{"id":596,"date":"2008-05-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchbooks.com\/invis\/wordpress\/?p=596"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:21:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:21:21","slug":"salton-sea-my-last-pictures-on-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2008\/05\/salton-sea-my-last-pictures-on-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Salton Sea: My last pictures on film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"430\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" VALUE=\"ids=72157604786432534&#038;names=Salton Sea - 2003&#038;userName=jonkeegan&#038;userId=35307336@N00&#038;titles=on&#038;source=sets&#038;titles=on&#038;displayNotes=on&#038;thumbAutoHide=off&#038;imageSize=medium&#038;vAlign=top&#038;displayZoom=on&#038;vertOffset=0&#038;initialScale=off&#038;bgAlpha=8\"><\/param><param name=\"PictoBrowser\" value=\"http:\/\/www.db798.com\/pictobrowser.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\"><\/param><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.db798.com\/pictobrowser.swf\" FlashVars=\"ids=72157604786432534&#038;names=Salton Sea - 2003&#038;userName=jonkeegan&#038;userId=35307336@N00&#038;titles=on&#038;source=sets&#038;titles=on&#038;displayNotes=on&#038;thumbAutoHide=off&#038;imageSize=medium&#038;vAlign=top&#038;displayZoom=on&#038;vertOffset=0&#038;initialScale=off&#038;bgAlpha=8\" loop=\"false\" scale=\"noscale\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" width=\"500\" height=\"430\" name=\"PictoBrowser\" align=\"middle\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nTo the best of my knowledge, these are the last pictures I shot on 35mm film. When we were living in Los Angeles back in 2003, I grabbed my trusty Yashica T* loaded up with black and white film, and Julie and I set off to explore the haunting <a href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salton_Sea' target='new'>Salton Sea<\/a> area, about 60 miles to the south-east of Palm Springs.<br \/>\nWe had heard it was an interesting place to visit, but we weren&#8217;t prepared for the things we would see: An artificial mountain built of mud, paint and car tires as a monument to God&#8217;s love <a href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salvation_Mountain' target='new'>(Salvation Mountain)<\/a>, entire neighborhoods, buildings and vehicles devoured by pink alkaline slurry, sulfurous boiling mudpots, defunct hotels from the 1950&#8217;s heydays and a dead, smelly sea.<br \/>\nIf you are ever in the area, be sure to make time for a visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the best of my knowledge, these are the last pictures I shot on 35mm film. When we were living in Los Angeles back in 2003, I grabbed my trusty Yashica T* loaded up with black and white film, and Julie and I set off to explore the haunting Salton Sea area, about 60 miles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[135,138,126,136,137,243],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}