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16 June 2006
Obscura→[More:]This was posted in the comments of a thread on MetaFilter, and I'm posting it here because
a) it's neat
and
b) I keep losing this link, so I want it somewhere I can keep an eye on it.
[P]ay attention when you are sleeping, because if the Moon disk should lie on your skin during a night of full Moon, you could be enraptured in a fantastic dream.
I've always been fascinated with the camera obscura. I've taken a lot of photography classes, but the one I loved the most was my high school photo class when we built one using our classroom. We also made pinhole cameras, which are so fun. If you make a pinhole camera using a round container (I've used an oatmeal container), it serves as a fisheye lens and your pictures look really neat.
Those are sweet ~, if I ever manage to get a digital camera, I'm totally going to start digitally adding sprocket holes to the sides of the image. (totally!)