Project Pinhole Camera

Good evening BlOGGERs.
    Well after procrastinating yet again, in more ways than one, I might add, I finally made my own pinhole camera. While visiting the University of Minnesota for a dean's reception late in February, my parents and I found ourselves wandering aimlessly around downtown Minneapolis near the Nicollet Mall. In order to kill some time, we sneaked (snuck?) into a nearby Barnes and Noble where I came across two fascinating things.
    Number one is this oh-so-ahhmazing magazine. It's a quarterly magazine on contemporary art and visual culture that features up-to-the-minute visual material, fresh faces, original voices, and new trends and talent in contemporary visual culture. So basically it combines my two absolute FAVORITE things. Elephants. And art. These people are geniuses. You definitely need to check one of these out.
    The second thing was something I'd just recently learned about in my rigorous Media Productions class. And when I say rigorous, I mean the teacher is an awkward noob who doesn't know half of what he's talking about and seems to like moving at a snail's pace. ANYwayyy, he did share with us his "adventures" with a homemade pinhole camera he made out of a paint can as an assignment in his college years. This sparked an interest in me to go on my own photography adventure and it just so happened that I stumbled upon this lovely creation while meandering the aisles of Barnes and Noble on that chilly day in The minneAPPLE.

    You can find a lot of cool DIY pinhole cameras all over amazon and other online photography stores like this one: http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/diy-camera-kits/ Check it out; it has a LOT of nifty photography tools.

    Now it wasn't until this past week that I even got a chance to put the camera together. It took me about 2 hours to make but only about 15 minutes to go through a full roll of film.  It was a lot of fun to control the shutter speed and wind the film around on my own.  I felt very.. old school inventor-ish.
    I took the roll of film into the local Walgreens hoping that they still did developing.  Who actually uses film anymore?  Well, besides my 72 year-old grandmother.  To my surprise my photos were ready in under an hour and it only cost me about 10 buckaroos! I was a little nervous as to how they were going to turn out considering I was just free-balling the whole experiment.  Things became a bit more unsure when the lady behind the counter sort of crinkled up her face and said, "Oh just so you know, they didn't turn out that great."  Awesome, I just wasted $10.  I'm 18... $10 is a lot of money, people!  When I got home I slowly opened up to the envelope and was pleasantly surprised with some very interesting looking photos.  And when I say interesting I mean FREAKING COOL!  Dontcha think?

The Hoarder's Vases

Trees

Yours Truly

Birdhouse

Campfire Smoke