A Camera Large Enough to Live In
Dennis Manarchy seeks to capture these “Vanishing Cultures” before they disappear, using his handmade 35′ long, 12′ tall, and 8′ wide camera, whose bellows and body resemble an old view camera.
Photography
Lego Model Parts on Sprue Made of Lego
I’ve admired the work of UK AFoL Peter Reid, aka Flickr user Legoloverman, for a long time. His turtle model, shown to right, is one of my favorite fan-designed Lego models, ever. It doesn’t use a lot of elements, but they’re very carefully thought out. And now he’s gone and arranged them like pieces of […]
Martin Klimas Captures Paint Pushed by Sound
Martin Klimas places paint upon a translucent material, underneath which is a speaker. When music is played, the carefully selected mixtures of paint explode from the surface, reaching upward and intertwining. Klimas captures these events photographically and mates each photo to the piece of music that created it (the one below is Kraftwerk’s “Transistor”).
DIY Tilt-Shift Lens
If you’re looking for an interesting project for your DSLR camera, you might find the DIY Tilt-Shift lens from Flickr user Maciej Pietuszynski to be worthy of your weekend project time. Maciej’s version uses a shower head and rubber glove in addition to a 50mm/1.8 prime lens. If you’re comfortable cutting a pipe with a hacksaw and disassembling a perfectly good lens, you can pull off this build. The images a lens like this produces more than makes up for the time it takes to assemble.
Dimmable LED Light Panel
If you’re looking for a cheap fill light for your video work, check out YouTube member DTapeProductions DIY light panel using stick-on 12V LED light strips. It’s not going to be daylight temperature or color corrected, but it’ll throw some accent light where you’ll need it for cheap. In the video they say you’ll have to solder the strips together, but if you’d like to save some time, you’ll find that there are plenty of solderless connectors available online.
DIY Popup Flash Bouncer
Check out this popup flash bouncer from Flickr user synthetic_meat that uses a piece of recycled foil-lined cardboard box to diffuse your cameras built-in flash.
MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw… Hexapod Sunset from Dunehaven. Rockets in February! from Erik Charlton. microsequin (pink) from J.Morganized. 1/5 of illuminated GLOBE sign from Mr Shiv. making a tachometer from modern kōgaku. Clamp Lamp and Clamp Magnifying Glass – unclamped from b_light. Isolated 9V meter supply from P^2 – Paul.
