things that interest me

For a tiny little project over the summer, I am going to fill a book of drawings, notes, whatever of things that I am interested in. In my end of year tutorial the conclusion was reached that I have had little or no interest in my college projects this year, which has most likely been a big factor in why I have done shit all work and haven't had the best grades. If I can see in front of me what I actually like (because I usually forget because I'm in a bad mood) then I could almost just pick two different things, link them in some way and make a project out of it.

I haven't decided whether I am going to start a new book yet or cut and stick things into a new one. Whatever, I'll scan stuff in.

cinemaxx advertisements

Cinemaxx in America have brought out a series of advertisements by advertising agency Jung von Matt which are pretty attention grabbing.

supercolor 1000

Modified my Polaroid Land Camera today to work with the newer, more easily available 600 film rather than the SX-70 it was designed to take. It was pretty easy.

I stuck a knife down the side of the front casing and pulled it off to reveal all the gooey insides.

Then twisted the tiny little cog thats on the right hand side, underneath the viewfinder, anti-clockwise as far as it would go using a craft knife. This controls the sensitivity of the photocell, as due to the inconsistencies in production of film and components in the factories, as well as constant advances in types film and quality of the components, Polaroid built in a small mechanism to compensate for this. This was originally calibrated in the factories.

On the other side of the cog there is a four section density filter with the equivalent of a two stop difference per panel, basically all that needed altering was to change this to the lightest panel, two panels away, being the equivalent of four stops, 600 film is approximately four times faster than SX-70 film. Easy.

Then I clicked the case back on the front, Bob's your uncle. The only other problem is that 600 film cartridges have extra little nubs on the front of the plastic case which get caught inside the front door of the camera, these need to be sanded off every film cartridge before using it.

oktapodi

A two minute short CG film about two octopuses going to great extents to be reunited after being separated. Made by students of Paris’s Gobelins School of Image. It has won several awards that include Best Animation Imagina 2008, ‘Best Student Animated Film Ficci Baf 2008′, Canal Award Annecy 2008 and many others.

For the website and the film click here.

me youff

Recently I have been enjoying painting nonsense for fun. It's nice being able to do something almost productive when I don't have to.