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BOTY DIY
For the past few years I have had a bit of a thing for thrift store cameras. They are cheap and you don't have to worry about breaking them. Once the flash on my thrift Olympus Trip MD died, I decided I would try to modify it to shoot square and to shoot in a circle. I thought I would post a bit of a how-to like this every now and then. Check it out! - t. reilly hodgson
Okay - so here wo go. This is what you'll need:
(click on the images for larger versions)
1. Epoxy glue. I got the one with a fine-point pen tip style applicator - doing it with a brush or something might be a bit trickier since the areas you glue are so small.
2. A sharp knife
3. Printed/drawn on/ whatever transparencies. You could even maybe try using colored ones. This is what youre going to make the mask for inside your camera with.
4. An old camera. One you don't care about messing up. Old Googly here has served me well for a long time, but the flash recently stopped working and I cant bear to say goodbye just yet, Haha.
Okay, so, I've printed out a transparency with some shapes and stuff on it. If you're going to get a photocopied transparency or draw on it yourself make sure that the toner or ink you use is opaque so that it fully blocks the light from hitting your negative. unless you want to make a camera that puts some weird foggy stuff on your pictures. I've got two circles (positive and negative), a triangle, because we're just so hip and trendy like that here at BOTY, and an optical illusion shape that didn't print properly.
I chose the circle. Mostly only because I messed up the transparency for the triangle when I tried to cut it out. You're going to probably have to do a bit of measuring and stuff before you cut it out - depending on your camera you are going to have different amounts of area you can glue onto, and different advance wheels and things to avoid. Make sure to cut down it down small enough that there isn't any extra flapping around that could jam up or scratch the film that will be sandwiched against it.
After you've got that figured out, epoxy glue the hell out of your camera and stick down your transparency. Don't be as sloppy as me - try to avoid getting all kinds of glue and scratches and fingerprints all over it because these are going to get transferred to your pictures.
Even though I had already tried changing the viewfinder for this camera once before and failed miserably, I decided I would try to put the circle in anyways just because it looks cool.
After thoroughly confusing the people at the 1 hour place with my weird negs, I got my photos back. That first photo is how the prints look. I measured wrong and one side is slightly cropped off, but I dont really care. As you can see from the negatives, I have also modified this camera to shoot square using the same method. I measured wrong, so the photos didnt turn out quite square, but I like the new format.
there's that scratch!
There are a few more on my flickr here - flickr.com/photos/treillyhodgson
So there you have it. Its a pretty simple modification, but I can see there being a whole ton of cool ways to use it! If you try it out send us your photos or if you have an idea for a BOTY DIY feature email us at blood at bloodoftheyoung.com!
Party on!
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Okay - so here wo go. This is what you'll need:
(click on the images for larger versions)
1. Epoxy glue. I got the one with a fine-point pen tip style applicator - doing it with a brush or something might be a bit trickier since the areas you glue are so small.
2. A sharp knife
3. Printed/drawn on/ whatever transparencies. You could even maybe try using colored ones. This is what youre going to make the mask for inside your camera with.
4. An old camera. One you don't care about messing up. Old Googly here has served me well for a long time, but the flash recently stopped working and I cant bear to say goodbye just yet, Haha.
Okay, so, I've printed out a transparency with some shapes and stuff on it. If you're going to get a photocopied transparency or draw on it yourself make sure that the toner or ink you use is opaque so that it fully blocks the light from hitting your negative. unless you want to make a camera that puts some weird foggy stuff on your pictures. I've got two circles (positive and negative), a triangle, because we're just so hip and trendy like that here at BOTY, and an optical illusion shape that didn't print properly.
I chose the circle. Mostly only because I messed up the transparency for the triangle when I tried to cut it out. You're going to probably have to do a bit of measuring and stuff before you cut it out - depending on your camera you are going to have different amounts of area you can glue onto, and different advance wheels and things to avoid. Make sure to cut down it down small enough that there isn't any extra flapping around that could jam up or scratch the film that will be sandwiched against it.
After you've got that figured out, epoxy glue the hell out of your camera and stick down your transparency. Don't be as sloppy as me - try to avoid getting all kinds of glue and scratches and fingerprints all over it because these are going to get transferred to your pictures.
Even though I had already tried changing the viewfinder for this camera once before and failed miserably, I decided I would try to put the circle in anyways just because it looks cool.
After thoroughly confusing the people at the 1 hour place with my weird negs, I got my photos back. That first photo is how the prints look. I measured wrong and one side is slightly cropped off, but I dont really care. As you can see from the negatives, I have also modified this camera to shoot square using the same method. I measured wrong, so the photos didnt turn out quite square, but I like the new format.
there's that scratch!
There are a few more on my flickr here - flickr.com/photos/treillyhodgson
So there you have it. Its a pretty simple modification, but I can see there being a whole ton of cool ways to use it! If you try it out send us your photos or if you have an idea for a BOTY DIY feature email us at blood at bloodoftheyoung.com!
Party on!
BACK HOME
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Monday, February 16, 2009
Interview with Seth Fluker
Seth Fluker is a photographer from Vancouver, now living in England. He has shown his work in Vancouver, London, Mexico, Japan, and throughout the United States with Tiny Vices. We thought we’d send him an email to say hello and see what he had to say.
Where are you from?
Canada
Where do you live?
Stoke Newington
What do you do?
Kitchen Porter
Tools of the trade?
Nikon f4, 50 mm lens, Contax T3, Fuji Film
I’m living in Vancouver right now. This gray and rainy weather has got me bummed out. What made you want to leave Vancouver for London? It seems to me there are a lot of talented young people over there - Something in the water?
I moved to London because I enjoy living abroad and it seemed like the next step for me after living in New York this past year. Also, some of my favorite artist are from or are based in England like Wolfgang Tillmans, Stephen Gill, Steven Patrick Morrissey, Ian Curtis (RIP) and John Lennon (RIP) to name a few...
There are so many talented people living in London and so much opportunity to grow in any career. For people interested in the arts, there is a ton of influential art centers based in London and the majority of them are free to visit like the Tate Modern and Tate Britain, Saatchi Gallery, White Cube and so many other galleries / museums. Also, with such a huge population people have to push themselves as much as possible to stand out amongst the competition.
How do you feel the 'scenes' are from country to country? (Canada vs. USA vs. England vs. Japan etc?)
I’m super into Pod casts right now!
Last spring I went on a spur of the moment trip through Washington and Oregon with pals who were on tour. We found ourselves, at about 2am, sneaking past park rangers' cabins to get to mt. st. Helens. What I am getting at is that volcanoes are sweet; I love your photos from the lava flows. What was your volcano experience like?
My volcano experience in Hawaii was amazing! I stayed in a town on the Big Island called Volcano for a month in 2006. My purpose of being there was to help build a house for my father and his business partner but due to torrential downpour everyday, I ended up having a lot of free time to explore and take photographs.
You have a few books out, including Strange Days Indeed which you self published to go with your show at Antisocial in Vancouver and one out on TV Books. How was doing that? It turned out looking really nice.
“Strange Days Indeed” was a great learning experience; it has been a good way to show my work to new people that are involved within the photography community.
The book I am a part of through TV Books is called “Various Photographs” which was also a group show I was included in at the 2008 New York Photo Festival. It's a great book there are over 300 photographs from over 150 photographers. More TV Books can be found at http://tvbookshop.com
What have you got upcoming?
I have two solo exhibitions coming up, in April I will be showing at Exit Gallery (Claire de Rouen Books) in London and in June I will be showing at a new gallery in Toronto called 107 Shaw.
Ever almost get killed or chased by a pack of stray dogs or anything crazy we should know about?
I have never been chased by a pack of stray dogs but have had a few run-ins with the police in the past…
Name drop list - who should we check out?
Here are a few friends of mine that are from Vancouver but are now based elsewhere: Zach Fluker | Jaron Albertin | Circelsquare
Anything else we need to know?
PEACE
Thanks Seth!
More Seth Fluker at http://seewhateyesee.com
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Where are you from?
Canada
Where do you live?
Stoke Newington
What do you do?
Kitchen Porter
Tools of the trade?
Nikon f4, 50 mm lens, Contax T3, Fuji Film
I’m living in Vancouver right now. This gray and rainy weather has got me bummed out. What made you want to leave Vancouver for London? It seems to me there are a lot of talented young people over there - Something in the water?
I moved to London because I enjoy living abroad and it seemed like the next step for me after living in New York this past year. Also, some of my favorite artist are from or are based in England like Wolfgang Tillmans, Stephen Gill, Steven Patrick Morrissey, Ian Curtis (RIP) and John Lennon (RIP) to name a few...
There are so many talented people living in London and so much opportunity to grow in any career. For people interested in the arts, there is a ton of influential art centers based in London and the majority of them are free to visit like the Tate Modern and Tate Britain, Saatchi Gallery, White Cube and so many other galleries / museums. Also, with such a huge population people have to push themselves as much as possible to stand out amongst the competition.
How do you feel the 'scenes' are from country to country? (Canada vs. USA vs. England vs. Japan etc?)
I’m super into Pod casts right now!
Last spring I went on a spur of the moment trip through Washington and Oregon with pals who were on tour. We found ourselves, at about 2am, sneaking past park rangers' cabins to get to mt. st. Helens. What I am getting at is that volcanoes are sweet; I love your photos from the lava flows. What was your volcano experience like?
My volcano experience in Hawaii was amazing! I stayed in a town on the Big Island called Volcano for a month in 2006. My purpose of being there was to help build a house for my father and his business partner but due to torrential downpour everyday, I ended up having a lot of free time to explore and take photographs.
You have a few books out, including Strange Days Indeed which you self published to go with your show at Antisocial in Vancouver and one out on TV Books. How was doing that? It turned out looking really nice.
“Strange Days Indeed” was a great learning experience; it has been a good way to show my work to new people that are involved within the photography community.
The book I am a part of through TV Books is called “Various Photographs” which was also a group show I was included in at the 2008 New York Photo Festival. It's a great book there are over 300 photographs from over 150 photographers. More TV Books can be found at http://tvbookshop.com
What have you got upcoming?
I have two solo exhibitions coming up, in April I will be showing at Exit Gallery (Claire de Rouen Books) in London and in June I will be showing at a new gallery in Toronto called 107 Shaw.
Ever almost get killed or chased by a pack of stray dogs or anything crazy we should know about?
I have never been chased by a pack of stray dogs but have had a few run-ins with the police in the past…
Name drop list - who should we check out?
Here are a few friends of mine that are from Vancouver but are now based elsewhere: Zach Fluker | Jaron Albertin | Circelsquare
Anything else we need to know?
PEACE
Thanks Seth!
More Seth Fluker at http://seewhateyesee.com
BACK HOME
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Friday, February 13, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
a couple words with coolhandluke
Who:Luke, holy man in the bible, badass played by Paul Newman, Jedi master, leader of 2 live crew, cartoon cowboy. I try to take the best part of my names sakes and incorporate them into one package, my aim is to create the ultimate Luke.
What: Watt is a measure of electricity, the family name of neighbours when I was growing up
When: When I was young my mum worked at blockbuster, and I watched lots of videos. Lots of videos. I believe this allowed me to collate styles and images in my mind, and allowed me to see how different times, fashion and film stock can effect your overall visions. I think this is one of the best was to understand who and what you are through watching and studying other, I learnt a lot about execution of ideas from videos. The video shop is my visual library.
Where: Where ever the day takes me; where ever I lay my mobile that’s my home. Something I’ve learnt from growing up in the country is that the adage it aint where you’re from its where you are at, almost always rings true. If it cant be created in your head then the idea is dead.
Why: Because I’ve been lucky enough to have a chance to do what I love for a living so why not? Good song by Carly Simon too, Tribe also sampled it fact fans.
How: By any means necessary
more from king of all lukes at flickr.com/photos/15008871@N00.
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What: Watt is a measure of electricity, the family name of neighbours when I was growing up
When: When I was young my mum worked at blockbuster, and I watched lots of videos. Lots of videos. I believe this allowed me to collate styles and images in my mind, and allowed me to see how different times, fashion and film stock can effect your overall visions. I think this is one of the best was to understand who and what you are through watching and studying other, I learnt a lot about execution of ideas from videos. The video shop is my visual library.
Where: Where ever the day takes me; where ever I lay my mobile that’s my home. Something I’ve learnt from growing up in the country is that the adage it aint where you’re from its where you are at, almost always rings true. If it cant be created in your head then the idea is dead.
Why: Because I’ve been lucky enough to have a chance to do what I love for a living so why not? Good song by Carly Simon too, Tribe also sampled it fact fans.
How: By any means necessary
more from king of all lukes at flickr.com/photos/15008871@N00.
BACK HOME
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
flickr friends
i really like photos of cute girls.
i also really like black flag.
more from Matt Martin at http://flickr.com/photos/iamlucky
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Sunday, February 8, 2009
Interview with Sophie Curtis
When I got an email from Sophie Curtis the other day I was a little surprised. When she explained that she was "quite drunk", I decided it was probably time for an interview.
BOTY: Who are you? Where do you live? How old are you?
SC: i'm sophie curtis, 19 years old, and i live in the south east of england. i spend too much time indoors at the moment.
Tell us a bit about your work.
i only use 35mm point and shoot cameras right now and only seem to be photographing one person, which i am trying to change. i have an obsession with the backs of people's heads. i guess my photos are sort of diaristic, i usually just take photos of things in my day to day life, but recently i've been trying to be more experimental - to make things happen instead of waiting for them to fall into my lap. i always hated the idea of staging things, but i am slowly feeling like i should more and more, because photographing ordinary things is feeling stale.
tools of the trade?
nikon 35ti, yashica t4, olympus mju ii. and the occasional photo on one of my best friend's cameras, often his contax t2.
I read a post you had made on flickr talking about how you like landscape/horizontal photography because that format is the same way as our vision works. Now, while I guess thats sort of true, I'm not sure I want to agree. I've kind of been a bit of a nerd about different formats lately, so I'm just interested to hear your thoughts about that.
i just feel a lot more comfortable taking photos landscape. i take the occasional photo portrait and it just always looks shit and i wish i had taken it horizontally! its probably that i'm not good at it, rather than landscape being better than portrait. and i am completely unskilled in medium format, although i have always wanted to take people's portraits on a huge medium format camera because they always look so neat and central but i don't have the money for a camera like that and it doesn't seem like something i'd want to use all the time.
i'm really into films, i love trawling through stills on the internet, and i think that is another reason why i like my photos to be landscape, like a shot from a film.
What projects are you working on right now that youre excited on?
well my best friend, simon nunn, and i are working on pus-eye together, as you know, and we just did a mini interview for fever zine about it, which was pretty good. the issue isn't out yet, but i'm really looking forward to seeing that in print! and our other blog, outhereoverthere.blogspot.com, with our really good friend alex howard is going nicely, we've only just started it but we're thinking that once we have a certain amount of photos on there we can make a little photo book from it.
me and si also have a little project called "space travel" which i have alot of ideas for. you can see some photos si has already taken for it on his flickr.
oh and simon and i are also supposed to be making a book of photos from one of our groups but we haven't started properly yet so that won't be completed any time soon.
Tell us a bit about the pus-eye blog. It seems to be blowing up in the best way possible, but at the same time, I dont think I've ever read anything about what its about.
haha that's true, we've never really defined it properly i suppose. basically, pus-eye is meant to be a showcase of work from photographers that don't really get the recognition (yet) that we think they deserve. both si and i know that its difficult to stand out in the countless amounts of people who show their photos on the internet, and we just wanted to show people the lesser known photographers that we really like. we usually choose photos that reflect our own styles, so they're often compact camera users that photograph the intimate details of their lives.
You stay pretty active on flickr, youre in a ton of groups, etc. What do you think are some of the pros and cons about flickr for young photographers?
yes, i am a biggg internet user. it kind of annoys me, i should get out and do more, but this winter in particular for various reasons, i have spent alot of time online. i suppose i use flickr alot because all magazines and websites that have ever contacted me have found me through flickr, so i haven't felt the need to move away from it, and instead have become more immersed in it. i think for other young photographers the pros are that you CAN get recognition for your photos, but the cons are that there are so many people on there, that its hard not to get swallows into the masses of macro flowers and weird holga photos. i guess thats why i use groups alot, because if you choose the right group, theres definately the possibility of standing out. and you can find like-minded people, who run webzines and things, so thats handy!
What do you have up coming? Any shows or zines coming out or anything like that?
i'm thinking more and more that i might make some small cheap photo books, through a self-publishing site, but i really don't know if anyone would buy them to be honest, so i'm not sure if its worth it? someone contacted me recently about showing my photos in a exhibition in argentina, so i think thats happening, but i'm not even going to get to see it! apart from those and a few other small things nothing huge is happening, just taking more photos until something does.
Ever almost die?
never. once i took too many painkillers for stomach pains and woke the next day unable to move, all my muscles were locked up. it was weird, but nowhere near death haha.
Name drop list?
people: simon nunn, alex howard, dario utreras
blogs: pus-eye.blogspot.com, outhereoverthere.blogspot.com
thanks sophie!
you can check out more of ms. curtis' work on her flickr, or on any of those links i added into the interview.
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BOTY: Who are you? Where do you live? How old are you?
SC: i'm sophie curtis, 19 years old, and i live in the south east of england. i spend too much time indoors at the moment.
Tell us a bit about your work.
i only use 35mm point and shoot cameras right now and only seem to be photographing one person, which i am trying to change. i have an obsession with the backs of people's heads. i guess my photos are sort of diaristic, i usually just take photos of things in my day to day life, but recently i've been trying to be more experimental - to make things happen instead of waiting for them to fall into my lap. i always hated the idea of staging things, but i am slowly feeling like i should more and more, because photographing ordinary things is feeling stale.
tools of the trade?
nikon 35ti, yashica t4, olympus mju ii. and the occasional photo on one of my best friend's cameras, often his contax t2.
I read a post you had made on flickr talking about how you like landscape/horizontal photography because that format is the same way as our vision works. Now, while I guess thats sort of true, I'm not sure I want to agree. I've kind of been a bit of a nerd about different formats lately, so I'm just interested to hear your thoughts about that.
i just feel a lot more comfortable taking photos landscape. i take the occasional photo portrait and it just always looks shit and i wish i had taken it horizontally! its probably that i'm not good at it, rather than landscape being better than portrait. and i am completely unskilled in medium format, although i have always wanted to take people's portraits on a huge medium format camera because they always look so neat and central but i don't have the money for a camera like that and it doesn't seem like something i'd want to use all the time.
i'm really into films, i love trawling through stills on the internet, and i think that is another reason why i like my photos to be landscape, like a shot from a film.
What projects are you working on right now that youre excited on?
well my best friend, simon nunn, and i are working on pus-eye together, as you know, and we just did a mini interview for fever zine about it, which was pretty good. the issue isn't out yet, but i'm really looking forward to seeing that in print! and our other blog, outhereoverthere.blogspot.com, with our really good friend alex howard is going nicely, we've only just started it but we're thinking that once we have a certain amount of photos on there we can make a little photo book from it.
me and si also have a little project called "space travel" which i have alot of ideas for. you can see some photos si has already taken for it on his flickr.
oh and simon and i are also supposed to be making a book of photos from one of our groups but we haven't started properly yet so that won't be completed any time soon.
Tell us a bit about the pus-eye blog. It seems to be blowing up in the best way possible, but at the same time, I dont think I've ever read anything about what its about.
haha that's true, we've never really defined it properly i suppose. basically, pus-eye is meant to be a showcase of work from photographers that don't really get the recognition (yet) that we think they deserve. both si and i know that its difficult to stand out in the countless amounts of people who show their photos on the internet, and we just wanted to show people the lesser known photographers that we really like. we usually choose photos that reflect our own styles, so they're often compact camera users that photograph the intimate details of their lives.
You stay pretty active on flickr, youre in a ton of groups, etc. What do you think are some of the pros and cons about flickr for young photographers?
yes, i am a biggg internet user. it kind of annoys me, i should get out and do more, but this winter in particular for various reasons, i have spent alot of time online. i suppose i use flickr alot because all magazines and websites that have ever contacted me have found me through flickr, so i haven't felt the need to move away from it, and instead have become more immersed in it. i think for other young photographers the pros are that you CAN get recognition for your photos, but the cons are that there are so many people on there, that its hard not to get swallows into the masses of macro flowers and weird holga photos. i guess thats why i use groups alot, because if you choose the right group, theres definately the possibility of standing out. and you can find like-minded people, who run webzines and things, so thats handy!
What do you have up coming? Any shows or zines coming out or anything like that?
i'm thinking more and more that i might make some small cheap photo books, through a self-publishing site, but i really don't know if anyone would buy them to be honest, so i'm not sure if its worth it? someone contacted me recently about showing my photos in a exhibition in argentina, so i think thats happening, but i'm not even going to get to see it! apart from those and a few other small things nothing huge is happening, just taking more photos until something does.
Ever almost die?
never. once i took too many painkillers for stomach pains and woke the next day unable to move, all my muscles were locked up. it was weird, but nowhere near death haha.
Name drop list?
people: simon nunn, alex howard, dario utreras
blogs: pus-eye.blogspot.com, outhereoverthere.blogspot.com
thanks sophie!
you can check out more of ms. curtis' work on her flickr, or on any of those links i added into the interview.
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Friday, February 6, 2009
Matthieu Beck
Matthieu Beck just emailed me over some nice pictures. check them out here: zooeyzooey.blogspot.com
Also, I did a little lurking, and if I'm understanding it correctly, he also plays in a band called ZOOEY, which at first I thought was annoying, but I've got to say, its growing on me, haha.
p.s. I was serious about zine reviews. want us to review your zine/book/whatever on the site? we don't care what kind of zine it is, we just want to see it. send us an EMAIL and we'll let you know where to send a copy.
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