Look Out, Art World!

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   AndiF

   January 5, 2006 at 8:43 am (UTC -6)

   I’d never heard of a holga before so of course I had to go find out what it was and in the process came across this page which has lots of what looks to be some very useful info and links.

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   Sharoni

   January 5, 2006 at 9:56 am (UTC -6)

   What is a Holga? I’ve just got back myself from a bout of intense intestinal flu (only a patch on what Twisty gets to endure, I’m sure) so have been unable to comment. Not an acquaintance, even, T, but not a lurker, either, I wanted to say glad to hear the new chemo is working out better! hope you are able to eat as many tacos as your heart desires.

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   manxome

   January 5, 2006 at 9:59 am (UTC -6)

   I bow down to the brilliance that is the person who gifted this to you. Damn, my heart rate increases just reading the word “Holga”. Have a blissful time with your new toy!

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   manxome

   January 5, 2006 at 10:08 am (UTC -6)

   Holga is a cheap ($15) plastic medium format camera. It’s cheapness is its charm: light leaks, bad lenses, and did I mention light leaks? Its practically impossible to take a bad photo with one, as the art is what you find when you develop the film. For your perusal, Kalloosh takes awesome Holga shots.

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   SneakySnu

   January 5, 2006 at 10:17 am (UTC -6)

   Thanks to the Twistites here for the Holga links!

   “The New Holga 600: Now you to can live your life like André Bréton’s Nadja.”

   The light is so funky! I love the otherworldly quality of it.

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   Finn

   January 5, 2006 at 1:14 pm (UTC -6)

   Maybe you can use it to take my picture if I come down for SXSW?

   -finn

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   Ancrene Wiseass

   January 5, 2006 at 2:46 pm (UTC -6)

   Oooh! I want one, too!

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   Summer

   January 5, 2006 at 3:36 pm (UTC -6)

   Holga’s reduce me to grunts and low, guttaral noises.

   Glurk, glurk.

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   Twisty

   January 5, 2006 at 5:04 pm (UTC -6)

   SXSW? What’s that?

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    Ms Kate

    January 5, 2006 at 7:42 pm (UTC -6)

    A must for taking black and white pictures of folk artists in coffee houses with brick walls behind them … or train tracks … fire escapes?

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    Summer

    January 5, 2006 at 9:02 pm (UTC -6)

    Damnit. Obviously, I meant guttURAL.

    Glurk.

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    sunny in texas

    January 5, 2006 at 9:10 pm (UTC -6)

    you forgot the chain link fences…

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    sunny in texas

    January 5, 2006 at 9:12 pm (UTC -6)

    now THAT looks like a cool toy! thank you for sharing!
    i really dig artsy stuff.

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    sunny in texas

    January 5, 2006 at 9:15 pm (UTC -6)

    south by southwest festival.

    http://2006.sxsw.com/

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    Ms Kate

    January 5, 2006 at 9:44 pm (UTC -6)

    and roof tops, lots of rooftops. Every Boston band of the punk era did rooftops.

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    Rain

    January 5, 2006 at 11:27 pm (UTC -6)

    I got one for Christmas too! The first batch of b/w photos
    are being developed as I type this….

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    Sola

    January 8, 2006 at 6:59 pm (UTC -6)

    Thanks for the link to Kalloosh’s work! Now I’m inspired (obsessed!) and have ordered a Holga.

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    TP

    January 26, 2006 at 10:47 am (UTC -6)

    I love that kind of crazy off camera. I dropped my camera while I was caving and it’s been a bit Holga-ish ever since.

1. Thursday Sandwich Blogging at I Blame The Patriarchy

   January 26, 2006 at 10:11 am (UTC -6)

   [...] Behold the transmutative power of Holga! This chicken salad sandwich on a toasted cheese bun with bacon, corn and blackeyed pea relish, fruit salad with poppyseed dressing, chips and a dill pickle—a combo known to me since childhood as a “special” at the Mermaid Bar at Neiman-Marcus in Dallas—actually resembled lunch when I ate it. [...]