Sticker Door

Posted on September 16th, 2013 in art, iphoneography | No Comments »

First Frame

I used to be in the habit of shooting 3 frames into the palm of my hand when loading film. A while ago I started shooting as soon as the film was loaded to see what would turn out. This was one of those weird leader shots before the film took.

Posted on July 10th, 2013 in film | No Comments »

Burn Frame

The first frame. Maybe the second. All the beginnings, the half missed shots and the happy mistakes.

[via frameburn ]

Posted on July 9th, 2013 in art | No Comments »

Roxy Music album cover outtakes

Here are some outtakes from Eric Boman’s shoot for the classic Roxy Music album Country Life, and the shoots for the covers of Stranded and For Your Pleasure. These are some of the most striking album covers of the glam-rock era, and there’s something weird and compelling about seeing them in this half-formed state.

Ready for her close up (via Kadrey, boingboing)

Posted on June 21st, 2013 in art, journal | No Comments »

Balloons

Posted on June 17th, 2013 in film, lomo | No Comments »

Tiny Small Box

Posted on June 15th, 2013 in film, lomo | No Comments »

Choose Film

choosefilm

Posted on June 15th, 2013 in blog | No Comments »

LC-A versus LC-A+

After shooting several rolls of film through my LOMO LC-A, I wanted to compare it to my trusty ’91 LOMO LC-A.

Appearance?

The two cameras are almost identical. The LC-A+ is missing the diaphragm setting, used to override the aperture and shutter settings for flash use. I don’t miss this much, as most of my photos are taken with available light. Over the years, I’ve bumped the diaphragm setting on my LC-A and ruined a batch of shots in daylight.

The LC-A+ has a threaded shutter release to accept a remote cable release.

The LC-A+ is missing framelines and focus icons in the viewfinder. Not a huge difference, but I do miss them when trying to compose a shot. If you follow the 10 rules of Lomography, this won’t be an issue.

Finish? The LC-A feels like a little tank. The LC-A+ feels a bit lighter, and the back flexes a tiny bit, but the difference is negligible.

Speed settings? The LC-A + supports 800 speed film.

Lens? Can’t tell the difference

Feel? LC-A+ feels better – smoother film advance, smoother shutter release. FIlm window is a huge plus.

Posted on November 27th, 2012 in blog | No Comments »

A solution for “Unidentified Networks” in VMWare under Windows

VMWare under Windows 7 and later create 2 network drivers — one for bridged networking and one for NAT. Windows can’t determine the workgroup state of these adapters, and refers to them as “unidentified network” when you hover over the network icon. There’s a simple registry hack to fix this:

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. Click the follwoing subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlClass{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
3. Browse through the 00xx subkeys until you find the REG_SZ VMNet subkey with a value of either â€œDosDevicesVMnet8â€ or â€œDosDevicesVMnet1â€ (default values)
4. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
5. Type *NdisDeviceType, and then press Enter.
6. On the Edit menu, click Modify.
7. Type 1, and then click OK.
8. Exit Registry Editor. 9 Disable & re-enable the VMWare NICs
9. Log-out of your Windows account and log back in.
10. Done.

Posted on August 3rd, 2012 in blog | No Comments »

Marillion

Steve Hogarth and the rest of the band, Fillmore Theater.

Posted on June 30th, 2012 in journal | No Comments »

Hogarth

Steve Hogarth w/Marillion, Fillmore Auditorium

Posted on June 30th, 2012 in journal | No Comments »

Cardboard Camera from Ikea

This cardboard digital camera by IKEA was given away last week to members of the press during the 2012 Fuorisalone, a design expo in Milan. According to IT Gizmodo, the camera can hold up to 40 photos on internal memory, has a USB connector, and will soon be in IKEA stores.

via laughingsquid

photo via Naonori Kuwata

Posted on April 24th, 2012 in blog | No Comments »

Service

Posted on December 5th, 2011 in journal | No Comments »

Chairs/Fields

Posted on December 2nd, 2011 in art, iphoneography | No Comments »

Flag/Porch

Posted on November 3rd, 2011 in art, iphoneography | No Comments »

Candy Store

Posted on November 1st, 2011 in art, iphoneography | No Comments »

Google Posterity Post — serving non-WordPress content

1. Create a PHP file in the themes directory with the name lomo.php

<?php

/*

Template Name: <lomo>

*/

?>

HTML GOES HERE

2. Create a new page, and select “lomo” as the page template template. Leave the content blank – all the content will be served by the template HTML.

3. Add HTTP redirect in root .htaccess like this:

REDIRECT 301 /lomo/index.html http://www.kataan.org/stub-name-of-page/

kataan dot org