I’ve been meaning to make a pinhole camera for a long time but i never got down and did it. Well, I’m compromising here that I will make one and you are here by my witnesses.

Today I stumbled upon this website – www.corbis.readymech.com/en and came across some cool looking pinhole projects and decided with all my might a good will that I was going to make one. But me being a picky lady, I opened photoshop and started messing with one of their designs and decided to make a Tim Burton Cheshire Cat pinhole camera. I know, it’s lame but I like cats. Moving on…

This is the original pinhole camera design.

This is my model for the outside box that will contain the box for the actual 35mm film.

If you like my lame design you can download the template here so that you can build it yourself. I will require you to take pictures of it and with it and show me.
The rest of the pinhole project can be downloaded here, this is just the outside box, remember?

As I said before the copyright of this pinhole project belongs to Corbis. I just messed with it, printed a note with their copyright on my box and hope that they don’t get mad. It’s just a project that I’m doing for fun.

My next step is to buy stuff such as black tape, a can (with coca-cola inside so that i can drink it first), get film and print out the box and actually build it.

You can expect a follow up post about this.

Just an ordinary day downtown. Lot’s of people going by and lots of smoke coming from the flaming hot center of the earth. The white smoke came through those metal holes where the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live. I didn’t spot any turtle, though.

Porto

So, here are a few photos from the Fantasporto film festival after party. It’s called Baile dos Vampiros wich in english stands for The Vampire’s Dance. It’s an old tradition and it has nothing to do with this vampire hype that’s happening. The festival celebrated it’s 30th birthday this year.

Here is Zé Pedro in action. If you’re portuguese and haven’t been living under a rock you know that he also plays guitar in Xutos e Pontapés.

Here’s one half of The Kulture Brothers DJ duo, Megas with his friend Hélder.

And now for something completely different…
I was handed this old photo to retouch. It’s probably 30 years old.

As you can see it’s in really bad shape, but what you can’t see is that it’s really tiny, it’s 5,0×3,5cm.
What a challenge! – I thought.
So here’s the 5 hour editing process that took me to retouch the whole thing.
First stop, I removed the left eye and forehead wrinkles.

Next, I removed the mouth, chin and chest wrinkles.

On the next stop,  I removed all the wrinkles from the eyes. This part was tricky, but i pulled it off.

Next, I decided to take a break from the though stuff and removed all the easy wrinkles from the background and body.

Here’s the really though part. The nose is pretty messed up and the left cheek is in bad shape too. It took me a lot of patience and calm to try to make the nose look normal. Here’s the result.

Next, I converted the image to black and white, but left a bit of the old sepia worn out feel to it.

Now, here’s the bonus: I decided to give it color and this is what I managed to accomplish with a little hard work.

This is it!

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Indicate precisely what you mean to say.
Yours sincerely,
Wasting Away

Tunnel and sky collide
Lose friends to the airwaves and the airlines

Downtown, where people meet and walk by…

Porto on a winter afternoon. I wish all winter could be like this – no rain, no cold.

People like you find it easy
Naked to see,w alking on air
Hunting by the rivers through the streets
Every corner abandoned too soon
Set down with due care
Don’t walk away in silence, don’t walk away

Mercado do Bolhão – Porto

I read the news today, oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph

This is a local shop for local people.