We look at a forest and say: Here is a forest for ships and masts, We look at a forest and say: Here is a forest for ships and masts, Red pines, Free to the tops of their shaggy burden, To creak in the storm In the furious forestless air Engravings and paintings by Albin Brunovsky Title: Osip Mandelstam, Whoever Finds a Horseshoe, 1923 (via Woolgathersome) Previous post on this artist: your head is a living forest full of song birds Will 50 Watts How to Make Leaf Skeletons I wanted to share with you a project from one of my readers who shares with us how to make leaf skeletons. I LOVE this! I have several leafs in various forms displayed in my home and knew I needed to make some of her leaf skeletons to add to my decor. I have spent hours and tried various ways of making these. You need washing soda, not baking soda! Gather your leaves. Washing soda is a strong base so you may want to wear gloves when handling the leaves. You will add 3/4 cup of washing soda and 4 cups of water to your pot of leaves. Keep going, you will need to add more water so your pan doesn’t dry out. When 1.75 hours are up fill a glass baking dish with cool water. I carefully removed them and rinsed with water and added clean water to the pan. If you’re still with me, this is what I ended up with… I have a maple leaf which turned out not so well. 37.1Kstumbleupon
PinHolo - The story of how I made a Pine-Nut Pinhole Camera! When I was a student at the Fine Arts Academy in Perugia, I fell in love with stenopeic photography and started gathering every kind of document I could about it and its technical evolution. I asked for some information from my photography teacher, Antonio Todini - He suggested that I search "Pinhole Photography" on the internet and as a way of remembering things said: “Pinhole, it sounds like pinolo (pine nut, in Italian), but with the 'H' after the 'N' and the final 'E'”. Since that moment the little nut planted itself in my mind and grew in the form of a challenge to make my very own pine nut pinhole camera! After eating the pine nut fruit, I used the sides of the shell as a “camera obscura”. I needed the inside to be black, so I painted it. Then, I made a hole in the center of one side and applied on it a plate with a pinhole in the center. Please activate JavaScript to see this gallery So, I was able to turn a pine nut into a functioning stenopeic camera.
Upcycling: Magazine Beads When I was a child, making paper beads from the stacks of National Geographic was one of my favorite indoor pastimes. And I’m not the only one. The creation of beads from colorful paper goes back to Victorian times when ladies used knitting needles and paper scraps to create beads for decorations around their homes. The style of the beads varies considerably depending on how you cut your strips of paper. These templates will give you an idea of where to start but it’s fun to experiment on your own to find your own favorite style. Things you’ll need: Magazine pagesScissors Knitting needle or dowel rod Glue stickSpray sealerMagazine Bead Template Things to do: 1. 2. 3. This Project Uses These Product(s)
Ask Nature - the Biomimicry Design Portal: biomimetics, architecture, biology, innovation inspired by nature, industrial design - Ask Nature - the Biomimicry Design Portal: biomimetics, architecture, biology, innovation inspired by nature, industrial desi Pinhole photography: how to take the perfect digital pinhole photo Pinhole photography has been around forever, and the dawn of the digital age has given this lo-fi photography artform new life with the ability to convert your DSLR cameras into digital pinhole cameras. In this tutorial we’ll show you how to use your digital pinhole camera to take the perfect pinhole photo. From the best camera settings to the optimum pinhole size, everything you need to know to take the perfect pinhole photo is laid out below. How to shoot perfect digital pinhole photography Camera settings On a pinhole there’s no aperture to adjust, and it’s highly likely that your camera meter won’t give you anything approaching an approximately correct reading, so set your camera to Manual, ISO100, and Daylight White Balance. Once the sun’s above the horizon, you’re likely to be in the 8 sec-range, as we were here. 0.1mm 0.2mm 0.3mm 0.4mm The hole thing There’s an optimum pinhole size, which is calculated taking into account the distance of the sensor to the pinhole. What focal length?
The Queen of Creative Reuse The incandescent bulbs that shone so merrily in the Queen's palaces all her life and yours, Dear Reader, is going to be phased out by the federal government. They will eventually no longer be allowed to be sold in the United States. People will be looking for creative things to do with all those incandescent lamps (subject of a future Trashy Wench blog, I'm sure) and all the bulbs in those lamps, regardless of whether they are working or burnt out bulbs. The incandescent bulbs come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, all with wonderful curves of all shapes, sort of like the Wench and her wonderful female friends! Hot Air Balloon Decorations Mini Terrariums Plant rooters and vases Micro Oil Lamps Dried or Silk Flower Ornaments Glamorous globes for miniature light strings Bear in mind that working with incandescent bulbs can cause injury; you will want to wear work gloves when handling them, along with eyewear protection, Dear Reader.
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How to make a pinhole camera from your DSLR In this tutorial we’ll show you how to make a pinhole camera using a really simple method involving nothing more than a spare body cap for you DSLR. There’s an app for just everything these days, including a plethora of photo effects that replicate traditional darkroom and camera techniques. Among these, getting the pinhole look ranks high. However, there’s nothing quite like doing it for real, so we’re going to show you how to make a pinhole camera of your very own using your existing DSLR. Using nothing more than a spare body cap for your camera, a small square piece of aluminium drinks can, a pin or needle (about size 7), scissors, some black electrical tape, fine sandpaper and a drill, you’ll have all you need to transform your DSLR. The results won’t be perfect: the distance between the body cap and the sensor on most digital SLRs is fixed at an inconvenient distance for pinhole photography, and it can’t be easily changed. Through the pinhole How to make a pinhole camera step-by-step 1.
Tall Tales of Depravity How to convert your dslr to a pinhole camera // Behind the Shutter How to convert your dslr to a pinhole camera So, I had a little free time yesterday, dont as me how, but it was there and like the neurotic person I am, I decided to fill it with some play time. I wanted to do something different – so, I converted my dslr to a pinhole camera. Below is a list of items I used for this exercise, minus some tinfoil, which I will expand on later. 1) dslr camera 2) hammers 3) ruler 4) notepad 5) pencil 6) 800 grit sand paper 7) scissors 8) soda can 9) gaffers tape 10) drill and drill bit (9/64th) 11) sewing needles Now, you might be wondering why in the world I would want to do this. Converting my dslr was the way to go. Finding center: Take your body cap (and you are about to destroy it), the pencil, notepad, and the ruler. Now, this will be just the beginning. Creating the pinhole. Ok, next up, take that soda can and cut it, use a small square, one that will fit inside the body cap. Something to understand. ***Special update*** Adhere to body cap. Start shooting.