My Blurb book turned up today, had gone for a hardback with standard weight paper (I think). The quality is quite good, the paper is a good thickness and the hardback is sturdy. Not sure how resilient the binding is though, and the print quality is good rather than excellent, but I guess these are downsides of print-to-order efforts.
― michaellambert, Thursday, 6 February 2014 19:36 (ten years ago) link
Actually it was the Premium Matt paper. Link to it here: http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/5052725-fifty-two-people
― michaellambert, Thursday, 6 February 2014 19:47 (ten years ago) link
One thing I forgot to say was that the layout of the text works better on screen than it does in the actual book.
― michaellambert, Thursday, 6 February 2014 19:49 (ten years ago) link
removed from public view...
― Bringing the mosh (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 6 February 2014 20:01 (ten years ago) link
Ah, sorry, this might work: http://www.blurb.co.uk/bookstore/invited/4288949/59bfde5051c2d90ac1d143c61d71b684d4bd574c
― michaellambert, Thursday, 6 February 2014 22:35 (ten years ago) link
Here's a couple of crap phone snaps of my Blurb book. I like it, it's pretty good. Print quality a bit better than the likes of Photobox but I'd be interested to see what it looks like on different paper.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7412/12320708875_97a753d5c6_z.jpg
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3805/12320705405_7d2577f775_z.jpg
― Michael Jones, Friday, 7 February 2014 12:08 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah I got my test book back and I'm pretty pleased! printed on the cheapest paper.the only element I haven't liked is the way text is printed on the cover stock. it's a little 'soft' and looks sort of cheap, but I'm totally satisfied with the print quality inside the book.of course the pictures don't look like inkjet prints, and I never really wanted them to. they look like digital offset, which is just fine and, importantly, I think the color reproduction is nice! comparable to commercial photo books that I like.
― chinavision!, Friday, 7 February 2014 13:59 (ten years ago) link
hows the black density
― Bringing the mosh (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 8 February 2014 00:22 (ten years ago) link
http://gizmodo.com/led-streetlights-will-change-hollywood-and-make-every-c-1514840416
:( :( :(
― 龜, Saturday, 8 February 2014 02:08 (ten years ago) link
First thought is that the new LED lights make LA look like a video game
― 龜, Saturday, 8 February 2014 02:09 (ten years ago) link
a cool dream of an led-enriched future is their potential to simplify mechanical projection of film, replacing awkward/hot/scarce old lamps inside small gauge projectorsbut yeah that's interesting! like gaslamps -> electric almost
― mustread guy (schlump), Saturday, 8 February 2014 17:35 (ten years ago) link
in theory LEDs are dialable to kelvin of choice but god knows we can't be bothered to set a lamp at, like, 4000 K vs 5600 K to keep people from going crazy. on the other hand, alaska in winter
― Bringing the mosh (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 9 February 2014 00:22 (ten years ago) link
This is my aunt's ceiling lamp, I love the mismatched bulbs (two inc's and 1 fluoro I think)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9627011/pphotos/colortemp.jpg
― 龜, Sunday, 9 February 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link
The original teal & orange.xls
― 龜, Sunday, 9 February 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
"... Because once you've begun," he would preach, "there is no reason why you should stop. The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow. If you take a picture of Pierluca because he's building a sand castle, there is no reason not to take his picture while he's crying because the castle has collapsed, and then while the nurse consoles him by helping him find a sea shell in the sand. The minute you start saying something, 'Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!' you are already close to the view of the person who thinks that everything that is not photographed is lost, as if it had never existed, and that therefore, in order really to live, you must photograph as much as you can, and to photograph as much as you can you must either live in the most photograph-able way possible, or else consider photographable every moment of your life. The first course leads to stupidity; the second to madness."
― mustread guy (schlump), Monday, 10 February 2014 16:05 (ten years ago) link
Read the closing sentences as saying "You must either live in your photographs as much as possible" and I thought, well, I hadn't considered it that way before, but I'll try it out, inhabit those grays, stretch out and lie down and let halides wash over me
― 龜, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 00:17 (ten years ago) link
Got it! Love the cover material and look.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3796/12456873135_2fc2ffb6c2_z.jpg
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 12:51 (ten years ago) link
is that jimmy mod's?
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 14:08 (ten years ago) link
Yep.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 14:38 (ten years ago) link
WOW THAT GOT THERE FAST!
― Bringing the mosh (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 19:06 (ten years ago) link
that picture of montana is v popular
http://thedissolve.com/features/exposition/429-film-preservation-20/
― 龜, Thursday, 27 February 2014 11:03 (ten years ago) link
Remember optical media being touted as a very stable way to store digital information - but I dunno how long a blu-ray keeps for
― 龜, Thursday, 27 February 2014 11:12 (ten years ago) link
I had thought Fuji Neopan 400 was long discontinued but I saw some at a shop today... a lot actually
Apparently it's still 'in stock' at a lot of places, though will be discontinued soon
― 龜, Monday, 17 March 2014 09:49 (ten years ago) link
http://www.wired.com/2014/04/covr-prism-mirror-iphone-case/
― 龜, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 11:18 (ten years ago) link
is this dumb?
http://www.amazon.com/Wolverine-4-In-1-Digital-Converter-F2DSUPER/dp/B00GIDADP0/ref=sr_1_9
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 7 April 2014 14:50 (ten years ago) link
also slide film prices continue to skyrocket
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, 7 April 2014 14:53 (ten years ago) link
fisher price aesthetic super appealing to methough i just want a koolscan
― schlump, Monday, 7 April 2014 16:42 (ten years ago) link
Wedding at the weekend. Full frame + f/4 zoom and crop frame + fast portrait, but I just kept swapping lenses cos I wanted to use the FF *all the time*. I've just been spoiled by it (particularly by the immensely flattering hi-res LCD).
Will take me all week to weed/pick/process/review but there's not much I enjoy more. Hopefully at least three more this year.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 7 April 2014 22:44 (ten years ago) link
Maybe not that exciting to anyone but me, but someone at Dundee City Archive has started uploading lots of old photos of the city on a Flickr account and I've been finding it fascinating - whole streets in there that were torn down in the modernising zeal of the local council from the middle of last century onwards, continuing to this day with the latest rounds of regeneration. Not to say that it was the wrong thing to do, just that it's brought it home to me how much more the city has changed than I thought it had. I grew up in a village outside a town 20 miles down the road that I suspect has changed very little in the same time.
Here's the whole lot:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/118069284@N05
Here are a few I liked:
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7167/13625976114_436b342d77.jpghttps://farm3.staticflickr.com/2874/13535668883_40f717c044.jpghttps://farm8.staticflickr.com/7174/13756596403_b9199fc0d0.jpghttps://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/13756457735_af7af8449b.jpghttps://farm4.staticflickr.com/3696/13718548553_118ee22500.jpghttps://farm4.staticflickr.com/3734/13716379235_6e18844d05.jpg
― michaellambert, Monday, 14 April 2014 18:22 (ten years ago) link
Love those. That pedestrianised parade of shops is by the railway station, right? I visited Dundee a couple of times about 25 years ago.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 14 April 2014 22:17 (ten years ago) link
Second last shot? Yeah, that's the Overgate, which has since been completely redeveloped again so looks nothing like that. My earliest memories of Dundee are getting the train through with my mum and gran and visiting the numerous 99p shops in there. The station is a few minutes walk away but not far.
― michaellambert, Monday, 14 April 2014 23:31 (ten years ago) link
I think there was an Our Price there in 1989 or so. I knew a girl who lived on Roseangle, while she was doing her Masters. We went to Oblomov's on Nethergate and climbed to the top of the Law at sunrise. There should be photos somewhere but they may be lost...
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 08:49 (ten years ago) link
my sister lives in rural nebraska and sent me these cellpwn pics of an old red piano that appeared on the edge of a cornfield along her commute a few weeks ago; almost makes me wanna hop in the car and do the 8 hour drive so i can take my own
http://i.imgur.com/ZJFvOzz.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/XyuupqO.jpg
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 15 May 2014 15:07 (nine years ago) link
always hyped to have a new red thing to photograph
― schlump, Thursday, 15 May 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
hey ilp-i just started watching this, william klein's series of short films about photographers, walking through waves of photojournalism/artists/& then conceptual photographers in ten minute episodes. it's so good! pretty much all subject-narrated montages of work by like sophie calle, duane michals, baldessari (who i never see without feeling like i have unduly shortchanged him my whole life by not thinking him my #1 guy), tillmans, &c&c&c. i looked & i think some are available on vimeo or whatever. but it's really good. bitesize. for while you eat.
― schlump, Monday, 19 May 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link
How do people here use Instagram? If they do?
At first, I treated it like a photographic tweet - snaps with the iPhone, instantly shared. Now I wi-fi pics off the 6D to my phone, or even download LR-processed 6D pics from Flickr to my phone, square-crop, perhaps a filter, and then share. It's no longer an instantaneous thing for me, more a sort of short-term curatorial thing - something selected from my general, daily shooting with the proper camera, uploaded to Instagram every few hours.
I realise there's now a class of images which I wouldn't bother working up properly for the permanent online record of Flickr, or share on Facebook, but seem ideal for Instagram.
http://instagram.com/p/oSu1X3Lwt4/http://instagram.com/p/oQBxa7rwnY/http://instagram.com/p/oHYP7Lrwhf/
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 22 May 2014 11:44 (nine years ago) link
(Apologies if they don't work; I logged out and tested the links but I'm never sure...)
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 22 May 2014 11:45 (nine years ago) link
(And that was literally the first time I've logged into the web version of Instagram on a PC. They all look crap! Jokin')
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 22 May 2014 11:47 (nine years ago) link
something i imagine sometimes but which i'm generally not equipped to really render in my imagination is how nice it would be to have a subscription to aperture magazine
i just can't even imaginelike as far as i get is it's delivered & comes through an expansive actual letter window in a doorway, in a house i don't own, & then i collapse into this comfy minimal subdued charcoal couch to read it & then i black out
― schlump, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 20:25 (nine years ago) link
in case anyone still wants a mirror tube:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vario-Spiegel-Vorsatz-Mirrored-camera-lens-tube-special-effects-/310970741092
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
In London for a couple of days so popped along to The Photographers Gallery to check out the Deutsche Borse finallists. The prints of Richard Mosse's 'The Enclave' look incredible, they do the images justice in a way I don't think any magazine or website could - the only way i have seen them so far. Managed to behave myself in the shop (more photobooks than I've ever seen in one place!) and only bought Robert Capa In Colour. There were a few other tempting things, though.
There's an Edgar Martins exhibition on I'd like to see, but record shopping on Berwick St has left me with too little time to get there and then back to where I've to meet friends. Having a pint instead.
― michaellambert, Thursday, 29 May 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
Realised my error, it appears 'The Enclave' is a film and the photos are 'Infra'. Either way, very good.
― michaellambert, Friday, 30 May 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
http://shophamburgereyes.com/collections/frontpage/products/internet-k-hole-vol-3
― 龜, Monday, 30 June 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/vI8y9j9.png
― schlump, Monday, 30 June 2014 23:27 (nine years ago) link
shitty cellphone camera pics >> film photography >>>>>>>>>>>>>> digital camera pics
― schlump, Friday, 4 July 2014 03:22 (nine years ago) link
recently at least
― schlump, Friday, 4 July 2014 03:23 (nine years ago) link
There's a hierarchy?
― chinavision!, Friday, 4 July 2014 11:10 (nine years ago) link
I was just admiring these game boy camera photos actually
http://i.imgur.com/LajEYUC.jpg
http://www.ironicsans.com/2014/05/new_york_city_in_2000_photogra.html
(Wow what an intentionally awful website name)
― 龜, Friday, 4 July 2014 12:22 (nine years ago) link
http://milkmade.com/articles/2718-Milk-Gallery-Presents-The-Magnum-Contact-Sheet-Exhibition#.U7aqxo1dWXj
― 龜, Friday, 4 July 2014 13:24 (nine years ago) link