Thursday, September 27, 2007

The Chinalbum

A couple years back, a trip to the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse yielded Jake a box of 1,000,000,000 thimble-vial thingies, Ultimo another item to his “why do I keep driving these retards around” list (Actually, he liked it.), and me this awesome little find:





I was all like a seasoned forensics guy, except with Novocain running through his fingers, extracting the album’s contents and scanning them. The pages were a little fragile and maybe I was over-zealous with the exacto-knife when one of the plastic coatings got tore-up, but at least none of the pictures were harmed. Apparently, they were developed between 1985 and ’86. Here they are:





 


The rest are on Flickr.



Beautiful, right? It’s a vessel, man. I flip through it in my hands and I’m truly transported. If it's yours, I'd give it back. But for now it's mine, so I've put it on... the internets.

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