Posts Tagged ‘Photography’

Vintage Viewmaster Projector

April 10, 2007

Daily (April 10, 2007) Another Found Object Drawing Viewmaster Elephant I have decided to broaden my description of “found.” Currently it has included anything found in the trash, on a sidewalk, or on the side of the road. Since I simply can’t pass up neat-o stuff from the thrift store too I am going to [...]

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Viewmaster Personal Reels

December 20, 2006

Today is Wednesday and it is officially the last day at work until January 2nd. I am very happy about this. I have spent most of the week trying to get the pictures from Kevin up, working on the poem submission for Polyphony, and getting my viewmaster slide film developed. I decided to go ahead [...]

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Breaking Down the Installation and Shooting it in Stereo

December 16, 2006

Today is Saturday and it started late. The plan had been to pick up the camera from Margaret around 9am. Since I didn’t get to bed until after 6am this obviously did not happen. Chris and I got to Margaret’s around noon. She showed me how to use the camera and we got to the [...]

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Unitarian Church Holga Shots

October 3, 2006

So it has been a really really busy week and I am posting this in sections. I guess I will start backwards and combine a couple of days with some Holga and Darkroom activities. Sunday Blair came over and we developed the first roll of Holga film. Excitement! We also mixed chemicals, printed proof sheets, [...]

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14 Reasons Why I had A Great Day Today

September 27, 2006

Reason Number: 1) The Holgaroid got a flash, all it needed was batteries, and it was relatively easy to put on. It also worked. 2) I was reminded that the most common reason for not getting the results that you want are often user error. Specifically for the Holga – Note to Self: REMOVE THE [...]

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The Dark Room

September 26, 2006

Last week wasn’t the best week for posting so I am going to back track a little bit this evening. For the past couple of weeks Blair has been coming over here and there and working with me in the darkroom. We haven’t really gotten into a great schedule for this but I am putting [...]

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Introducing The Holga

September 26, 2006

Last week (Friday) I was very unsuccessful in trying to shoot some polaroid’s with a Holgaroid (modified Holga). If your curious and want to see some pictures on Flickr you can look for 1) holgagraphy, 2)the Holga group and 3) Holga People group. There are tons and tons of them. I am hoping to use [...]

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Stop and Smell the Roses

September 12, 2006

“Little Black Dress” and “Bouquet of Heads” are being transformed into a mixed media Coffee Table Book titled “The Adventures of the Little Black Dress.” The book incorporates original sculpture and digital photographs taken by friends using Photoshop. I plan to self-publish it at LuLu. Here’s the first one of the series. I gave it [...]

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Darkroom

August 8, 2006

Today Blair met with me after work and we developed a couple of rolls of film in the darkroom. We had hoped to start the emulsion process on watercolor paper but ran out of time. I had to remix chemicals because I had let them go bad (drat). I guess it is time to invest [...]

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Pictures for the Portfolio

May 29, 2006

Taking Pictures in My Makeshift Photography Studio…sometimes things are just easier with 2 people…like always. Today I took pictures of all the figure drawings with the new camera from work (great camera… Panasonic DMC-FX01 Lumix… in the hopes that I can get some of them turned into slides to send to Vermont. My working conditions [...]

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