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camera obscuras at A Curious Summer

In preparation for the workshop at the Lower Eastside Girls Club (which we're toying with calling "A Bright Dark Room"), I've been reviewing these shots from a workshop entitled "Stop/Motion", held in 2010 at A Curious Summer, a summer camp I helped to found and run in San Francisco.

We created a sort of camera obscura jubilee, rolling through the neighborhood with an obscura cart as well as dozens of little handheld models, setting up an impromptu exhibition in the park, and dropping in on the Boys & Girls club.

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categories: research
Monday 09.30.13
Posted by Bryan Ortega-Welch
 

the Konbit Shelter domes

A little collection of the shots we're using to create an architectural model of the beautiful Konbit domes in Komye, Haiti, as we puzzle over the possibilities of installing a camera obscura lens.

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categories: research
Monday 09.30.13
Posted by Bryan Ortega-Welch
 

Trudy Lynn Smith - "Portable Camera Obscura"

We've been exploring the work of artists who have built their own camera obscura, and have chanced upon this tent obscura by Trudy Lynn Smith.

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categories: research
Monday 09.30.13
Posted by Bryan Ortega-Welch
 

camera obscura rooms - Abelardo Morell and others

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Abelardo Morell, renowned for his camera obscura room photography, has developed a system using prisms that turns the image right side up. I'm working to engineer this into the Konbit design. 

categories: research
Tuesday 09.10.13
Posted by Bryan Ortega-Welch
 

"Giant Camera" - the camera obscura in Ocean Beach, SF

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categories: research
Monday 09.09.13
Posted by Bryan Ortega-Welch
 

Miroslav Tichy and his vermin-ridden cameras

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For remembering that anything is possible with nothing at all.

categories: research
Monday 09.09.13
Posted by Bryan Ortega-Welch
 

Justin Quinnell - beercan pinhole photography

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categories: research
Monday 09.09.13
Posted by Bryan Ortega-Welch
 

Chris Fraser - "One Line Drawing"

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categories: research
Monday 09.09.13
Posted by Bryan Ortega-Welch
 

Chris Fraser - "From Picture to Room"

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categories: research
Monday 09.09.13
Posted by Bryan Ortega-Welch
 

sketches for obscura lens window inserts

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categories: research
Sunday 09.08.13
Posted by Bryan Ortega-Welch
 

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