I took this
photo of the original Merry Prankster bus at Ken Kesey's house in Oregon
in 1998. I came to Kesey's house to do his portrait but he quickly
sent me off into the woods as if he knew I would find something of
interest there. When I came across the bus rotting in the forest I was
blown away. This was the bus that Neil Cassidy drove! This was a
historic relic from the 60s! I shot a roll of color negative film and
then got back to the more important goal of photographing Kesey.
Recently
while scanning old negs and slides I found the roll of film I shot of
the bus and was at first upset when I realized that chemicals had been
eating away at it. After thinking about it for a while I decided to
print the image to see what it might look like. The end result is an
image I find to be far more representational of the bus and those who
rode it. I really could not have hoped for a better disaster to occur.
And here is the Image I eventually took of Kesey.
Not sure who any of these people are? http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/09/01/magictrip/
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