18.5.2012 von Dagie.

Just a little trailer for a little film, shot on super 8 Kodachrome, developed in caffenol (coffee + soda + vitamin-c), digitally reversed.

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17.5.2012 von Dagie.

I gave a workshop today: how to develop black&white film using coffee+soda+vitamin-c >> here’s a piece of wonderful 16 mm, clear and crispy negative!

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16.5.2012 von Dagie.

Developing black&white reversal film you need to expose it to light a second time in between the developing baths. Normally hold it 2 minutes against a 100 W bulb (see the film is in a transparent spiral!), but I thought: why not take the Canadian summer sun while it’s on?! It works!

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15.5.2012 von Dagie.

Walking along the street in plain sunshine, feeling slightly hungry, being dragged just by coincidence into an inconspicuous little restaurant called Tibet Café, I ordered chicken momo just because I liked the name.
The smiling lady said: wait 15 minutes and so I did.
It smelled good there. They have a large image of the Dalai Lama, also smiling. I watched out the window: we’re open. Slow beautiful streetcar. Someone crossing the street. Sunshimmer. I have time. I exist. This is it. I understand the sense of it all.

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14.5.2012 von Dagie.

It’s a game.

We played and documented it today and yesterday.
It goes like this:
A city walk game. Limit: one city, two days.
A group of 2 or 3 people.

We chose a starting point by chance (dice, telephone book) which is a street and a number. We go there, our antennas upright, find something, any item possible, any stranded goods, doodle, debris, paint, house, plant, sign, scene, mark that gives away its secret and inspires us to find the next station. We derive information from it, meaning: next street-name and number. And so on.

We tempt fate and challenge coincidence. We go with the flow, confident that the mighty spirit of coincidence will give us signs and that we, the flexible and witty artists, will be able to interpret them, capture them and find our unique personal path until the game comes to a logic end.

This game is not objective. Our personality, our view and our history colorizes the whole experiment and makes it a singular happening, an irrepeatable film. There can be beauty in banality and we’ll find it.

We film and record sounds and document the trip as a whole, the magic points as individual signs, what we see, what we get, what we think … it can lead us to surprises, to weird stories or boredom. It depends on us. And a little on the weather. Super 8 helps make a jewel out of it!

There will be a website soon.
And a film. Give me some time

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13.5.2012 von Dagie.

Amazingly huge, slow and cool!

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12.5.2012 von Dagie.

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11.5.2012 von Dagie.

… probably never …

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10.5.2012 von Dagie.

I’m in love with LIFT’s darkroom!
Today I tried another coffee based developer … and to refine the soup a little I used Lake Ontario water instead of regular boring tap water. And added some squirrel beer!
The result: wonderful black&white positive film!!

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9.5.2012 von Dagie.

… The film is now telecined: the original is very orange so I reversed and desaturated it! And increased the contrast a bit.

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8.5.2012 von Dagie.

Caffenol is a black & white negative developer made from instant coffee, washing soda and vitamin c.
Old Kodachrome color super 8 film reacts nicely and the result is as you see it here: an orange toned b&w negative!
Yippeeh!!

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7.5.2012 von Dagie.

I met John Porter, Toronto’s most famous super 8 filmer, we bought some yummy burritos at Kensington Market (”Big Fat Burrito”) and opened the baseball season at Christie Pits (famous for its riots 80 years ago), beautiful green open park, Toronto Maple Leafs against Ottawa Fat Cats. We won!

My first baseball game! Haven’t got a clue why guys were standing at different posts doing nothing while the boy in the middle kept bombing tiny balls towards another one who constantly missed it with his bat …. but it was fun to watch and John brought ice cold cider

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6.5.2012 von Dagie.

….. Summer!!!!!

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5.5.2012 von Dagie.

Have a wonderful weekend!

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4.5.2012 von Dagie.

How did this silly film idea come upon me … I want to make a short film, Kodachrome K40, and then process it in caffenol, see if it works … about Toronto and coffee of course, something speedy, most probably called “Toronto, I like you as much as I like coffee” using letters that I find around here … so I thought it would be nice to start it with a countdown, spent half my day chasing numbers from 10 down to 0 which is not easy because numbers tend to come in company: they have another number left or right, especially a 4 was veeeery hard to find …

But anyway, the sun was shining brightly, summer has come into town, butterflies land on my legs!!

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3.5.2012 von Dagie.

Who is it? The famous Canadian Red Belly Bird?

Seen and admired at High Park today! Lucky me, I live in walking distance!

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2.5.2012 von Dagie.

Me in Toronto … having plenty of time wandering Eastwest and Northsouth and zigzagish, inhaling fresh impressions and finding pictures at every corner and … look there: a snake sign on the ground! It’s a metaphor for me, meaning …. wisdom and a winding path to go!!

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1.5.2012 von Dagie.

Good morning, Lake O and Canada and America, how are you?

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30.4.2012 von Dagie.

I’m in Canadaaaaaa!!!!!!!
The first living being that greeted me this morning was …. a squirrel! But not only a squirrel … a black squirrel! They have black squirrels in Toronto, awesome!!!!!

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26.4.2012 von Dagie.

I’m so lucky to live in the chubbiest chaparriest coolest hottest center of the universe, just by chance, and here’s the hottest tiniest Mex ever, called Chaparro Cocina Mexicana … in Kreuzberg, burrito and quesadilla to stay or to go, with different hot sauces (1, 2, 3 chili signs declaring the power of hotness!) and some plusses like smoky chicken or veggie … take a beer from the fridge, dos equis xx or corona or victoria … just love them!!!

Travelers meeting: Dagie going to Toronto, Florian going to New York and Mexico, Khani coming from the Canaries, Nadine going to Italy … felt windy and worldy!!

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