Being Muchly Serially Folau-lated

Shane and Archive

G'day Possums,

It's been a while between drinks.

I can plead busyness which is true but not the whole story... fact is, I'm still feeling quite depressed over the poor showing of Labor at the election and what that result will eventually mean for this seemingly blind and stupid, stupid Folau-lated, "aspirationalized",  and "Murdochritized" nation. It is something I find very difficult to understand, least of all accept.  

But more of being serially Folau-lated, later.

The following blog entries, particularly the first two, will be sufficient to fill-in anyone who hasn't yet heard my yelling from the rooftops about this archival project .

https://danceatthearchive.blogspot.com/

https://shanewombat.blogspot.com/2014/12/with-weeping-and-gnashing-of-teeth.html

https://shanewombat.blogspot.com/2019/02/vale-maggie.html

https://shanewombat.blogspot.com/2019/03/notes-on-tribute.html

Suffice to say  I'm very pleased to be able to report that all the "selected" negatives from two of the three archives have been individually scanned and are now being Post-Processed.

This PP-ing is a somewhat arduous undertaking as there are some 2200 images to "finish", 515 from the first archive, "Fitzroy" and from "Flemington", only a measly 1700!

Being pleased on finishing the scanning (and that the scanner "held-up" to the task) and calculating that at 3 minutes per scan or the equivalent to 110 hours was relatively quick is one thing but the post process is quite another matter.

Here's a sample: not the full shot, perhaps a third of it in a "before and after" demonstration.

The elimination of the dust and scratches in this sample image would have taken about 35-40 minutes. And  it is a fairly straightforward image with no complicated  textures like knitted leg-warmers or coverings, a good disguising film grain and few variations in tone, so with anywhere between 15 and 60  minutes per image it's going to be a long haul.

Mardi green and Maggie Sietsma,,- ABS 1970(?)

 This image didn't also have what quite a few of these old negatives suffer from which is a mould bloom on the surface which while not impossible to "paint-over" is particularly time consuming  and for efficiency' and longevity's sake necessitates a careful washing and re-scanning  of the neg before finishing.

 

detail

The originals being handled in the moist atmosphere of a darkroom, and probably being re-filed by moist hands, followed by less than optimum archival treatment has, over the years, caused this deterioration.

If anyone has any do's and don't questions about film handling, storage, exposure and development, processing and printing.. just call.... I think I've made every mistake there is to make. 

 

Nina Tompson, ABS 1970(?)

Now at least, being digitally rectified and stored appropriately the archive's future is safer than it has been.... till the technology changes again and dvd's and memory sticks are no longer readable.

Originally intended for books, it has become obvious that so many images will not fit comfortably into the two intended volumes and as there is a narrative playing out when viewed sequentially I've decided to make a film, a'la Ken Burns from the stills to be included with the book's edited images.... but more on that later.

Being Folau-lated #1 The Liar from The Shire, Happy-Clapper Pentacostalist and Anti-Christ, Prime Miniature Scummo again played out his school-boy enthusiasms at the recent G-20, happily greeting the murderous Saudi Prince, Mohommed bin Salman and probably seeking more pointers for dealing with inquisitive journalists for his peculiar crusade on press "freedom" and promotion of his warped IPA version of Democracy. The Bogan of Cook also indicated he would not only be willing to send others to be killed at the behest of the historically hysterical Orange Trump of the Un-United Sates in seeking an Armageddon of biblical proportions in Iran but also wouldn't mind that as a distraction from his Ruling Rabble's now more than obvious economic failures of the past six years.

Being Folau-lated #2  Sneaking from behind Section 18C but pretending to seek resolution to the pig-skin kicker and selective bible quoter, Israel Folau's own goal for being sacked for expressing "his love" at wanting to see LGBTQI's burn in the fires of his mythical hell, The Anti-Christ has ordained that his faux attorney general The Un-Christian Porter create an epistle guaranteeing "Freedom of Religion" much to the hallelujahs and praise-be's from the likes of fascists Senator Ferrari-Mussolina and the pallid boy-fascist Senator Paterson of the IPA and other retarded right wingers, all salivating at making the "right to be a bigot", law.

But given the binary nature of the Ruling Rabble's mode of devious clockwork mind machinations, "You wrong, Me right." ( THUMP), this latest exercise is more likely to Folau-late them in its hecatohedron complexity. I mean if it's fine to be telling people they will go to hell for being AC/DC, what's wrong with female genital mutilation, Sharia Law, Sati, Witch Burning, adulterating water into wine and eating HIS flesh, etc?

I mean how do you legislate for Fox News and the Ugly American's Murdoch's media where the truth goes to die? This isn't what they pretend is Liberalism... it's anarchy.

Being Folau-lated #3   Pyhrrically crowing that Labor hadn't the "balls" to oppose the full disaster of tax cuts passing the senate, and thus not being given the opportunity to beat them up for opposing it, the Rabble are now on their own... after six years of mismanagement.... now all alone in that silent, silent land of fiscal responsibility, climate denial and concentration camp wastefulness without a shred of credibility or a skerrick of policy to cover themselves and none to blame but themselves for the storms coming down on all our heads.

Being Folau-lated #4 Asbestos Bishop and Pyne the Whyne rorting the system...and not forgetting the greed of Taylor, the stupidity of Price  and the abject irrelevance of Ley....  need I say more?  

 How Folau-lated...? Muchly! 

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane.