A Taproot Orange

Nix the post three posts ago- The Fuji Instax 200 is available in the Lomography site. It costs as much as the Instax 25, but it looks a bit more user-friendly, and less obtrusive (though I have to admit the goofy orange color would probably make a friendlier street shooter). Plus the resulting image is slightly larger than the 25. I just hope they don't sell out before I get the money.

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus

There are few things in the world as satisfying as a good artichoke.

Who Knew

I didn't, I assure you. I got an A in Junior Project. From Andrea. I thought she didn't even believe in A's, much less giving them to me. Man, thats a mindtrip and a half. Feels good, though. I'd call mom and dad, but its way too late. or way too early. one of those. either way, my GPA is probably securely above a 3.08 once its all accumulated.

I send pictures through the mail of buried treasure and humpback whales to famous people I do not know

Add this to my camera wish-list:



Its a fuji Instax Mini 25, which is an instant-film type camera, much like polaroid, only polaroid has just discontinued their film production- Fuji hasn't. The images aren't as large as polaroids, but looking around the internet and people's results, they produce great color saturation and clarity. A suitable substitute in my eyes. Plus the film is cheaper.

Iiiits The Muppeeeet Shooooow

Well there's lots of smart ideas in books I've never read

This is part of my final series for Junior Project. 12 palladium and kallitype prints that have been pinned to a board and will be placed in a shadow box. The concept stems from the idea that the onion, as an object, was considered a symbol of protection against the evil eye. So I found other symbols (mostly hand gestures) and juxtaposed them amongst eyes- eeeeeevil eyes.

Lou Pai is in Hawaii with 350 million in the bank

So I've watched "Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room" and man, the way they did it astounds me... they booked profits for things that would happen, not that did....

Anyway, I dunno if its guilt over getting a new DSLR and liking it (I believed that digital would be the death of film, and still kinda do...) or because I've finally come to believe like most people that consumerism will make me happy, but I've found a handful of cameras on www.lomography.com that I really want.

The Bulldog field camera: a build-it-yourself field camera, costs a quarter as much as most of the leading brands, which means I can get it sooner... http://shop.lomography.com/bulldog/


The Dalek Supersampler: its the only reason I could conceive of buying 35mm anymore... it shoots 4 consecutive negatives in one frame, which I think has some majorly cool implications. http://shop.lomography.com/dalek/


The Red & Gold Seagull: Well, its a magnificent TLR, and its just plain sexy besides that. http://shop.lomography.com/seagull/


The Diana F+: This is it. The mother of all toy cameras, and its the one I first cut my teeth on in the toy-camera world. Dimes to donuts, a Diana beats a Holga any day. And this one has all kinds of nice features that the original didn't. http://www.lomography.com/diana/diana-f-camera


Yeah, so if you feel like alleviating my guilt over getting a new DSLR or fueling my materialistic inner desires, let me know, 'cuz these things ain't paying for themselves.


Oh yeah, and here's a better version of the image from the last post, coated in wax: