Come backs are in

Much like the Tetley crew, it appears CP3O and R2D2 are back too. 


Quite a good ad when you compare it to the previous pap PC World did.

Solargraphs

Turn chicken soup tins into cameras via a mallet and screwdriver.

Алёна, Кира, Курица all in place (Филипп not pictured)

The result

What you're looking at there is a photograph from Кира of the sun's trail, taken over four days.

Shame I pointed it in the wrong direction. Oh-w no-w.

Right a little, right, right again, little bit more...

Seeing things

First day back after a few days break. Slow. Waiting around. A little time then to put up digital documentation of trip. 


The rest, captured (we hope) on Brownie box, Holga, solargraphs and tentative attempt at lunargraphs. 


Plus a few things seen in and around town that, once spotted, have made me smile.

The Pennine Tower at Lancaster services. Used to be a super-swish eatery. Had a sun terrace. Imagine... The mid 60s, when service stations were presumably places to mingle, in a good way.

type talk some more

Again ugly, or magnifique?

And a joke. Baz-aarrrr! A Cornish man named Barry.

(Corner shop, sorry, bazaar Bradford, mere footsteps from Lister Mills)

homemade pictures

Having recently been introduced to solargraphy and, today, stumbling across 'how to make a matchbox-pinhole camera' and alspix exceptional flickr site, I'm feeling just a little bit inspired.


(Lo-fi photography it's like catnip)

That's two projects to be cracking on with.


In the meantime, some Holga favourites. Berlin in the first and my garden and woods nearby in the latter. 

spoke too soon

not quite the day I had anticipated when I started today. but a sunny day. So a sunny song for a sunny day.

Check it owwwwwwt!

Suburban Kids with Biblical Names

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrGMXi3zrnM


I like this a lot. Won't they please come here to play.

today's a day for projects

Not so busy today. Admin seems to be dish of the day. That and some good ol' self promotion (get down to doing your own thang). And whilst perusing desktop, sorting wheat from chaff, came across one of my little projects from another day not too disimilar from today.

Essentially was browsing ffffound! not so long ago, came across this.

http://twitpic.com/2q3gl7

Thought it nice- a good way to develop some illustrator skills. Had a crack myself. The result, well this (feel I should highlight I am in fact a writer and not an art director, though it's never stopped me fiddling and playing at it).

Brownie boo-ga-loo (or more precisely bugg-a-roo)

A guide to using your Brownie box camera.

1. Have patience. Do not rush.


2. Put aside plenty of time to load film, taking into consideration complete lack of formal instructions. Take more time. Research. Then think some more.


3a. Do not assume that with technology being much more complex nowadays that things from way back when are by default automatically simpler. They're not.


3b. In short there's more than one way to put a film in a box (or so I discovered). The shortest route is rarely a right one. Here are two diagrams to demonstrate:


a wrong-un

and a winner

4. Having paid no attention to any of the above, do not under any circumstances decide to wind the winder- having, naturally, loaded the film incorrectly.


5. Having, of course, wound film on and being unable to wind in opposite direction (they just don't work that way), inevitably trapping cassette within Brownie box, you will now require the following tools:


- vaseline (for soothing rubbed out finger nubbins, what with all the winding, tighter and tighter till there's no prints left)
- scapel (not for your nubbins)
- tweezers
- even more patience


Finally I released the trapped cassette- using a combination of the tools above- and rectified my mistakes. Loaded up successfully I went on my merry way, off into the sunset, armed with my box and a flash unit. Looking forward to seeing what comes back.

talk type

hmmm, so traffic jams suck, but this one was good for something at least.

trapped between junctions, saw this. 

tickled me for two reasons- one being the name (not too disimilar from where I'd come from), but more importantly the typeface. 

ugly or not?

autosol, is that like anusol but for cars?

ee, ee virgin post, ummm what to write...

well in honour of all things analogue (and just to get things rolling) how about i tell you a little about an analogue project of mine.

many, many months ago i bought a beat up 1975 Raleigh Wayfarer Ladies' bike from a small store back in Manchester-ford. (90 squid for a rather rusted mish-mash of metal, rubber, gears, leather and spokes). i was robbed, but i was also in love. 

many, many months on, i've started to fix her! one lot of fine gauge sandpaper, a wire brush, bogey green corrosive gunk and tube of autosol later i've now checked off de-rustifying the rims. i'm moving on to paintwork next. but first a little celebration of one Sunday's work...