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Apr - 21st

Light Fixture

Posted at 5:42 pm | Filed Under art, digital

Apr - 19th

Old LOMO Wall, 2009

Posted at 11:50 am | Filed Under art, film, lomo

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 […]

Apr - 17th

Chopsticks @ 50mm, Oakland, CA

Posted at 10:45 am | Filed Under art, film

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.

Apr - 16th

Big Brother

Posted at 6:10 pm | Filed Under art, film

Apr - 16th

Waves

Posted at 7:17 am | Filed Under art, film

Just so you know, it’s not all city shots and toy cameras around here.

Apr - 14th

Barbed wire

Posted at 10:20 pm | Filed Under art, film

Apr - 9th

BENT-28

Posted at 6:46 am | Filed Under art, film

I don’t know what this means. But I liked it.

Apr - 6th

Seven Eighty

Posted at 6:00 pm | Filed Under art, film

Apr - 5th

More Random LOMOs…

Posted at 10:06 pm | Filed Under art, lomo

…Gathered on recent walks through the Tenderknob, SOMA and parts elsewhere, San Francisco.

Apr - 3rd

Gettin’ artsy with my LOMO in low light

Posted at 9:01 am | Filed Under art, film, lomo

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, […]

Mar - 19th

Walkabout, Part 76

Posted at 4:01 pm | Filed Under art, film, lomo

Mar - 13th

Miru Kim Naked City Spleen Photo Series

Posted at 7:12 am | Filed Under art, journal

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 […]

Mar - 11th

Bulletin board – Point Reyes, CA

Posted at 7:36 pm | Filed Under art, digital

Feb - 27th

Looking Down

Posted at 12:22 am | Filed Under art, digital

Feb - 3rd

I LEGO NY

Posted at 6:02 pm | Filed Under art

“During the cold and dark Berlin winter days, I spend a lot of time with my boys in their room. And as I look at the toys scattered on the floor, my mind inevitably wanders back to New York.” Christoph Niemann’s illustrations have appeared on the covers of The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The New […]

Aug - 26th

Miroslav Tichy

Posted at 12:02 am | Filed Under art, film

Am so enthralled with the photographic work of Czech artist Miroslav Tichy, who made cameras out of cardboard tubes, thread spools, rubber bands, and other similar things, and then photographed public scenes in his small hometown. He developed the negatives in a bucket at night, because he didn’t have a darkroom. Later, he said that […]