Klyment.com - Journal

I wander into a library for the first time in three years. I am kind of lost and I mosy about aimlessly for a few minutes. A librarian smiles at me and offers assistance which I respectfully decline. I settle into a muddy footprint-marked chair beside a middle-age homeless man sitting quietlly with two backpacks and I eavesdrop upon a group of adolescents grouped in a nearby cluster of chairs who are quizzing each other on various academic topics. One young woman, accompanied by her friend, exits briefly for a cigarette.

I've sat for five minutes. The homeless man stumbles back into his chair as he attempts to get up. He smiles at me coyly and this time he succeeds in freeing himself. At least three dozen people have passed by. Men in suits, fathers and daughters, more homeless people and numerous juvenile delinquents mill about without any obvious objective. A few people walk by briskly, purposefully gabbing on their cell phontes.

What am I doing here? I found my way to this library with plans to spend some time writing content for the relaunch of my printing website, PrintHuge.com which my neighbors and friends, 350 Designs, have been working on for the last little while. However, I find myself observing these alien surroundings and reminiscing of the years I spent in libraries from middle school through sentence to a post-secondary institution. In a sense little has changed - in junior high I spent a lot of time in the library reading materials unrelated to my coursework. In high school, I was often found by our librarian covertly eating my lunch in a library corner. And in university, most of my peers remembered following a stream of drool to my comatose body as I napped in a chair in the middle of the Winspear Library.

Indeed.

Thank you to the artists who supported me in my decision to make this investment.

Supporting hardware for a new BetterLight digital scanning back designed for use in a 4x5 view camera. Horseman LE, lenses, high CRI flickerfree fluorescent lighting, and additional wooden support hardware is still on its way.

• 350 Designs is working on a brand new website for my large format, colour managed print service, PrintHuge.com. This new site will replace the embarrassment that I hacked together at around 3am one night three years ago.
• I've commissioned the construction of a 144 megapixel BetterLight true colour large scanning back. It should be on its way to Edmonton via FedEx Priority early next week.
• I'm ordering some high CRI dimmable fluorescent light banks from Flolight for the new fine art reproduction system and to add a new dimension to my lighting arsenal: continuous soft light.
• My first F-type paper is on it's way: Moab's Colorado Fiber Satine. Ordered through Vistek . . . hopefully it won't take too long to arrive.
• I may have had a hand in setting a new record for the world's youngest large format printer owner/operator by selling a fifteen year old local artist an Epson 9880 44" wide pigment inkjet printer.

After shooting everything on this list I could probably lose my right hand and my eyes and die reasonably content. So, celebrities, if you would be so kind as to indulge me:

• Scarlett Johansson in lingerie
• Anthony Hopkins in an environmental headshot
• Angelina Jolie in an implied nude with wild felines in Africa
• David Beckham in an unlikely formal wear shoot
• Aria Giovanni nude in a specific spa in a hotel in Penang, Malaysia
• Jon Stewart
• Jennifer Connelly's eyes