Mirror Cam

With this I will rule the world!!! Muhuhahaha! Just keeeding. this is a camera that I built, and am still grappling with its connotations and purposes, but it's lots of fun. For lack of a better name I call it the Mirror Camera. as you can see a Mirror is placed in front of the camera's lens so that the subject can view themselves while the picture is taken. This has a few different effects.

1) The subject is able to contort their face into the perfect shape that they desire for a portrait.

2) (and more importantly) the camera is able to glimpse that most private moment when one looks into his/her own eyes in the mirror.

I origionaly built it for my trip to the Coachella Music festival in Indio California.

My first attempt was rather clunky:

this devise was intended for an SLR camera. it worked well and I think it will come in handy for the future, but was rather cumbersome to be carried around a 75,000 person party filled with crazy drunkards.

so I switched quick to a slightly fresher approach. I call it the ipad mirror cam.

here is a short segment of the images that I aquired over the weekend:

Chickens!

Kim's Grocery Sore

I forget who told me about this place, but it's amazing!!! I think she should move to Oberlin!

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spring break

Spring Break oh yes the bliss. here's a snippit. more to come: Gracie and I printed lots of sweet pictures.

Jeff Jacobson on Lens Blog

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Bruce Gilden

What an awesome character!

Here are a bunch of links to his Magnum works:

» Bruce Gilden's Magnum In Motion Essay "Detroit: The Troubled City"

» Bruce Gilden's Magnum In Motion Essay "Foreclosure"
» Bruce Gilden's Magnum Portfolio
» Bruce Gilden's Magnum In Motion Essay "Coney Island"
» Bruce Gilden's Magnum In Motion Essay "The Rat Story"
» Bruce Gilden's Magnum In Motion Essay "Fashion Magazine"

Treme!

Just read the New York Times Magazine article about Treme, David Simon's new HBO series. I'm so damn exited! Simon was the creator/ writer of The Wire, an amazing series about Baltimore's crime, cops, politicians, and newspapers. This new series will tell the stories of jazz musicians in the murder-capital neighborhood of post-Katrina New Orleans. So check out these behind the scenes images by Peter Van Agtmae, the article, and tune in for the premier of Treme on April 11th!