Tag Archives: black and white

Waiting

Posted on September 12, 2021 by Joe

I shot this while waiting for the subway a little over 11 years ago and promptly forgot about it. I guess that is what happens when you shoot thousands of pictures. Most of them are forgotten including the analog shots. … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures in Commuting, Philadelphia, Photography | Tagged 2010, black and white, cell phone zombie, commute, grimy, legs, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, SEPTA, subway, tile, transit, urban, woman | 2 Comments

BEYOND the Spinning Rack of Comics

Posted on July 9, 2019 by Joe_Williams

I guess the thing I miss most about comics is the newsstands and druggists that once carried the 4-colored treasures I eagerly plucked from spinning racks or wooden shelves. I would spend what was probably an inordinate amount of time … Continue reading →

Posted in Curious Clutter, Trash or Treasure, What I Miss About Comics | Tagged 1956, Anthony Perkins, black and white, buxom, cheap, cheesecake, detective, Diane Webber, girlie, James Dean, pasties, Psycho, scandal, sex on the campus, SHOW, strippers, tawdry, trash, vintage, vintage ads | 2 Comments

Robbie the Robot Meets Mr. C

Posted on July 19, 2017 by Joe_Williams

As I’ve written before finding something to watch on Netflix has been proving to be more of a challenge than it’s worth. The tedious scrolling through titles of little interest has chased me to some of the stranger and more … Continue reading →

Posted in Weird World of the Roku | Tagged 1956, Anne Francis, black and white, Forbidden Planet, Internet Archive, Perry Como, Robbie the Robot, Roku, television, TV, variety show | 2 Comments

Swing and a Miss

Posted on April 15, 2017 by Joe_Williams

Here is another doodle with Derwent Dark Wash pencils. This one was done in a Canson XL Mix Media pad which I will be using regularly just as soon as the Sketchbook from Heaven is exhausted which I’m sad to … Continue reading →

Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch | Tagged analog, Atomic Warrior, black and white, Cartoon, cartoons, comic, comic book, comics, handmade, Illustration, Joe Williams, Pink Zeppelin, Sketch, sketchbook, USA, Willceau | 2 Comments

Exhuming Dead & Buried while Drawing

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Joe_Williams

I returned to my Roku’s Amazon Video channel in order to bask in trash that I can halfway ignore while sketching. The great thing about Amazon’s Prime besides the expedited shipping is the addition of Prime video which is promoted … Continue reading →

Posted in It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch, Weird World of the Roku | Tagged analog, Atomic Warrior, black and white, Cartoon, cartoons, comic, comic book, comics, Illustration, Joe Williams, monster, Sketch, sketchbook | Leave a comment

A Long Time Ago About 4 Hours Away…

Posted on January 5, 2017 by Joe_Williams

This is another of The Photo Elective series of photographs that Tina, I and every other illustration major attending The Philadelphia College of Art were required to shoot, process and print. My guess is that the notion of the class … Continue reading →

Posted in News, The Photo Elective | Tagged 1980s, analog, black and white, Connecticut, Eastern Connecticut, Gremlin, Philadelphia College of Art, photography, Tina Garceau, USA, vintage, Windham | Leave a comment

She’ll Be Back

Posted on July 22, 2016 by Joe

Here’s another of Tina Garceau’s Photo Elective self-portraits that I recently discovered. They were taken as part of a class assignment at The Philadelphia College of Art. Fortunately I found them because I think a stubborn humility would have prevented … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, The Photo Elective | Tagged 1980s, 35mm, analog, black and white, Pan-X, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia College of Art, photography, Tina Garceau, USA, vintage | Leave a comment

Femme Fatale

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Joe_Williams

This is another of Tina Garceau’s shots from a photography elective that all illustration majors were required to take at The Philadelphia College of Art.

Posted in The Photo Elective | Tagged 1980s, 1981, analog, black and white, film noir, Pan-X, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia College of Art, photography, scan, Tina Garceau, USA, vintage | 2 Comments

Deep End

Posted on April 3, 2016 by Joe_Williams

Posted in Philadelphia, Photography | Tagged black and white, Joe Williams, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, YMCA | Leave a comment

Outside of Little Pete’s

Posted on November 19, 2015 by Joe

We’re back again with more fabulous but somewhat damaged frames of film from the early 1980s. The year is 1981 and Tina Garceau is outside of Little Pete’s restaurant trying to fulfill a class credit requirement by snapping photos in … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, The Photo Elective | Tagged 1980s, 1981, 35mm, analog, black and white, film, Little Pete's, Pan-X, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia College of Art, photography, Tina Garceau, USA, vintage, Willceau | Leave a comment

Polka Dots

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Joe

15th & Locust – Center City Philadelphia circa 1981. Photographed by Tina Garceau.

Posted in Philadelphia, Photography, The Photo Elective | Tagged 1980s, 35mm, black and white, city, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia College of Art, urban, vintage | Leave a comment

Lee-Locke Tombstone

Posted on October 9, 2015 by Joe_Williams

Here’s another Photo Elective shot I took in South Jersey back in 1982. My camera was focused and my mind fixed upon the subject of death and decay because I was a horror film fanatic at the time, and I … Continue reading →

Posted in News, The Photo Elective | Tagged 1980s, 1982, 35mm, analog, black and white, graveyard, Green Cemetery, Joe Williams, New Jersey, USA, vintage | Leave a comment

All that remains

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Joe_Williams

As I was processing the scan of this film negative I sort of remembered what I was trying to do with these art school photos back in 1982. I had an idea where I was playing off graveyards for people … Continue reading →

Posted in The Photo Elective | Tagged 1980s, 1982, 35mm, analog, black and white, Joe Williams, junk, junkyard, New Jersey, Philadelphia College of Art, USA, vintage, Westville | 7 Comments

Summer is Over

Posted on September 20, 2015 by Joe_Williams

It was fairly hot this week, but Sunday got decidedly cool. The days are getting noticeably shorter as well. It looks like Summer is most certainly over.