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For folks who don't feel like building a whole pinhole camera from scratch... it's easy to take apart one of these focus-free plastic cheapies and convert to pinhole use. That way you can get 35mm images with the standard framing & spacing so that any minilab can develop them.
I posted another version of this idea before... but this shows the more common kind of plastic camera, that has a little lens-guard operated by the tab below it. I see literally baskets of these for sale at most thrift stores--the one in back with the swooshy grips seems especially common. I've made quite a few pinhole cameras out of that kind. (Note the 80 cent price-- about all it's worth as a regular camera.)
I've hot-glued some plywood on the bottom here, with a 1/4-20 nut epoxied into a hole to make a tripod socket. The plywood also adds a stable base you can steady against doors, tables, etc. during exposures of a few seconds.
[EDIT: Sample shots from the Vivitar pinhole here, and from my earlier plastic-trashcam conversion here.]
[Another edit, May 2008: I've now blogged all the details on how to hack one of these cheapie trashcams and how to make & measure the pinhole itself.]
Evoking the foggy atmosphere for a wintry evening and the yellow light created by the gas-fired lamps, Return from the Matinée, Piccadilly Circus belongs to a group of paintings, three of which were exhibited at the Royal Academy that year. In a re-run of the RA show, The Studio called them “three remarkable tone and colour studies of London at night.” Hacker (1858 - 1919) was well established by the time he produced these works. He had trained at the Royal Academy schools for four years, prior to a period of study at Bonnat’s atelier in Paris and further travels on the continent. He commenced exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1878 Romantic and Symbolist-inspired compositions and he was also much sought after as a society portraitist. Hacker was invited to exhibit at the first NEAC show of 1886, was elected as an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1894 and became a full Academician in 1910.
[Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 61 cm]
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The police were fairly helpful. They told me Sionis Industries was owned by a man named Roman Sionis, a very powerful business man from where they were from.
He also lead a double life, as a criminal named Black Mask.
They'd also given me a list of his contacts. One was called Queen. Oliver Queen.
I recognised the name, but I had no clue why.
And then it struck me.
Queen Industries.
They were just round the corner.
Time to do some investigating...
I'd hacked into Ollie's computer in his office to see what he knew about Black Mask.
He had a bit of info, his background, allies and all that stuff.
Then I found his location.
He was hiding out in some nearby slums, but if I was to attack him, I'd need to blend in.
How did Queen have so much info?
Anyway, it's time to do some shopping.
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Bruce Banner/Hulk moves from #98 to take #99 Queen Industries from Winter Soldier/Black Adam
She is tired of hiding from the Turing Police choppers.
Standing outside the Evil Giga Shaft Corporation (GSC), she have hacked the buildings security, still to 'do a HAL' on the their mainframe is not gonna be a stroll in the park.
Looking up at the tiny moon, its cold appearance seems to somehow to give her strength...
As she crosses the street towards her destiny she walk the way she talk it, like every bad-ass hero she know, Bruce Lee, Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Sigourney Weaver and Molly... Watching all that pirate bay old movie download is about to be put in good use to give black hat security dudes a bad day at work!
Last paragraph is of course loosely from the great author William Gibson's novel Neuromancer, particular the last name of bad-ass heroes...
Here's a handy hack I've been using lately to carry a map and notes along with my hacked Moleskine Weekly Planner notebook.
I use a standard 3" x 5" yellow sticky note to draw a map, with directions, address, phone numbers and whatever else I might need to get to my meeting.
Then I attach the long, sticky edge to the spine side of the Moleskine (left edge) and then slide the loose edge of the stick note under the elastic band (right side), so it won't catch the corners in my pocket.
Once I'm done with the map, I can save it in the back of my Moleskine for later use, or toss it out.
This approach also works well for task lists and any other at-a-glance information you need to see without opening up the Moleskine.
Quick shot of my Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2 (I love this thing!).
Outfitted with red escape key, blue WASD keys, and yes, that is its keyboard roof in the background.
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8. Slickr. One of the things that is cool about Flickr is that there is an amazing amount of fanastic images online. This is cool and all but Flickr's slide show functionality sucks, it's not full screen, etc. This is where Slickr comes in. Slickr allows you the ability to point Slickr to someone's photostream, your photos marked favorites, etc., etc. and then actually download full high res photos of all of whatever you point it to to your computer. It was developed by Gabriel Hanford. Once on your hard drive you can better make use of these images for your screen saver or for your desktop backgrounds and all that. One of my favorite things to do is to sit back and watch my Media Center PC rotate through my favorites from Flickr on beautiful full high res clarity.
One note with this. You might want to check out the photo license of the photos that you choose to download with Slickr. Although Slickr works with all licenses, technically you'd be breaking the rules by downloading an all rights reserved licensed photo. Creative Commons licensed photos of course (like mine) are free to use for non commercial (in my case) use and if you want to download all of my images for your screen saver, desktop, etc., or even just one of my sets like Superfaves, feel free.
If you like these Flickr hacks feel free to digg them here.
Whenever we are out and about in Dorset, we almost always come across riders hacking out along lanes, bridleways or in this case forestry tracks. The two girls passed us a couple of times and were happy to stop and say hallo so that we could give their horses a bit of fuss.
Left off the buttons down the back, and the sleeves. Used bias binding around the neck and armholes instead of facing pattern pieces.