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OK as usual I have mondays and sundays off each week. Now every monday I get super hip and visit the surrounding thrift stores mainly in search of cameras and vintage sports jackets/shirts/ and bongs.... ( not lookin for bongs...i's was kidding) Anyways Sun thrift has hit a dry spell...pretty much the same crap i see day after day..and goodwill is lame. I started goin to this other zone in Pasadena but it is hit or miss. So i got my nerd on and looked for local ghetto stores ( thrift stores) on the internet, and found one just a short drive away. Now I would tell you where it is..but i dont wanna blow the joint up..then all of a sudden they dont have anymore goods. Ok well this place is a gold mine... They have a whole wall full of cameras and another one behind the registers...oh and its dirty cheap..peep this:


That is Kodak's answer to the instant camera. It might be the dumbest looking i have ever seen. They had one with a flash but it was $3.00 instead of the $2.00 i paid for that beauty. The best part about the camera is the Model that it is " party time"...woof

Next i got this old..i dunno i think Kodak too makes this:

that ones pretty basic..i have a few others like it..they're just so simple that i usually buy em...oh and it was only $1.00

The best for last maybe?


kinda maybe. I got this Polaroid 320 for a few scrilla. Kinda bummed cause the previous owner " Stuart Bogartz" decided to etch his name on the top of the view finder...but F-IT i guess that adds to the unique-ness.

Now ima be honest..ive seen this place before but i refused to go there because last time i was on my moto:

and no joke...some prostitute tried to jump on the back. No lies....Needless to say i jammed outa there right quik.
after going there it's safe to say its my new hot spot...

Aight today come to think of it... was a pretty legit day. I woke up with a package on the front porch from 4Q conditioning.

Now 4Q is a costom motorcycle company that in my eyes makes the coolest lookin custom panheads, shovelheads, and knuckles I have ever seen. ( those are engines)


Max Schaaf is the owner...who also happens to be a professional skater from Oakland CA

so anydig i ordered a shirt from him no biggy...and inclosed was some stickers as well as a little note:


I was more apmed on the note than the shirt...it was just cool cause i semi-idolize what max does and has done..thot it was legit he took the time to scribble some words on a piece of paper for me.


word...aight well im out..peace

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Last Minutes with ODEN from phos pictures on Vimeo.

Under a spell of ZOO-DOO

Oh what!!!! its funny..i was just walking by and noticed that u were lookin at this page...so I hopped on my I-PAD and decided to make a new post.

This past sunday, boredom struck like the gold rush did in 1847, and with prior talks of hitting up the Los Angeles Zoo, we decided...FUQ it.

So SAM, B-Kauf and myself hopped in the cleanest tahoe in Bro-Cal:


and drove over to the Los Angeles ZOO:


We couldn't believe our eyes when we saw a zig-zag line formation to get into the place. But after about 20 mins of shit talking we handed the lady $13 and in return we received this:

and c-walked our white asses into the joint.
After some animal watching the bro's decided that life is only fun while under the influence of a controlled substance....i didnt agree but they got some man sodas anyways:


Sam even said he felt like a creeper walking around a children filled zoo with a brew..but he didnt giva FUH
This is SAM..im trying to make him a hipster:


Here are a couple of aminal fotos:



Now i know what you are thinking. " damn B..you went all the way to the zoo and took 3 maybe 4 crappy fotos of some boring animals"... and I couldnt agree more.
The reality of this is that im trying to stay away from taking digital pictures only. So you guessed it..i brought the Beast camera
Polaroid 103 and shot away. Most arent that cool but whatever..i had fun. Especially when a few people asked me where i got it? Does it work?...can i have your number?
and so on and so forth....

Anyways when I wasn't bumming on the fact that we have exotic creatures caged up rather than out in the world roaming ( i know some hippy in the Arizona wilderness will get what i mean) i managed to pack film it up..

So here is a video of the camera and some still shots of the zoo day:

polaroid pack film camera 103 from ben Walters on Vimeo.

as always...get out and live. Lifes short.. carpe diem... or...sit inside and play video games all day...frankly..i dont give a shit.

PEACE!

Packing

Hey party people....I'ma be honest... I literally just smoked 75 ounces of the liquid they use when making Ecstasy... so please, bare with me.

Kidding folks

OK so while in vega$.. D-ray and i had a conversation. WE talked about something as simple as hobbies...and or what makes life more enjoyable. Now obviously my number 1 hobby is selling drugs to kids at elementary schools and re-programming pagers, but when I am unable to participate in either of those acts ( court ordered) I truly enjoy taking pictures. Now I'll be the first one to tell you i suck at taking pictures but something about experimenting ( no homo) with different films/ cameras gives me excitement ( not that kind of excitement d-ray)

well anyways I've been collecting cameras for i dunno maybe 3 years...pretty much any type that looks old is all i care about. In all reality they dont even have to work.

So on my journey to buy junk i stumbled across this Polaroid Automatic 315:

At a local goodwill. Handed the short lil asian man $15.00 and walked out the door.

A coupld months later my boy Patchett and I went too a Salvation Army store and picked up this Polaroid 103:


for $7.00. That 103 is legit cause it came with a leather-case, portrait lens, and flash.

booYAH!:


When I had initially bought both these cameras..they were intended to go into my camera display-case. Not knowing that Fuji made a film for them...thats exactly where they sat. Then..while lurking on google and researching the 103...i got linked up to a few message boards that claimed they still made film.
So boom..called up Samy's Camera and sure as sheeeit..they carried it in both color/ black&white.


the black and white cost about $11.00 and the color i think was $13.00

They type of film is called pack film. Really its just and older instant camera...but with a vintage look.

The first few pictures on the 103 came out suuuuper dark:

I believe i wasted a whole pack ( 10 exposures)

I knew something was up..so i took the battery out of the 103 and put it in the 315...problem solved:


So after some failed pictures i decided to put the battery back in the 103 only this time using color film..to my surprise it worked:




As always..have fun capturing the moment..even if the pictures dont turn out how you wanted them too. Its an experience..like life

" life is like photography..we use the negatives to develop"

or something like that..

Oh and i'd like to thank my sponsor:

the salad crisper..for keeping my film legit

ciao bustas!