TSA follow up.

    I did a lot of flying within the 2 months of December and January and ruined a lot of film with TSA's stupid rule of only hand checking film with a speed/iso of 800. I decided to start an on going experiment of taking a picture with film before and after it has been through the TSA scanner. For this test round I used a pack of impossible silver PX600 in a SX-70 without a ND filter and the light dial set all the way to darken. I shot one image before it went through the carry-on x-ray scan at the airport, and one shot after.

I am still thinking of how to present these in a better manner and I will be continuing these tests for awhile. Each new flight will be updated on this blog.

TSA

This is not a rant on the invasion of privacy by TSA, I actually had a very easy time coming down to the States this holiday (we will see what it is like at the Philly airport on my way back up to Canada), but TSA were total jerks about hand checking my film. NO one was in line behind me and I was not in too much of a rush. They could have gone through my film by hand with no problem. My major worry was that I had a film pack in one of my Polaroid cameras which they also refused to hand check. So it went through the x-ray conveyer belt along with my carry-on while giving me their speech about as long the film is below an asa/ iso 800 the film will be fine. Not true. The last three shots of film taken after going through the x-ray have all turned up to be almost black. The film is a new Impossible silver shade pack (asa/iso 150). I have already played with this film, so I understand how sensitive the film is in general while shooting and I am not seeing the same characteristics that I was encountering before, which is just turning black. I have not finished the pack yet, so there still is hope for at least one more pic to turn out... but on my way back up, I will not have any film in the camera (hopefully, my current location has not been too inspiring) and will buy a roll of asa/iso 800 film to make them have to search through my film! I shake my fists at you TSA, shaking my fists!

This is what TSA has to say: http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/assistant/editorial_1035.shtm -- They should include a sensitivity for instant film.
This is handy info for all film, not just instant: http://vimeo.com/17138051

2010 is dead.

Happy 2011. On a break from classes in Toronto and mostly enjoying curling up reading and sleeping. Went back to the states for the holiday. Analogue Appreciation Day is the holiday I celebrate along with other holiday cheer. This originally started as the appreciation of film and old televisions, but has expanded to all things analogue; meaning something physical at work or the manipulation or use of something physical rather than digital. Example: pictures printed from film rather than a capture of a digital image and shown online. Though pictures are digitized here in this blog, and this blog is a form of nothing tangible, this only shows how hard it is to live life to day in the physical. Think about how you can keep your life a bit more physcial than digital into this new year. It is as simple as sending a piece of real mail using the post office, or reading a physical news paper.

This was my holiday card, sorry to present it late. Toronto is full of photobooths in the subway stops and have utilized this great tool. I have been to all within the subway system and have one more to visit in Dufferin Mall.

Happy New Year to all!

A filler post

I have been told I need to add to update this blog. Its been awhile. Too keep you somewhat interested. this filler post is a video of a SX-70 ad by Charles and Ray Eames. Not only is it Eames style, it talks about the color process and chemistry in the photo (my fave part).

Will up date soon, hopefully with prints.

Historical Processes

  After mentioning that I will not be on here much, I now have things to share, or at least things to store for myself. This is week in my 19th century materials and processes class we made paper negatives, collodian positives, ambrotypes and tintypes. Last week as a class we watched the daguerreotype processes and created two! I sat for the tintype (with my early morning tired face). I had to sit for 25 seconds; you can see I moved my foot and it looks like there are three feet. Hope to share more about tintypes later when I make them next month. 

Photobooth.net

http://www.photobooth.net/locations/browse.php?ddState=60&locationID=412
my addition to a great site that is useful to all world wide. 

still down for now.

   I got accepted in to the masters program for Photographic Preservation and Collections Management at Ryerson University in Toronto, ON. This means no free time to play and shoot, but if anything happens my flicker will let you know. 
   I may try to use this space to inform about the great projects me and my fellow students are work on. As a class we watched one of our professors make daguerrotypes last week, so there is interesting things happening! I hope to also explain more about the program here too when I have a free moment... ha! 
But I will leave you with a photobooth strip that was taken last week with me and little birdie. In the subways of Toronto there are a few photobooths lurking in dead corners, a nice random surprise!