11/10/2007

recipe

for disaster.

use front part of camera and turn it backwards so that the shutter trigger will be on the outside and you can trip it manually with your fingy.









cut up an old tin and bend it into "camera housing"









paint the inside of that tin so that light doesn't bounce around and mess things up too bad, but be sure not to use actual black paint, and for better measure be sure not to use flat paint that would work best, choose glossy so that the light can still bounce around easily and mess things up.









make a mask for your film and tape it inside the back of the "housing". realize later that it's obviously not going to be wide enough and your photos are most likely going to get messed up from light going to either side of the mask.......... duh........... too late now.









cut slits for the film to pass through. tape the edges afterwards so your film doesn't get scratched any more than it already will.









tape a lot.









tape a piece of a broken light bulb over the shutter because most cameras have a piece of glass there.









splice two rolls of 35mm together and use them to wind your film across, one being the takeup spool. tape around the 35mm cans and where the film leaves and enters them so that hopefully no light can enter there and tapdance on your film. tape a viewfinder to it. go outside and get stared at.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

holy moly

Courtney said...

Did it work!?