Articles in “Random Photographs”

Remember when I was having fun with Hipstamatic the other day? (Oh, and again here?)

Well, this is more of the same, but now I’ve paired Hipstamatic with the equally awesome Swankolab, which allows you to develop your photos—both from Hipstamatic and just from your phone camera—in a variety of developing fluids.

(Even more fun? You can agitate the developing print in the fluid by shaking your camera. I will never become bored with that.)

Here’s the original image (of my gorgeous clock, which I love like a brother), taken with the Helga Viking lens on Ina ’69 film:

And here’s the exact same print, run through the various developing fluids that Swankolab offers as pre-made formulas:

Imagine how much fun I’ll have once I get around to mixing my own preparation of virtual chemicals!

DUNGEON MASTER: You look through the door and see a scene torn from the abyss. Stone platforms rise from a lake of blood.
PARTY OF ADVENTURERS: Ewww!

Then I fell in the lake of blood. Hands up who saw that coming?

At least, if I had travelled back in time, bought a Polaroid camera, photographed my home (which, for the purposes of this argument, is furnished exactly the same way in the 1960s as it is in the twenty-first century), and then left the Polaroids in an album for forty years, I imagine they’d look quite like this now.

Especially if the album got damp at some point.

In fact, I was just playing with Hipstamatic on the iPhone, but you have to admit the original story was much more interesting than the truth.

Melancholic:

Attentive:

Noble:

Well, perhaps not. But he’s certainly the smallest of the ones we have running around.

Look at his enormous head! It’s really not fair that baby things should be so dang cute.

Longer updates might be a little intermittent until the current crisis has settled down, but don’t abandon me just yet. There are always strange conversations and photographs of the moon.