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Tortoise - Firefly

2011-06-17T00:16:00.000+08:00

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2011-03-29T01:36:00.000+08:00

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Stalker (Сталкер)

2011-03-07T04:11:00.002+08:00

My favourite film.

Others:
http://www.openculture.com/2010/07/tarkovksy.html

2011

2011-03-03T01:56:00.000+08:00

..And it's already MARCH!

Mogwai's new album was just released + I love it

Tortoise, Aphex Twin, The National and 65 days of static are all coming here to Singapore in the next month!

And I have a few more medium format cameras in my cabinet. Mamiya 67 and an awesome Fuji 6X9 III (GW690III) which I just shot through my second roll with today : )

Tried to get some jobs, and nothing back yet. Pretty frustrated tbh, Ill try to drown it in something.

Mogwai - Rano Pano

2010-12-13T10:49:00.000+08:00

Cowboy Bebop AMV - Dijurido

2010-10-29T06:13:00.000+08:00

Harlan Ellison -- Pay the Writer

2010-10-20T20:11:00.000+08:00

2010-09-18T13:07:00.003+08:00

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Originally uploaded by stefan kozma

sometimes I feel like I could melt away into an image, a scene. I feel like I have found (part of?) myself in it.

Boards of Canada - Music Is Math

2010-08-28T12:30:00.000+08:00

Boards of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country

2010-08-28T12:20:00.000+08:00

Back from the uk

2010-08-11T19:49:00.004+08:00

Ahhhh! so much stuff to do

but I found this situation in singapore, what a damn scene :o Kinda reminds me of fallout 3, or some parallel world.

2010-06-21T23:32:00.002+08:00

MOON8 1 of 6 - Speak to Me / Breathe / On the Run

2010-05-17T03:49:00.000+08:00

2010-04-09T13:03:00.012+08:00

I'm back from climbing and shooting lots of film in Krabi, Thailand

I still feel summer beach air, I have the strangest lost feeling..

The cicadas outside my window help...

Back to the street...

Listening...

Boat Behind

2010-03-10T03:52:00.001+08:00

Kings of Convenience - Boat Behind from françois nemeta on Vimeo.

Rushing to make selections for a quick portfolio and kinda conceptual book...
Listening to this over and over and over!

fun to improv with bass too... Im getting distracted argh!

Also:

The Boston Big Picture: Chile three days later

And

The Boston Big Picture: Chile nine days later

Back to Lightroom...

Happy Late New year and Xmass!

2010-02-15T19:41:00.013+08:00

Xmass has passed, new year, my birthday (I'm 19 and feel too old) And now its Chinese new year!

Something I found a ~~few days~~ while ago... Everyone should see this:

Haiti six days later - The Big Picture - Boston.com

This I just found; Really nice matte painting work!

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Look-Design-of-a-TV-Series/413627

And this song is great:

Not many posts because I have been damn busy! I get my life back soon...

Blogger Flickr gadget broke! (fix) (also Twitter gadget)

2009-12-21T23:00:00.004+08:00

I noticed it was broke (along with the twitter gadget which i've removed until they fix it. To fix that, just use the twitter rss instead)

I found instructions for creating one Flickr side here... (it's the one I'm using here) there are more customizable options too!

http://bal00sblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/adding-flickr-gadget-to-blogger.html

In short, go here, and its all easy!

A quick one..

2009-11-10T03:50:00.009+08:00

..before I go to sleep (and get up again in 3 hours!)

Cambodia again, back nearly a year!

Stumbled upon 'that' fill light 'looks a bit like a drawing' processing technique... Im still not sure about it... It is 'nice' though. It brings the scene to life I think...

More soon... Some great film presets I found for lightroom: http://www.lifeindigitalfilm.com/
$10 for the whole lot, loads for free, and more on the way... I've just tried the kodak 100 preset, and im in a happy place... Its really cool to be shooting 'film' with my D700... and a bit cheaper : )

Remember, shoot RAW, or it might not convert well...

Ill put some 'kodak 100' pics up soon!

2:24am cliche

2009-10-27T03:12:00.006+08:00

(such)? dark eyes;
but so bright.

this is just for me.

Its from a day that feels far away. it feels like lots has changed in a year.. and a year went fast.
A good day.
A day that i wont get back.
A day that won't come back.

Whatever. Ill hate this tomorrow.

for whatevers sake, thats kodak bw400cn (awesome stuff) taken with a Nikon EM (my mums) through (also technically hers) an (old) tamron 28mm 2.5.(my fave lens) and it must be a year old or more.
(scan date Monday, July 14, 2008) shot here in Singapore on one warm afternoon last summer.

I wonder if in 20 years we will be able to say 'summer of '08' without feeling stupid. Or if i will be able to say then what i feel like saying now without feeling stupid; something about it being almost too long ago to care to remember. But i do care to remember. Like I set that upon myself the moment i tilted the camera and pressed down so freely. I was so confused, lost, though seeing this shows me i am just as lost now, maybe more.

Must have been one of my first b&w rolls.

The lack of colour is killing me somewhere inside.

Analogue stuff (c41 film in b&w chemicals)

2009-09-09T05:26:00.000+08:00

Ive been experimenting with developing c41 (colour negative) film in black and white chemicals, and hey, it works...

Im using a load of old konica centuria stock (exp 2003) that i got a while ago (for cheap : ] )

Its cool because c41 film is cheaper than b&w film = more shots = yay!

My current method is microphen 1+0 (kinda old) 8 mins (25'C) and a fix in standard ilford rapidfix mix for about 15 minutes... Using a long fix because it seems to take a while to get alot of the orange colour out. (normal bw fix is about 4-6 mins) Neg density seems ok now, I feel like reducing the dev time another minute or so though.

Of course, the negs still have an orange mask, like yer standard colour negs, and yeah, you dont actually get any colour (though it seems like some people get the odd whiff)

Anyway, enough! Here's a flickr group dedicated to this alt process! http://www.flickr.com/groups/c41inbw/pool/

Also, I think Im getting a camera tomorrow, and I think It'll be a Lubitel =] (Flickr Lubitel shots...)

After using a rolleiflex in the uk, Im seeing in squares...

Won't be surprised if I come away with more than the one camera either...

Okay sleep...

Saw this place as i drifted off to sleep...

2009-08-28T10:49:00.002+08:00

Weird...

Lost Shot

2009-08-26T03:48:00.008+08:00

I found this shot lying on its side in lightroom, like I've never looked at it before...
Whacked up a couple of versions... ill go back to it sometime...

(click to see bigger- Duh :D)

Its from Cambodia, back in December...

So yay... thats cool. Cant believe I never saw it, its exactly my kinda shot...

I got test rolls back from the praktica, looks like that works! Yay#2

I cant seem to sleep at normal times. Not yay

Im better from the flu, so thats a yay (#3)

Yeah... So now i need a male-male IDE connector for my hard drive... then I can play more pc games in my massive pile. I wanna play stalker... I want to see nuclear wasteland and chernobyl!

I would love to go to Chernobyl for real though.

Guitar = definite yay (yay #4) thanks Mark...(where is your blog? cant find it... meh ill link later)

So yeah... good stuff... Im a bit bored though...

H1N1

2009-08-20T13:19:00.007+08:00

It seems I've caught the dreaded swine flu... to be honest, I'm not really surprised, I was kinda expecting to get it sometime, as practically everyone knows someone else who has caught it.

I haven't actually bothered to go and be diagnosed, because it would be pretty pointless, but its more than likely H1N1. Proper symptoms started on monday, but I had a gut feeling on sunday night that I was coming down with something. I'm getting a little bit better each day, the worst thing was being unable to get sleep the first few nights. Apart from that, headache and dizziness... and too many crappy sitcom reruns.

Its not actually a really bad flu, I remember having worse, I'm walking round and stuff, but its supposed to be infectious 7 to 10 days after first symptoms, so I'm not going anywhere fast... But I would prefer this for a week instead of one day of constipation : |

I should get mixing perceptol and start developing some B&W rolls, I've felt too crappy until now.

this will take a while...

Colour Shifts and Caravans...

2009-08-13T01:54:00.043+08:00

Im looking through film (and digi) shots from the uk trip I just came back from 5ish days ago... Its funny how easily we slip back into our routines again, back into my usual life... Im trying not to slip back into exactly the same stuff i was doing before, part of the reason i got this thing together, something i've meant to do for a while.

One of the expired centuria rolls has crazy ass colour shifts, going way blue or yellow, ill post some up soon..my guess is its partly (mostly?) the scanning, ill know whenever i get my flim scanner (could be a while)

I have been shooting a bit with some box brownies I found in the uk, (got 3, 2 of them working, one has a sticky shutter). They are made for 620 film which is basically just 120 (medium format) with a slightly different (usually metal) spool. the 120 stock loads fine, you just need a 620 spool for the other end, or they tend to jam up after the 4th or 5th exposure ( 8 exposures total on a 120 roll with these)
They have a single, fixed shutter speed which sounds about 1/50th ish, a switch for bulb mode (no option for a shutter release cable; you needa find something to hold it against while you hold the shutter release) and theres a pull out tab for close subjects (it says 5 to 10 feet) which puts another lense behind the original to focus closer. Winding is by a circular knob, and one of those red windows where you read exposure numbers on the back paper of the film. 2 seperate viewfinders, for horizontal and vertical framing...

cant wait to develop (ill try tomorrow) they smell great btw... that 'old camera hasn't been used for 40 years' kinda smell :]

also, in the UK, i found a Praktica MTL 5 B in a charity shop for 2 quid, no lens, but it looked good and seemed to work otherwise.. anyway, turns out this screwmount mamiya/sekor 55mm f1.4 I've had gathering dust for a while twists happily on! I got it along with a load of other random stuff (including a nice nikon enlarger lens (EL Nikkor 5.6 80mm) which ill probably never use) when i was buying one of my manual nikons off ebay.. Im chucking a test roll through it now.. gonna get a uv filter for it tomorrow (its an odd size, maybe 55mm). Cant wait to see f1.4.

- check out the shutter release in a wierd place-next to the meter and stop down lever-sticking out the front of the case-

BLAWG

2009-08-12T05:48:00.001+08:00

This could be a kind of online scrapbook for me, somewhere to collect my thoughts, and try to get a little further, faster.

Lets see...