When you take a photography class, one of the first projects you may have is to build a pinhole camera. I remember building my first pinhole when I was eight years old. My class was taken to the Clara Barton grade school in Fargo because they had a fine arts lab there, we would go there every few weeks for ceramics and things that take more than paper and pencil to do. I think it was the fall of 1976, I remember it being pretty cold but no snow. We used an oatmeal can and some photo paper that we loaded in the dark room. You can do the same thing with these handy links. Back when you could buy 126 film cartridges you could make an even simpler one than this.
Pinoramic 120
Someday I will create a camera as beautiful as one of these.
Living in Akihabara
Tokyo is crowded and busy no doubt about that. You would think that the place have no one living it it by what you see on TV and movies. Once you look a little closer you begin to realize that there are people living in this robust metropolis. Here is part one of a story on what it’s like to live in (or not live in) the famed Electric City, Akihabara.
Living in Akihabara – Part One
Photos of Life
These photos remind me of close up photos of shells or of some tapestry… So abstract and detailed. Be sure to look at his portraits of Chinese people and the flora of Hong Kong while your there.
MICHAEL WOLF | PHOTOGRAPHY | HONGKONG
Catch a Ride on a Rocket
RocketCam has been strapping cameras on commercial space launches for a few years now, the video they bring back is impressive and inspiring. Check out some of the movies they have here for download.
Gallery of Selected RocketCam Videos
Be Carefull of What You Draw
My how things have changed… When I was in grade school my friends and I would draw these complex side views of little cannibal people and the complex processing plant they had built. I shudder to think what would happen if a kid would do that today… (ok, it was sick and twisted for third graders to be doing this, but we were inspired by the abattoir sketch from Monty Python’s Flying Circus)
CNN.com – Boys arrested for stick figure drawings – Jan 26, 2005