Jack Saltmiras
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Morning and Judah.
Billy in the safe room. Portra 160 I think.
Rohin sits like such a good boy.
A long time ago I was in a band with some of my best and oldest friends. They are still some of my best and oldest friends, and now for a tiny window of time, we are also all in a band again. We just finished two weeks trying to remember some old songs together in the @thepinheadz shed and it has been equal parts anxiety inducing and nice and exhausting. I’m remaining cautiously optimistic about how the shows will go, but there are still some tickets left if you feel like rolling the dice with us. Photo by me.
Neville and Carla, then Jordan and Neve
Mr & Mrs Liddy
God drinks down at the Warren View these days.
Sweet baby Dave
In a cheap effort to conjure up some illusion of credibility, I borrowed @moonbrainmusic’s body and @zafirochiossoni’s 645 and shot some film.
Prismatic Neville on her first day of school.
Lucky Pierrot
Beautiful David
It really eats me up that I can’t find these negs. And that I had the scans done at Big W. This is Mark with the van he drove us around in for months, racking up a cool 32,647km. On this day, we were driving through Northern California, being shameless tourists in the redwoods. We kept seeing signs directing us to ‘The Big Tree’ so we went there. We parked and wandered in. It was a bit of a walk. The big tree was in a sort of clearing. I took a photo of a bench, clearly the first of the roll. I headed back to the van. On my way, a young family was coming up the path towards me. The dad stopped me and asked “Is the big tree big?” And I said “Yeah, it’s pretty big.” Because it was. And as I was walking away I thought to myself ‘That man looked a lot like Jack Johnson’. The others arrived back at the van a few minutes later and someone said “Did anyone else see Jack Johnson back there?” So we agreed that we had all seen Jack Johnson that day.
2010, Oregon maybe.
This is one of my favourite photos from my touring days. 2010 I guess. We were driving from some gig to another. Germany I think. The van/cabin fever had set in months earlier and had since descended further, into some kind of anaemic mania. Pulled over for a piss. Jord and Ro wandered off into the grass (wheat?) and I took this photo on my plastic fantastic National Geographic edition Ultronic ‘Widescreen’ camera that I has picked up for $2 in an op shop a few weeks earlier. . It was weird and not an entirely pleasant time overall, but I feel fondly when I look at this now. . I don’t know if the above words contextualise much. It means and brings back a lot to me, but I guess it’s basically just a photo of a couple of boys in a field. . Yeah yeah it kinda looks like that Sigur Ros album cover.