aerochrome isn't real. it's a lie. there's just an island in the pacific where all the trees are pink. they are hiding this from us to convince us to buy $300 expired film. they don't want you to know

29 years ago my (then future) mother-in-law dropped and broke her Aiborg leading to her daughter bringing it to my shop for a repair… the rest, dear reader, is history… said daughter and I have been married for almost 26 years!

I love capturing those moments where London Underground trains line up perfectly with station posters. With a little patience and a bit of luck, you can end up with some wonderfully amusing and unexpected shots.

So thanks to Steve and peering closely at the third photo in this set I have just learned of the wild existence of… …the Konica Aiborg! Surely the ultimate #ShittyCameraChallenge contender. Naturally I want one youtu.be/3dz9tEVcrlA?...

The Konica AiBorg: Madness Manifest In A Point And Shoot Camera

YouTube video by Jesse Koester

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Steve Brokaw@stevebrokaw.bsky.social · 6d ago

Visited a friend who teaches digital media in a local high school but also has photography classes. I volunteered my services today to check out all his digital & assorted film cameras to see if they work (just the film cameras. All the Nikon Z cameras are new). Fun checking everything out

So this is wholesome! My #PostcardsFromAfar postcard from June went on a little adventure on the way to me It was correctly addressed and sent from Illinois - then somehow managed to find it's way to Belfast, where some kind soul popped it in an envelope and forwarded it on to me in Glasgow

this is where they keep the Pratchett books, I assume

@shittychallenge.bsky.social looooook 👀 ONE OF US! ONE OF US! #ShittyCameraChallenge [Alt text for quoted post: Mayor Zohran Mamdani uses a shitty disposable 35mm film camera to take a photo in the stands at the world cup final]

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w ago

Over the past month, New York has welcomed the world. From neighborhood watch parties to the stadium, we’ve celebrated the communities that make our city the global capital of the beautiful game. Today, we close out a historic World Cup, proud of how New Yorkers showed up every step of the way.

I have just learned there actually is a third place play-off ...they should do it in the style of Only Connect and save all the silliest and most esoteric stuff for the third place play off. Football, but weirder.

Ahahahahahahahahanope

Anon Opin@anonopin.bsky.social · 3w ago

A woman on her own will still cook herself a healthy, delicious dinner every day. A man on his own will alternate his dinners between toast, cereal and a Pot Noodle.

I was in the middle of a photoshoot and I turned around and this was happening

Made a friend on my walk by the canal yesterday. Turns out his name is Ziggy and he has his own Instagram! Also he gives excellent cuddles www.instagram.com/glasgowcanal...

Rounding up some translations of Count Binface that have been appearing in foreign press 🇷🇴 Romanian: Contele Tomberonez 🇫🇷 French: Comte Tête-de-Poubelle (bin-head, more accurate than bin-face) 🇮🇹 Italian: Conte Faccia-da-Bidone 🇪🇸 Spanish: "un hombre con un cubo de basura en la cabeza" (!) Cont...

Questions for the Hasselblad users! I need a camera strap. Anybody using theirs with a Lucky brand strap? Are you liking it? Currently havering between them and Peak Design but the Lucky ones have a look that suits the camera better Also what are you doing for strap lugs adapters? #BelieveInFilm

Glad you're enjoying. We've got another in the 'Incomplete series' you might enjoy, An Incomplete History of Speed (www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYDd...) if you've not seen that one, and plenty of other similar on our channel! Next big series is in planning so sign up to the Patreon to help us make it!

Rapid Motion Through Space: An Incomplete History of Speed [Full Feature Documentary Film]

YouTube video by The Cosmic Shambles Network

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Just finished watching the first episode of this excellent documentary series from @cosmicshambles.com If you too miss the glory days of BBC FOUR documentaries this will be right up your street - not afraid to go deeply, gloriously nerdy. Bliss. And free on YouTube! youtu.be/_P4GUhc4hpM?...

For the Record: An Incomplete History of Music | Trailer 2 | Documentary | Charlotte Ritchie

YouTube video by The Cosmic Shambles Network

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It has come to my attention (thanks to @banditelli.org) that if you live in Iceland you can't volunteer to flip crabs but you can volunteer to throw pufflings* which is arguably even better... (* Yes they are called "pufflings") www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ar...

Throwing puffins off cliff in Iceland

Throwing baby puffins off a cliffs sounds crazy - but this strange act from people in Iceland is actually designed to help them fly.

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You need to look at the whole thread! Especially the crab flipping song a couple of posts down 🦀 Disappointed to find that we don't get horseshoe crabs here so there's no crab flipping public service to be done

Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · last mo.

Omg volunteer crab flippers!!! 🦀

Ooooft

Grantham Research Institute at LSE@granthamlse.bsky.social · last mo.

We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.

I’m banning leaf blowers, and everybody that wants one will be handed a government-issued rake.

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson.bsky.social · last mo.

They've finally run out of toffs to stand as PM, your name has been pulled from the hat, what's your one (1) manifesto pledge? Let's assume UBI, PR & tax/eat the rich are standard. I want your petty policies, your extremely personal grudges, your old man yells at cloud laws

It's the Jar of Moles! If you're in That London and have not visited the Jar of Moles then you must go visit the Jar of Moles. They live the in Grant Museum at UCL

Kym Deyn@kymdeyn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Rough day, so have a poem about the Jar of Moles in the Grant Zoology Museum in London that everyone has regarded as too thoroughly batshit to publish

I was taken aback when I saw this sign today. It's for real. #Tennessee #WhenAManLovesAChicken

An effective law is one that has a cat's chance in hell of actually working and doesn't make everything worse. Otherwise it's just sparkling commsbollocks.

< Petition to put the “stare at a wall” kid in charge of everything >

Any questions, feel free to email me. It's a very cool site and you don't need to know anything about audio other than how to work your phone and send a file. No rules other than relates to being amongst trees alone.

Claire has been collecting (and installing!) audio clips from lone woman amongst trees all around the world for a few years now

Clare Archibald@archieislander.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tomorrow and Sunday I'll be playing audio here from around the world as part of 'if trees were lone women what would they sound like in Aarhus'. As well as the audio already received I'm doing a 24 hour call-out for audio from women (inclusive) and NB people from anywhere in the world, details below

Unsettling people in forests since 2021, apparently...

Clare Archibald@archieislander.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It has become a bit of a ritual to play the camera shutter sound that @moragperkinsphoto.com recorded for Galloway Forest in 2021 at the point where people enter the installation space. Always a huge talking point.

It's come to my attention that some of you might not be aware of this thing. And whilst this account generally specialises in the more aesthetically challenged end of the maritime spectrum, it will happily throw it all out of the window in order to gawp at Turbinia again. JUST LOOK AT IT!

so small he only need 1 popcorn

It’s 103 years today since Edith Sitwell sat behind a curtain at London’s Aeolian Hall, reciting bizarre poetry through what looked like a traffic cone, prompting Noel Coward to take the piss, starting a four-decade feud between them, which was eventually resolved by the director of My Fair Lady 🧵

Reader, I bought it 🫣 It's fine. This is fine 🔥🔥🔥☕️

Morag Perkins@moragperkinsphoto.com · 2mo ago

✅ 501CM (recommended by three separate people here) ✅ Acute Matte-D focusing screen ✅ Complete kit available ✅ Has the classic Hassy silver edges (pretty! 🤩) ✅ New light seals and a 6 month warranty ✅ UK based so no import taxes (thanks Brexit 🤬) So if these guys check out then it could be the one!