Posted in Classes, Hacks, Meetup, Photography on Jan 21st, 2012
Our 2nd annual open house was a huge success and it’s about time we posted some photos. The photo above is a 360 degree panorama shot by Nicole on 35mm film. She also got some cool 360 shots of the main hallway, robots and burgers, and the pinhole camera tutorial. Then you can take a [...]
Posted in Photography, Projects on Jan 12th, 2012
Since 2005 the annual Art Conspiracy art auction has raised over $110,000 for local nonprofit arts groups like Musical Angels, Resolana, St. Anthony’s School and others. Several Dallas Makerspace members participated in the 2011 ArtCon auction in November. Steve Reeves and Haley Moore were selected as artists and each contributed a piece to the auction. [...]
Posted in Photography on Feb 23rd, 2011
*Photograph by Steve Rainwater Members of the Dallas Makerspace celebrated 127 Day by taking out their medium format cameras and capturing the world around them. Held on several days throughout the year-December 7th, January 27th and again on July 12 (for those who write their dates flipped)-127 Day is a world wide event that spotlights [...]
Posted in Photography on Dec 8th, 2010
The Dallas Makerspace darkroom and photography lab is officially online. We offer into evidence this short YouTube video of Steve Reeves printing the first ever 8×10 black and white print. Thanks to a lot of hard work by our darkroom team, we were able to give tours of our darkroom during our recent open house. [...]
Posted in Photography on Dec 2nd, 2010
Belated, but not forgotten: The World Toy Camera Day Event Recap! On Saturday October 9th, members and friends of DMS got together to celebrate the joy of toy cameras by photographing the lovely West End District in Dallas. Holgas, fisheyes, Mercury Satellites and Brownies; all came out to play that day. Those that made it [...]
Posted in Meetup, Photography on Oct 8th, 2010
Saturday, October 9th, people around the world will break out their toy cameras for World Toy Camera Day. From shelves and dusty boxes, cabinets and display cases, the cameras of the lomo trend will be out for a day of fun and “happy accidents”. Lomography is a movement that has been sweeping the world over with [...]
Posted in Photography on Aug 10th, 2010
Every Argus Day (or Argust Day as some fans refer to it), photographers dig out their ancient Argus cameras, load up some film, and shoot the old fashioned way. Any Argus camera will do but the most commonly used is the Argus C3, which was at one time the best-selling American-made camera in the world. [...]
