Marshmallows Photography

In a previous post I've talked about what I like about this wonderful city Berlin is :

you can check the article here.

but what I prefer when discovering new cities is looking at it through the lenses or screen of my several cameras (and it costs me everytime back pain as I carry a very large and heavy bag open on one side to be able to unsheathe whenever it's necessary) . Often my relatives warn me to live the moment instead of trying to make a good picture of it.
I think they are right.

This series of photographs illustrates my point: it mixes blackberry pics, holga, Canon EOS 20D and a berlin security screen...and the best camera ever invented still is the disposable camera.

Time for a TOP 5 Camera

1) The Disposable Camera


If you succeed taking a good picture with it, you can take any camera you want ! you've got the best instrument to become a photographer: the good eye. In addition, the fact that one does no longer uses reffer it at past time with all the charm that goes with it.

2) Holga Camera
Classic and (too) trendy but I always had one and I feel like I'm playing lego when I use it. The only big inconvenient: the plastic is a fragile and it opens all the time so my advice is to put medical straps. It doesn't damage the camera and it maintains well.

3) Gadget Cameras
Gadget cameras: When I was in high school, one of my friend had a watch taking pictures. It's pretty cool if you don't want to carry a real cam and for forbidden places. It's clearly James Bond Style.

4) GoPro CameraProbably the greatest invention of the year 2011. A tiny camera with a big angle sold with a lot of detached pieces like the hermetic cover. The first aim of it is extrem sport as it is very resistant. I'll soon post some of the first videos and pictures I made with it.

5) Canon EOS 20D
I know it's an old camera now but I have a deep attachment to it. At eleven years old, my parents offered be the 20D the film version and I sold it a 17years old to buy the digital version. (It was my own present for having passed the baccalaureat with the honors) I regret having sold the film one but I will keep the digital forever. Even if it looks a little aged compare to what is done in digital, mine is really at the frontier and used very little digital keeping the film quality. My fetish.

owe and #6: my blackberry, it will look old some very soon days

Purple Run

My bestfriend's dad is getting married this autumn. For what is going to be the most offbeat event of the season I need to wear something really special.
In Berlin I found a really cute vintage shop in the Kreusberg area where my eyes stopped on a purple stuff hangling between old tee-shirt. We were not shopping this day and just entered out of curiosity . When I tried on I felt transported to another decade. The size was perfect in the waist, the lenght. It was made for me.
Picturing myself with flower crowns made of daisies and roses and this purple - a violent washed and past purple that gave you nausea when you look too long at it - folk dress.

The saler told me the little story going with the dress (good vintage salers often tell you the history to make you identify and not look at the price which in this cas was the highest of the whole shop) :

His mum (key word#1) used to wear it in the seventies (key word #2) while going to California (#3) to music festivals (#4) with all her friends in motorcycles (#5) and that where she met my dad, a gypsy (#6⁵ ) musician (#7) she fell in love with him and here I am !

Apart the fact that wearing a bridal gown that 40 years ago received a germano-gypsy coitus did not delight me, my skin in autum would be at its worst.
Poor me, with no summer holidays this year my pale skin will soon turn violet and too much bitchy colors kill the bitch !

Ps : I love everything of the video of Nikki Lane. It is a kind of illustration of the german saler story.I'm fooled anyway.

Gone, Gone, Gone I won't be back....

Alien.