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 […]

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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 […]

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Nov - 26th

Photography is for…

Posted at 8:27 am | Filed Under journal

Want to be a renowned photographer? follow these seven steps. (links include “colorful” language, but we all know that color is an important part of photography) 1) Make sure you have a LOT OF F**KING NATURAL LIGHT. 2) Make sure the natural light SOURCE is behind you 3) Make sure the flash on your camera […]

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Nov - 14th

Testing new all-in-one widget

Posted at 11:13 am | Filed Under journal

Scanner, fax and printer.  

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Nov - 8th

Woops!

Posted at 9:18 am | Filed Under film, journal

I’ve used York Photo for my mail order film processing for several years. They’re inexpensive ($2.20/roll, $1.50 shipping, and $1.00 scans), they turn rolls around in a week, and they partner with Snapfish for their online service. They offer perpetual hosting and have great deals on prints. I got my first rolls back from San […]

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Sep - 25th

Jazz Jelly camera, revisited

Posted at 9:56 am | Filed Under film, journal

My fixation with LOMO LC-As and film photography began in 2000. About that time, I started collecting toy film cameras. I like the aesthetic, I like the disconnect from technical frippery that a plastic lensed, single aperture, single shutter speed gives. I like vignetting. I like chromatic aberration. I like soft focus. One of the […]

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Sep - 20th

Tubes

Posted at 12:22 am | Filed Under digital, journal, pencam

 

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Aug - 28th

“Night Vision: The Art of Urban Exploration”, a book review

Posted at 12:17 pm | Filed Under journal

Troy Paiva is one of my favorite photographers of late. I love his choice of subjects – googie architecture, abandoned buildings, junk yards and the southwest desert. He shoots almost exclusively at night and uses a combination of colored flashes and LED lights to “paint” his subjects.

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Feb - 6th

Speechless

Posted at 1:11 am | Filed Under journal

Speechless ASPEN, Colo. – Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularized a new form of fictional journalism in books like “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” fatally shot himself Sunday night at his home, his son said. He was 67. It’s all over the news now, HST was found dead of an apparently […]

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May - 15th

Jazz Cameras

Posted at 2:58 pm | Filed Under journal

I bought another Jazz 101 today, and I thought about how fun my toy camera phase last summer was. I’d just discovered www.lomo.org and rediscovered photography after a long dormant period. Most of the pictures I took that summer were taken with a $30 Ebay Olympus XA 2, a Jazz Jelly, Jazz 101, or Lomo […]

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Mar - 15th

What’s wrong with Lomography?

Posted at 11:56 pm | Filed Under journal

Here’s two interesting pages regarding Lomos and why some people don’t like “Lomography” — http://home.planet.nl/~ucklomp/lomography/index.htm and http://homepage.mac.com/mattdenton/photo/cameras/olympus_xa.html I have to agree with them – I love the Lomo LC-A, but I dislike lomography – it seems way too marketed and commercial. People carried pocket cameras with them a long time before the Lomographic Society decided to pretend that […]

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Feb - 7th

Home firewalls

Posted at 9:48 am | Filed Under journal

I’ve been running on the SMC Barricade for about a week now, and like it. If you’re looking for a firewall appliance, $100 gets you a 4-port switch, NAT firewall, and print server. Setting up printing between Linux and Windows has traditionally been a pain; the SMC acts as an LPR-type print server, so setting up print […]

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