip", 1968

[and is it just me or does the woman in this poster totally look like Marie-Louise Parker?]

"Cochin Moon", 1978

pretty sure they were done without Adobe Illustrator. this gives me hope.

(images via pinktentacle. even more TY awesomeness here)

spirograph and shrinky-dink art

rachaelrice — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:42:46 +0000

remember these? i loved mine so much as a kid…though i also cursed its name as the circles skipped around or pens ran out, ruining the perfect designs…cursed precision!

well i got another one and tried it again after all these years.

then i got to wondering what else i could spiro on and used some shrinky-dink plastic…

the game

practice attempts

dry pen on foil board

spirograph on shrink film before baking

more before baking

spiro-dinks! one-third original size

micromandala on a necklace