Last week, Callalillie and Lexi found a pile of negatives, postcards and other memorabilia on the streets of Red Hook that belonged to an unknown man named Arthur. She has begun a magical mystery tour of sorts trying to figure out who this man was. I wonder what will they find? Wouldn’t it be incredible if someone discovered these photographs on-line and could identify the people pictured in them?

For the first time, Photoshop has really felt like a darkroom. I
have been scanning negatives like a fiend, trying to piece together a
puzzle of images. We’re never quite sure what scene might appear when I
hit "invert" or pull the levels, revealing a ghostly outline, when a
figure or a tree. Even when the photograph emerges, I am unsure of what
I am seeing.

Who were you, Arthur, and how in the world did these fractions of your life wind up beneath my scanner bed?