Hi, I'm Kris!
If you follow me on mastodon you might know that I have a bit of an obsession with vintage analogue video cameras. They’re great. I love them. I can’t stop being weird about them. So a few weeks ago I felt like it was finally time to take the next step and get myself one of those “televisions” I had heard so much about. Stop feeding those pristine analogue signals into a digital capture card and…
Have you ever heard of the Ink Process? No? Well, neither had I till a few months ago. If you have, then, well, you must read a lot of old german photography books. Cause that’s what I was doing when I came across the following recipe in the fifth edition of “Photochemie und Beschreibung der photographischen Chemikalien” from 1905. 10g of ferric sulfate 20ml of ferric chloride 10g of gelatin 10g…
Ok, I fucking hate “AI” and the corporate horse it rode in on. Machine learning though? I guess that’s kinda useful?! I’ve been helping out my friends at KKTO with their project Minute/Year for almost a decade now and a while ago we had run into a peculiar problem. I spent the last few days finally cleaning up the mess it caused and I thought I’d write up what I’ve done cause I’m pretty proud of…
A pretty common task for exhibitions I support is to have some kind of tiny unobtrusive media player box that can play a bunch of video or audio files on loop for anything from a small listening station with some headphones to a 4k projector showing a feature video. Since this has come up again and again for me and I’ve had multiple different versions of a setup like this for which I’ve somehow…
Cyanotypes are cool! But you know what’s even cooler? Making cyanotype negatives on glass plates directly in camera! As I’ve talked about in a previous article I’ve developed a fairly reliable process to create in-camera cyanotype negatives on agar coated glass plates. They not only look great but also have a much higher resolution since they don’t have the rough structure inherent in paper…
If you’ve read my previous article you know that there were some loose ends I was meaning to tie up using good old science, specifically the significant loss in sensitivity observed when mixing the classic potassium ferricyanide “developer” with your ammonium ferric citrate or ferric ammonium oxalate. So let’s do that! A quick recap Before we get into it, a quick recap of how the “classic”…
Hi! This blog post is roughly based on a short talk I gave at HFG Karlsruhe early this year and this is my attempt to finally expand on it a little and make the contents publicly available. It’s not really a tutorial on how to actually make cyanotypes, but more of a general overview of different techniques. I’ve spent the last 8 years working with cyanotype and have developed some stuff that I…
This post was originally posted to my tumblr in 2017, this version has been slightly revised. I previously referred to the “blue layer” cyanotype as “blue sheet” cyanotype because apparently I completely misremembered what Mike Ware called it in the Cyanomicon. Whoops! While trying to improve the quality of the cyanotype prints made on my home built enlarger I came across a whole number of…
Hi, welcome to the first short introductory post in a series where I’m going to document my attempt at building my own record lathe! Work on this started around a year ago, but I haven’t really gotten around to documenting any of it outside of some posts on twitter, so I felt it was time to put this project’s documentation into a less ephemeral form. Wait, what’s a record lathe?! Good question!…
Hi, I’m Kris, and this is my new blog! Multiple people (at least 2 or 3!) have asked me to set up a blog to document my projects and other endeavors outside of my rather slow flow of youtube videos . So here you go, a brand new website and blog! Hopefully soon to be filled with ~ C O N T E N T ~ !