Lo-Fi and DIY

A sketchbook of sorts.

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Polaroid Packfilm Bellows transplant-one may die so that another may live

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This is a very easy swap that I have performed many times. Over times the bellows(accordion-like leather or leatherette) can sag or get d...
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

My Polaroid Obsession Part Eleven, Polaroid in Name Only.

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After a Polaroid bankruptcy in the early part of the 20 th century, Polaroid changed- and not for the better. They went from a company o...
Sunday, November 20, 2016

Cigar Box Guitars- The most fun you can have with a few bucks!

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Cigar box guitars are a tradition that stretches back to the 1830 when cigars first became available in small wooden boxes. Inspired by the...
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Saturday, November 19, 2016

My Polaroid Obsession Part Ten, Instant roll film cameras- where it all began.

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It began with an innocent inquiry by a 3 year old girl in 1943. While Doctor Land was snapping pictures on the beach in Santa Fe, his dau...
Saturday, November 12, 2016

My Polaroid Obsession Part Nine, Geeking out on special use cameras.

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Dr Land and Polaroid came up with a million ways to use instant photography, much of it in professional fields. From dentistry and forens...
Monday, October 31, 2016

Armoire amore – Re-purposing outdated furniture

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Somewhere along the line the transition occurred- maybe the early nineties. Entertainment centers were out, and a reinvented version of...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

The DIY Aesthetic- How we can still reach out to each other through art.

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We have entered a new era of creation. Scrapbooking tools like Crikut and Silhouette replace jobs normally done by commercial vinyl cutters,...
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Thursday, October 20, 2016

Polaroid Conversion- My Messy Manual Polaroid.

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I, like many Polaroid nuts, love the style of the Automatic Land Camera pack cameras from the sixties, but need more control. Though the ...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

My Polaroid Obsession, Part Eight: You win some, you lose some. 500 series cameras.

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This rather small collection within a collection is of the 500 series film cameras. The flagship of the line is the Captiva or Vision camer...
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