Thinking of Mumbai
Thinking of my Indian friends and their families. I don’t like this. It’s way too familiar.
Loving Lomo
I’ve been loving the look of lomo for a while now, but I’ve only recently delved into creating my own faux lomo. What is lomo?
When you take a picture using a camera produced by the Austrian company Lomographische AG, it’s called "lomography." The term originated because of cameras that were made by a Russian Optics company called LOMO PLC. Their cameras had an unusual lens which produced lots of distortion at the edges of the image while keeping the center sharp… Lomography emphasizes casual, snapshot photography. Accidents such as over-saturated colors, lens artifacts, and exposure defects are rehabilitated to produce swirly, abstract effects. The lens effect can be partially emulated in photo-editing programs, such as Gimp or Photoshop. The Lomography motto of "don’t think, just shoot" presumes spontaneity, close-ups and ubiquity, while deemphasizing formal technique. Typical Lomography cameras are deliberately low-fidelity. The following are the company’s 10 Rules of Lomography:
- Take your LOMO everywhere you go & whenever you go.
- Use it anytime — day or night.
- Lomography is not an interference in your life, but a part of it.
- Shoot from the hip.
- Approach the objects of your lomographic desire as close as possible.
- Don’t think.
- Be fast.
- You don’t have to know beforehand what you’ve captured on film.
- You don’t have to know afterwards, either.
- Don’t worry about the rules.
Lomo photographs are usually high contrast, with unusual saturation and color. Real lomo photographs use the technique of "cross processing" in which film intended for developing in slide chemistry (E-6) is processed in photographic negative chemistry (C-41), and vice-versa.
– from Lomography on Wikipedia
I was already following these rules (or lack thereof). They jibe with my way of thinking about photography. And now I’m starting to use Photoshop CS2, The Gimp, and PXN8 to create these fake lomo camera effects. I guess the effort in post-processing doesn’t capture the lomo ideal, but it’s a start.
The picture I’m sharing above has only been up on Flickr for one day, and it’s already been favorited 4 times! I’m breathing new life into my old photographs and having a fine time doing it.
The official Lomo site
Flickr Groups: LOMO, Faux Lomo, Lomolike, Lomo Fakers League
My Fake Lomo Images on Flicker
Big Dig Takes JP Woman’s Life
Did you know that the victim of that Big Dig collapse was from JP?
Milena Delvalle, 38, of Boston’s Jamaica Plain section, was pronounced dead at the scene. Angel Delvalle, 46, managed to crawl out a window of their crushed car with less than a foot of clearance and suffered minor injuries, according to State Police.
Their car was partially crushed under at least four ceiling panels, each weighing 3 tons. The vehicle was in the left lane, giving the driver’s side more protection as panels came to rest also on a left-side service walkway that is elevated several feet above the road.
Milena Delvalle was a native of Costa Rica, and the two were newlyweds. They were on the way to the airport to pick up his brother and sister in law, who had been vacationing in his native Puerto Rico.
I’ve always really hated sitting under overpasses or getting stuck in tunnels, but that was supposed to be an IRRATIONAL fear, not a real one.
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Update: The husband who survived (Angel Delvalle) works in the meat department of Hi-Lo Foods. “He is a great guy, great guy. He is quiet, comes in every day. Everyone likes the guy, very friendly,” said store manager Bill Jordan.
Seurat Painting Photo on Flickr
Just like Ferris Beuller and his friends, I have stared at Sunday in the Park in Grande Jatte at the Art Institute in Chicago each time I have visited. Now, I keep looking at this re-enactment photo again and again, and I really can’t believe how freakin’ cool this is. Hope you like it as much as I do.
Taken by OldOnliner
If you’re interested, there’s a whole set from the day’s work.
Send Me A Voice Message
Do you have a microphone and a web browser with a Macromedia Flash plugin? Do you Want to send me a voice mail just because you can and because technology is fun? Then check out the little green box over in the “Little Useful Buttons” section. It will remain there, but here’s a starter version:
