Tuesday, October 16, 2012
TALES FROM THE EVENT HORIZON (VI) Into the Vortex! ~ It begins! Having skimmed over the surface of the event horizon we slip lower into the whirlpool of energy that will take us through the horizon and towards the singularity… *Note: ‘The Event Horizon’ series of images came from some expired packs of SX-70 film [...]
Do you have obsolescent or semi-obsolescent stuff around? I bet you do. Here I was just having a bit of fun visually recording some audio recording of some obsolescent or semi-obsolescent technology for monome.org’s latest community recording project ‘Exploring Obsolescence’ No micro-cassettes were harmed in the making of this video, but I’m afraid some circuitry [...]
Filed in Miscellaneous, Sound, Video
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Also tagged cameras, clockwork, metronome, micro-cassette, monome, obsolescence, Project, recording, reel-to-reel, sounds, telephone, typewriter
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I have been fortunate to know him for many years through our mutual love of toy cameras, but he is also a great Polaroid photographer. We mainly interact online from time to time but I remember one memorable day we wandered around Melbourne (with another friend Mike) taking photographs of anything that grabbed our interest [...]
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Less than a month after the last of the Polaroid Integral Instant film cartridges passed their use by date wonderful news has been released by those luminous people at The Impossible Project. The Impossible Project who have been working tirelessly to keep the beloved instant film alive released an update stating that the Polaroid licensee [...]
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
This years Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day (last Sunday) was less than optimal (for me) for a lot of reasons. The weather was shocking, we had power failures, my computer froze when the power finally came back on and I was suffering from the jet-lag feeling that comes from just finishing night shift and having to [...]
Filed in Photography, Review
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Also tagged artpunk, Australia, Cameron Stephen, Digital Harinezumi, Digital Toy Camera, lo-fi, new, pinhole photography, Powershovel, small camera, Superheadz, WPPD
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My thanks to Nic Nichols and his excellent blog Four Corners Dark from where I gleaned much of this information. I’ve been a bit crook with the flu so having an informative resource like Four Corners Dark to read whilst locked away (to prevent me inflicting my bugs on anyone else) feeling muzzy headed is [...]
Filed in Uncategorized
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Also tagged 110 film, Dave Bias, Demekin, Ikimono, Instant Film, news, Nic Nichols, reviews, Save Polaroid, Superheadz, The Impossible Project
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I t’s been a while since i updated the words part of the site, sorry. Things have been a bit busy & weird around here (something not that unusual) but I hope to be back to updating the site with interesting new material, cameras, reviews (including some cool Superheadz cameras) and videos of…stuff (It’s a [...]
Filed in DIY, Photography, Video
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Also tagged 2008, Holga, pinhole, pinhole day, polaroid transfer, rose, Video, world pinhole day, WPPD
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Monday, February 16, 2009
T he last few weeks have been extremely hot and dry with high winds, culminating in the worst bushfires Australia has seen in recorded history on Saturday the 7th (now being called “Black Saturday”) where the temperature reached over 46ยบ C and many fires broke out, involving vast swathes of the State and in some [...]
Filed in Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Photography
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Also tagged bbf, book, bush fires, cover photo, interview, memories, Nic Nichols, photo albums, Powershovel, priorities, published
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
A s far as integral ‘instant’ film is concerned it seems there is hope still for the Polaroid fanatics amongst us, myself included. hats off to Florian Kapps, Lexi (even though I can’t see him in the Team, I’m sure he is working extremely hard behind the scenes) and the rest of the team in [...]
Saturday, December 27, 2008
B etwixt Christmas Day & New Years Day there exists (for me) a kind of limbo, a miasma of half asleep apathy and inertia. It could be the effects of all the food and drink, not to mention the mad running around we have done, or perhaps the residual effects of the recent night shifts [...]
