So I think I'm giving up on the whole posting daily thing. I'll try but it obviously hasn't been happening. The week after the car mishap was super duper busy. I am really getting into the thick of my internship and am starting to design the layouts for my signs so I've been busy going to other house museums to study their signs, trying to decide the best way to get the attention of the visitors, and trying to figure out how to make it clear in my signs that the past is something that really happened and history is knowledge and as such is constantly changing. Apart from getting ready to make my signs, I have been doing a lot of work with digital photos and photoshop. I didn't think that I would get the chance to work with digital imaging while I was down here but I am really happy that I have! I always loved working with photoshop while I worked for Howard Horan and it’s been fun to get the chance to relearn some of the tricks I learned from Howard.
The two images I photoshopped were from a local baptist church and were both enclosed in glass. I scanned the images and then uploaded them to photoshop. One was a broadside celebrating a fundraiser by the church and the second was a photograph of some of the church members. The second photograph was too large for the scanner so I scanned it in four sections and pieced it together in photoshop. It took me two days to get everyone's faces, feet, and clothes to match up at the seams but in the end you couldn't tell a difference from the original.
On Thursday of last week John and Jake went to a meeting at the housing authority and found a book that contained all the ghost structures except the lunch counter. HCF already had the second part of this record and knew there was a first part but finding this portion is HUGE. This book has floor plans, pictures, descriptions, owners, and even renters of the buildings. I know that to most people wouldn’t think that this was exciting but for Jake it was the proof that his whole dissertation was correct. Talk about vindication! Now my job, once Jake is done with the book, will be to scan all of the pages and organize them digitally. This will be enormously helpful when I am completing the designs for my signs.
I hadn’t expected this much work with digital imaging when I first started my internship but I can’t even begin to tell you how happy I am about it. The next few days will be really busy with scanning, retouching, organizing, and stuffing my brain with names, buildings, and their uses and I can’t wait to get to it!
For memorial day Wes, David and I went down to Charleston. I can't even begin to explain how much I love that city. I love the buildings, the flowers, the people, and especially the feeling that I am walking in another time while I'm there. Along with the board of architectural review, the 75 year rule, which states that anything that has been there or a certain way for 75 years may not be changed, have kept Charleston as beautiful as it was over 100 years ago. I can't wait to take G&G and Monica to my favorite city and show them all of the fabulous places I've found.
On our trip we walked the old slave market (which is not what you would think it is), ate at fleet landing, walked through waterfront park and the battery, and then made our way to Folly Beach. I will always love lakes more than the ocean but there is something special about being in the ocean. The ocean is beautiful and powerful at the same time. It is full of life and the first time you dive through a wave it is impossible to ignore the power of the water. It was a fabulous way to end a hot, sticky, memorial day.
Before I sign off, here are a few pictures of the south and my adventures:
On a walk through the Seibels house gardens I found some beautiful flowers:
Wesley and I at Waterfront Park:
Wes and I outside of the King George where we stayed on our first trip to Charleston:
The best picture that David and I could manage to take:
HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!
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