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louobedlam: I’m gonna start working on the sage wisdom I will...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:56:55 -0800

I’m gonna start working on the sage wisdom I will impart on young photographers when I get old.

“Hey papa, should I get {super new computer/camera} or {super sophisticated flash}, or maybe {wicked high quality lens}?”

“All a photographer can hope for, dolly, all a good photographer needs, is some good light, some gentle wind, and a pretty lady to put in their way.”

Aw man, I can’t wait to be old.

The big Pictr, crea tu propio "The big Picture" con las fotos de flickr

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:19:56 -0800

The big Pictr, crea tu propio "The big Picture" con las fotos de flickr:

Feels weird to get recognition in a language I don’t understand.

wearedmx: Who’s That Guy? i called you in the evening to see...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:33:00 -0800

wearedmx:

Who’s That Guy?

i called you in the evening to see if you were free
you told me you were busy and you had no time for me
so i called one of my homies to see if he was down
for taking out my Benz tonight and cruising through the town

i picked him up at his place, drove up and down the strip
we drank a couple forties and we smoked a little HHHHHHHSSSSSSS
and feeling kinda restless, we parked outside the club
we skipped the cue and and slipped into the place to see what’s up

out on the dance floor i could hear my favorite song
i was feeling kinda horny cuz the weed was strong
right then i saw you. you were looking kinda fly
yeah yeah, but you were with some other guy!

who’s that guy that you’re dancing with?
a secret lover you’re romancing with?
well, i ain’t a player-hater, but i hate to get played
and i really thought we had it made

you said it was your brother, but baby you were dressed
for dancing with a lover, and i was not impressed
i couldn’t quite believe it. my eyes were seeing red
to think that other guy right there had had you in his bed

my head was spinning, my emotions turning ill
i almost took that guy apart, but i stopped to chill
and as a realized our love was really dead..
yeah yeah, this is what i said:

who’s that guy that you’re dancing with?
a secret lover you’re romancing with?
well, i ain’t a player-hater, but i hate to get played
and i really thought we had it made

so tell me: who’s that guy you’ve been talking to?
and did you plan to break my heart in two?
to think that i believed you when you said you were mine
and you were lieing all the time

i always thought that we would be forever true
i never thought that i’d be saying this to you
but now the time has come for me to let you go
yeah yeah, there’s something i should know:

who’s that guy that you’re dancing with?
a secret lover you’re romancing with?
well, i ain’t a player-hater, but i hate to get played
and i really thought we had it made

so tell me: who’s that guy you’ve been talking to?
and did you plan to break my heart in two?
to think that i believed you when you said you were mine
and you were lieing all the time

tell me: who’s that guy that you’re dancing with?
a secret lover you’re romancing with?
well, i ain’t a player-hater, but i hate to get played
and i really thought we had it made

so tell me: who’s that guy you’ve been talking to?
and did you plan to break my heart in two?
to think that i believed you when you said you were mine
and you were lieing all the time

by DMX Krew

by Joško

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:59:19 -0800

by Joško

A circus bear on its hind legs crosses into West Berlin with its...

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:48:26 -0800

A circus bear on its hind legs crosses into West Berlin with its handler through a section of the Berlin wall that was taken down at Potsdamer Platz on November 11th, 1989. (John Tlumacki/Boston Globe staff)

Big Pictr in the App Garden

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:45:30 -0800

Big Pictr in the App Garden:

Add it to your faves!

By Alexey Titarenko (via A Photo Student)

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:16:41 -0800

By Alexey Titarenko (via A Photo Student)

How to retrieve the leader you wound into a roll of film

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:07:25 -0800

I’m reposting this here because I’m so happy that it worked.

By Andrew Davidhazy

How many times have you wished for a means for retrieving film from a cassette into which you had inadvertently rewound the film as you were switching from one film to another or while in the process of double exposing a roll of film or at a time when you simply did not wish to rewind the film completely into the cassette at the end of the rewind process?

Most photographers can recall a number of such instances. There are ways in which the film can be retrieved from a cassette even if it is of the unopenable kind such as most Kodak and now Ilford types. There is even a commercially manufactured film retriever made by Kalt and sold for about $ 4 at most camera stores. In addition there are improvised methods that produce a fair degree of successful recoveries but these along with the Kalt retriever are by no means 100% reliable. You might also want to take a look at the PhotoForum’s FAQ files. In section 28 there are several methods, in addition to these, described.

Among the improvised methods a one uses two-sided sticky tape which is applied to a piece of film and inserted through the felt trap into the cassette with the idea of sticking it onto the film inside and allowing you to pull the film back out of the cassette. This method has a fairly high success ratio but it depends, of course, in you having two-sided tape at your fingertips which is almost as unlikely as having the commercially made retriever around when you really need it!

A second way, which I learned from Larry White of Modern Photography, is to stick a piece of, preferably, undeveloped film onto your tongue and moisten the emulsion side so that it becomes as sticky as if you had used double sided tape and then push this film, wet emulsion down, into the casette hoping that, first, the swollen emulsion will adhere to the film inside and that, second, yanking or slowly pulling on the remaining film will withdraw with it the film from within. This process while simple and cheap is also fraught with unceratinty and if the withdrawal process is carried out with gusto and vigor, it results in much more film being withdrawn from the cassette than expected.

A different approach, somewhat reminiscent of the neat Polaroid film retrieval system, is proposed and described here. There is a rough drawing at the bottom of this article to go along with the words describing it.

First, the assumption is made that you can secure a length of exposed or unexposed 35mm film. This will become your retriever. Cut two lengths, each 3 or more inches long and set one aside.

On the second one, cut the film between sprocket holes starting with the ^third^ sprocket hole from one end. Make the cuts along the edge farthest from the edge of the film and cut at a diagonal towards the edge and away from the short end of the film. The cut should end in the middle of the sprocket hole edge. Do this for the 5th, 7th, 9th, and 11th hole and repeat for the bottom edge of the film. You should have created a pattern similar to that shown by the illustration.

Now bend the serrated ends that you have created towards the emulsion side of the film. Make the bend fairly sharp. You will notice that now you can easily run your finger along the ridges if you move from the short end of the film but that you encounter the sharp edges of the barbs as you move against the grain of the barbs.

At the third sprocket hole now bend the film sharply towards the emulsion side. This curl may need to be reinforced each time the retriever is used for a while, since the curl tends to come out of the film with time or through extensive use.

To use the retrieval system which you have created first insert the plain piece of film into the cassette having first allowed room for this extra volume by winding the film spool clockwise a few turns as you hold it with the longer protruding end towards you. This piece should penetrate the cassette to a length of about 2 inches, until it goes once around and gets prevented from further travel by the backside of the felt trap edge. The function of this piece of film is to smooth out the film exit path so that upon retrieval the outwrdly winding film does not get caught by the other side of the felt trap edge.

Now insert the film with the serrated ridges under the first piece of film but only until the edge of the third sprocket hole is at the felt lip. Now wind the film clockwise again and as you do so listen for faint “clicking” sounds inside the cassette. Each click indicates the passage of the leading edge of the film past the curled down edge of your serrated retriever. Stop, and actually backwind some, immediately after hearing one of these clicks.

While preventing the spool from turning, insert the serrated retriever film into the cassette about 2 to 3 inches. This places the retriever under the film’s leading edge and some of the ridges will attach themselves to sprocket holes on lower layers of the film within.

Now pull on both pieces of film at the same time. As your retriever exits the cassette it will bring with it the film almost 95% of the time the first time and it will remove even the most stubborn film at least 75% of the time. These averages are equal or and mostly better than those of commercial or other improvised systems.

Here is an ASCII drawing of what the two pieces of film look like:
_____________________________________________________________________________
|  __     __     __     __     __     __     __     __     __     __     __  
| |  |   |  |   |  |   |  |   |  |   |  |   |  |   |  |   |  |   |  |   |  | 
| |__|   |_ |   |__|   |__|   |__|   |__|   |__|   |__|   |__|   |__|   |__| 
|
|
|
|
|                                this is a piece of regular scrap film!
|
|
|
|
|  __     __     __     __     __     __     __     __     __     __     __  
| |  |   |  |   |  |   |  |   |  |   |  |   |  |   |  |   |  |   |  |   |  | 
| |__|   |_ |   |__|   |__|   |__|   |__|   |__|   |__|   |__|   |__|   |__| 
|_____________________________________________________________________________
 
               this is what you make out of the film above!
 
 _____________________________________________________________________________
/  __     __     __     __     __     __     __     __     __     __     __  
| |   \. |  |   |   \. |  |   |   \. |  |   |   \. |  |   |   \. |  |   |  | 
| |_____\|__|   |_____\|__|   |_____\|__|   |_____\|__|   |_____\|__|   |__| 
|
|                                  ^
|                                  |
|                                bend "barbs" _down_  towards emulsion side   
|             insert             notice then they will  slide  into casette  
| <---  this end into casette    easily but on way back will catch sprocket  
|             first              holes 
|                                  |
|                                  V
| _________     _________     _________     _________     ______ __     __  
| |    ./|  |   |    ./|  |   |    ./|  |   |    ./|  |   |    ./|  |   |  | 
| |__ /  |_ |   |__ /  |__|   |__ /  |__|   |__ /  |__|   |__ /  |__|   |__| 
\_____________________________________________________________________________
You can usually just use one piece of this sharksin film and stick it as much as will go into the casette. Then wind the core until you feel resistance. Then pull it out and the film may come out with it.

Or, use two pieces of film, one plain with no sharskin pattern cut into it and the other which is modified as shown above. Insert a length of plain film as far as it will go into the casette ( usually it will only make one turn inside the casette and get stopped by the felt. Then insert the modified film “under” the plain one and proceed as above. The function of the _plain_ piece is to smooth out the inside of the casette so the leader will not have a chance to get caught on the felt light trap’s edge.

Po boys in the NYT

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:12:31 -0800

Po boys in the NYT

(via wigglygiggle)

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:21:00 -0800

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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:40:05 -0800

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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:49:39 -0800

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How often do you find a new photographer and compulsively click...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:46:52 -0800

How often do you find a new photographer and compulsively click through their entire photostream, enjoying every last shot and wanting more?

Really early Metallica

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:47:02 -0800

giantrobotlasers:

I once heard an amazing instrumental from Metallica from their extreme early days. Does anyone know what it might have been?

Maybe Call of Ktulu or Orion?

giantrobotlasers: I can’t find “The Slip” on LaLa :( Boo. At...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:21:04 -0800

giantrobotlasers:

I can’t find “The Slip” on LaLa :(

Boo. At least you can still download it for free: http://dl.nin.com/theslip/signup

Whoa there,...

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:41:10 -0700

Whoa there, Governator!

http://gov.ca.gov/pdf/press/2009bills/AB1176_Ammiano_Veto_Message.pdf

Three Loaves of Bread, Krakow, Poland, 1988 by David Hlynsky

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:15:57 -0700

Three Loaves of Bread, Krakow, Poland, 1988
by David Hlynsky

(via ibeching) I recently saw a huge 32”x40” print...

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:43:00 -0700

(via ibeching)

I recently saw a huge 32”x40” print of this at a gallery in New Orleans (yours for only $45,000). It looks even more magnificent in person. Yousuf Karsh also took this shot: And many others!

syntheticpubes: by Nick Turpin: Fine Art Photography:...

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:32:23 -0700

syntheticpubes:

by Nick Turpin:

Fine Art Photography: Preoccupation with aesthetic values, shot for the gallery, usually larger format, less issue based, less ‘moment’ based, including a lot of non-documentary work using computer manipulation and models.

Photojournalism: Issue/story/theme-based photography, strongly themed collections of images, largely smaller format for editorial and web presentation, completely documentary tradition.

Street Photography: Preoccupation with the ‘moment’ and the ‘found’, generally collections of single unconnected images, largely small format for publication and web presentation, completely documentary tradition.

azizisbored: Larry David on Hannah Montana LD KILLING IT EVEN...

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:25:00 -0700

azizisbored:

Larry David on Hannah Montana

LD KILLING IT EVEN ON HANNAH MONTANA. DUDE IS MY HERO.

That laugh track is out of control! Imagine if Curb had one.