Paint Can Camera

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  • 09-22-2004, 02:33 PM
    Photo-John
    Paint Can Camera
    Back in college, I made mine with a Quaker Oats container. This is much slicker.

    http://www.paintcancamera.com/pages/895852/index.htm
  • 09-22-2004, 02:50 PM
    MotionBoy
    Now this is cool!!

    http://www.paintcancamera.com/pages/616184/index.htm

    I would have never thought of making my room a camera!
  • 09-22-2004, 03:00 PM
    Photo-John
    Van Camera
    Back in the 70s or 80s, some guy made a pinhole camera out of a van and traveled around the country taking pictures with it. That was more than just a camera, it was a whole conceptual art project. I always liked that idea.

    How's your photography history? Did you know that one of the predecessors to what we now know as the camera was called the camera obscura ? Basically, it was a pinhole camera that projected onto the wall of a room. During the Renaissance, painters used it as a tool to help them paint more realistic scenes. Like photography would later, the camera obscura changed painting and people's understanding of the world around them. I don't believe that real perspective was an element of painting before the camera obscura. It was tracing the projections that taught artists about perspective.
  • 09-22-2004, 03:30 PM
    almo
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Photo-John
    Back in college, I made mine with a Quaker Oats container. This is much slicker.

    http://www.paintcancamera.com/pages/895852/index.htm

    Simply awesome. I am getting a merlin jr. for my very own!

    almo
  • 09-22-2004, 07:12 PM
    Chunk
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Photo-John
    During the Renaissance, painters used it as a tool to help them paint more realistic scenes.
    ...and I'll bet some other old dude called it crap and said it wasn't real art. :D

    Cool camera, John.
  • 09-22-2004, 07:15 PM
    Clicker
    lol.................
  • 09-22-2004, 11:34 PM
    Photo-John
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chunk
    ...and I'll bet some other old dude called it crap and said it wasn't real art. :D
    touche!

    But of course. That's part of the game, isn't it? :p
  • 09-22-2004, 11:37 PM
    almo
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chunk
    ...and I'll bet some other old dude called it crap and said it wasn't real art. :D

    HIGH-LARRY-OSS :D
  • 09-26-2004, 08:55 AM
    megan
    I had to do the Quaker Oats thing as well!
    But this will be my next project:

    http://www.merrillphoto.com/pintoids.htm

    Megan
  • 09-26-2004, 08:58 AM
    megan
    Camera obscura & Cuba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by MotionBoy

    I would have never thought of making my room a camera!
    There is an artist whose work I saw in ICP last year. He creates huge images turning a room into a big camera. The images are fascinating, because part of the actual room shows up with the outside world superimposed on top. I sure wish I could remember his name right now! Argh!

    Megan
  • 09-26-2004, 09:36 AM
    mtbbrian
    Wow??
    Pintoids?
    LOVE IT!!!
    Can't wait to see what you come up with Megan!
    I may have to do this too...
    Maybe..
    Brian
  • 09-26-2004, 10:33 AM
    villenadecorte
    I thought you meant Bob Ross for a second with that Hi-Larry-Oss. never mind!
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by almo
    HIGH-LARRY-OSS :D