Barbed Wire
Barbed Wire 057. Nikon D70.
Posted on April 20th, 2009 in digital, journal | No Comments »
Old LOMO Wall, 2009
I started putting my LOMOs into a patchwork using double-sided tape on an old piece of foamcore tape a few years ago, and got to the point where I needed something a little more usable. After a while, the prints would fall down, overlapping prints meant tearing the print when I rearranged them, etc.
I salvaged the ones I could, and replaced it with some hanger wire and stand-offs from Ikea. I mounted the prints on 5×7 index cards, and hang them using bulldog clips. I’ll post a pic when Lomowall Mk. II is complete!
Posted on April 19th, 2009 in art, film, lomo | No Comments »
Chopsticks @ 50mm, Oakland, CA
Chopsticks, Canon FTb. Film unknown, probably Fuji 100
Old print, new scanner. This was taken in Oakland’s chinatown back in 2002 or so. I love the shallow depth of field you get with a slow film, an old mechanical SLR and a 50mm Prime lens.
Posted on April 17th, 2009 in art, film | No Comments »
Big Brother
Posted on April 16th, 2009 in art, film | No Comments »
Waves
Just so you know, it’s not all city shots and toy cameras around here.
Posted on April 16th, 2009 in art, film | No Comments »
Barbed wire
Posted on April 14th, 2009 in art, film | No Comments »
Persnickety cameras…
My LOMO LC-A has had problems intermittently on the tail-end of the roll. It takes more and more effort to wind the film on, then at frame 18 or so the mechanism slips. It happened again so I shorted the roll and opened it up. It seems the take-up reel has cracked in a couple of places, and it wasn’t turning. I was able to free up the mechanism, but it’s still a little wonky. 20-year old Soviet-era plastic can’t be expected to last forever – as it is, it’s still going after 100+ rolls!
I took my Vivitar IC 100, the newest $1.00 camera in the family out for a test roll and noticed that the winder was an odd retrograde design. The guide sprockets rotate left to right, then the take up reel rotates counterclockwise. It jammed at frame 16, and I had to take the camera into a dark closet, open the back and manually feed the film back into the case. I could feel the sprockets had shredded at some point on the roll.
Posted on April 13th, 2009 in film, journal | No Comments »
BENT-28
I don’t know what this means. But I liked it.
Posted on April 9th, 2009 in art, film | No Comments »
My fascination with the Olympus XA 2
In order to understand my fascination with the LOMO LC-A, it helps to know about the camera that started me thinking differently about photography.
Posted on April 7th, 2009 in blog | 6 Comments »
Seven Eighty
Lomo LC-A,Fuji SuperHQ 100 film.
Posted on April 6th, 2009 in art, film | No Comments »
More Random LOMOs…
…Gathered on recent walks through the Tenderknob, SOMA and parts elsewhere, San Francisco.
Posted on April 5th, 2009 in art, lomo | No Comments »
Gettin’ artsy with my LOMO in low light
I’m always amazed at the LOMO LC-A’s ability to capture vivid colors in low light. Every other camera I’ve tried has given me washed out colors when I extend the shutter speed out in low light.
With my LOMO, I load up the slowest film I can find (Lucky 100 when I can find it, Fuji SuperHQ 100 when I can’t) and shoot away.
Posted on April 3rd, 2009 in art, film, lomo | No Comments »
Thefts at the Museum of Bad Art
I’m not making this up:
The loss of two MOBA works to theft has drawn media attention, and enhanced the museum’s stature. In 1996, the painting Eileen, by R. Angelo Le, vanished from MOBA. Eileen was acquired from the trash by Wilson, and features a rip in the canvas where someone slashed it with a knife even before the museum acquired it, “adding an additional element of drama to an already powerful work,” according to MOBA. The museum offered a reward of $6.50 for the return of Eileen, and although MOBA donors later increased that reward to $36.73, the work remained unrecovered for many years. The Boston Police listed the crime as “larceny, other,” and Sacco was reported saying she was unable to establish a link between the disappearance of Eileen and a notorious heist at Boston’s famed Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum that occurred in 1990. In 2006—10 years after Eileen was stolen—MOBA was contacted by the purported thief demanding a $5,000 ransom for the painting; no ransom was paid, but it was returned anyway.
Prompted by the theft of Eileen, MOBA staff installed a fake video camera over a sign at their Dedham branch reading: “Warning. This gallery is protected by fake video cameras.” Despite this deterrent, in 2004 Rebecca Harris’ Self Portrait as a Drainpipe was removed from the wall and replaced with a ransom note demanding $10, although the thief neglected to include any contact information. Soon after its disappearance the painting was returned, with a $10 donation. Curator Michael Frank speculates that the thief had difficulty fencing the portrait because “reputable institutions refuse to negotiate with criminals.”
Be sure and notice the camera.
[via Schneier on Security ]
Posted on April 2nd, 2009 in journal | 1 Comment »
LOMO on the street
Random LOMOs from my most recent roll of expired Lucky 100 film. Taken around South of Market, San Francisco. My 1991 LOMO is still going strong, after what I figure to be 100 rolls of film shot through it…
Posted on March 31st, 2009 in film, lomo | No Comments »
Doorway/Flowers
Posted on March 30th, 2009 in film | 2 Comments »
How to develop film using coffee and Vitamin C!
http://photojojo.com/content/tutorials/coffee-caffenol-film-developing/
Survival scenario #117:
You’re trapped in a grocery store. Zombies are closing in from all sides. You have a crucial photo that could end the carnage, if only you had some way to develop the film.
What do you do?
You grab some instant coffee and vitamin C, you develop the film, and you vanquish the zombies.
What, you don’t think we’re serious?
First of all, zombies are an inevitable part of life.
And secondly, you really can develop film using vitamin C and coffee. For reals.
Read on, and we’ll show you everything you need to know. Quick, before the zombies regroup!
[ found photography, via photojojo ]
Posted on March 23rd, 2009 in film, journal | No Comments »
Walkabout, Part 76
Posted on March 19th, 2009 in art, film, lomo | No Comments »
Chop Suey
Posted on March 15th, 2009 in digital | 1 Comment »
What to buy?
The Lomographic Society made me their OSCM expert last week! I’ve got 35 piggy points to spend in the Lomographic Shop! What should I do, buy some film or spend a little more and splurge on something bigger? I have a 1990 LOMO LC-A and a Colorsplash flash, and my $1 TIME camera beats a Holga 135 any day of the week.
Posted on March 14th, 2009 in film, lomo | No Comments »
Miru Kim Naked City Spleen Photo Series
Miru Kim is known as the “naked urban photographer,” a fearless artist who walks around naked in abandoned urban locales in cities such as New York, Paris and Berlin. She has photographed various familiar urban settings, such as abandoned subway stations, tunnels, aqueducts, factories, hospitals and shipyards. Her series, Naked City Spleen, is a dissection of places built and forgotten and somehow exposed by the naked body of the artist. She also founded Naked City Arts, a not-for-profit art concern in downtown Manhattan, helping young artists to further establish their careers.
[via coolhunting.com ]
Posted on March 13th, 2009 in art, journal | No Comments »
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