Another 35mm post? Didn’t we just do that? Don’t you want to help me pay for some film? Why am I asking questions instead of starting the post?

My friend Olivia Luccardi is an actress you might know from Orange Is The New Black, It Follows or Channel Zero. Recently she finished up the third and final season of HBO’s the Deuce and decided to move out to California like all New Yorkers do when they get too old to live in a 100 year old building in Queens with 8 roommates and no air conditioning. Part of that move involved buying a car, and that’s when this post comes in. 

When I found out Olivia had a car the first thing I did was ask her if she wanted to go on a road trip and take a million photos. She is a photographer as well and I love taking her photo and I figured it would be a really fun trip. She was down, but we didn’t know where to go so I suggested Rhode Island because it’s the only state east of the Dakotas that I haven’t been to. She was down and off we went.

The first day we went to Providence, but of course I had to stop at a giant milk jug and a pest control company with a giant blue bug on their roof. I live for that shit. But before we even got to Rhode Island we ran into the Pez factory which was fucking amazing. Oh, and also, I realize all of this is out of order and I could just go back and fix it but obviously I am not going to do that, but we got caught taking topless photos in front of the bug by an amused security guard.  

On day two we went to the beach in Newport but they wouldn’t let Oliva in the water with her giant inflatable llama and there was a big red algae bloom that she was kinda freaked out about so we didn’t stay there long. We did go on a scenic hike, ate some really good clam chowder and got stuck in a rainstorm. It was all pretty fun. On the way there we took a bunch of photos of Mr. Potato Head. Apparently he was invented in Rhode Island and they are really psyched about that for good reason.

Day three we actually spent in Connecticut because there is a weird castle that someone built way after castles were being built and they turned it into a state park and that all looked photogenic so to Gillette Castle we went. We did the tour and looked at a bunch of frogs in a pond and then were trying to figure out where we could go swimming when Olivia realized we weren’t too far from her cousin Brie’s place where they had a pool and would feed us and that sounded great and it was. The pool was honestly amazing and we got crabs and pasta and it was the best. After that we drove Brie back to the city but not before stopping at a little stream and taking some more photos. I really want to go back there when it’s not getting dark and take some more photos and go swimming and stuff.

Oh! We also saw a movie and shot some topless photos in a completely empty movie theater… at least we thought it was empty. At some point I looked up and saw that someone was sitting in the back row and neither of us knew when she got there but she might have seen the whole shoot. Whoops. 

Speaking of topless photos, none of the topless photos are on this site. This is a very safe for work gallery, but there are a bunch of movie theater photos and some topless bug photos that you can pay to see if you really want. The movie theater ones are legitimately great but gonna keep those behind a paywall. Go look at them here. They’ve been up since yesterday and they are in way higher resolution. 

If you don’t wanna cough up a couple dollars a month to support the site you can always look at them below, but I hope you use that money saved to pay for HBO even though Game of Thrones is over so you can watch The Deuce season 3 this fall so that Olivia becomes famous enough that I can make a zine of all these photos called something corny like Rhode Trip and all of the Olivia stans will buy it.

Now click here to see the photos from my Rhode Island Road Trip with Olivia Luccardi in 35mm!

 

 

 

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