Mount Eerie pts. 6 & 7

Mount Eerie pts. 6 & 7
This page is an explanatory supplement to “Mt Eerie pts. 6 & 7”, a big white photo book with a record of vaguely corresponding music. The book was published in an edition of 2400 in July of 2007 and is available to buy here.

The photos were taken all on traditional film. Most of them are on expired 800 speed 35mm color print film with an antique half frame camera. (A Mercury Univex II, to be exact, which was apparently made from surplus 16mm movie camera parts during the depression. The shutter is a spinning disc. Here is a website about it.) Some other photos are taken with a 35mm full frame Leica dbp rangefinder similar to some of these. Then there are some taken on 120 print and slide film with a very old Kodak No. 2 folding cartridge Premo that looks like this and doesn’t really focus. The prints used in the book are almost all the ones that got automatically run through the machines when the film was sent off to the plant.

The photos were scanned and laid out and midwifed with the incomparable Aaron Flint Jamison in February & March of 2007 here in Anacortes and a little in Portland. The book is much his. He is the reason for the amazing awful dust jacket and other conceptual braveries like “no words”. (His dad suggested this web page.) Flint can be found now editing Veneer Magazine and else where.

It was printed at Hemlock Printers in Burnaby, BC, Canada in May and June of 2007 and delivered back to Anacortes for record stuffing and dustjacketing. (We letterpressed those here because it was a last minute call.)

Below is an attempt to remember the places and times of the photos. Some of them will be wrong. Whatever. It is not a documentary book about all the exotic places I’ve been. It’s not even a narrative myth story. It’s an arrangement of colors and shapes that are intended to get at this idea of “Mount Eerie” I keep excavating.

Mt. Erie, Anacortes, Wash.
unknown

sunlight found at summit of Tårnvikfjellet, Finnkonevika, Kjerringøy, Norway
January 2003

coming back down from Rønvikfjellet into Bodø, Norway
November 2002

along the highway between Paris and Bordeaux, France
April 17th 2000

7th St., Anacortes, Wash. at night
Dec. 2004

parents’ driveway, south Fidalgo Island, near Anacortes, Wash., refinery glow
unknown

from the hut on the hill above Trafton Lake, south Fidalgo Island, near Anacortes, Wash., farm light in the fog
spring 2004

Olympia, Wash. during Lakefair from the roof of the Track House
July 2001

Track House, Olympia, Wash. under the moon
unknown

Finnkonevika, Kjerringøy, Norway
winter 2002/2003

parents’ driveway, south Fidalgo Island, near Anacortes, Wash.
unknown

Calvin’s house, South Capitol neighborhood, Olympia, Wash.
unknown

Calvin’s house, South Capitol neighborhood, Olympia, Wash.
unknown

Poitiers, France
April 21st, 2000

Bologne, Italy
April 28th, 2000

behind the cabin at Finnkonevika, Kjerringøy, Norway
January 2003

frozen waterfall behind the cabin at Finnkonevika, Kjerringøy, Norway
January 2003

parents’ yard, Anacortes, Wash.
late summer 2005

north of Vancouver B.C. along the side of the road
October 20th, 1999

along the highway between Paris and Bordeaux, France
April 17th 2000

across the road from “the Shed”, Palmer, Mass.
April 30th, 2006

the train yards in Fredericia, Denmark
Oct. 15th, 2002

from the Martin Apartments, Olympia, Wash.
winter 2000

my house where I am typing this right now, Anacortes, Wash.
unknown

in the basement venue Zoobizarre, Bordeaux, France
April 23rd, 2000

Nagoya, Japan (taken by Geneneviève Castrée)
March 11th, 2006

Butte, Montana
late January 2007

Kjerringøy, Norway
December 2002

Saddlebag Island from Cap Sante, Anacortes, Wash.
2006

Ilirska Bistrica, Slovenia
April 1st, 2000

Barra de Navidad, Mexico
early February 2000

Rome, Italy
March 28th, 2000

the ferry from Shikoku to Hiroshima, Japan
March 14th, 2006

Hat Island from Cap Sante, Anacortes, Wash.
2006

unknown mountain from the boat between Bodø and Tromsø, Norway
Nov. 28th, 2002

The English Channel
April 16th, 2000

Strandåtindan and Eidetinden, Kjerringøy, Norway
December 20th, 2002

Sauk Mountain, North Cascades, Wash.
December 2005

from cabin at Finnkonevika, Kjerringøy, Norway
winter 2002/2003

the woods along Størkvikreva, Finnkonevika, Kjerringøy, Norway
winter 2002/2003

on top of Tårnvikfjellet, Kjerringøy, Norway
winter 2002/2003

from the top of Tårnvikfjellet, Kjerringøy, Norway
winter 2002/2003

from the cabin at Finnkonevika, Kjerringøy, Norway
winter 2002/2003

Eidetinden, Kjerringøy, Norway
winter 2002/2003

from the cabin at Finnkonevika, Kjerringøy, Norway
winter 2002/2003

from the top of Tårnvikfjellet, Kjerringøy, Norway
winter 2002/2003

Húnaflói from Ennishöfði, Westfjords, Iceland
May 28th, 2006

moon/reindeer from the cabin at Finnkonevika, Kjerringøy, Norway
winter 2002/2003

reindeer from the cabin at Finnkonevika, Kjerringøy, Norway
winter 2002/2003

Mt. Erie, Anacortes, Wash.
unknown

frozen Trafton Lake and Mt. Erie, Anacortes, Wash.
January 5th, 2005

Mt. Erie, Anacortes, Wash.
unknown

near Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado
March 7th 2001

Bodø, Norway
November 2002

Hoh River, Olympic Peninsula, Wash.
Feb. 22nd, 2005

the grass by the water at Finnkonevika, Kjerringøy, Norway
winter 2002/2003

unknown

Khaela at the corner of Legion and Jefferson, Olympia, Wash.
year unknown

Pacific Ocean, from Barra De Navidad, Mexico
early February 2000

Pacific Ocean, from Westport, Wash.
unknown

Pacific Ocean, from San Francisco, Cal.
Feb. 27th, 2001

Skagit Valley, Wash.
unknown

Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado
March 7th, 2001

Wasatch Range north of Salt Lake City, Utah
unknown

from Park Butte fire lookout, North Cascades, Wash.
August 2006

Mt. Erie lookalike, northern Shikoku, Japan
March 13th, 2006

Fredericia, Denmark
Oct. 15th, 2002

clearcut near Joyce, Wash.
unknown

near Hoosick, NY (taken by Adrian Orange)
Oct. 9th, 2005

Waipio Valley, big island, Hawaii
early April 2001

Korsør, Denmark
Oct. 16th, 2002

near Dalton, Penn.
November 1999

Korsør, Denmark
Oct. 16th, 2002

unknown

Manning Provincial Park, B.C., Canada
February 18th, 2002

I-5 near Stanwood, Wash.
unknown

Fir Island, Wash. (taken by Hannah Elvrum)
Dec. 25th, 1999

Manning Provincial Park, B.C., Canada (taken by Izak Elvrum)
February 18th, 2002

Sproat Lake, Vancouver Island, B.C. Canada
August 10th, 2003

below Mt. Erie, south side
unknown

Mt. Erie, by Lake Erie Grocery
unknown

Arrington’s old house, Olympia, Wash.
unknown

Pacific Ocean from the rocks by the old Sutro Baths, San Francisco, Cal.
Feb. 27th, 2001

desk at the cabin at Finnkonevika, Kjerringøy, Norway
winter 2002/2003

Hoh River, Olympic Peninsula, Wash.
Feb. 22nd, 2005

unknown

London, England
April 14th, 2000

unknown

near the Coleman Glacier, Mt. Baker, North Cascades, Wash.
July 24th, 2004

Geneviève in Bret’s cabin, Anacortes, Wash.
December 2004

Sinatra Lake, Tarzo, Italy
May 21st, 2001

southern New Mexico (taken by Mirah Y.T. Zeitlyn)
October 12th, 2000

Sharpe Road, Anacortes, Wash.
unknown

Mt. Erie
unknown

the roof/moon across from Mirah & Ariana’s window, Olympia, Wash.
unknown

Snoqualmie Pass, Wash.
unknown

Mt. Baker near Shreiber’s Meadows
unkown

west Texas
September 2nd, 2001

west Texas
October 12th, 2000

Kjerringøy, Norway
December 20th, 2002

Couer d’Alene, Idaho
January 25th, 2007

Reykjavik, Iceland
March 2005

Bergen, Norway
May 17th, 2006

Bergen, Norway, the restaurant/hotel on top of the hill
May 17th, 2006

clearcuts across from Sauk Mountain, North Cascades, Wash.
December 2005

on the Skagit River dike near Conway, Wash.
January 27th, 2007

Bloomfield Rd. near Shelton, Wash.
late January 2007

Svolvær, Lofoten, Norway
November 28th, 2002