Film festival: 2nd Draft on Etsy

A couple of years ago, my love gave me one of these 2nd Draft clutches as a present. It's woven from vintage library archive microfilm. Mine has awesome fashion photos from the style section of the NY Times, circa 1968.
The artist also designs cuff bracelets from old school heath filmstrips and lamps, similar to the ismism fixtures we featured last week. The filmstrip ones have a nice vintage amber glow to them, but I like this one best of all. You can't really tell from the photos, but that's an old Aquaman cartoon spinning around your CFLs. Nice!Images from 2nd Draft @ Etsy.

Film Festival: Kodachrome-tastic

We couldn't leave this out of our film festival series: Flickr user yarnzombie put together this curtain made of vintage slides and a few metal rings. She kindly includes more photos and details of how she did it. The curtains even open!

This is also a teaser for our next Process 376 challenge. Details coming soon….

Images from Flickr user yarnzombie. Via MAKE. Thanks to Eric for the tip.

Film festival: ismism filmstrip lamps

As photography and film-making go digital, fewer and fewer people are spending time in the darkroom, and all those boxes of vintage slides and family Super 8 reels are fading into oblivion. My father was a photographer, and I spent many hours of my childhood in our basement darkroom, helping him with his latest round of photos. For me, there's a romance and sweetness to tiny strips of black and white images or a family's blurry vacation footage. But this post isn't about holding onto the past. This is about what you can do with all the waste generated by a switch from one medium to another.

Over the next couple of week, we're going to do a whole series on fantastic things made of film.

To kick off our SF Green Labs Film Festival, check out these lamps from Jamie Panzer. The lampshades are woven from vintage filmstrips. Of course, you could do this as a DIY, but the craftsmanship here is really nice, and the prices are reasonable. The lamps are for sale through the ismism website, where you can also admire Jamie's larger installation pieces.

Images from ismism designs. Via Apartment Therapy.