{"id":42,"date":"2012-06-15T17:58:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T17:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2012-10-04T23:38:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T23:38:15","slug":"my-film-who-cares-what-it-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"My film – who cares what it looks like?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Watching the festivities at Carnival in the Mission (Lomography Earl Grey ISO 100)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So Doc<\/a> has encouraged me to start shooting on film, and I’ve discovered that I really like developing film (we’ve been using the Noisebridge<\/a> darkroom).\u00a0 Like… really really like.\u00a0 That’s the best part of the whole process for me.\u00a0 I don’t know why, maybe it’s my background in chemistry?\u00a0 But it also seems that I don’t care so much about the final product… I could develop roll after roll of film, and then just toss it into a corner and consider it done with.\u00a0 OK perhaps that’s a mischaracterization; even though that’s what I’ve been doing, I actually am interested in seeing the photos I take.\u00a0 Somewhat.<\/p>\n

I’ve also been enjoying reading up on all the science and chemistry behind it.\u00a0 It is surprisingly simple. I guess I expected there to be more to it since photography seemed like the most mystifying and mind-blowing process to me when I was a child.\u00a0 Haha, wow kids sure are stupid; they don’t understand basic chemistry or optics!\u00a0 I thought it was cool to learn that film is made by suspending light-reactive crystals in gelatin and then smearing that onto clear plastic backing.\u00a0 No more mystery there, I suppose.<\/p>\n

I’ve been wanting to either scan or print these guys myself, but haven’t the time, and thus the film pile grows.\u00a0 So finally I just took the pile into\u00a0 Marin Filmworks<\/a> and had them scan it for me.<\/p>\n

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Doc and the accordion man who invented space pirate dubstep (it’s kind of a big deal) [Lomography Earl Grey ISO 100]<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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The Best Mom I Know (at the Yo-Yo competition in Golden Gate Park) [Lomography Earl Grey ISO 100]<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n
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Some Ancient Aztecs and a Baby, in an Ancient Aztec Baby-Pram (Lomography Earl Grey ISO 100)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A man eating a “Devilish Egg” jello shot at the Jello Shot Bakeoff (Tri-X ISO 400)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So Doc has encouraged me to start shooting on film, and I’ve discovered that I really like developing film (we’ve been using the Noisebridge darkroom).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39],"tags":[42,43,41,44,40,45],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-photography","tag-black-and-white","tag-chemistry","tag-develop","tag-development","tag-film","tag-hobby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}