Expired Film Update

Two rolls go in tomorrow: random fall/winter and Baltimore.

No visit to Indianapolis is complete without seeing a flipped-over 18-wheeler

I'm 3 for 3. This expired film photo is from this spring. I saw yet another 18-wheeled wreck today.

And I'm now in Louisville.

Plastic Shitcam Returns from Pittsburgh

It's back--came in the mail yesterday. And the image above, which PSC took at the University of Miami this spring, has just been published in the Schmap Miami online tour guide.

However, I'm not sure why visitors to Miami would want to check out college campuses...unless they were selling textbooks...

Expired Film: Giant Mole Rat Speared by 2x4

Highland Ave, Somerville

Revenge of Plastic Shitcam

A new set of fixed focus/expired film exposures is now up on Flickr.

It cost $9.99 for one set of prints and $3 for a CD of 256-dpi scans (averaged about 350kb/photo--useless). I can't believe any casual consumer still uses film.

EXPIRED FILM UPDATE

Today I acquired three six-packs of 24-exposure Fuji 400 rolls that expired 9/07. As of 13 minutes ago, it's 10/07.

Too bad I left Plastic Shitcam in Pittsburgh last week. It's coming back soon, though.

I also have a shot roll here that needs to be developed. It features an overturned tractor trailer in Terre Haute.

Best of Plastic Shitcam

Unicyclist.

I lost my digital point and shoot camera and have been using my el cheapo fixed focus 35mm camera with semi-expired film I just got two rolls back from the drugstore.

Drugstores leave their own mark on your photos. They fuck up cutting negatives, fuck up alignment on prints, fuck up scanning, etc. Their computer-controlled lab machines make the same mistakes humans used to. In addition to the regular slew of imperfections, the machine at Walgreen's neglected to print or scan what I thought would be the coolest picture in the set, a shot of a Bobcat's demolition claw crouched over a dumpster in South Beach. It will get here eventually.

More from plastic shitcam:

Kicking Self.

A few months ago, I threw out three rolls of four-years-past-expired Konica 35mm film.

And then I hear about this.

Three years ago, before Flickr existed and during my alcoholic editorial assistant days, a clerk in a shitty Brooklyn pharmacy handed me a 4-pack of expired film from behind the counter. I showed her the expiration date, and she sold it to me for half off. I thought it would be cool to give expired film a spin, without the internet having told me it would be. So I shot one roll with a cheap 35mm camera , and it yielded a few disturbing/awesome results. My favorites were a splattered pigeon I found in the shadow of the Williamsburg bridge and the shadow of a bronzed, hanging dog outside of P.S. 1. I'll scan and Flickr them as soon as I find a friend with a scanner.

Why didn't I shoot the other three rolls? Why did I hang onto them for three years, only to throw them out?

Lesson: don't fuck with success.