beautiful stamping

, originally uploaded by angex.

discovered these absolutely gorgeous images of a set of printing stamps on flickr at one of my contacts streams: angex

perfect for 'signing' your polaroids!

The ResCollecTiVU magazine

ResCollecTiVU is an alternative bi-annual publication and performance series through the RCAH, MSU, and the surrounding community. Looking for dynamic, inventive, and provocative work of all mediums, including poetry, music, photography, theater, media art, video, sound constructions, spoken word art, graphics, dance, installations, paper play, webart, and sculpture.

The publication is open to faculty, staff, students, and community members. The above image is one of eight images submitted, in collaboration with Mark Sullivan for the Fall issue, under the sub category of: Digital History.

In this section we looked at what it means to digitize memories, collections, historical documents, photos, letters, or voices in an effort to preserve them and their stories. This section considers the question of documentary, what would and should we preserve, and why. Submissions may be a film, a comic, sound construction, physical memorabilia, poetry, photography, a script, or even a scene or dance to be performed about the concept or actualization of digital history.

The Fall Issue of the ResCollecTiVU is called "The Makers" and focuses on the empowerment of people and the significance of work that is done in a creative and engaged fashion. This is an opportunity to look at ourselves and our community as makers, and push beyond the accepted popular ideology of what it means to be an "artist" a "writer" a "photographer" and blurring the exact lines of the boxes in which we so often find these endeavors.

The Long Square Project

Welcome to the 2010 Traveling Panoramic Camera Adventure...

A panorama camera was shared among 16 photographers throughout the USA and the UK and the resulting images and experiences were shared on the long square project flickr group.

Here’s the plan.

Shoot a roll of film with this camera.
After your film is processed, post your results in the pool.

After you are finished shooting your film send the camera to the next person on the list.

However-There is a little twist to this adventure.

We were not to post our 'best' picture to the flickr page until everyone had used the camera.
Posting it after everyone had a chance to use the camera. Becky will let us know when the time comes.
She'll then make a gallery for the best shots and pick a winner from the bunch. The prize will be a goodie box with a panoramic camera, an assortment of film and some other surprises.

Specs for the camera we are using:
28mm fixed two element lens
1/125 shutter f/11
13 x 36 mm panorama mask
*** Please don’t permanently alter the camera in any way.
And please leave the address list in the box with the camera.

The instructions were:

Feel free to use one of the rolls of film included in the box with the camera. If you prefer using your own film that’s okay too. But help yourself to one of the rolls and leave the remaining rolls in the box when you forward it to the next person on the list.

Have fun!

BTW- If you want to shoot more than one roll of your own film, say some B&W or slide stuff, please do!

My fellow adventurers are:

Andy Schmitt NJ
Brian Krummel PA
Peter Schafer WV
Meredith Shinko Ensell OH
Angie Harris OH
David Lindley OH
Bill Bressler MI
Karen Taylor TX
Warren Harold TX
Randy Ray Cathey TX
Diane Martin Peterson ID
Robert Williams NM
Steve Welch NM
Ariel Boston NM
Phil Bebbington UK
Shari Baker UK