Not a fan of pinholes but I like the look of the Diana Multi-Pinhole Operator. It's so stark and striking. And with three pinholes and colour gels, you can take whacked out pictures like that.

(Image from Diana gallery here.)

I think it's cool but I'm not that into it. Good thing, since it's sold out at the lomo shop at the moment.

June

There's this photo exhibition coming up from 13 to 30 June.

And there's The Great Lomography Shoot-out on 21 June.

Will definitely pop by the former for a look. Am quite tempted to take part in the latter.

Ha this is pretty cool

The people of Lomotion are planning an outing based on this.

I'll take hot, piping pizza over dessert. But I do still like chocolate.

After Mr Postman let me down, I headed to the post office the next day to pick up the parcel.

8storeytree is very prompt with correspondence and mailing out orders, if you're interested.



The camera's kind of heavy and like everyone else who owns it, I wish the flash is off-able.



I don't know why my hair looks like that. It just parts all over the place sometimes. It's not supposed to.

And here are the 10 golden rules, in case you were squinting at the top picture.



I only abide by 10.

Don't take colour away from me

I don't like black and white photography very much. After 50 over rolls of colour, I decided maybe I should give it a shot to prove myself right (or wrong). Lucky 100 is pretty cheap anyway.

Well. It might the combination of the film and the Blackbird Fly and the fact that it's my first time using B&W. The results were pretty lacklustre. Because the lack of contrast is so severe, the normal shots are not much to look at and I ended up liking the super blurry double exposures the most.

Don't think I'll try again. Saturated colour, I want you back.

oh man, so cute

i like the hedgehog. i have the exact pin i kidnapped from a friend a long time ago. but the red camera is way more squeal-inducing.

from the headzshop or 8storeytree.

First roll on the Diana F+.
I kind of like the results, slightly haphazard they may be.
Now I understand why they say Diana takes dreamy pictures.
Shooting 120 film is really expensive.
Still, seeing what the camera can do makes me want to go out there and try again for more surprises.

what if your life was over in 6,697 polaroids?

image from here

Jamie Livingston received a Polaroid camera in 1979 and starting taking pretty much a picture a day. 6,697 Polaroids chronicle the last 18 years of his life. The collection was turned into an exhibition by his friends. The pictures can be seen here, and you can read more about Livingston here and here.

From the moments he captured, his life looked rich and fulfilling until he was dealt that unexpected hand. That's the beauty and sorrow of photography. You can choose the moment and mood you want to capture and even then, that's not the whole story because it's up to the individual viewer to interpret it as he or she wishes. Like how a friend found the whole thing creepy and depressing when I was thinking it was incredibly beautiful and moving, I suppose.

Just think. If you were to chronicle your own life picture by picture, day by day, what would the final story be like?

so annoying

after i got my tokyo rising, they came up with this mr pink! i want mr pink!

Tokyo Love Affair #8

The day we went to Odaiba was the first day of fine weather we had in Tokyo, and it was an amazingly beautiful day. There were all these little puffs of clouds dotting a very blue sky and the colours of everything looked fantastic.

Odaiba is a rather futuristic looking place. Lots of spheres and long, sharp objects piercing into the sky. I saw two or three twin tower buildings in the area while gaps in buildings also seem to be a very poular design feature there. The combination of blue sky, gorgeous natural light, glinting metal and space age-esque structures made me think Odaiba on that day could easily be the set of a love story taking place light years ahead.

The above is the Fuji TV Building, which is just one of the several architectural structures you will see mentioned in Odaiba guides such as this one. Other cool buildings that I did not go to include the Telecom Center and the Tokyo Big Sight.

But my main aim in visiting Odaiba is the ferris wheel at Palette Town.

Took a clear cabin which was all see-through and actually, it was kind of nerve-wrecking. I don't think I do very well with heights but it was really cool up there (even when the wheel stopped when we were right on the top and when the cabin started swaying in the wind...) because it's just so pretty all around.

I clutched the handle bar with one hand the whole time while the other hand held on to a camera. The Ferris Wheel is 115 metres tall and one of the highest in the world. It is also magnificently adorable because all the cabin colours are so pretty. Yes, I love ferris wheels.

Another really cool feature in Palette Town is Mega Web which is actually a jaw-droppingly humongous Toyota showroom. Actually, it's not jaw-dropping because of its size, more of its features. It has tracks running all around it and cars travelling on those tracks (think you can actually take rides on those cars). I thought that was amazing. I mean, I've always thought car showrooms were tiny, boring things teeming with salespersons. Well, now I know that they are so here but not in other places. (I don't have any pictures of Mega Web cos I was too excited to get to the ferris wheel.)

Odaiba is pretty flat and spacious compared to other places I went to in Tokyo. Lots of walkways flanked by trees.

Outside Aquacity, which is a mall near the Daiba train station. Just outside of it, you can stroll on the boardwalks and see a downsized Statue of Liberty,

Rainbow Bridge,

and a kickass sunset, complete with a bunch of ducks swimming along. Wonder where they went.

Above are shots taken with Blackbird, Fly on Lomo Slides. Below are all by Holga 135BC on mostly Kodak Ektachrome 64, with a handful of Lomo Slide shots. I was really trigger happy that day - way too ecstatic to have so much gorgeous sunlight. I wish all sunlight could be that way and not the harsh, scorching reality I'm so used to here in SG. The Holga shots are more random, perhaps due to the nature of the camera - more snap as you wish and no thought-provoking viewfinder to contend with.

Me clutching on for dear life while on the ferris wheel.




"Passengers cannot specify the color of the color gondolas"




Can't see very clearly but there's actually a bunch of cranes and tractors or whatever heavyweight machinery you call them. There was actually a tradeshow. Could have gone in to buy one of those things!



Humongous carpark.

To go to Odaiba, you should definitely take the Yurikamome elevated train and you should also squeeze your way in to the front of the train to check out the awesome view - glinting water, bright and shiny buildings, schoolboys playing ball games on hard courts, Tokyo Tower, the sexy, curving train tracks, and the first glimpse of the bright and cheery ferris wheel.

On the way back at night, you should also squeeze to the front to get a good look at what you're saying goodbye to. The ferris wheel and some of the buldings have fancy, dancing lights so it's still quite cool.

Ah. I miss Japan.

(Oh, the basement of Aquacity was where I had absolutely delicious piping hot - microwaved - cinnamon buns. You know the ones that are actually long strips of dough rolled into a run and that used to be one of our infamous food fads? You can no longer find any decent ones here, but I adore them. You can actually get them from this place called American Bakery or something like that at Amara Hotel and Great World, but those are just really shit. I love cinnamon rolls. Apart from the cool architecture and gorgeous daylight, I shall also fondly recall yummy cinnamon rolls when I think of Odaiba. )