Make a Pinhole Camera

[wbaltic.livejournal.com]

What are you doing on Worldwide Pinhole Camera Day?

No longer just a great pickup line, pinhole camera day has become an international phenomenon. April 27th is pinhole camera day, so we'll be making our pinhole cameras on March 27th--enough time to practice and work out the bugs. Then we can all go out and photograph the beauty of Davis Square.

Pinhole Camera Workshop:March 27th, 6:30-8:30pm $40 (all materials included).

Willoughby and Baltic
195g Elm Street
Davis Square
(Pssst....down the alley.)

www.willoughbybaltic.com

Comments

[kidsmokes.livejournal.com]

aww that's really cool!

[tracy-rolling.livejournal.com]

sign me up

Holy Cow

[tracy-rolling.livejournal.com]

I just went to your website and I want to take all of your workshops. Why haven't I heard about you guys before?

[magpie-leah.livejournal.com]

I'm really glad to hear about your DIY workshops! I hope to make it to one or two of 'em.

Re: Holy Cow

[wbaltic.livejournal.com]

Short answer : we suck at marketing.

Long official answer : we're going into our fourth year of holding events open to the public, and our seventh of being in that space. But until this year, my time has been spent curating art shows for the walls, and focusing on fine art. This year, I'm forming a partnership with another arts group to take over curating the walls, which frees up some more time to do workshops. And since I'm currently focused on the technical aspects of producing the puppet shows, many of the workshops are technology and art focused. Also, we slow down in the winter because our heat is electric, and people tend to hibernate anyway.

So, some of the classes are new, some have been ongoing, but our space is small and down an alley, so if you didn't happen to turn your head the right way when you walked past, you might not have noticed.

Anyway, thanks for the great feedback. There are a couple of other workshops being developed by other instructors that haven't posted yet, so check the website often, or sign up for the newsletter.

Re: Holy Cow

[ron_newman]

A suggestion: do some joint promotion with Boloco next door.

Re: Holy Cow

[wbaltic.livejournal.com]

That's funny. Actually we tried that last year. We projected some movies onto the back of Boloco. It turns out, Boloco really likes to support the arts and do artsy things. They've also offered to host art installations.

They had even offered to let us make their place into a haunted house last October, but we started too late to pull it together. Still, it was nice that they wanted to do something for the community.

Re: Holy Cow

[ron_newman]

Cool. Hope you'll do it again, as I'd like both you and them to stay around Davis.

[daft.livejournal.com]

I am totally going to try and make this. I just got some Polaroid T55 and a film holder and have some grandiose ideas about making a pinhole camera to use them with. Some direction that's not just snagged from the internet would be extra-awesome!

Screenprinting

[tracy-rolling.livejournal.com]

I would love to do a screenprinting workshop for you / with you. I've done it a few times with friends, making screens from old curtains and picture frames. You can get the gist from this instructable I did: http://www.instructables.com/id/Screen-Printing%3a-Cheap%2c-Dirty%2c-and-At-Home/

I'd do a thing about making frames on the cheap and printing from homemade stencils, rather than dealing with photo emulsion. I'll come by when I get back to town and see if you're interested.

Re: Screenprinting

[wbaltic.livejournal.com]

That would be great! Yes, stop on by. On days when there's nothing scheduled, I try to be there at least from 4-7pm. Or send an email at I'll meet you.

[wbaltic.livejournal.com]

T55 film is supposed to be great. I've never used it because it's not easy to come by and is more expensive than what I typically use. But you should come by and maybe we can come up with something that does exactly what you want. Although, with pinholes, part of the fun is that you don't know exactly what kind of personality they will have.

[ron_newman]

Is this one of the film types that Polaroid is about to discontinue?