Sep - 4th
Driving home
Posted at 3:59 pm | Filed Under digital, journal
Aug - 28th
SOVIET UNION
Posted at 12:00 pm | Filed Under art, film, journal, lomo
Another forgotten photo – not quite sure where this was.
Aug - 20th
Wondering about the Diana Mini
Posted at 7:11 pm | Filed Under journal
So, if the Diana Mini can shoot 72 half-frame pictures on a 36 exposure roll, or 36 square exposures, does the film advance advance the film on 24×36 boundaries? Two half-frame shots should print out on a 4×6 print with a fine line between them, and normal spacing between 2 half-frame shots. I’m assuming the […]
Aug - 13th
Photos of science fiction writers’ nests
Posted at 6:11 pm | Filed Under art, journal
Kyle Cassidy has a great new project: “Where I Write: Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers in Their Creative Spaces.” In 2000, I found Kyle’s “Leicaslacker” pages and found his writing entertaining and his photos deserving of envy. I followed Kyle’s Armed America project through his LiveJournal, and continually wish I’d taken his photos.
Jul - 5th
Exposure-Mat, a free light meter (no batteries required!)
Posted at 7:54 pm | Filed Under film, journal
I’m a big fan of the Sunny 16 Rule for determining exposure. Print film is forgiving enough that you don’t always have to get the exposure *exactly* right to get a good shot. The”Sunny 16″ rule, paraphrased, says, “Set the shutter speed to the reciprocal of the film speed, and set the aperture to f/4 […]
Jun - 23rd
Sketch Tuesdays at 111 Minna (Updated)
Posted at 4:17 pm | Filed Under art, journal
Sketch Tuesday was a hit. Sketch Tuesday is a monthly event at 111 Minna Gallery where artists get together, art snobblers and hangers-about mingle, watch artists at work, drink beverages and purchase art at crazy-low prices directly from the artists. June’s event included the following artists:
May - 21st
Slow Photography in an instantaneous age
Posted at 1:11 pm | Filed Under blog
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/ essay-slow-photography-in-an-instantaneous-age/ Fast is fine, but slow can be much better. Digital photography and the ascent of the Web have quickened our jobs. Instead of one deadline a day, we now have continual deadlines, bringing exponentially increasing speed to what we do at The Times. One advantage of using larger formats is that the process […]
May - 19th
Hunt for the West Chester Guerilla Drive-In’s secret AM broadcast
Posted at 6:15 pm | Filed Under journal
John Young says: Back in 2007, you posted a link to the West Chester Guerilla Drive-In, where we project 16MM movies at secret locations from the sidecar of my 1977 BMW motorcycle:The kit-built AM transmitter in the photo you posted is the MacGuffin, a secret AM transmitter in a waterproof case hidden somewhere in the […]
May - 13th
Film is not dead…
Posted at 6:35 pm | Filed Under film, journal
…But it’s not moving around much. My local film sources are drying up, and I’ve had to resort to buying film on the (gasp!) internet. Wolf/Ritz Cameras used to sell Fuji Superia 100/24 4 packs but the last few stores I checked said they haven’t received ANY FILM in their last few shipments. WAL*MART and […]
May - 3rd
Krappy Kamera Gallery
Posted at 8:08 am | Filed Under art, film, journal
(I so missed this – that’s what I get for not subscribing to EVERY BLOG OUT THERE… Do check out the link to the 2008 winners…) Soho Photo Krappy Kamera® Competition In the upstairs gallery, the Krappy Kollage–all the entries (over 1,400) for 2007’s Krappy Kamera show. The beginning
Apr - 29th
Don’t think, just shoot
Posted at 7:19 am | Filed Under art, film, journal
This LOMO mantra’s been getting easier for me – since I’ve been growing my hair longer and spring breezes are here, I’m having a hard time looking through the viewfinder without my hair getting in the way of the lens or the viewfinder! I shot a roll of some generic $.99 cent store ISO 200 […]
Apr - 26th
Always check your settings…
Posted at 4:54 pm | Filed Under film, journal, lomo
I’m a bargain shopper, and when I see film on sale or closeout (which is happening more and more these days) I stock up. I bought all of Walgreens’ Kodak HD400 film when they closed it out a couple of years ago, and it sat in my freezer ever since. I’ve had a fixation with […]
Apr - 24th
Art Explosion Open Studios this weekend!
Posted at 3:07 pm | Filed Under art, journal
From my friend Splicer’s blog. I’m going to try to make the opening tonight, otherwise I’ll be there tomorrow. Splicer and I go way back. He’s someone who knew me first as “Poindexter”…
Apr - 20th
Barbed Wire
Posted at 3:40 pm | Filed Under digital, journal
Apr - 13th
Persnickety cameras…
Posted at 6:09 pm | Filed Under film, journal
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 […]
Apr - 2nd
Thefts at the Museum of Bad Art
Posted at 6:44 am | Filed Under journal
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 […]
Mar - 23rd
How to develop film using coffee and Vitamin C!
Posted at 11:53 pm | Filed Under film, journal
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 […]
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 […]
Dec - 14th
Boodler and Buddha Machine together
Posted at 1:40 am | Filed Under blog
I’ve been playing with my Buddha Machine v2.0 for the past week and love it. I downloaded the .wav files played by Buddha Machine 1.0 and decided to buy one to play next to my 2.0 unit. While googling around, I came across a post on the Healing Beats forum describing a program called Boodler. […]
Dec - 5th
Buddha Machine
Posted at 12:34 am | Filed Under blog
My Buddha Machine arrived yesterday. I opened the shipping container to find a box roughly the size of a deck of playing cards. The outside is festooned with the FM3 logo and chinese lettering. The box opens to reveal a retro-looking plastic slab resembling a 1970’s transistor radio. It’s the brainchild of FM3 (aka Christiaan […]
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