kodak expired film
I’m the winner! I received 10 free kodak expired rolls but an eleventh, which is the Ektar -the newest film, a week (or two) ago. Expired on 2008, now I’ve got so many film rolls for my camera – Portra vivid color and Portra natural color – with different ISO: 400, 800, 160, 100. I’m just in love with them and with the letter Kodak sent me. “Viva la Kodak Film!” says at the end…so funny.
It was a Kodak giveaway project which has a group on flickr: Kodak Expired Film. Unfortunately, the project has reached the limit so you can’t try to be the winner any more. Anyway, you can always enjoy the group.
So, a little summary:
if you are a newbie at this project: ops, you can’t join in. What a pity! Better luck on the next time (maybe!); if you are a loser, hey: hope dies last! There’s a post on flickr about winners donating rolls for losers. Maybe I myself will donate some rolls. Quizàs! And if you are a winner: you’re such a lucky dude!
I’m looking forward to load one of these on my camera, expecially the Ektar one. I’ll update my flickr account with details about these rolls, so stay tuned.
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ara pacis
Ara Pacis, Rome. Canon EOS 620, Kodak BW Professional.
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palettes
Ok, it’s hot, it’s summertime etc. etc. But I have so many ideas in my mind that I can’t leave them. So I’m here to tell you about a new textile design project.
I’ve create different palettes from two photos of mine, taken with my Canon EOS 620. Two photos ya, but thery’ll be more than 2, you bet. Starting from a photo, I’ve analyzed dominant colours (also ones you can see only in deep sigh) tand all boring things with all boring names.
That0s because I find that we like photos expecially because of their colours. We tend to like the colours instead of the subject. In a first moment we see only them, then the composition, the light and all these professional components. I love the first impression we have looking at photos. This impression is COLOUR!
I’ll update you soon about the concept, anyway enjoy the palettes of the first photo for now!
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arduino: making of
Here there are some shots I’ve taken with Photo Booth about Arduino.
We was hacking a cheap emergency lamp: it had great LEDs, I love them! Now we have almost 20 of them.
These photos are a little bit old, but I’m uploading the new ones. Enjoy them, I’ll introduce the project soon (we have to finish it within 15 July 09 – the date of the exam, yeah!). So stay tuned, guys!
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Hi guys, I’m back with something new.
I’m practising photography with my wonderful Canon EOS 620, a great analog camera: it takes pictures like new digital ones.
I’ve just developed my second film and..waa! I love it. I’ve made up a little still-life setup:
- an empty room (just to be alone, without someone hanging around)
- a lamp
- a translucent sheet of paper (I’ve covered the lamp with this!)
- a big white sheet of paper as background
- my camera!!
Something like this:
just a homemade setup in less than five minutes
I’ve taken photo with a short shutter speed (something like 1/80) and a wide aperture. I’ve had an interesting effect, have a look by yourselves.
… and so on.
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in love with arduino
I’ve discovered so many things in these days, due to university, networks, people and other stuff. I’d like to tell you severally but..It’s so complicated and it could take me a long time too. So I have to choose one of them and well, pay attention please, I’m gonna blogger about the coolest one: ARDUINO. (maybe it is also because my great teacher suggested me to do it).
So what is it? “Open source” is the first step. Such a magic thing, isn’t it? There is an Italian artist, Ivan, saying “La sapienza non s’accresce se non è condivisa” (Knowledge doesn’t grow if you don’t share it).
Arduino is a platform receiveng input from the world around you. It’s interactive and funny! You can try to create some interesting projects with it, take a look on the web to see how many things have been made with Arduino. Even if you don’t know language C, you’ll be shine at programming this platform. You have to play with it several times, and then.. it’ll grow on you. I’m writing this because it’s the same thing happened to me: at the beginning I was unaware of input, delay, output, ground etc. Now I’m doing giant steps and I’m studying about a project with Arduino at university.
Ya, let’s explain it. It concerns the scenery of room mates, someone who is forced to live with other people never seen before. To be specific, I’m gonna make a project about sleeping in the same room, something (ya, that’s Arduino!) that records your movements, understands if you are sleeping or not, and says to your room mate how much noise he can make when he comes back late. Is this a little bit interesting? I hope it is.
With my friend Lorenzo I’ve made the first and dirty prototype without arduino (we’re still working on the code). This project will look like a simple mattress protector ;) I’m talking about the project also on the forum, have a look.
It’ll be a long hard work..and obviously funny! You bet, I’ll write more about Arduino and I’ll put here helpful stuff for you all.
See you on the next post!
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camera hacking: pinhole time
In these days I’m hacking a plastic camera I’ve bought last year, following some tutorials I’ve found on the web. Why this? Because I want it to be a great pinhole, my first one. You can find all kind of suggestions and instructions on Silverbased.org (read the article and then go to the second part of the diy)
I think it’s the best tutorial you can find about camera hacking!
I can advice you only one thing: you could get the sheet metal he says from a floppy disk. Everyone has got one (I think)! It’s a little bit hard to make the hole, but…hey! we’re hacking, not applying nail polish.
Anyway, the first step is: disassembling parts, which it’s not a hard work…even if I’ve broken the most of my camera. I haven’t managed to disassemble them, so I’ve strucked the body with hard blows. Now I can’t count the frame advancing. Fortunatelly, Flickr is full of hackers that want to share their experience. Chet4 gives us a step-by-step instructions to repair this little mistake (you can see that the camera he has is a Holga 120 with a 35mm film. It doesn’t mind, it’s the same concept).
I’ve not finished my work yet, but I’m going to bring you up to date.
Stay tuned!
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