Post-Mortem Photography

aka--Death Portraits, Memorial Portraiture, or Memento Mori.
[the practice of photographing the recently deceased]
{height of popularity in the 1800s}
Examples:

Coney Island

I've just become overwhelmed by the urge to go to Coney Island and photograph run-down everything/anything.

Vintage Sartorial Reel

Yashica Lynx 1000

These are some shots from the test roll; Still figuring the camera out, but i like the weird effects that I produced by accident.

Unique Thrift Find

Matthew & I found this at Unique Thrift today- I bought it for $50 & spent a test roll today; I'm picking up the prints when I get off of work & will post tonight. I hope they come out well!!!

Well, I Just Bought These...

They're Jeffrey Campbell boots and I love them.

Dancing Cokehead

STOMP. Flight of the Conchords Style.

AND

What I Spent Part of My Tax Returns On....

It's the Diana F+ Deluxe Kit [in Hong Meow].

It includes:
• Diana F+
• Diana Flash
• Hot shoe adaptors (one for camera, one for flash)
• Cable Release Collar and cable release
• Splitzer
• Diana 35mm Back + 4 masks for 4 formats
• Diana F+ 20mm Fisheye Lens
• Diana F+ 38mm Super-Wide Lens
• Diana F+ 55mm Wide-Angle Lens + Close-Up Lens
• Diana F+ 110mm Telephoto Lens
• Viewfinder Adaptor
• Universal Viewfinder
• Fisheye Viewfinder

And also, because I spent so much money [although I saved SO much!!!]...they threw in these gems for freeeeeee:

3 rolls of Klick film [expired, but who cares]
The lomo notebook--I already went through one of them, but they're really incredible on the inside. And...
...a Lomo slingshot bag- You can't really read it from this picture, but it has a print of the ten golden rules of lomography on it.

My order won't get processed until Monday. And then I won't see my camera for a week. But......I can't wait.
The flash is black, by the way.

[I'm excited.]

Photo Motion

Pure Imagination

Oren Lavie

Stop Motion

!!!!!!!!

I usually don't post this sort of stuff but this is the cutest effing thing I've ever seen. It's a baby. It's a fox.

Aw, Uncle Remus.

This is from the Disney film, Song of the South--I don't think you can buy it anymore b/c it's been blacklisted as being racist. When it premiered (in 1946), Uncle Remus (or James Baskett, the star of this film) couldn't attend because none of the hotels in the town at the time would give him a room. Which is really sad. Because he's amazing.

Have One On Me

This is a really amazing article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Newsom-t.html?pagewanted=1&hpw

Of a really amazing person:

Nostalgic

They just used to be so much better than they are now.

Vivien Leigh

Wish I had her brows. Y'know...or her face.

This...

...is how I descend stairs too. Just like Cagney.


But, I have to be fair--no one does it better than Bojangles w/ Shirley Temple on the side.

.Sunny Days Gone To Grey.