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.
35mm Summer Selfie
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 […]
History For Sale
[4 Sale] Western Indian metate grinding stones by Reviewer Rob I’m selling the two metates I’ve had for a while now. I need the storage space freed up and I simply can’t carry them around with all this moving anymore. They’re solid granite and heavy. The one on the right came from San Diego County out in Sorrento Valley. A […]
Kelli Instagram Safe
[Art Photography] Private-party censorship of the arts. by Reviewer Rob Nudes in art are a time-honored tradition, except for on Facebook and Instagram. Don’t do it there. Here’s some monochromed images from 35mm color negatives I shot on Kodak film, 400 speed I believe, over 30 years ago. We were driving around looking for private and discrete places to shoot […]
Analog Photo Restoration
[Archive] 35mm To Digital Conversions by Reviewer Rob I’m kind of really getting into this 35mm film digitizing now. There’s so many sheets of negatives that I’ve stored away, and now I don’t need to pay a photo enlarging store in orderto see the images. So many stories to tell… so many stories! Haha!
Surfboard Limbo
[Surf Or Die] Where Surf Kulture Goes To Die Reviewer Rob I went to the Coconut Peet’s surfboard warehouse before they closed Saturday afternoon and checked out the racks for a short and wide 6-foot squash that could fit against the wall behind the drivers seat of the Safari. I’ve seen a new shape being popularized that resembles a bar […]
SOLD: Time, Dec. 20 1999, The Columbine Tapes
[Rare Books] Remembering Columbine by Reviewer Rob I sold a like-new copy of Time Magazine among my used / rare books this week. It was the Columbine Tapes issue from December 20, 1999. It went to a buyer in New Jersey who paid $70 for it plus tax and shipping. With all the news of gun violence in America — […]