The other really cool news is that Kickstarter approved 888 Frames for a project page. When I re-examined the budget, including the cost of prints, I had to adjust the rewards a bit. If you are interested in donating, please do! I cannot complete this project without your support. All told, I'm looking to raise a total of $500, to account for the development of the film, prints, shipping, and taxes.

All donors will be listed online and will receive a hand-written thank you letter from myself.

Donors from Houston that contribute before my shooting deadline will receive a print of their portrait, while donors from out of town, or donors that contribute after the deadline will receive a selection of small prints from the project.

In addition, there will be a few handmade booklets of prints.

There are a few different levels of support that you can pledge, but you can give any amount. Check out the page: 888 Frames!

And, if you're in Houston and you want your photo taken - contact me! E-mail me at marc.brubaker [at] gmail [dot] com.

This has led to a slight delay in my updating everyone on the project, and an additional slight delay in my building a home for the fundraising of this project.

What you ought to know is that I've been wanting to relaunch this site [and my portfolio] at www.marcbrubaker.com, and that's a desire I've had for a while. It'll be a comprehensive home on the web for all of my projects, photographic, literary, and musical endeavors. I see little reason to separate them at this point. The need for this Kodachrome project to have its own home online has made me realize that I'll need to do this sooner rather than later.

So today/tonight, I'll be building and retooling this project. I'm working on a comprehensive budget for this initial chapter, the 888 frames of Kodachrome, and will be setting up a narrative and fundraising site this evening. If you've expressed your interest in supporting this project, I hope you don't mind that it's taken me a tad bit longer than I'd expected. After all, I am still trying to shoot 26 rolls of film before the processing deadline.

So be on the lookout for an update very, very soon. I promise. And if you've sent an e-mail, I'll be getting back to you momentarily.

Right now, I'm taking my camera out the door and heading off to shoot some portraits.

- Marc

173/888 frames exposed

If you don't know already, I freelance for the Houston Press - both as a writer and a photographer. As such, I get the opportunity to shoot a lot of amazing shows, and cover some interesting and unusual events as well. Due to deadlines, I typically crank out the work the paper needs and toss my photos into a pile of "come back to this catalog & finish it later, when you have some free time." Hah! Well, I'm going to commit to having hopefully everything done by the end of 2011 - that way when the world ends in 2012, I'll feel like my work is complete. Just kidding, but it's a lot of photos and it probably will take me through the end of next year.

Right now, however, I've undertaken a brand new portrait project. Kodak made a wonderful slide film, Kodachrome, for a number of years. They ceased production a couple years ago, and at this point there's only one lab in the entire country that still processes it, Dwayne's Photo in Kansas. I've got a box filled with this amazing film, and I've been saving it for a project that was "worthy" of being shot on this stock.

Unfortunately, I let far too much time slip through my fingers, when I should've just been shooting. So now I have some 26 rolls of Kodachrome left in my freezer, a total of 888 frames of film. I say unfortunately because Dwayne's is about to run their last batches of K-14 process, the chemicals necessary to develop the legendary slide stock, on December 30th, 2010.

I'm determined not to let this film go to waste, and I'm hoping that you'll help me. Over the next two weeks, I'll be shooting as many portraits as possible, endeavoring to photograph as many different persons as I can in and around Houston. I can't think of better project - a celebration of this city and the people in it seems a fitting way to use up the rest of this great film.

I'm asking for help, though, because the processing cost of this batch alone will cost me over $250. That doesn't count shipping the film to Dwayne's, or any prints I might make.

So, here is my proposition: if you donate any money to this project, I'll do everything in my power to include you in this portrait series [Greater Houston area residents will obviously be much easier for me to reach], AND I will provide you with a print of your portrait. Donations over $20 will receive a signed print on a premium paper stock, donations of less than $20 will be on standard photo paper. Every donation will be greatly appreciated, be it small or large, so please consider it even if it's $5 or less. I truly need all the help I can get with this project.

I'm hoping to find a gallery interested in hosting an exhibition of these portraits once the project is complete. If that's not possible, well, I suppose I'll just put them on my walls and invite everyone over to my house, and we'll have a grand old time.

Thanks for joining me on this project, and I hope you'll spread the word. If you're interested in donating, please send an email to clickwindrepeat [at] gmail.com, and I'll send you instructions on how you can help.

Sincerely,

Marc Brubaker

25/888 frames completed