Film Photography & Travel Blog

Brenton Point State Park

Published July 8, 2019July 8, 2019 by Gordon

On this edition of GordonGoes, I find myself on top of a lookout tower in a state park in Newport, Rhode Island.

I don’t know the history of this state park but I do know it contains a beautiful destroyed horse barn that makes for great ruin porn and has incredible ocean breezes.

On the day that I visited it was around 90 degrees outside but a mysterious fog was blowing in from the harbor which made the heat tolerable and the ruins even spookier than usual. If you are in Rhode Island, I highly recommend visiting Newport and Brenton State Park.

Pixelated Deluge

Published July 4, 2019July 4, 2019 by Gordon

This ruin always floods. Each year it does more and more damage to the river and the beach and this year it was bad enough to make the swimming area off limits. This is sad but I will survive.

Toilet Bowl

Published June 25, 2019June 25, 2019 by Gordon

10,000 years ago, when I was younger and thin, I was the worst kind of provincial art whore. Truth. Thanks to my innate Episcopalian ability to manipulate loopholes, I found myself in Bilbao for a six-month study abroad program to learning Basque. Bai! While there, I tried to visit the Guggenheim Bilbao as much as possible and it was where I learned to truly love conceptual art. My Spanish roommates used to make fun of me for my visits to the Guggenheim and say that the Guggenheim NYC looked a toilet bowl and the Guggenheim Bilbao what you would put in it.

It was only recently that I finally got to visit the Guggenheim New York City and I kind of agree, it does look like a toilet bowl.

Unhappy Accidents

Published June 21, 2019June 20, 2019 by Gordon

This was supposed to a pastoral vista of a lake at sunset that would be so beautiful that you would become psychotically jealous. Instead, it is as black as my heart.

First Impressions: Diana Instant Square

Published July 27, 2019June 18, 2019 by Gordon

Diana Instax Square Albany Ny — Diana Instax Square albany ny

Good: Bullet proof instax film works well with the Diana’s quirks.

Bad: Controls are not intuitive and it is easy to make expensive mistakes.

I was supposed to test my new Lomography Diana Instant Square by spending an elegant weekend in New Haven, CT but at the last moment, my trip was moved to the triumph of Albany, NY.

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