Pinwide at MoMA

“Vir Heroicus Sublimis”, 1950-51, Barnett Newman.
ISO 1600, 6 second exposure. Lumix GF1, Pinwide pinhole body cap.

28 March 2011     Photos, pinhole    

The new Impossible Project PX680

Impossible Project PX 680 Color Shade, Polaroid SLR 680.

25 March 2011     Photos    

Platform (shoes)

Earlier today, I asked the following question of the Twitterverse:

“Dear friends — If you were starting a new blog today, what platform would you choose?”

I’ve tabulated the responses, counting every positive instance (some respondents mentioned multiple platforms). Here’s that data in a pretty graph:

Here’s a screen shot of the public responses. Some were in private DMs and such, are not displayed. Thanks to all who responded.

25 March 2011     Words    

Matchbox Pinhole in the Tea Garden

Handmade matchbox pinhole camera, 2 second exposure.

You can view more of my matchbox pinhole photos here.

23 March 2011     Photos, pinhole    

Walk, she said

Contax T3

22 March 2011     Photos    

Six Months

September 22, 2010 – March 20, 2011

There are times when I can be very impatient. Sticking a small film canister pinhole camera outside a window for six months didn’t feel like something doable for a woman who will take her film to Walgreens for that one hour service when there are more better options.

In the end, I managed to leave one of two cameras in place for the duration. The image above is a six month view into the transit of the sun as it rises over the Oakland hills.

I’ve loaded up the Quaker Oats Cam for a three month test (vernal equinox to summer solstice). If that works, then I’ll reload for a six months — summer to winter solstice, for a complete image the range of the sun’s transit.

Many thanks to Dave at Photoworks for the paper.

You can read about my previous adventures with solargraphy here.

21 March 2011     Photos, Solargraphy    

Vernal Storm

1,033 images shot at 10 second intervals between 7:47 – 10:39 AM PDT March 20, 2011, compiled at 24 fps — Ricoh GR Digital.

20 March 2011     Video    

Messages from the past

If you’d driven by Neuva Casa Chawazek six months ago, you would have seen me hanging out my office window with Derek’s Makita drill
affixing an “L” bracket to the wood. I then hammered said bracket into more of an upside down “v” in preparation for my grand solargraphy adventure. Two cameras were affixed that day and I created the following note in my calendar:

Of the two, one camera remains. That would be the camera that is now going to be more difficult to retrieve as we’ve had our windows replaced. The one that I hung out of six months ago has been replaced with a picture window and can’t be opened. I don’t know that Derek would appreciate me breaking the window and so I’ll have to be more careful.

I think I need to leave more messages for my future self. This isn’t the first time I’ve done so, the most memorable being the letter that my eighteen year old self squirreled away to be read on my thirtieth birthday. Twelve years is a very large window and six months seems just about right. Long enough to mostly forget, but not so long as to have become an entirely different person.

20 March 2011     Solargraphy, Words    

Outside the Pacific Orchid Expo

Contax T3

18 March 2011     Photos    

Looking up

AMC Theatres on Vann Ness, Contax T3

17 March 2011     Photos