PUSH!... what?

The impossible project this week announced the public release of a new colour chemistry set up, in the form of their PX 70 Colour Shade PUSH! film and d'ya know what, it looks good! "PUSH!" is a reference to the fact you have to massively over expose this film to get the best out of it TIP suggests "bathing your subject in light and setting the dial to lightest". from the test shots this is a massive improvement on the original colour shade film that was to be honest a bit poor!

Top - new Px colour shade
Bottom - old Px colour shade


The new film seems to be developed from the new chemistry they used on some special edition 20X24 integral film which was revealed earlier this year (the film uses two 8X10 pods)

Jamie Livingstone, a life in polaroids

Jamie Livingstone from as far as I have read was a photographer, film maker and circus performer who on the last day of march 1979 decided to document the comings and goings of his life with a Polaroid a day. Armed with an SX-70, Jamie takes pictures of himself, friends, strangers and all kinds of scenes that build up a picture of his life.

as you scroll through the nearly 7000 pictures you learn the characters and places in the story and quickly become engrossed as if you are watching a film.

you follow Jamie a lot of the time as if you are looking through his eyes

in 1997 it becomes clear that Jamie has cancer

On the 5th of October 1997 Jamie proposes to his wife signified by a picture of a ring in its box and very soon after they are wed.

18 days later and 19 years after they picture started the come to and end the last picture taken of Jamie laying in his hospital bed.

This is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen on then internet and is well worth taking some time to scroll through the entire collection and enjoy the story.

 you can find it here
http://photooftheday.hughcrawford.com/

This looks flipping quality

The sprocket rocket is the latest camera from Lomography, It does what seems to be the big thing lately in the ever evolving world of toy cameras. The camera exposes the entire height of the 35mm film sprockets n'all (hence the name) it also features a backwards winder which is a very nice touch making panoramic multiple exposures possible

other cameras that you can use to get this effect are the

black bird fly from SuperHEADZ

This is a beautiful camera that can take normal square and sprocket pictures all on 35mm it is also a TLR which is nice

Any HOLGA 120 with a 35mm back will also expose the sprockets.

obviously you don't order prints from any of the film you expose the sprockets on but rather have to scan your negatives onto the computer if you just have a normal scanner lomo sell an over priced holder that will allow you to scan them onto your computer which seems to work nicely

And another one...

- see previous posts

One I forgot

 - see previous post

More FP-100 Negative Stuff

I have taken to using the method on New55projects Blog as a way to be artistically creative, having just started my foundation course and been give my first project of  "Traces and manipulation" I have been having a lot of fun with adapting this method through mainly trial and error. But despite some epic failures here is what I have come up with so far.

The techniques I favoured were
- leaving in bleach over night which appears to start to break down the negative itself
- lightly sanding
- soaking back in lemon juice for half an hour (gave the purple effect) and eroded away the emulsion
- finding discarded tatty negatives hiding behind wardrobes etc.

will be defiantly doing more of this, third from the top I think is the best click it to see it larger

Litlle lion man