View from the Shamrock station, Barton Springs Blvd.
Guess who got a Holga for Christmas.
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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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Maybe you can use it to take my picture if I come down for SXSW?
-finn
Oooh! I want one, too!
Holga’s reduce me to grunts and low, guttaral noises.
Glurk, glurk.
SXSW? What’s that?
A must for taking black and white pictures of folk artists in coffee houses with brick walls behind them … or train tracks … fire escapes?
Damnit. Obviously, I meant guttURAL.
Glurk.
you forgot the chain link fences…
now THAT looks like a cool toy! thank you for sharing!
i really dig artsy stuff.
south by southwest festival.
http://2006.sxsw.com/
and roof tops, lots of rooftops. Every Boston band of the punk era did rooftops.
I got one for Christmas too! The first batch of b/w photos
are being developed as I type this….
Thanks for the link to Kalloosh’s work! Now I’m inspired (obsessed!) and have ordered a Holga.
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.