William Hellfire

William Hellfire, a photo by Michael Raso - Film Photography Podcast on Flickr.

William Hellfire is the man behind Severed Lips Recordings. SLR was a cassette label which operated out of a basement in Ringwood NJ from 1992-2000. Consisting mostly of 4 track cassette recordings produced by a handful of interchangeable people and bands. The recordings were intended to be psychedelic headphone theatre; fuzzy, heavy noise rock and soul. Featured acts were Gerbil Church, Disco Missile, Dynomite Cat, Mono Ovum, Alien Pornography, Mary's Song, The Starlets, Tyrannosaurus Dracula and King Ghidorah!

All of the music is available on the Free Music Archive. The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. The Archive is directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music.
freemusicarchive.org/label/slr

Photo by Michael Raso
Shot 16 August during Polaroid Week 2012!
Polaroid 320 Automatic Land Camera
Fujifilm FP-3000b

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Alan the Painter

Alan the Painter, a photo by Michael Raso - Film Photography Podcast on Flickr.

Alan Walker is a fine artist and musician. FPP listeners know him as a member of The Smoove Sailors. I was thrilled when Alan broke out his Canon film gear and joined us at the FPP NYC Meet-Up this past spring.

One of Alan's paintings will be featured in the 35th annual Salmagundi Club Non-Members Painting Sculpture Exhibition - August 14th-24th, 2012 at Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 W 20th St, 4th Floor, NY, NY 10011
Reception is Thursday, August 16th, 6:00-8:00pm

FPP is The Film Photography Project, it's radio show, website and Film Photography Store!
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FPP NYC Meet-Up
http://filmphotographyproject.com/content/news/2012/07/film-photography-streets-nyc

The Smoove Sailors
http://www.thesmoovesailors.com/

Above photo by Michael Raso
Shot with "The Button" Polaroid Land Camera on Impossible PX70 Color Shade (test film)
The Impossible Project makes new film for vintage Polaroid cameras
http://the-impossible-project.com/

Shooting Polaroid on 4x5

Although it took about eight months to get familiar with my newly acquired Graflex Crown Graphic 4x5 camera, I'm finally out shooting!

While my exposed Kodak Ektar and High Speed Infrared is at the lab for processing, I shot some Polaroid 57 High Speed Instant Film. Although expired in the 1990s, the film still yielded a reasonable if not grindy image.


First  portrait on Polaroid 57 - fellow photographer Mat Marrash



Kenichi Sugihara - Bassist for The Smoove Sailors



An emotional riff from Pink Delicates' Kevin Neblung

As with anything, the more practice you have, the better you get! It's a different (shooting) work flow using a large format camera and not quite as spontaneous as the smaller formats but the Crown Graphic is quickly growing on me. I look forward to receiving my processed film next week!
Special thanks to Mat Marrash for the help in the field and in the lab!
All photos © Michael Raso 2012

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The Tim Tam Slam!

Blog and Images by Michael Raso



For those who don't know, Tim Tams are Australia's favorite cookie. The great news is that their now available right here in the US (at Target and other stores)

Little did I know about the Tim Tam Slam(!) until I received an e-mail from a fellow Flickr photographer. "The Tim Tam Slam is the practice of drinking a beverage (usually a hot beverage such as coffee or hot chocolate, though milk is a very valid alternative) through a Tim Tam. (also known as a Tim Tam Shotgun, Tim Tam Bomb or Tim Tim Explosion). Opposite corners of the Tim Tam are bitten off, one end is submerged in the drink, and the drink sucked through the biscuit. The crisp inside biscuit is softened and the outer chocolate coating begins to melt."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Tam#Tim_Tam_Slam

top image - Tim Tams
shot on the Kodak Pony II using Kodak Gold 400 35mm film 
middle image - The Tim Tam Slam
shot on the Polaroid ONE 600 camera
using Impossible PX 680 Color Shade

Tim Tams...give 'em a slam!

Shoot Film!
Michael

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Shooting Film on a Tight Budget!

Guest Blog by Keith Derickson

It is often the case that we come into the world of film photography for very little money, rarely does the expense stop there. Shooting film opens a whole new realm of must-have purchases.

Whether its darkroom supplies, accessories, or a camera you simply can’t live without, there always seems to be a hole in the film shooter’s pocket.

Read More here

Pack Film's BIG Brother, Polaroid 8x10!

Guest Blog by Mat Marrash

Anybody that's listened to the Film Photography Podcast for more than five minutes knows that founder and host, Michael Raso, has "a thing" for Polaroid instant film. What some folks might not know, however, is that as a co-host, being around Mike one too many podcasts has given me "the bug" as well. So much, however, that I didn't stop at 600 series cameras and pack film, I needed bigger! How big? Big enough to shoot Polaroid on my absolute favorite camera, the Eastman Commercial 8x10!

Read More:
http://filmphotographyproject.com/content/features/2011/12/pack-films-big-brother-polaroid-8x10

FPP Snapshot! The Impossible Project Factory Interviews!

An audio tour of the Impossible Project Factory in Enschede, NL produced by graphic artist, blogger and FPP contributor Viviane Li.



For those of reading who do not know, Polaroid stopped making instant film in 2008, ending their 50+ year reign as the one and only instant photography kings.

Fujifilm in Japan picked up the ball by producing “some” instant film for older Polaroid “pack cameras,” but a huge void was left as no company was producing film for the millions of Polaroid SX-70 and 600 cameras in the world.

Enter The Impossible Project, a group of ambitious entrepreneurs who purchased the Polaroid factory in Enschede, Netherlands and hired some former Polaroid engineers. Their promise - to produce new integral film for existing Polaroid cameras

Read More...HERE