i had to laugh. here i am catching myself doing the whole reflecting on the past year thing, something i tend to scoff at others for doing. you know, cause i'm a jerk. but yes, 2011 was a lot of fun artistically. photographically and beyond. one of the things i played with, and you should try it too, was messing with disposable cameras.
disposables make me think of life from eighth to eleventh grade. i have a shoebox that's partially held together by duct tape filled with photos i've taken. random parties, old theatre productions, terrible former crushes, the works. weird to think that some of those were from half my life ago. end of last summer, my nostalgia walked me right into the walgreens around the corner from my place. i picked up a few cameras and took them home for experimentation. and by experimentation, i mean abuse. i wanted to recreate the fading memory feeling i had while looking in my shoebox, so i beat the crap out of those cameras. melting and scratching the plastic lens helps get that hazy, dreamy look to it. as does lip balm. then you can throw it across the room, expose it to heat/radiation, freeze it, kick it, call it mean names, color the flash with markers. if you hit it in the right way, without advancing the film, you can even get multiple exposures.
as usual, more abuse can be found on my tumblr. there will definitely be more to come. get your own cameras and go play.
this one's me and red. see? she's even wearing a red coat.
blue.
disposables make me think of life from eighth to eleventh grade. i have a shoebox that's partially held together by duct tape filled with photos i've taken. random parties, old theatre productions, terrible former crushes, the works. weird to think that some of those were from half my life ago. end of last summer, my nostalgia walked me right into the walgreens around the corner from my place. i picked up a few cameras and took them home for experimentation. and by experimentation, i mean abuse. i wanted to recreate the fading memory feeling i had while looking in my shoebox, so i beat the crap out of those cameras. melting and scratching the plastic lens helps get that hazy, dreamy look to it. as does lip balm. then you can throw it across the room, expose it to heat/radiation, freeze it, kick it, call it mean names, color the flash with markers. if you hit it in the right way, without advancing the film, you can even get multiple exposures.
as usual, more abuse can be found on my tumblr. there will definitely be more to come. get your own cameras and go play.
this one's me and red. see? she's even wearing a red coat.
blue.
