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ANTIPHON FiLMS are the motion picture and still photograph work of Hart Ryan Noecker, a Portland, Oregon based filmmaker and Northwest Film Center certificate program graduate.
‘Chronological Order’ by POINT JUNCTURE, WA
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From the album Handsome Orders, Mt. Fuji Records, 2011.
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Photographed and edited by Hart Ryan Noecker in Portland, Oregon on Kodak Vision3 500T with a Paillard Bolex H-16 M.
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Processing and telecine by Fotokem in Burbank, California.
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Music by Victor Nash, Skyler Norwood, Amanda Spring, and Wilson Vediner.
©2011 ANTIPHON FiLMS
Portland Oregon’s best band, Point Juncture, WA. Shot on a Pentax K1000 with Kodak Ektar 100ASA.
Kokak Ektachrome E100G fine grain slide film. Love this stuff.
This was the last real day of summer in mid-September, it was the birthday of a man who’s campaign I was working for as a photographer. The long red flowers on the weed at left bloomed mid-July and stuck around another month after this was taken. I’ve had this ugly little plant for years and she’s never come close to blooming anything at all.
Photobooth fun at East End in Portland Oregon, November 2010.
Currently the #1 ranked photograph on my Flickr page, by popular demand. Melanie is one of my dearest friends. She is currently writing a book in Hong Kong. And it really is impossible to take a bad photo of her.
What I learned on my reconnaissance ride to Washington.
There was a lunch meeting of some of the hard core bike commuters who ride daily all the way out to Retail Imaging on 122nd and Sandy, and I chose to ride out on my day off to be a part of it. There were nine of us, and we brainstormed on how to increase ridership within the company. I started thinking about why it is so hard to get people out of their cars even in a region that has invested so heavily in mass transit and cycling infrastructure. I felt like doing a little research.
After lunch, I decided to cross the 205 bridge (it has a bikeway in the middle of 8 lanes of freeway) across the Columbia to Washington. I hugged the river for 7 miles to Vancouver, and along the way were nothing but McMansions with lawn signs for Republicans running for city, county, state, and federal. At least these assholes are actually voting for their own interests. While crossing on the on 205 was easy, crossing the CRC was a nightmare. It took me 25 minutes just to figure out how to get on the pedestrian pathway, and once on I had only a few inches on either side of me. Then the pedestrian crossing ends on Hayden island and spits you out into the middle of sidewalk-less strip mall of fast food and department stores. I searched for ten minutes for any way back onto the bridge, and eventually just ignored the ‘No non-motorized vehicles allowed’ sign and took the entrance ramp up onto the 60mph freeway over the Columbia.
When crossing back down onto Oregon land, I did notice a crossing on this portion of the bridge on the other side, but there was no way for me to access it or even know about it as there were zero signs directing southbound cyclists/peds on the west side of the bridge to get there. I see now why there is so much Vancouver support for a 12 CRC, everybody over there hates paying taxes, so they live in Washington to pay basically zero property tax, and then drive their cars over the bridge to Portland to pay zero sales tax; the perfect libertarian dream.
(Source: bta4bikes.org)
Kodak Ektachrome E100 Extreme Fine Grain Slide Film. This is my Victoria, the only bike I ever want to own. This structure burnt out years ago, and has always had a disgusting chain link fence around the entire block to keep out taggers. For whatever reason it was gone this day, and a security guard told me it would be back the following day. Perfect timing.
Someday you’ll wonder how you lived with the shame of living in a country where it was illegal for homosexuals to be married.