Who's idea was this?!... I like it!

Whoever said eating snow was bad for you led a pretty boring life... This you see above, is a giant snow cone we maded yesterday. It took four people to push and one to sprinkle a container of coolade over it... yumo.

P.S Last night I went and saw Pilot Drift and Supergrass play at club 9:30 D.C, yay for Supergrass!!!

Snow Day!!!

HEEEYA! Im leaving the U S of A in two days and I was kinda worried that it wasn't going to snow before I left, But on whilst we were skiing on artificial snow yesterday, it started bucketing down. This morning I awoke to at least a feet of snow and its one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen... I took alot of film pics, and I can't wait to see them developed. Wish you here now.

Intercourse, Pennsylvania: Amish Country

Illustration Friday: Simple

Illustrating with a needle this week, just to be different!
This is a sockmonkey turned wheat filled toad type creature I made for my brother last night.

Lurey Caves VA

I want to wrap it all up in my pocket, give it to me now!

Street corner D.C

Cool Tree

This was taken in the middle of a construction site in Washington D.C. Tell me if you also like this tree.
I think if they cut it down they will set free a smoke eating, rainforest killing monster.

They have arrived...

OK, so we're on our way... Two of the cameras Adrian and I ordered on ebay arrived today, and they're both splendid, exactly what we were after. The first was a 1967 polaroid camera that needed alot of work before we could plonk in ontop of the scanner, Dad shaved of about a third of its wieght with bits and pieces that we didn't need and jammed open the shutter with a toothpick, I dont think it can be restored to its original state now though, but who gives a shit, I'd say it would be a teeny hassle to get the right film for it anyways.
SO above is the polaroid on a strip of black foamy stuff to stop the camera from scratching the scanner (This is the setup used to take the following photos).
The other camera we got is an el enchanto kodak. Its pretty cool, when we get a chance to muck around with it I shall post some more examples. This is exciting!

warping

This is three different pictures taken with the scanner camera, no modifications have been made to the scanner yet untill we get ours delivered. After mucking about with focus and lighting, we eventually got a standard from this camera, and have started to notice some warping. The middle picture above is one where Sally hasnt quite stayed still whilst being captured so her cheeks and chin buldged out a bit. After noticing this we did some tests, the left most picture was taken whilst she slightly moved along with the sensor, which shortend her, and the right photo she moved against the sensor, which widend her. But as you can see, it works much better with a lens compared to our earlier pin-hole shoebox technique.

you know what im sayin!

Yey! this was taken in Target - Alexandria VA. I was so excited to see her (Kirsten Ulve) work up! had to take a picture... Luv it!