Category : Lab activity

Written on Jul, 06, 2023 by in

Ok, its only been about 10 years since I made these negs and never got round to printing. Who cares, I’m in no hurry. Sometimes ideas take a long time to develop as well. The idea here though was quite simple. To make sound recordings on the Eurocord-Klangfilm, then document the machine itself.

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Written on Jul, 06, 2023 by in

You got to admire the lomo spiral. Marvel of plastic engineering and design. I prefer the morse however.

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Written on Jul, 06, 2023 by in

The manual table is really the best and most satisfying method of going through films to catalogue, inspect, repair, select, prepare for viewing or copying or projecting. Its film nearly at its most peaceful. Ive got loops and stuff but my lens of choice to view strips of film are Bell&Howell 60mm lenses that you find on the 16mm projectors. …

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Written on Jul, 06, 2023 by in

My 16mm print of ‘Dream of Wild Horses’ by Denys Colomb de Daunant looks pretty faded. But maybe it wasn’t in full colour originally anyway. So can it be restored photochemically? We will see.

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Written on Jul, 06, 2023 by in

Added the sound head block to the Matipo to check fixings. Slight deviation from the neat film only path but should work once I work out the voltage to the light.

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Written on Jul, 06, 2023 by in

My studio practice, when I get there is going to involve smallish table top stop motion animation, diaramas, mattes, experimental set-ups and lots of rotoscoping. For all this you need lights. Good old BB-list delivered these nice 1k fresnels in the end. Ive got some old Mole-Richardson 2k fresnels on stands, lots of overhead lights like Minim F’s and Preludes, …

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Written on Jul, 06, 2023 by in

It is well known that flat table editing machines can be modified into contact printers. All that needs to be done is to black out the screen and any light leaks from the cabinet. Make somekind of slit that covers the prism and mask off any light straying out from the prism block. You then load your neg on the …

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Just been servicing some of my own Eikis for the Bristol 16mm stuff in a few weeks. Two of them fit in the flight case that the geared head came packed in, just without lids. The RT one has been playing up for ages with a problem with power to the exciter lamp. I’ve got a few of these projectors …

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Written on Jun, 01, 2023 by in

My film, ‘Me at the Zoo Too’ is an attempt at thinking as the medium of film. It depicts, or rather interprets, or rather ‘thinks about’ the first ever youtube clip to be uploaded, the celebrated and widely written about ‘Me at the Zoo’ by Jawed Karim which has currently had 270 million views and counting. It was uploaded on …

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Written on Mar, 22, 2023 by in