There has long been a movement in photography in contrast to the Leica shooters who settle for nothing but the purest glass. These photographers instead opt to embrace the effects of the flaws present in toy cameras with their plastic lenses and light leaks. Some people even put toy camera lenses on their fancy DSLRs. Experimental photographers have long embraced expired film, and processing film improperly (warning, links contain some amount of film snobbery).
brian hefele's untidy space
pink selectrics line the halls, the persistent thwock of typography balls
Photographic Toy as Photographic Tool - 3R
categories:
photography,
art
date: 2010-08-11 00:33:28
Fade To Black
First thing's first - this should be the first post written here w/ my new upgrades to kukkaisvoima in place! So if anything breaks, that will be exciting… Next matter of business - remember when Polaroid stopped making Time Zero, and then they stopped making instant film altogether? And all of our SX-70s and Daylabs became useless? And then remember when some people undertook the impossible project of buying up a Polaroid factory and all the equipment, with the promise of making new film, calling it 'The Impossible Project?' Well if you don't remember, now you're up to speed on what this is all about.
date: 2010-04-17 12:01:54
The Gimmick That Won
First off, I have a lengthy, exciting essay/article in the works, but since it is more essay than article, it has taken a lot of research, and I have a higher priority project at the moment. Second, and more to the point of this article, I'd like to say that I think the Academy Awards are a big joke, laced with politics and petty rivalries. Still, as much disdain as I may have for them, it's hard not to get caught up in it at times, particularly when something wins purely based on a visual gimmick.
date: 2010-03-09 12:01:54