Could it become a reality?
Pummelvision
Pummelvision takes all your Flickr, Facebook, or Tumblr photos and makes them into a video that can be uploaded to YouTube or Vimeo. Depending on how long you have been posting photographs online, this can be a real blast from the past.
Make you own at http://pummelvision.com/
Analogue Rules
Over the past few weeks, in between my film shots, I have been posting a few iPhone photos from time to time. Since the apps I use try to mimic the look & feel of the Holga and Diana cameras I normally use, there may be some confusion over whether these uploads are film shots or not. In fact, recently someone contacted me about adding one of my photos to a Holga related blog only to realize later it was shot on an iPhone. So, from now on, I plan to only post photographs shot with my film cameras here on Blur Dot Blog. Since my mobile phone is always in my pocket I will continue to shoot photos with that camera so I have started a simple Tumblr blog for those shots.
The name of that blog is called Fonographs and it can be found here with the RSS feed here.
Thanks, Dave.
Gallery Page Added
I have added a new gallery to the web site. This gallery will showcase some favorites from my toy camera and low fidelity collection. You can access the gallery by clicking on the link in the Pages section at the bottom of the page.
New Photo Blog
This week I stated a new photoblog over at http://davedunneonline.com/blog/index.php . I will still maintain Blur Dot Blog but I will use it for my low fidelity and toy camera photography. The new blog will be used for everything else. If you wish you can subscribe to the new blog via RSS at http://feeds.feedburner.com/DaveDunnePhoto. Click on the photo below to be taken to the inaugural post.
Have You Entered Holgapalooza Yet?
Holgapolooza is an annual photo contest run by the folks from Light Leaks Magazine and Toycamera.com. Check out the rules and prizes at http://www.holgapalooza.com/
Blur Dot Blog Now On Twitter
Toy Camera Book 2.0 Sneak Peak
Website Updated (Again)
Every so often I get bored and update my website. Tonight was one of those nights and you can check out my new minimalist look at davedunneonline.com.
Website Updated (or Making use of my time off for the holidays)
My gallery website at http://davedunneonline.com/index.html has been updated (again).
Toy Camera Book Website Updated
The Toy Camera Book website has been updated and includes new gallery pages as well as a fresh look.
And its not too late to submit some photographs for the book. There are currently two themes open, Travel and Flora/Fauna and the closing date is February 26th 2010. So get shooting.
Holgapalooza Winners Announced
Got an email today from Holgapalooza announcing the winners of the competition. Congratulations to all the winners.
We will have to wait until the winter issue of Lightleaks Magazine to see the winning photographs.
Category: HOLGASCAPES Judge: Sandra Carrion 1st: Gayle Stevens 2nd: Phil Bebbington 3rd: Ray Carns Honourable Mention: Maggie Willis
Category: PORTRAIT/SELF-PORTRAIT Judge: Gordon Stettinius 1st: Christiane Ingenthron 2nd:Warren Harold 3rd: James Arnold Honorable Mention: Stéphane Heinz
Category: INSPIRATION Judge: Annu Palakunnathu Matthew 1st: Sarah Hodzic 2nd: Zeb Andrews 3rd: Alain Gauvin Honourable Mention: Lori Andrews
Category: ALTERED REALITY Judge: Michelle Bates 1st: Laura Burlton 2nd: Chris Durnin 3rd: Jeff Evans Honourable Mention: Chris Hanke
Category: Holgaroids Judge: Steph Parke 1st: Ray Yen 2nd: Penny Nannini 3rd: Nicole Gesmondi Honourable Mention: Isabelle Field
Some Site Updates
I added a few pages to the site today.
- Reviews : collects links to all of the reviews I have done onto one page.
- Tips & Tricks : here I will link to various tips and tricks blog posts
- Manuals : I have uploaded some manuals for cameras and other photographic equipment here.
Each of these pages can be accessed from the links at the top of the page.
Vivian Maier Street Photography
Came across an interesting discussion on Flickr recently started by John Maloof.
I purchased a giant lot of negatives from a small auction house here in Chicago. It is the work of Vivian Maier, a French born photographer who recently past away in April of 2009 in Chicago, where she resided... have a ton of her work (about 30-40,000 negatives) which ranges in dates from the 1950's-1970's.
John has started posting these photographs to a blog http://vivianmaier.blogspot.com/ and is looking to exhibit the work.
It is well worth the time to go through what has been posted so far and I look forward to seeing more.
Links: Flickr discussion & John Maloof's profile.
As Seen On The Web [Blog Round Up]
- Go Holga have an interesting lens hack. http://goholga.com/lens-hack-for-holga-camera/ . Also, the Go Holga forums are up and running again after some server issues a few months back http://goholga.com/forum/.
- Awesome summer Polaroid photos at Eye Poetry http://is-theblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/wish-i-was-here.html
- Holga Blog have an article on DIY Flash Mob Exhibitions http://www.holgablog.com/2009/08/24/how-to-d-i-y-flashmob-exhibition/
- Big LSI discussion going on at Four Corners Dark http://nicnichols.com/FourCornersDark/?p=3891
A few blog posts
- Pinhole Cameras made from recycled paper? http://vidafine.com/blog/2009/07/hong-kong-polyu-design-annual-show/
- Kevin Meredith (aka Lomokev) has announced the dates he'll be running workshops in San Francisco. http://lomokev.com/?p=84
- The New York Times Lens blog had some good photos of photojournalists being threatened by police in Afghanistan. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/behind-the-scenes-latest-threat-to-photographers/
- Aline Smithson has posted some really great photos from Josef Hoflehner on her Lenscratch blog including some from Venice that are way better than the ones I recently posted here. http://lenscratch.blogspot.com/2009/08/josef-hoflehner.html
Photo Blog Round Up
Some things going on in other photography blogs I subscribe to.
- Lightleaks Issue 14 is out http://lightleaks.org/
- Lomokev's excellent book "Hot Shots" is back in print. Also, Kevin will be in San Francisco for a book signing in October http://lomokev.com/?p=47
- Picturenoise has posted some information on an old Victorian view camera he bought. Some nice test shots too. http://making-the-noise.blogspot.com/2009/08/4x5-victorian-view-camera.html
- Salt Stained Eyes has a small piece on Robert Frank. http://saltstainedeyes.blogspot.com/
- The Figital Revolution has just finished a 3 part series on stand development. http://figitalrevolution.com/2009/07/31/standing-development-part-1/
- HolgaBlog has started a series on TLR cameras. http://www.holgablog.com/2009/08/14/the-massive-guide-to-tlr-cameras-part-1-the-rundown/
- The Lo-Fi Penguin has a nice series of Holga Noir shots. http://lofipenguin.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/holga-noir/
wip : work in progress
While surfing the web today, I came across a link to "wip", a PDF format photography magazine.
The included photographs are not necessarily part of a completed series but are "works in progress" hence the name of the magazine.
The first 4 issues that can be downloaded from the wip website and they contain some great inspiring pieces of work.
Link: http://wip.gr/
Holga Inspire
There is a new website from the people who brought you the famous Holga camera called Holga Inspire. According to the website,
The mission of Holga Inspire is to support creative artists and professional photographers who use the Holga as their medium of creative expression.
To this end, the website features work from photographers such as David Burnett and Michelle Bates.
For a lot of people, who made the Holga was a bit of a mystery, some people even thinking that the Lomographic Society created it. It's nice to now see the company getting it's own face on the web.
Need to buy some film or toy cameras?
If you need to buy toy cameras or film, pay a visit to toycamera.com which has recently joined the B&H Photo affiliate program. This means that the site will get a small commission from the online photography retailer on orders made through links on the toycamera.com store page.
These commissions will help the owners of the site allocate more resources to the upkeep of web site which has become one of the best destinations for all things in the low fidelity photography arena.
If there is something you would like to see in the store that is not there now, add the link in the Store Requests thread in the Toycamera.com forums.