It’s Polaroid Week, and instead of holding it all till the end, I’m going to go ahead and share as they come. First up, some color Impossible Project film with a groovy Lilac border, shot in my stepdad’s Polaroid Impulse SE. Everyone that’s seen it has a story to tell about polaroid, and I’m having some (wildly expensive) fun with it. Continue reading “Polaroid Week! (1)”
Unboxing “Forth Goes the Road”
Forth Goes the Road chronicles Christian Watson’s drive from Hillsboro, OR to Stag Bay, AK without maps or cellphone or motel rooms, just his 1980s Jeep, some cameras, an occasional diner somewhere, and a dog for company.
It sounds like a great trip…
https://youtu.be/7bLKWfOeZW4
Bent Metal
Almost like a John Chamberlain sculpture or something.
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Unboxing the FM3a
After several years of vacillating between wanting, but not having the money, and having the money, but not feeling worthy, my wallet and self esteem finally aligned and I pulled the trigger…
https://youtu.be/2QwRSnv-4Mc
Expired Film Day!
… many days late.
Expired Film Day occurs on March 15, the Ides of March, is also Expired Film Day, an annual celebration of all things film and expired.
For my first entry, and thanks to a poll I threw up on Twitter that didn’t go the way I hoped, I went with the two rolls of 2001 vintage Kodak Ektachrome EPP 100 that I acquired for free, thanks to a botched USPS delivery of some Kodak Pro Image 100 I ordered last summer.
I had high some hopes for it, sort of, but something went way off. Continue reading “Expired Film Day!”
Unboxing ‘I Ditched Class and I Took a Bath’
‘I Ditched Class and I Took a Bath‘ documents Agathe Rousselle’s two week vacation in San Francisco following a breakup and personal crisis at home. The careening narrative follows Rousselle as she walks and parties her way to some inner peace, and ceiba’s excellent production reinforces the narrative and puts viewers in the center of it all.
Continue reading “Unboxing ‘I Ditched Class and I Took a Bath’”Unboxing ‘The f/D Book of Pinhole’
The f/D Book of Pinhole: A global survey of pinhole photography is f/D‘s book of 100 pinhole photographs by 100 international photographers, edited by Kier Selinsky and Libby Duncan Selinsky. They don’t have copies for sale yet, but the Kickstarter rewards are arriving as I type. Mine came yesterday, and you’re seeing it here first…
https://youtu.be/-rLxyOtmAqc