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Subject: [Leica] hasselblad photoz!! and a question for LONDON LUGgers
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Mon Jul 16 13:05:30 2007
References: <4268A9826B9DBE4D938B902A6BC80308115403@exchange8.asc.local>

Looks like a man not to be laughed with.
I'm gonna use that trick instead of scanning, too. The rsult looks  
splendid.
Thanks for showing,
Philippe


Op 14-jul-07, om 20:09 heeft Kyle Cassidy het volgende geschreven:

>
> So I'm walking through the hood on friday and I run into Omar, our  
> best dressed homeless person. "Hey!" he says, "take my picture!"  
> because that's what he always says when he sees me. "I don't have a  
> camera," I tell him, and he seems a little disapointed. But I  
> remember I have the Hasselbad in my backpack (snapping my spine) so  
> I plop down on a chair outside the coffee shop and try and figure  
> out how to get film in it (not so bad). Omar is a little dejected.  
> "I'm happy," he says, "but I'm tired, worn out." All the liquor  
> stores and bars in the area have stopped serving him. He's charming  
> when he's sober but turns into a mean drunk. I think I've taken  
> about nine photos when I realize that I have one white dot and one  
> blue dot and one purple dot on the side of the camera, and i  
> realize that's probably not good -- there's no number in the frame  
> window. Then I realize that you might need to turn the OTHER crank  
> on the back of the camera. so I do. the film winds, a number shows  
> up, I take a photo of omar:
>
> http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2007/hassey-omar3.jpg
>
> it cost freaking EIGHT DOLLARS so have this roll of film developed.  
> i "scanned" it by photographing it with my leica d200 (that's my  
> thumb at the top left).
>
>
> QUESTION FOR LONDON LUGGERS
> The wonderful archaeologist who lives upstairs from me is in Syria  
> digging up dead people right now. When he's done he's going to the  
> British Museum for a couple weeks or possibly a month doing  
> research on his book (about dead people who are in the British  
> Museum it would seem) and is looking for a place to stay -- sublet  
> apartment, academic housing, or a room in someone's house. He's  
> quiet and self sufficient and knows his way around london very  
> well. Might be late July and August -- it depends on how many dead  
> people they find in Syria I guess. If you know of anything, please  
> email me off list. Many thanks.
>
> You can read his exciting blog about syria here:
>
> http://whafford.livejournal.com
>
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