Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Quirky Point of View

 I love artists who look at the world from a different point of view.   Take a look.















Love,
Buddy

Monday, October 22, 2012

Thursday, October 18, 2012

What's In A Pinhole?

Pinhole cameras (or Camera Obscura) have been around for a really long time-especially if you are counting in dog years.

It is easy to build a pinhole camera for film out of household items.  While there are still places you can get film developed, unless you can do your own, it is getting more difficult to find really good film labs. 

The good news is that you can convert a digital camera into a pinhole camera.

This particular YouTube video is interesting, especially if you watch it without the sound on like I did.  Then there are a number of sites giving basically information with variations on the theme.
Here   and   Here  and  Here

You can take pictures like

This













and
This


















and
This














and
This











Now,
Go,
Make/Convert a camera,
Have fun.

Love,
Buddy

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Paper

Wipe your be-hind
Blow your nose
Print headlines
Write a thank-you note
Send a Christmas card
Clean up a mess
Wrap fish and chips
A drinking device
Make a hat
Fly an airplane
Pay for things
Wrap a birthday gift
Airplane ticket
Books
Magazines
Signs
Bills
Checks
Writing
Printing
Drawing
Packaging

AND
all this really, really cool stuff...
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/masters-of-paper-art-and-paper-sculptures/     
http://weburbanist.com/2008/12/02/papercraft-creative-paper-art-design-sculpture/
http://www.paper-sculpture.com/paper-sculpture-gallery-1.htm
http://www.squareinchdesign.com/beautiful-paper-sculptures-by-calvin-nicholls/  

What can you do with paper?  Personally, I like digging used tissues out of the trash can and decorate the floor with them.

Love,
Buddy