Harrod Blank's Camera Van.

One night in the fall of 1993, Harrod Blank had a dream in which he covered his car with cameras and then drove around and took pictures of people on the streets. The public, unaware that the cameras worked, reacted naturally. At the end of the dream, Harrod looked at pictures taken with the van of faces frozen in the moment of awe, pictures so powerful that the next morning he decided to attempt to build such a vehicle in reality.

With the help of Dan Lohaus and some other friends, Harrod spent the next two years designing and building the van. With a lot of trial & error, the van was completed in 1995 and made it’s debut voyage in April leaving his home in Berkeley California, stoping in Houston and New Orleans and ending up in New York City where he would live and take pictures with the van for the following six months.

Foojifilm & Kodaq : Fake Films.

Scan from Phaic Tăn, is a parody travel guidebook examining imaginary south-east-asian's country Phaic Tăn. The book's full title is Phaic Tăn: Sunstroke on a Shoestring and was written by Australians Tom Gleisner, Santo Cilauro, and Rob Sitch.

http://www.jetlagtravel.com/phaic_tan/index.html

Photographer

Tattoofans of asian writings, here is the chinese translation of photographer. I saw somwhere on the net a tattoo of a Lomo LC-A on shoulder. I wouldn't go so far...

Fresnel lens.

A Fresnel lens is a type of lens originally developed by French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel for lighthouses. The design allows the construction of lenses of large aperture and short focal length without the mass and volume of material that would be required by a lens of conventional design. Compared to conventional bulky lenses, the Fresnel lens is much thinner, larger, and flatter, and captures more oblique light from a light source, thus allowing lighthouses to be visible over much greater distances. (Source Wikipedia)

Harcourt, Paris.

Harcourt, is a photostudio in Paris, making glamour black and white portraits. Mainly contrasty face closeups of personalities and moviestars. The style is film noir. Price for a premium photoshoot : 1900 Euro.

www.studio-harcourt.eu/

Leica 3th Eye.

From a catalogue of photographic equipment, 1969, Belgium. Strange and metaphysical advertising of Leica. I have myself 3 Leicas, beside the history, nostalgy and myth of Leica's, when I use this cameras for my photographic work, I rather have to close one eye to use the rangefinder. Shouldn't we better call them cyclops?

The Gothic Pen F

The Pen F is a half-frame single lens reflex camera introduced in 1963 by Olympus. It is designed by the highly respected and quite famous engineer Maitani Yoshihisa, who also has created the Olympus Pen point-and-shoot series, as well as the OM-1 and the Olympus XA. The original model is easily recognized by its big gothic letter F engraved to the right on the front plate and on the lensdop. (Source Camerapedia) Strange association by the japanese designers, gothic refers actually more to gangsta'rap or gothic music, maybe they did this to have a clear alternative to the Nikon (normal font) F-series.