Mobile phone photography is instant and everywhere, easily shared, often quirky, and always of suspect quality. Sounds a lot like many of the Polaroid photographs I’ve seen. Even better is that I don’t have to buy film or pay for processing when taking pictures with my iPhone. I frequently use my iPhone to capture discrete [...]
I walked to the grocery store to buy root-beer and an onion, I realized that while owning an iPhone allows me to better record my observations, it also significantly decreases my observations. I spent the whole walk to the store checking Facebook and Tumblr.
Superior Film Guy Owning a film camera makes me use the words “exposures” and “shooting” more than I did before. No longer do I “take pictures.” Instead, I “shoot pictures” and “have three of twelve exposures left.” Part of this is because a picture isn’t a picture until you take it. Until then, it’s a [...]
Me: i like having zero messages in my inbox… iphone doesn’t allow for that… always has 25, 50, or more. even if you delete it just loads more. Russ: 0 in your inbox? Russ: how can you have no mesages in your inbox? Me: i always keep my inbox at zero Russ: yeah i know [...]
I own six cameras: 1. Canon PowerShot SD800 IS (link) 2. Casio Exilim 3. Sony MiniDV Handycam 4. iPhone (link) 5. Diana+ (link) 6. Macbook Pro iSight (link) I just got the iPhone and Diana+ this Christmas and have limited experience with both. The Diana+ uses medium format 120 film. I’ve only shot in color. [...]
I ordered an iPhone and it should arrive on Friday. I’ve been working feverishly (relatively speaking – it is holiday break) to prepare my sync-able data for the iPhone. I beefed up my Address Book, which included downloading v-cards from LinkedIn and categorizing people in groups – high school, college, law school, Ruckus, K12, and [...]