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Doc. filmmaker from LA creating human-scale works of nonfiction that move the viewer to wonder and greater possibility. I also take photos sometimes.

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A long-stalled Eagle Rock development spawned an unlikely hero: “Pinky,” a screeching papier-mache bird placed on top of one of the site’s infamous concrete pillars.

More than a decade after installing the sculpture, Pinky’s creator shares his story.

The future of the beloved bird is uncertain as construction resumes.

Read more at the link in bio.

📹 @ryanstevengreen by @ryanstevengreen

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JOIN ME May 10 for the launch of Your Call Has Been Disconnected, the first flipbook depicting the disintegration of a Los Angeles payphone. The book's publisher @flipboku will be in house all the way from España 🇪🇸

What: flipbook party!
When: Saturday May 10, 6-9pm
Where: Highland Park - RSVP (free) for address, link in Bio 👆🏼

Flipbooks will be available for purchase, and I'll also have copies of the Space Shuttle Endeavor zine "Go For Stack", as well as all three remaining copies of the film photography book PHONOGENIC documenting the work of LA street artist @screwyblooms.

The evening will conclude with a screening of the short documentary It's For You: Ephemeral Art & The Death of the Public Phone, fresh off its award-winning film festival run. See the film in person before its streaming premiere on the interwebs through my distributor @filmhubhq

There have been several culminations of my project @payphonesoflosangeles over the last couple years, and each has been special in its own way. This flipbook is one that was not a gimme by a long shot. I've really had to keep after it. Through many twists and turns over nearly three years' time, it has finally come to fruition - and in a most satisfying way. I hope you'll join me to celebrate this most joyous occasion.

From the back cover:
"Four years documenting the disappearing payphones of Los Angeles on a Google Pixel smartphone.

Documentary filmmaker Ryan Steven Green, inspired by Godfrey Reggio’s Qatsi Trilogy, spent over four years photographing payphone remnants across Los Angeles County. From more than 1,000 images, 180 were selected and sequenced into this flipbook to create a haunting illusion: one continuous disintegration, composed of many.

The illusion of continuous decay speaks to a broader story of obsolescence, memory, and the quiet disappearance of once-familiar street fixtures. A tribute to analog beauty—and to what we leave behind."

#flipbook #flipboku #persistenceofvision #animation #payphonesoflosangeles #payphones #booklaunchparty #youreinvited #happeninginhighlandpark #letscelebrate #teampixel #poetryinmotion #disintegration #yesteryear taken in Highland Park by @ryanstevengreen

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Like many artists working in any medium, I've struggled with promoting myself and my work in ways that did not feel forced. Thanks to my guy @thisismikenicholls I have finally stumbled upon a tool that I really feel great about, that puts my best foot forward, and is just genuinely a beautifully executed idea.

Besides his own folded zine, Mike shared his InDesign template with me. Huge! So with my limited design skills, and even less InDesign chops (the #1 reason this took so dang long to make!), I kept editing until it finally looked good enough for its intended purpose. Also, big thank you to @meadowhlp for a color printer that can spit out 12x18 paper 📜

I've handed just a couple of these out as a sort of test or proof of concept, and the reactions they've gotten have confirmed my own feelings about this "folded zine" "pamphlet" "booklet" thing-y. Tell me what you think! Would you hire this Ryan Steven Green guy for your next archival documentary? taken in Highland Park by @ryanstevengreen

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After eight years of photographing this site, it continues to surprise. Trying to decide where the appearance of an egg in a nest ranks among the most satisfying events I've documented over the years 🪺🐣 #pillarhenge #lastreetart #papiermacheart #babybird #pinkythebird taken in Eagle Rock by @ryanstevengreen

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4 months ago

Small molinari, no tomato, fresh mozzarella. Chinotto and a cannoli 🤌🏼

@ricoh_gr_official @ricoh_gr_us #ricohgrus #ricohsnaps #italiandeli taken in Eagle Rock Italian Bakery & Deli by @ryanstevengreen

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10 months ago

When's the last time you put your face up to a View Master? How about an array of three View Masters mounted in a vintage metal box fixed to a defunct payphone?

It's weird, I know. And it's more wonderful than you can imagine.

Had I not already been introduced to the work of @colkerb with his first @gallerytelephonic offering, I should have been skeptical when he approached me to collaborate on the followup:

"But this time, it's not going to be physical galleries viewed through a peephole, but pictures of said galleries - only not pictures, but picture discs. And in stereoscopic vision. And we'll mount it in a payphone again."

Benn, I'm not really tracking but count me in. What do you need from me?

And with that, Benn came over to the homestead to raid my box of miniscule payphone parts I'd been saving to donate to the Bureau of Objects - yet another of Benn's ongoing goings-on. He also asked about how we might display "larger-than-life" portraits of payphones.

Now, that second request is a little misleading due to the scale of the Gallery
Telephonic itself. To try to explain would be futile - you really need to get down to Won's Market to see it with your own two eyeballs.

To the point though - I spent a weekend printing a number of contact sheets of some of my choicest 35mm B&W film images of the @payphonesoflosangeles . Each contact sheet I printed at three different exposure levels, so Benn had max flexibility in terms of tonality once the images had been hung in place in his studio set (again, you just need to see the thing to get what the heck I'm talking about 😂)

I don't know how many of my payphone silver gelatin contact prints are included in Loose Change, but it's a LOT. I think this is probably the second-largest solo photography exhibition I've yet had, albeit under the pseudonym/anagram Gary Rennevesten.

Speaking of photography, these images were shot on a most unique camera that I rented for the weekend for just this purpose - the Fujfilm GFX100RF.

Get down to Won's to check out Loose Change before somebody tries to tear it out!

#myfujifilmlegacy
#lastreetart #payphonesoflosangeles taken in Won's Market by @ryanstevengreen

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@colkerb AKA Leon Brenck has outdone himself with a new payphone-based installation, LOOSE CHANGE.

This one features stereoscopic images viewable through three embedded View Masters (remember those ???🤯) The galleries are filled with photography from Gary Rennevesten's (AKA Me) darkroom and miniscule payphone parts turned into monumental works of art.

Cell phone video just don't do this thing justice, as you gotta use both your peepers to get the full STEREOSCOPIC effect 👀

Just in the hour and a half Ben and I were out here, folks from retirement age down to children with their parents stopped by to take a peek and left with wide grins on their faces.

Get you down to Won's Market, 2001 Riverside Dr while this thing is still here. It truly has to be seen to be believed.

#payphonesoflosangeles #ephemeralart #viewmaster taken in Won's Market by @ryanstevengreen

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10 months ago

Street People Photo Dump Pt. 2

So many phones 📞📲 🤯

#teampixel #payphonesoflosangeles taken in Los Angeles, California by @ryanstevengreen

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A photo dump years in the making...

I've kept a folder in Lightroom that's named "Street People" that's clogged with images like these, mostly shot on my Google Pixel device(s) and a great number of them captured whilst sitting behind the wheel of my vehicle. If I haven't shared any of them, it's primarily on account of, until recently, restricting my feed to film images only. What with my newfound freedom to not only capture but actually share digital images, combined with decoupling from my reliance on Adobe Lightroom, some of these images are at long last seeing the light of day.

In 2018 I began (re)taking up photography in a more concerted way, thanks in no small part to acquiring a Sony a6300 - the first of the digital cameras I owned that I actually enjoyed. While I didn't keep that camera but a couple years, it did an outsized job in bringing some fun back into photography - something I had not experienced since probably 2002, my junior year at USC. That was the year I applied, and was not accepted to a photographic internship at Nat Geo, which threw a big giant wrench into my young adult conception of what my future was to look like. I didn't give up photography outright, but I did take my foot off the accelerator for continuing down a career path as a photographer.

It really was not until the pandemic, and building my home darkroom, that I truly reclaimed photography as a meaningful hobby. At this point I have, in truth, surpassed all past accomplishments between launching this IG feed and the various books and galleries that have happened over these last five years, much to my surprise and delight.

Some hurdles still remain for me to experience what I would consider true freedom in photography. And for anyone that's been following along over the last couple months of my posting images from the Ricoh GRIIIx, you are already aware of some of the factors there.

And here I didn't think I had much to say about the "Street People" folder 🥴

#teampixel taken in Los Angeles, California by @ryanstevengreen

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Arizona for Thanksgiving on the Ricoh GRIIIx

#grsnaps #ricohgr #ricohgrus taken in Arizona by @ryanstevengreen

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#ricohgrus #ricohgriiix #aftertherain taken in Highland Park by @ryanstevengreen

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