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.