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Old refrigeration compressor at Willowside Ranch in Pescadero California. This is part of the Willowside Ranch series. This was exposed onto either Ilford Pan-f or FP-4 film (I dont remember which). It was printed on Ilford MG-4 glossy paper then rephotographed with a digital camera.
I figure that in this version Polyphemus ate Odysseus and his men, and then binged on McNuggets and beer. Dang, man, that's like a bowling ball in your gut!
The original Monster in my Pocket cyclops was skinnier than this, and well-made enough that I will likely give him his own pic one of these days. This guy is goofy, but somehow lovable. That club lkooks oddly natural, and not fashioned - what tree did he find THAT growing on?
And concerning the one eye/two eyes issue: Actually, it's just bad paint - that black line is the pupil of his one yellow eye. He has a cat's-eye pupil.
03/19/08
Strobist info Pop up 1/128 power, SB800 directly over glass zoomed 105mm 1/4 power, SB600 directly under glass zoomed 85mm 1/32 power. Martini glass on glass table.
In the glass- ice cubes, one eyeball and 1oz blood. Shaken.... not stirred.
Taken with a Kodak Baby Brownie camera in week 505 of my 52 film cameras in 52 weeks project:
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This camera takes 8 exposures on a roll of 127 film. I used Kodacolor II colour negative film, which expired in 1978. Colour film deteriorates faster then black and white, and I feel lucky to have got any images at all out of it. With 127 film being scarce and expensive, I transferred the film from last week's camera to finish it off. Developed in the Tetenal C41 kit.
Hadi went back to Indonesia during the holiday break and found his old toys.
Cyclops (Scott Summers) is a fictional character, a superhero that is the field leader of the X-Men in the Marvel Comics Universe. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, he first appeared in The X-Men #1 (September 1963) and was originally dubbed Slim Summers. By #3, his name was changed to Scott and Slim was referred as a nickname. A mutant, Cyclops produces powerful "optic blasts" from his eyes, forcing him to wear specialized glasses at all times and a specialized visor in combat. His powers may have led to his inhibited, meticulous character. These same qualities, however, have made him an ideal leader for the X-Men. He is the son of Corsair (Major Christopher Summers); the brother of Havok (Alex Summers) and Vulcan (Gabriel Summers); the father of Cable (Nathan Summers); and the widower of Madelyne Pryor and Jean Grey. In alternate realities, he has also been the father of Marvel Girl and Ruby Summers, and the biological parent to X-Man and Cable's clone Stryfe.
Cyclops has the power to emit beams of energy from his eyes. Although the beams have the appearance of red light (i.e., electromagnetic radiation in a red wavelength), they do not heat objects but instead deliver tremendous concussive force. Some accounts describe Cyclops' eye beams as the product of his body metabolizing sunlight and other ambient energy (much as his brother Havok metabolizes cosmic radiation) and releasing this energy in the form of beams (hence in some stories Cyclops depletes his body's energy reserves and needs to recharge through exposure to sunlight). Other accounts suggest that Cyclops' eyes may contain apertures to another dimension, releasing powerful energies from that dimension into his own in the form of beams. Whatever their exact source, these beams or 'optic blasts' are tremendously powerful, able to rupture steel plates and pulverize rock. Depending on the amount of energy channeled, the beams can be released in various widths, appearing in enormous bursts on rare occasions. They have been observed to level a skyscraper, or can be focused tight enough to punch a pin hole in a dime. Scott can not control his power due to an childhood accident hence the need for the visor and the rose colored glasses when not in battle. Cyclops' beams have also been demonstrated to reflect off certain shiny surfaces; in concert with Cyclops' intuitive sense of spatial geometry, this reflective quality of his beams allows him to bounce the beams off many different surfaces in rapid succession so as to strike a desired target from an unexpected angle. Summers is immune to the harmful effects of his own powers — the natural psionic field which surrounds his body safely absorbs the energy of his beams if they should come into contact with his body. Scott is also immune to the power of his brother Alex, and vice versa. However, he is not immune to Vulcan's powers.
Olympus az 300, 35mm. film superzoom 38-105mm. (yes, in 1980's 105mm. is quite a long tele for compact)
Strobist info:
one CFL table lamp through a homemade diffuser below the camera pointing toward me, on-board flash fill-in trough a diffuser and a white cardboard as a reflector above the diffuser to push the light down to me.
part of the cyclops series