Paint Can Camera

[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

[MotionBoy]

Now this is cool!!

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

I would have never thought of making my room a camera!

[Photo-John]

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.

[almo]

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

[Chunk]

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.

Cool camera, John.

[Clicker]

lol.................

[Photo-John]

...and I'll bet some other old dude called it crap and said it wasn't real art.

touche!

But of course. That's part of the game, isn't it?

[almo]

...and I'll bet some other old dude called it crap and said it wasn't real art.

HIGH-LARRY-OSS

[megan]

But this will be my next project:

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

Megan

[megan]

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

[mtbbrian]

Pintoids?
LOVE IT!!!
Can't wait to see what you come up with Megan!
I may have to do this too...
Maybe..
Brian

[villenadecorte]

I thought you meant Bob Ross for a second with that Hi-Larry-Oss. never mind!

HIGH-LARRY-OSS