Impulse

One of the advan­tages of dig­i­tal is that you can’t acci­den­tally double-expose a roll and loose a bunch of images. One of the dis­ad­van­tages of dig­i­tal is that you can’t acci­den­tally double-expose a roll and get some really cool, trippy stuff.
Guess what I did…

I fre­quently swap out par­tially used rolls of film when­ever I need to change film speeds. Usually, I care­fully write on the can how many frames were shot, then when I reload that roll, I advance that many of frames + 3 for safety’s sake. This time was no dif­fer­ent — except that a lit­tle dyslexia kicked in and turned the 20 into 02. I loaded my cam­era, advanced to frame 5 (2+3), and started shoot­ing, thus double-exposing 15 frames. Oops.
Or not: judge for your­self. I think the cool syn­chronic­i­ties that kicked in make these far more inter­est­ing than any mon­tage I might have pre­med­i­tated. Sort of like watch­ing the Wizard of Oz to Dark Side of the Moon. Gives me some ideas…
So, here’s to good old film all it’s eccen­tric­i­ties!
(Side note: the dou­ble exposed images are a com­bi­na­tion of a shoot I did a week ago and some shots from the mak­ing of episode 1 of The 35th Street Mission and a fer­ry­boat ride).

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