quadrapus

I just had this scanned. It was originally an acrylic painting on a 4'x4' piece of plywood with the negative space cut out and framed with CD album art. Obviously, I couldn't bring it over seas so, before I left it by the dumpster at our apartment, I took a decent picture of it. You're looking at the web friendly version.

My expressions and speech patterns are probably outdated enough now that younger people will think I'm way out of touch with the way they speak. But I won't try to keep up. I'll just keep talking this way because eventually I'll be an old timer and the young'uns will feel out of touch with the way I speak.

Intellectual Free-for-all

There's a slide show on the left of some of my favorite photographs that I've taken over the years. This is just a part of the project that had me organizing photographs in my sleep a few weeks back. Now every photo I have is organized chronologically and backed up to google's servers via picasa web albums.

The ones that don't include family or friends are under the remixable share-alike non-commercial-use creative commons. After hearing this podcast from the CBC, I decided to make all my creative work to be available to the public.

I was also inspired by Clay Shirky's talk from a few years ago.

Peephole Camera

I just scanned the first picture from a test roll I shot with Naho's "Peephole Camera". After I had made my large format LAP camera, Naho came up with the idea to make a camera out of a peephole. It took a few years to make it happen but, I stuck the bellows from an old polaroid land camera on the back of a holga, threw an extra lens on the back of the peephole and fashioned an aluminum bar to hold it at the right focal length.



Here's the result. It's about an F/32 with a minimum focal distance of about 3 inches.