Dear SLBAAC members,

Jeff, Aliza, Teresa, and I are pleased to announce the long-awaited completion of the web series documenting our investigation into the murder of Fernando Fernando, Silver Lake’s preeminent Conceptual Instalationist.

While we solved Fernando Fernando’s murder this past May, the filmmakers documenting the case only finished their web series this month.

Why the long wait you ask?  Well, once the shoot was over all their HD video footage was transferred to celluloid, cut by hand on a steenbeck editing table, color graded photo-chemically at one of the final color correction sessions of illustrious lab DuArt in Manhattan, printed to 35mm, and then transferred back to digital via tel-cine. The high standards of SLBAAC demanded no less.

The new episodes (including a new version of episode 1 with brand new original score by avant-garde composer and respected taco critic Rob Gokee) are live now at www.slbaac.com/communicae.htm and www.blip.com/slbaac

We hope you enjoy them.  And remember, part of being a member of SLBAAC is educating others about our elite group of athletes, adventurers and crime solvers.  So please, share this news with your friends, family and social networks.  They all deserve to be reminded that they can shop for vintage 8 track players and locally sourced kale in safety because SLBAAC is out there making the world safer.

Josh
Chair, Crime Solving Committee
Vice Chair, Community Outreach

Just a reminder, that the SLBAAC membership committee has an openhouse planned for Saturday March 26th.  If you’re interested in learning more about our organization, Badminton, or Adventuring, you’ll want to attend.

Details will be posted here in the coming days.

We’ve just gotten our crime scene photos back from the lab and present them here, as is SLBAAC protocol, so members of other committees within SLBAAC may consider the evidence as well.

For this crime scene we used a combination of macro photography as well as a pinhole camera that we picked up at MOMA on an adventure in NYC. The macro/pinhole combo allows us to focus on details without losing sight of the bigger picture.  Having used our last roll of Kodachrome on the crime scene of Case File 004221 (Spontaneous Human Combustion at the Silver Lake Lounge) we shot these on Kodak BW400CN, our favorite 35mm B&W stock.

The Crime Scene as it first presented itself to us.

Fernando Fernando, the great Conceptual Installationist.  Snuffed out too soon.  There were no immediate signs of struggle.

The materials Fernando Fernando was working with before his death?

Note spots and smudges on glass.  Clearly Fernando Fernando was not careful in the washing of his tumbler.  In a rush perhaps?  Did he know his minutes were numbered? Or simply, not that clean of a guy.

Glasses do seem to indicate scotch glass.  Also could use a cleaning.

We find the double exposure really helps us think out of the box and avoid the fatal trap of concentrating too much on the obvious and visible evidence.

Case file remains open.  More details to come. -Josh & Jeff

Recently some new media filmmakers approached us about documenting the exploits of our Crime Solving Committee.  At first we were hesitant, but when they assured us it would look like cinema and not “The Real Crime Solvers of Silver Lake” we decided to let them take a shot.  So far we’re pleased with the results.