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Canon EOS 500 SLR - Ilford 400 35MM film.
This was basically a cock-up as the film was processed on a colour machine and they decided to do the images as Sepia. The result is this completely washed-out look. I managed to salvage a couple that look kinda cool. In no way am I pretending these are good shots... Interested to hear peoples opinions tho...
Since I started my REAL wall nearly 2 years ago, I've been on a mission to encourage people to spend time making things with their hands and to use their computers to foster positive human social interaction. To use the computer to get away from the computer if you will. Handmade mailart makes lots of sense in this context.
I'm a week behind in Mailart365, and when I thought of this one, I thought it would get me back on track. Hmmmm that was my first mistake.
"Elena" I said "I'm gonna make a functional QR code by hand"
"Right" she said "Good luck"
Elena is a lot better at estimating things than I am.
At work, I'm an e-learning advisor, and I've been getting really excited about QR codes. These new-fangled 2-dimensional barcodes can encode loads of lovely data, including URLs, so inspired by the Edible QR code slam video I decided to go and encode mailart365.blogspot.com/
How hard could it be, this only takes 2 seconds to generate using an online QR code generator like Kaywa
First thing to do was draw a 31x31 square grid, then count and mark with a cross every black square in pencil.
Then I had to use a fine tip black pen to colour every square. For you non-mathematicians out there 31 x 31 is 961.
So much for catching up. 2 days later, and a total of about four and half hours of painstaking colouring and tippexing my cockups, I had finally finished it.
Couldn't just leave it at that though right? That would have been too easy!
So I went and dug out this damn cool pixel tape that I bought a while back from Suck UK. This stuff is so very cool. It's just dots and lines, and you have to colour over the ones you don't want for that digital effect.
An hour of that later (I was tired so I mangled a few attempts) and voila! A digital piece made entirely by hand and a functional QR code to boot!
If you don't believe me, point your smartphone's barcode scanner at it, and guess where it brings you...
The choice of the student to say something like this to the student paper or the choice of the student paper to run this with her name attached?
Stupidity -VS- Lack of Decorum, round one: FIGHT!
Well I’ve been a bit slack of late with updates IRT to build, with what NZ Election, AB’s back on the giggle box and a few cockups with the Ark.
It was going to plan with this, but main mast fell apart while I was painting it and trying to reassemble the mast was a pain in the ass.
Anyway it’s finally fixed with today I’ve put the decals on which went ok, until I review the pictures I took today and I realised the markings for port catapult are not straight. Oh well, how sad never mind.
Tomorrow will be some rigging and fitting of the hockey sticks.
My third day in the Lake District had been planned as a long walk from Honister up to Great Gable and a number of its surrounding peaks. The atrocious weather made me think twice and I chose an easier walk over safer ground in the Northern Fells, a circular walk peaking at Great Sca Fell. The first peak on the route was (and I'm really not kidding here) Great Cockup. You pass Little Cockup on the way, and Cockup itself is close by. The wind and rain up here was something else. I was stood on the straps of my 65/85 Litre backpack to stop it blowing away. The waterproof cover had been blown off and was attached solely by one piece of elastic and was now functioning as a parachute... I gave up on it and shoved it back into it's little compartment in the bag.
Off into that cloud was my general direction of travel.
Following on from yesterday's walk, I progressed from Great Cockup (left side of this shot) to Meal Fell. The route had included a fairly steep descent into the valley between (called Trusmadoor) and a rather gentler grade to ascend up to Meal Fell. The peak on the horizon midway between Great Cockup and the rainbow is Binsey.
It was still blowing a hurricane, and although it had been relatively sheltered down in the valley, it was once again impossible to stand up straight here on the summit. I was more than a little grateful to discover that the cairn had been built as a shelter.... a sort of a roofless igloo which offered welcome protection from the elements and which allowed me to extricate my camera from my backpack and grab a few shots.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to have a rant, the state of the consumer tele communcations market is a complete joke and I'm totally fed up with it. Since we moved into our current house we've NEVER had a decent Internet connection. I spent hours on the phone with Onetel doing line tests and still didn't get a better service. Eventually we agree to part company with Onetel and they agreed to ignore any penalty fees I then tried TWICE to connect to Pipex for Internet and phone and they screwed up the order on both occasions. After having to phone up Ontel and beg them for a second MAC key without incurring charges I gave up trying a third time.
A couple of moths ago our contract came to an end with Ontel so I decided to switch again to Pipex (despite the previous cockups they still had the best deal and I was willing to give it one last shot). Due to the fact we had a didn't have a BT line we could move the phone over but I decided it would be just easier to keep this with OneTel.
Fast forward to last week and I phoned OneTel to arrange getting our line transferred to our new house. To my surprise they wanted in excess of £100 to do this, unsurprisingly I declined their wonderful offer. I phoned up Pipex to find out what I had to do to transfer my current ADSL and get phone with them as well. They (surprisingly for a call centre) were very helpful and explained I needed to speak to BT first and get them to put in a new line (as they basically have a monopoly on the infrastructure).
I remembered having to do this when we moved last time, I basically had to take a line out with them and then cease the contract to enable stuff with my new provider. It now turns out they have extended their contract period to 12 months and they penalty clause is £70.
I'm basically being shafted as I've I transfered everything over to BT I will have to keep paying for Pipex for 11 months and if I go totally with Pipex I'll have to shell out £70 to BT.
I'm absolutely raging as I'm being totally exploited as a consumer and financially screwed whatever I go. I can understand the business reasoning on BTs part but this isn't my concern, all the deregulation of the utility markets has done is made the consumer suffer.
Broadband and telecoms in this country is a joke and really needs sorting.
Traffic-free lanes on a short tour of north Cumbria. The slopes of Great Cockup can be seen in the distance.
Although I failed to capture the moment. The street was very crowded and this cop and his drunken friend were upon me and a quick shot fired from the chest achieved this right kin bin cock up!! I still quite like it though, looks a bit surreal.
Well I’ve been a bit slack of late with updates IRT to build, with what NZ Election, AB’s back on the giggle box and a few cockups with the Ark.
It was going to plan with this, but main mast fell apart while I was painting it and trying to reassemble the mast was a pain in the ass.
Anyway it’s finally fixed with today I’ve put the decals on which went ok, until I review the pictures I took today and I realised the markings for port catapult are not straight. Oh well, how sad never mind.
Tomorrow will be some rigging and fitting of the hockey sticks.
Those could almost be sand dunes in the desert, couldn't they? Behind you can see the Caldbeck TV mast.
Alright,
So after another very long hiatus, I have had a chance to amass at least a few new good shots over the summer. I will be posting one new shot a day until I have no more good ones left. So enjoy!
Anyways, this picture was taken earlier in the summer when my friend and I were just taking a walk around. I was trying out my new Zeiss 50mm 1.4 and had forgotten that the day before this shoot, I was showing my camera to someone and demonstrating how grainy high ISO was on it. Of course when I went to do this shoot, I completely forgot I had left my ISO on a high setting and proceeded to shoot the entire time with the setting. So this picture is pretty much me trying to turn my cockup into a stylistic photograph haha. Enjoy!
James
The Korelle has a Pronto 'everset' shutter, and it has no double-exposure prevention interlock. I don't think I've ever done one of these with the Korelle before, though I have done this other cockup by not even unfolding the camera. It's annoying, because I didn't take that many pictures at Askham Bogs, and I already had some failures from bad focus. I think I need to get a new photographer.
I could almost get away with saying that's the surface of a pond; do you think?
After waiting a week since the other visit, my photograhic session today of the steam train turned out to be a total and absolute disaster. All I had to do was stay on the platform and use my camera in the usual way. But no.
I went onto a bridge, put the camera into 5MP mode (takes a bit longer to save), put it in continuous shooting mode and then zoomed in too far before pressing the button. So all I got was what is shown here. ROFLMAO HA ha ha ha ha ha ha :-)
In addition, Flickr user David who was waiting further down the line for this train fell into a burn and got a wet :-)
Climbed six Wainwrights behind Skiddaw and Blencathra, beautiful to be out on the fell tops, only saw two people all day, my kind of walk.
This is where I worked out that something wasn't right with the Jubilette. This is at least a triple exposure, where I fired it just to see what the shutter was doing. The shutter was opening as I cocked it, so I lost most of the pictures from this film. The problem went away with a bit of a clean.
[ I took the front and back lenses out, so I could get at the shutter blades, then I wiped the shutter blades with a cotton bud (q-tip) slightly wet with lighter fuel. I kept doing this gently, and changing to a new cotton bud, until they started to come away much cleaner. I also cleaned the iris blades the same way, opening and shutting them, and wiping. Gave it a long time to dry out, and verified that the shutter worked, before putting the lenses back in. ]
Pretty much the only photo of me there is on the web, I think (and if you know different, keep quiet about it).
Well I’ve been a bit slack of late with updates IRT to build, with what NZ Election, AB’s back on the giggle box and a few cockups with the Ark.
It was going to plan with this, but main mast fell apart while I was painting it and trying to reassemble the mast was a pain in the ass.
Anyway it’s finally fixed with today I’ve put the decals on which went ok, until I review the pictures I took today and I realised the markings for port catapult are not straight. Oh well, how sad never mind.
Tomorrow will be some rigging and fitting of the hockey sticks.