:: Dan Shepelavy ::
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For Your Pleasure 2024
Adore. Adore. Adore — Sprints set the year ablaze last January with their blistering, barnstorming & breathless debut Letter To Self. A record, like the cover art, full of red swirling fire — young & hungry, they know… Like I knew, when I heard the Dickies for the first time as a teenager — that […]
Year End Clearance 2024
Carbon County Fair Florals
A few stunners from a yearly delight – the Flower Exhibition at the Carbon County, Penna Fair. All shot with a fully manual TTArtisan 50mm f/1.2 on a Canon digital back (the TT is a $100 corker of a Chinese copy of a ZEISS Sonnar 50mm, amazing build quality & response. More here) Shooting fully […]
These days…
More on Ryan, north star & existential flashlight, here. Hat-tip This Isn’t Happiness
Steve Albini! Never Be Gold!
In 1996 Steve Albini & Shellac recorded the song “Copper” for the compilation album Ground Rule Double. Copper, let us take you To a furnace where we’ll break you A fire so big and pretty, you could cry As you buckle, you could ask me “what was wrong with me before” “Did I need the […]
For Your Pleasure 2023
Of archetypical power is the fantasy story where an age calls forth its hero. As when, high up in Nerd-Olympus, the spirits of Anne McCaffrey, Frank Frazetta & Gary Gygax drew forth & braided kaleidoscopic eldritch energies with a glowing lock of Lita Ford’s hair and conjured Barbara Blackthorne, obsidian goddess of Empress… emerging from […]