Exposure

Does art imitate life, or does life imitate art? I say that it’s a mobius loop. This month’s saga is a perfect example of this puzzling paradox. Those of you familiar with my effect Dream Vacation know that the method requires you to use a Mexican Peso to perform the effect. I’ve been doing this effect since the mid 90’s. When I finally published it on Jay Sankey’s Underground Jam, I needed a name for the effect. Ultimately I went with “Dream Vacation” as the name because the full version of the effect involves a bunch of phoney-baloney patter about my travels around the world.

However, at one point I was going to call the effect “Exposure” as a play on words because the effect involves a 35 mm film canister. Also, at the same time my good friend and Stone Cold Maigc artist had created the drawing you see to the right. The drawing was for something else he was working on, but I thought it was perfect . . . a Mexican . . . a Mexican Peso . . . Perfect! Based on this drawing and the original title “Exposure,” I created, in 2003-ish, this month’s episode of The Saga:

Wow.  That was weird man.  I was just sitting here minding my own business and suddenly I see a strange flash before my eyes.  Was that Quasi-Photo, that just flashed by me?  Maybe I drank too much of the water when I was in Mexico.  However, being a Peso, you’d think I’d be used to it by now.  Maybe it’s the beach.  Too much time in the sun can really freak a coin out.  One minute you’re sipping a nice cool soda on the beach enjoying the waves; the next minute some fat guy with a metal detector is taking you home to his wife.  Well . . . how else do you think I ended up in the United States?  I don’t have a green card.  Anyway, I’m not sure what happened to me.  I think I’m delirious.  That’s what happens in the sun. Soy loco para mas Exposure.

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