September 2nd 2012
Email from me to Stefan
I was wrangling site stuff… I was faced with the question of whether or not it was worth the effort to get the Sticky Friends site back up. I looked at the old stickyfriends flickr.
Fuck, man. It is worth it.
And then I was thinking…. Maybe, if nothing else, we could still collaborate.
Not, y’know, in person and dealing with each other, … but maybe just a tumblr. Where we could at least both post things in the spirit of our collaborations, and play off each other’s posts. Like a visual conversation.
Eh.
Or not.
email from Stefan to me
My phone is about to die….so this may not send until I charge it.
But yeah…I have a bunch of our shit saved. I don’t have any problem saying that even our lazier days of collaborating always turned out to have a certain quality about them.
All the photos we’ve taken always had some sort of thick, heavy, visual appeal. We didn’t fuck around, even when we were just having fun…we clearly had high standards and didn’t compromise.
Whenever asked, “why is it called sticky friends?”….my reply was something like…”textures mean everything us….and when I work with her, our end results more often than not when viewed portray that…..”the more you struggle, the more you get stuck in the muck”…type of world view.” Grim, cold, and sticky.
Email from me to Stefan
Do you not have a computer nor internet nor electricity or something? You are always on your phone that’s about to die somewhere you don’t seem able to plug it in. Like it’s a dramatic movie moment every time you write to me.
Aaaand, you never actually mentioned if a tumblr with new (and old) content was something you’d go for or not. But then, if you don’t have a scanner and computer and internet all in the same place, it might be a pointless question to ask.
Email from stefan to me
Yeah…the last few times I wrote to you it was always when I was walking to the gas station and was in the red zone. I downloaded a new OS for my phone and everything seems to be much better now. I’m fine with you posting whatever.
Email from me to Stefan
No, I meant….
both of us posting. Like an actual group blog. Back and forth, like.
Not just me.
I wasn’t asking your permission to post Sticky Friends stuff, man. I’ve posted Sticky Friends stuff on occasion on my blog, actually. I’d always linked back to the site.
But anyway…
I’d initially proposed:
… but maybe just a tumblr. Where we could at least both post things in the spirit of our collaborations, and play off each other’s posts. Like a visual conversation.
Yes? No?
Email from Stefan to me
I got it…..but It’s not yes or no. It’s…show me something and I’ll see if I could “play off it.”. If I could…I gladly will. I’m about to go to a family/social thing on absolutely no sleep, so I’m a bit out of it. Later.