Tag Archives: film

One Touch Colorization

Posted on July 5, 2021 by Joe

A new set of features in the recently updated Photoshop make it unbelievably easy to cheat by making the painstaking process of colorizing photos into a one button process!

Posted in Computers, photo manipulation, Photography, The Photo Elective | Tagged 35mm, colorize, film, Neural Filters, Photoshop, Self portait, Tina Garceau | 2 Comments

Eric’s Mark I movie theater as it was at 18th and Market in Philadelphia, PA circa 1983. I was a student at The Philadelphia College of Art, and I was snapping frames of 35mm film as reference for a class … Continue reading →

Posted in Blast from the Past, The Photo Elective | Tagged 1983, 35mm, analog, film, Illustration, Joe Williams, Market Street, movie theater, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia College of Art, photography, USA, vintage | 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

Chinatown Express

Posted on September 17, 2015 by Joe_Williams

This is one of my photo elective photos, but it was not shot in the Southern New Jersey town where I lived with my parents. This time I went wandering around the City of Brotherly Love just across the Delaware … Continue reading →

Posted in Philadelphia, Photography, The Photo Elective | Tagged 1980s, 1982, analog, Asian, Chinatown, Chinatown Express, Chinese, city, film, Joe Williams, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia College of Art, photography, urban, vintage, Willceau | 2 Comments

The Photo Elective – King Richard’s Tavern

Posted on December 16, 2014 by Joe_Williams

Back in the 1980s, I went to art school, and I along with all of the other illustration majors were required to take a course in photography. We had to shoot the photos as well as process the negatives and … Continue reading →

Posted in Blast from the Past, The Photo Elective | Tagged 1980s, 1982, 35mm, alcohol, analog, art school, BAR, black and white, booze, film, New Jersey, Philadelphia College of Art, photography, vintage, Westville | 8 Comments

The Photo Elective – The Mardi Gras Club

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Joe_Williams

This post falls into a category that I call The Photo Elective. Back when I attended the Philadelphia College of Art, I majored in illustration and all illustration majors were required to take a pricey, one-semester photography elective where each … Continue reading →

Posted in Blast from the Past, Curious Clutter, The Photo Elective | Tagged 1982, 35mm, analog, booze, exotic dancer, film, go-go dancer, LIQUOR, Miss Vicki, Ms Vicki, New Jersey, Tiny Tim, Westville, Wonder Woman | 15 Comments

PCA – The Class of ’68 – Motion Picture

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Joe_Williams

A few weeks ago, Tony Visco handed me a blast from our Alma mater’s past — The Philadelphia College of Art’s yearbook from 1968!This collection of film makers had special significance to me because I recognized one of the graduates … Continue reading →

Posted in Blast from the Past, Philadelphia | Tagged 1968, art school, explotation, film, Joe Dante, Joe Williams, motion picture, PCA, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia College of Art, photography, Roger Corman, The Howling, Twilight Zone, UArts, University of the Arts, USA, vintage | 2 Comments

PCA – The Class of ’68 – Photography

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Joe_Williams

As I said last week, Tony Visco handed me a blast from our Alma mater’s past — The Philadelphia College of Art’s yearbook from 1968!

Posted in Blast from the Past, Philadelphia, Photography | Tagged '60s, 1960s, 1968, analog, art school, black and white, film, PCA, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia College of Art, photographers, photography, USA, vintage, yearbook | 2 Comments

Frank Rizzo on Broad Street

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Joe_Williams

It’s 1982, and I’m walking North on Broad Street not far from the Philadelphia College of Art where I was attending at the time when suddenly former Mayor Frank Rizzo appears larger than life. I’m not sure if there was … Continue reading →

Posted in Blast from the Past, Curious Clutter, Philadelphia, The Photo Elective | Tagged 1982, 35mm, analog, film, Frank Rizzo, Mayor, negative, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia | 4 Comments

Plague Productions

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Joe_Williams

I started writing another Willceau Illo News entry about one of the last round ups for the Ducks and DUCKWORK when it started to get way too long and convoluted. I decided to have mercy on my readers if any … Continue reading →