{"id":20172,"date":"2015-12-29T00:18:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T05:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=20172"},"modified":"2015-12-29T00:20:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T05:20:36","slug":"probably-listening-to-an-8-track-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/12\/29\/probably-listening-to-an-8-track-tape\/","title":{"rendered":"Probably listening to an 8-Track Tape"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Self<\/a>This was probably a self-portrait assignment that was part of the photo elective class<\/em><\/a> illustrators had to take at the Philadelphia College of Art.<\/em> I was probably listening to one of a small collection of remainder bin 8-track tapes while trying not to look too ridiculous.<\/p>\n

Note the zombie movie stills and a design class typography experiment in the background. I was real horror film fanatic and gorehound<\/em> back in those days.<\/p>\n

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\"German<\/a><\/p>\n

The Photo Elective<\/h2>\n

Back in the 1980s, I went to art school, and I along with all of the other illustration majors<\/strong> were required to take a minor course in photography. We had to shoot the photos as well as process the negatives and make prints. I don\u2019t recall what the particulars of the class assignments were although I can tell from looking at the negatives which were the assignments and which ones were shot just to finish off a roll. The shots to finish a roll are a lot more interesting. While my fellow students mostly resided and shot their photographs in the vibrant metropolis of Philadelphia, I lived and did most of my shooting in and around the staid and solid small town of Westville, New Jersey.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Me in self-applied zombie makeup in the Fall of ’82<\/p><\/div>\n