Newest Family Members

January 20, 2013 / PJ Ortiz Luis

I have a few new additions to my camera family. I go camera hunting quite often, and come across some real gems that people seem to overlook...so I adopt them and give them a better home.

I say it often, but I'm not that big a fan of Polaroid style film cameras. [which I'll blog about sometime in the future] but now that I'm accumulating a good number, I think it's time for me to go and grab some Impossible Project film.

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tags / vintage camera, believe in film, polaroid, old school, antique camera, impossible project

Young Hearts

January 19, 2013 / PJ Ortiz Luis

I tend to get a good amount of compliments on the photos I've taken with these old fashioned film cameras of mine. The majority of them are usually compliments on the colors, composition, or the object in focus. I really enjoy it however, when people comment on my photos about things you can't see with your eyes. It makes me feel like people "get it". As if, one of my photos were able to break the barrier of just being a single moment in time, to a story.

One of the most recent comments I've recieved, is on this photo pictured of a couple in their golden years on a Disneyland date:

"makes me believe in love"

It feels good to inspire people and evoke emotion through my art.

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tags / believeinfilm, film photography, disneyland

The Lomography Smartphone Scanner

January 16, 2013 / PJ Ortiz Luis

I decided to go ahead and back the Lomography Smartphone Film Scanner. I'm a little iffy about this to be honest. Mainly because for the same price....you can get a good quality scanner from craigslist. but the main reason i got this was because you can run an entire roll of film through the box without having to cut the film, then put it in an awkward mask. I'll be scanning all my future b&w negatives with this..and will professionally scan them if I come across a few shots that need to be in a gallery.

The only downside to this scanner that I see is that it will only take 35mm. So no 120 film, or 35mm mounted slides. I'll probably have my lab scan those for me though. So no worries.

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tags / lomography, iphoneography, smartphone, scanner

My Return to Spoken Word

January 14, 2013 / PJ Ortiz Luis

its been a while. for reasons i won't get into at this moment, i stopped writing a few years ago....but now i am trying to get back into the medium of performance poetry. this is my set from this past week. to get a good reference of my commentary, the emcee introduced me with the following narrative:

Having been stranded on a deserted island for 3 years with no form of entertainment, PJ Ortiz Luis resorted to writing haikus in the sand and reading them out loud to scare off the winged boar-like creature that haunted his campsite at night. Tonight, he will be reading two of those poems...

[if the video doesn't work, blame facebook]