Bang bang, shoot shoot.
I don’t understand people who wear non-prescription eyeglasses (…which is somewhat hypocritical, because hello! Then again I don’t particularly understand why I do, too, so I’m still being truthful, in a way.), especially most of the people I see wearing those choose to wear the really plasticky ones that say “Riy Don” or some other variant of “Ray Ban”, so instead of thinking, “Wow, that person looks great in eyeglasses.” or “That person must really be smart.” (which is what I’m assuming are the top two reasons people wear non-prescription eyeglasses), I think, instead, “Are those real or…?” and “Do they really think those glasses will fool us?” and “AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH.” (Although, okay, I’m probably being nitpicky about these things.) (Also, I say “AAAAARGH” to a lot of things, so I’m not sure if it’s a reliable indicator of anything.)
So imagine the confusion I felt when lensless frames suddenly became a thing, because it’s exactly like non-prescription eyeglasses, except completely honest in that “these aren’t real eyeglasses and I don’t really care what anyone thinks about it” way, which I really admire, because hey! Honesty! Hey! Wearing whatever the hell you feel like wearing! And still, on the other hand, it bothers me because if lensless frames were television/movie characters they’d be the assholes who don’t really care if people like them or not.
Although that’s probably by a really long stretch.
Hello,
I made a cover of Elephant Gun (Beirut). It’s nothing special, but because I put a lot of effort (into learning the basics of the harmonica and still ended up failing at it) into making it, I am proud of it. Also I figured to make this blog a bit more personal, again.
Just last week I’d finished my first roll of film ever for the Diana Mini I got for my birthday, and it was just then that I’d realized it I’d been using 200 ISO film and I’d been shooting as if it were an 800 ISO film.
Also it was a slide film (apparently there’s only one laboratory in Metro Manila that does E-6 processing).
So that sucked.
Anyway, everything turned up better than expected. I had to wait for five days for my film to get cross-processed (I think it was because the lab I went to sent it to another lab but I’m not complaining). I am now the owner of a bunch of the most lo-fi photographs I have ever seen.
