Re: Fisher-Price

[ben syverson <ben@eden.com>]

Hey



>pictures in my journal, next to names, etc. Also- people who are normally

>reluctant to be photographed seem to have little objection to having a

>"toy" take their picture, especially when you can print out multiple

>copies and give them one. I am going Guatamala this summer, and



Wow, do you guys know about the Holga? If not, this is uncanny - it's the

same thing; a toy camera people can't really object to. No one ever

"strikes a pose," when I shoot them with a Holga. They don't really believe

it's a camera, I think. ;) Oddly, Discovery did a story on the toy cameras

that's nearly identical to their PXL-2000 one. (These guys really dig toy

technology!) In the words of Kyle Cassidy, it can be got at:

http://eagle.online.discovery.com/cgi-bin/forums_view/dir852226977/alttech/C

amera



Or, just go to the real stuff, the fan-boy pages of Jonathan C. Winters:

http://www.concom.com/~winters/toy_home.htm



Anyone who's into Pixel will dig the philosophy behind this stuff...



Have fun!





Ben





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