Found this on another blog. It goes in depth talking about the different types of toy camera's and the effects they can produce. As well as replicating them digitally with various photoshop tutorials. Not to mention a very extensive gallery of Lomo images. Check it out!

"Since its emergence, the digital photography market has gradually supplanted the traditional one. APN and digital SLR cameras entered our lives, and some people announced the death of silver-based images. This is not all lie, and yet old-fashioned images have been particularly popular in the past few years. All we do seem to do now is try to recreate the atmosphere of those bygone times anyway. Blurry, distorted and over-saturated images are not just a fad anymore. People have became familiar with the style and even consider it a full-fledged photographic genre..."

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Hot on the heels of the 70-200 Coffee mug that was part of the Olympic Press release package is a Chinese 24-105 coffee mug. From the photo's that I have seen this one looks even more realistic than the official Canon one. Not to mention the very Canon-esque packaging it comes with. The craziest part though, is earlier today when I first saw it they were going for around $40 shipped. Now they are already up to $60 each without shipping! A little outrageous for a coffee mug. But it is damn cool.

I was gonna do a bunch of research, and put my own words around this subject. But I figure that it is much easier to quote a small snippet of information and give you guys a link to where you can find more information. So here goes:

"The invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 made portraiture much more commonplace, as many of those who were unable to afford the commission of a painted portrait could afford to sit for a photography session. This cheaper and quicker method also provided the middle class with a means for memorializing dead loved ones.

These photographs served less as a reminder of mortality than as a keepsake to remember the deceased. This was especially common with infants and young children; Victorian era childhood mortality rates were extremely high, and a post-mortem photograph might be the only image of the child the family ever had. The later invention of the carte de visite, which allowed multiple prints to be made from a single negative, meant that copies of the image could be mailed to relatives."

Basically what it is getting at, is often. Once a family member was dead. They would be dressed up as a living person, often with eyeballs painted over their eyelids in order to make them seem alive.

My good friend Brandon picked the up for me while shopping at Urban Outfitters the other day. It is a hand cast ceramic copy of a Polaroid 600 land camera. Something I actually saw today while I had stopped in at Hollywood Camera and had to resist purchasing. It is made by Yellow Owl Workshops here in Portland, OR. Certainly a cool piece and like I said I'm now motivated to own the real thing just so I can place them side by side on my camera shelf. Not to mention they can be had for about $10.

Iterested in picking up one of these pieces of art for yourself? Just click here:

http://yellowowlworkshop.com/cermics.html

This was my first round of photo's that I decided to get cross-processed. I'm not 100% sure I like the results. For some reason the photo's I have seen on sites such as Flikr seem to have a wild explosion of color, rather than a singular dominating one. Either way, not absolutely terrible and defiantly something that I am glad I tried. However I wish I could have just a little bit more control. Something that will happen once I start processing my own color film in the near future.

The first one is a friend of mine Mikey taken while I was shooting his car with my Yashica 635. The second is at a local farmer's market on Hawthorne Blvd shot with my Holga 120CFN.

This was the first roll of film I put through my Holga when I got it back in August. I finally was able to get it processed, scanned and uploaded just a few weeks ago. The film was basic Koda B&W 400 speed film and because of some user errors the first half of the film was toast. But these last three came out so-so. One thing I still need to get used to with rangefinder camera's opposed to SLR and TLR's is that minor difference in viewpoint can cause images to be positioned differently. In this case the sun which I had positioned behind the sun and car respectively was moved just enough to cause some flair.



The final image was also on the roll and of Union Station in downtown Portland, OR. This will be the first of many film updates as I have processed a lot lately.

I'm not a huge coffee person. Occasionally I will have a cup, but for the other 99% of the time I'll just go with being tired. Or if I really need it, down an energy drink while the rhythms boom (The Lonely Island reference right there). However this is just cool enough to make me fall in love with Joe.

Apparently it was part of the Olympic press release packages. I want to know if its made out of something durable, because seeing the faces of people around me when I drop it on purpose would be priceless.