[Reviewer TV: Fire Ceremony] Moonset Candle Burning by Reviewer Rob Gypsy Lady / Art Model performs a ritual. Shot at 1 a.m. on February 9, 2022, during (or shortly after) the crescent moon-set on the Pacific Ocean at Mission Beach, on Ocean Front Walk and Queenstown Court.
Midnight Gypsy Ritual
35mm digi-conversion: North Park Street Fair nude
[35mm to Digital] Cropping Here’s a new black-and-white from the 35mm color negs archive. The subject is a girl I met at The North Park Street Fair in like 2004 or 2005 who came up to my apartment afterward and posed while smoking a cigarette. I wish the negative conversion bracket I shoot with could be modified so it would […]
“Anti-Flag, 11/03. SOMA”
[Protest Music] 35mm Digitization: Anti-Flag 2003 Show, SOMA SD words and photos by Reviewer Rob American pop music was once rife with political protest. It may have peaked in the 1960’s and early 70’s in response to the forced draft during the Vietnam War but it got a reboot after Ronald Reagan became elected and then in 2000 when George […]
35mm Summer Selfie
This was 1996, and the internet was something that was around but it hadn’t reached me yet. I wouldn’t even have an email address for maybe five more years, and owning a website wouldn’t happen until well after that.
Reviewer TV: Mallory Busks With a Banjo on Newport
[Americana] Mallory Busks Newport Ave. Reviewer TV & a street performer in OB by Reviewer Rob I saw this girl jamming away on her banjo in front of The Black earlier this month after New Year’s and asked her if I could shoot video of her for Reviewer TV. She said “yes,” so here it is. I’d like to do […]
John Cox and Friends
[Nocturnal Animals] 35mm to digital: On Mission Boulevard Scene As Best Remembered by Reviewer Rob John Cox was a tall and burly clubgoer in the early 1990’s that briefly started a night called Club Mayhem in like early 1990 with some of his group of buddies from Mission Beach/PB. “Big John,” as he was known among his followers, was a […]
DJ Kelly Lynch’s Tape Release Party in 1995
[House Music] 35mm Digitized Put The Needle On The Record by Reviewer Rob Here’s a gallery of some black and white photos from 1995, I believe. At least that’s what the sheet of negatives was marked as, some date in 1995, and “Kelly Lynch tape release party at Sharkey’s”. Kelly Lynch was a San Diego nightclub DJ in the late-1980’s […]
No Full-Frame Negs
[Outer Limits] Going Large by Reviewer Rob I’m kind of hitting a brick wall here with these digital conversions. It’s been over 15 years since I left film gear behind and took up digital photography as a primary medium, and unlike some photogs I never looked back. So I’m realizing now that I was an habitual full-frame photographer. That being, […]