Damaged Photos 14 (rejects)

For all the photos I damage only about half of them come out interesting, the others get tossed in a pile of rejects. Recently I began looking at the rejects for a possible large scale collage, and noticed these two that are pretty good. The bottom one is very early, when I couldn't figure out how to get the photos to disintegrate beyond a certain point, I tried scraping designs into them before abandoning that technique.

Stencil T-Shirts

When I was a teenager I made my first stencil, a Husker Du t-shirt using the classic Husker Du logo, a couple years later I made Radio Birdman and Magma t-shirts with stencils, and then I forgot about stencils for many years. When I started making stencils again about 7 or 8 years ago I recreated those, plus a bunch more obscure rock bands (Chrome, Univers Zero, Regressive Aid, as seen here, plus the comedy "Abba" t-shirt I posted a few months ago.) These don't always withstand washing very well (I've tried spraying with a sealing coat after the paint, which sometimes helps, but they still fade after several washes.)

Cheap Experimental Photography

When my Bazooka Bubble Gum camera finally broke (I couldn't get 126 film for it anymore anyway) I moved onto a cheap 35mm camera (like the ones they used to give away with magazine subscriptions, made to look like a fancy SLR but basically a point-and-shoot, yet another poor man's Holga), and here are a few of the psychedelic photos I took (using colored filters and/or multiple exposures.)

Far out.

Face Stencils vs. Photos

So after I made the last batch of stencils (specifically for possible limited edition album pressings) I decided the "face" stencil came out best and started making more. However none were as striking as that first face stencil (to me anyway), then I noticed the leftover paper from cutting the stencils looked more interesting than the final spray-painted stencils. . . so I took some photos of the leftover papers in various locales near my apartment. Now what the hell am I going to do with all these face stencils?