This is the second experiment with the russian waterbomb origami pinhole box. 10 sec exposure, box was hiding a bit in the dark pointing towards katier again. Traces of katier though very difficult to find…
negative:
positive:
Detail of positive:
with a little more contrast:
This is the first result with below mentionned origami kamera. Entirely folded out of on sheet of photographic baryt paper, very shortly (20 sec) exposed to light – focussing katier – unfolded, and finally processed in Tetenal Dokumol developer; The Pinhole had rather a size of a mousehole, but with a little bit of practice… This Origami Artefact unifies a kamera and its film in one solely piece of paper. Photographic paper folded as a Kamera, which after exposure unfolds and vanishes into the photographic result.
The entire photographic sheet as a negative (original result):
Digitally inverted as a positive:
And a detail of the positive with an alleged katier revealed:
The Origami Paper Box, –in some strange country used as a Water Bomb— or maybe Wodka Bomb?, is folded out of one single sheet of paper, blown into shape via the ONLY remaining whole in the centre of one of its six sides. Katiers Water Bomb is going to be folded out of one sheet of photographic paper exposed, unfolded and finally processed. Kamera and results are going to be published in the next couple of days right here!
These days there is no chance of any kamera construction documentation, as Mr.Pickledfeet is on Dienstreise with the one and only recording device that there is. But I will update soon!
PS:17th march 2010: Mr. Pickledfeet is back in town -> Images are updated!
7.45 pm until 2.00 am. One night at a bar in Berlin. I positionned the camera very close to me in a corner catching the entire and intense atmosphere of the night and the bar. The first image is the negative, the second the positiva and the third the inverted negative of the instant film.
PS 17th march 2010: Mr.Pickledfeet is back in town, and here are the images of the Kamera:
To investigate an image pixel by pixel, mm by mm or cm by cm … the already mentionned image magick trick may help. These are screenshots of my gthumb imageviewer containing 197 .tiff (f)tiles of one thoughtographic image I made earlier on…
Results of further investigations into the darkness of this paper negative – original size 8 x5 cm – are hopefully soon to be published.
Another experiment using light.
This time I customised a little case that formerly gave home to a chinese handmirror. I enlarged the focal length about 12 cm, covered the pinhole on the front with another sample spy mirror and attached an instant filmholder on the back. (Images of the camera will follow soon).
The Fuji FP 3000B is a kind of traditional instant film that uses the so called separation process. The result is always a negative and a positive. Strangely enough in this case, I got, as you may see in the results above, two positives of the same image. The only difference is, that the alleged negative is brighter and rather greyish but also: Only the little spotty line at the bottom indicates its negativeness. No other blacks or whites in the image got inverted. And then: Who are these dots anyway?
The second sitting, as you can see below shows the normal positive-negative behaviour:
As I already mentionned in an earlier post, i have now started to use light in my thoughtographic experiments as a carrier for thoughtographic exposure. The invisible fluid might expose itself through the very light, that i have been striclty excluding and banning in former thoughts and experiments, concerned that the light might be too powerful to overexpose the fragile fluidum. But now, this is exactly the new starting point of another hypothesis: The Fluidum uses light as a carrier to reveal itself in the very exposure.
Microscopically zooming into the image may expose the oh so invisible creature of thought.
This is the result – a close up (unfortunately not yet microscopically) and beyond also the entire image – of a selfportrait (sitting time about 10 minutes, Fuji FP 3000 instant film) with a Spymirror-InstantImage-Pinhole-VHSBox-Kamera.
A VHS Box is used as a camera obscura and carrier of the instant image filmholder. The Pinhole, piercing the VHS Box, is covered by a small spy mirror (10 x 6 cm) that i kindly got as a free sample from Glaserei Kater, Hannover. The focal lenght of course is very short, just like the thickness of the VHS Box. 1 or 2 cm.
While the sitter watches him or herself in the mirror, the mirror absorbes the image and burns it onto the photographic paper. Spy mirrors are half transparent glas mirrors; from a darkroom (in this case the camera obscura) the spy (camera obscura) can see through the mirror like through a window, whereas the other side (the sitter) cannot see anything but the own reflection.
On February 15th I placed a light tight, sealed DinA4 sheet of photographic paper – cut up into 6 more or less equal parts – layed ontop of each other – at the innerside of the back cover of the book Dracula, that Mr. Pickledfeet just started to read. A couple of days ago, he finished the book with both sadness and delight, and I could finally process the 6 sheets curiously:
Crop and tile your image into single pieces with another wonderful ImageMagick trick:
convert strawbs.JPG -crop 50×50@ +adjoin sourstrawbs.jpg
Spy mirrors are half transparent glas mirrors. Given certain light conditions it is possible to see through the mirror from one side – a darkroom – and to see your reflection from the other side – a bright room. This is caused by the extremely thin coating of the reflection layer, that reduces the transmissibility to about 8 or 9 percent.
Step 1: In this experiment I placed a photographic paper behind the spy mirror and sealed it with a black light tight cardboard from behind. I exposed the mirror to my face under daylight circumstances for about half a minute. Reflection and absorbtion. I am standing in the light and naturally I see my own reflection, whereas the photographic paper, the spy, sits in the darkroom and observes the other side, me. It is not only observing me, but with the observing process it absorbs the little light that the thin mirror coating leeks through which at the same time exposes the paper.
Reflection and absorbtion, all witnessed by the spy behind the mirror.
Step 2: Processing the photographic paper.
Step 3: Blow up the received image – which turned out to be black, of course – to my maximum possibilities, and search for clues.
In my prior thoughtographic experiments I have always been stricly excluding natural light not to overexpose the fragile visible signs of thoughts, assuming that the light might be too powerful. Now i am trying to use this very light as a possible carrier maybe to find some clues about the invisible made visible in the very darkness of overexposure.