Making new kinds of cameras to see the world in a new way…
Making new kinds of cameras to see the world in a new way…
Several years ago, I built my first homemade digital camera. The idea was simple - I would take an ordinary flatbed scanner, and use it in place of photo paper with a large format camera.
My first scanner camera was made from lots of duct tape, a cardboard box, and the cheapest flatbed scanner that I could find. I expected this to be a quick little art project, one that would take a week or two at the most. But when I got my first homemade digital camera to work, I noticed that some wonderful things were beginning to happen.
London Bus (video) / I took the scanner camera onto the top deck of a double-decker bus, and recorded the entire trip from my flat in Camberwell to Notting Hill Gate.
[tags]photography, technology, perception, time, london[/tags]
