Author: Kurt Weiske
Cheap Coffee of the Week — CHASE AND SANBORN SPECIAL ROAST
This was another can’t-pass-it-up deal – $2.99 for 10.5 ounces at Walgreens. It’s a decent, medium-bold blend. I find myself making an afternoon cup on weekends. Normally, I never drink coffee on weekends after my morning cuppa.
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Homebrew Kodachrome
This DIY Kodachrome machine (the “Filminator”) was created to produce more film stock after the company discontinued productions. Michael, the creator, notes, “Plastic and goop go in one end, and camera film comes out the other end. This is not a trivial undertaking.”
[ DIY film via boingboing ]
Polished
Cheap Coffee of the Week — FOLGERS CLASSIC ROAST
Folgers was on sale for $4.99/10.5 ounce can at Safeway. It’s nowhere near as smooth as Yuban Original, but rich with nuances of formica counters, leatherette and chrome stools, heavy diner mugs, pies in refrigerated cases and waitresses named Vera.
The can went surprisingly fast. I’d buy another can, but I’m playing the coffee field and don’t want to limit myself to one cheap coffee.
Fun with a Vivitar PN2011 “panoramic” camera
I went out shooting with a Vivitar PN2011, a 35mm panoramic plastic camera. This is probably my favorite plastic camera to date, but I don’t know why. I think it’s big enough, the lens is wide enough, it feels sturdy enough and it’s got a lens cover to protect that $1.00 piece of plastic. They’re cheap and plentiful, too.
Leaf a la Jazz
Chromatic aberration? Pincushin distortion? Vignetting? Must be a Jazz Jelly!
Shot with generic 200 ISO $.99 store film.
My First Leica…
“My First Leica!…”
I’ve heard people raving about Leica glass for years, and I’ve wanted a Leica M series rangefinder for as long as I’ve been serious about photography. Leica quality comes at a premium price, though, and I could never justify the cost.
Until now.
Bell and Howell, more Plastic Camera fun.
More plastic fun with a Bell and Howell $1.99 junk store camera.
Lomography is…
Lomography is… from Sofya Suhova on Vimeo.
Cheap Coffee of the Week — ARCHER FARMS ITALIAN ROAST
Decent coffee? AT TARGET? Cheap. $6.79/12 oz bag. Ground or whole bean. Italian, French, Columbian and Guatemalan blends. Surprisingly smooth, not the freshest beans in the bag, but buzzworthy.
Worth a look.
Target sometimes has small bags of coffee for $1 and online $1 off coupons. Doesn’t get much cheaper than FREE.
What Every Aspiring Photographer Should Know
Here’s a wonderful bit of advice for aspiring photographers from Cheryl Jacobs Nicolai at PhotoDino.
What Every Aspiring Photographer Should Know
These are my thoughts, nothing more and nothing less.
I get asked all the time, during workshops, in e-mails, in private messages, what words of wisdom I would give to a new and aspiring photographer. Here’s my answer.
- Style is a voice, not a prop or an action. If you can buy it, borrow it, download it, or steal it, it is not a style. Don’t look outward for your style; look inward.
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Disjointed, two.
Airplane Graveyard, courtesy of LiveJournal
Livejournal user alexdoomer2009 took this wonderful series of photos as an abandoned military airplane scrapyard, somewhere in the Eastern Bloc. I loved his pictures so much I wanted to share them here. All pictures are the property of
“Alex Doomer”
His original Livejournal post: http://community.livejournal.com/abandonedplaces/1928500.html
More of his photos: http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/alexdoomer007
Driving home
SOVIET UNION
Another forgotten photo – not quite sure where this was.
The Big M Show, Lucky JuJu Gallery, 9/4/09
You are all invited to the opening of The Big M: Classic Cars Under the Stars show in Alameda on Friday September 4th from 7-10pm.
Joe Reifer, Mike Hows and I will be displaying some of our Big M imagery at the Lucky JuJu pinball Gallery. Discount prints and signed copies of my book will also be available at the opening, so make sure you drop by and say hello!
Lucky JuJu Gallery
713 Santa Clara Ave
Alameda, CA 94501
Press release HERE.
Image info:
“Twin-Boom Rocket”
1959 Oldsmobile, at Big M Auto Dismantlers in Williams, California. Visit the set page for more information.
Night, 120 second exposure. Full moon, natural and red-gelled flashlight.
[via flickr ]
Wondering about the Diana Mini
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 square frame would advance the same distance as a 24×36 image?
If you shoot one half-frame shot, then switch to square, then shoot half-frame again, how would the negative look? And, would your photo processing lab try and follow along, or just print evenly-spaced 24×36 prints regardless of what’s on the neg?
LOMO’s New Mystery Camera
@lomography has been all (ahem…) atwitter about a mystery camera announcement this week. The folks at Tongue in Chic seem to have blown the lid off of the announcement of the Diana Mini, a half-frame/full-frame 35mm version of the cult classic Diana plastic camera.
Photos of science fiction writers’ nests
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.
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