Still moving.
but slower.
Reading
(.)
Aldous Huxley, Collected Short Stories, abandoned
(now)
Günter Grass, Peeling the Onion
Half Frame / Panoramic Twin Lens Reflex
Spend about an hour today making masks to convert (non-permanently) a Yashicaflex TLR into a half frame / panoramic type camera. I should be able to shoot twenty-four 24x50mm frames on a roll of 120 film. Results soon.
Me vs. Copal-X
Successfully rebuilt a shutter today, my first. Didn’t have to mess with the timing mechanisms, but did have to clean and reinstall the shutter leafs which had all spontaneously abandoned their posts and were rattling around in the lens barrel. The camera is an Olympus Pen D3, which, when I got it wouldn’t stop winding after cocking the shutter. After a couple dozen firings the shutter gave out. Somehow I managed to fix the film advance wind thing as well, but I did have to strip the leatherette off the front and I didn’t pay attention when reinstalling the exposure counter, so it’s all wrong. But(!) it dose seem to be working with a test roll drying as we speak and a cursory glance showing good results. I’d rather have an ugly working camera than a pretty paperweight.
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Scanned negatives look good although the light meter is off a couple of stops. Also, it’s kind of funny but someone opened up this camera before and left an extra shutter blade in it, stuck in the aperture. They also left allot of loose screws and a few put back in the wrong place. I hate people who give amateur camera repair a bad name. C’mon people, these are simple machines!
Today
1. No sleep.
2. Army soup.
3. Hung art, all level.
4. Sour creme at dinner.
5. Rock and Roll.
6. Found out Mats Gustafsson and I have the same birthday and his hometown has the highest percentage of veganism in Sweden.
7. Washed linen.
8. Drank peroxide.
9. Shower and get ready for bed.
October 3rd and 4th 2009
Two events on the horizon which I am taking part!
October 3rd 2009
SPAWN art exhibition and silent auction at the Arrata Opera Centre (1315 7th St. SW), fund raising for Elephant Artist Relief, a very worthy organization. Gallery is open September 30th – October 2nd (12-7pm) for viewing and bidding. Closing and music/food/booze on Oct 3rd. Go and spend allot of money.
also:
October 4th 2009
Débutantes Ball at The Sugar Shack Art Salon
1424 – 23rd Ave. SW, 4:00-8:00pm
Featuring:
Bambi Artmobile : The Mobile Surgical Beautification Unit
Lisa Brawn : Coin Operated Action Shots of Ladeyfriends
Jane Grace : Apparatus for Self-Scrutiny
UCFK : Urbanism
Also music by Hot Glue Burns!
Come and see.
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