Open Source | Charles Shilliday

An App for Photographer’s Block

Recently, I acquired a new smartphone. Specifically, a Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate. Ironically, I use it very little as a phone but frequently as a camera. Additionally, I’ve downloaded several free camera apps including RetroCamera, FxCamera, Vignette and the Camera for Lightbox. Though it could be argued that some of the tools are gimmicky, there’s [...]

Myth America – In Progress

Lone Star

Myth America – In Progress

The Agreement

My Life as a Fantasy Hockey G.M.

I‘ve been in the ‘Freep’ hockey pool for roughly eleven years; or to use a hockey metaphor: as long as the Sedin twins have been in the NHL. This year, I was surprised to see seventeen people show up to the draft night last October, held at some gastropub on south Osborne. As with over-expansion [...]

The Romance of Comets (or Trying to make a PSA using Flash)

One piece of software I’m trying to understand better is Flash. This program is a popular topic of debate these days, what with HTML 5 looming on the horizon; the concerns over its efficacy within [...]

Happy Birthday Shoal Farm

The Family Homestead at Woodlands, Manitoba This year, 2010, marks the 100th anniversary of our family home in Woodlands. Purchased by my parents in 1965, the house is situated on 320 acres (one half of a section) of bush, sloughs and numerous clearings. I lived there until I was 19. At that point, I knew [...]

Emily Blake Website

Paula Kelly Winnipeg filmmaker, Paula Kelly, has a script in development for a feature film entitled, Emily Blake. As a means of promoting the concept of the film project, I was asked to produce a website that outlines the story and look of the movie. A photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron Using an assortment of [...]

Atlas at Night

The last time I visited New York City, the only camera I brought was a cheap medium-format model with a Bakelite body, plastic lens and one shutter speed (1/60th sec.). I think I bought it in a fifth-hand shop for a dollar. What it lacked in craftsmanship and technological wizardry was made up for with [...]

Sage Words

I‘ve been suffering from a bout of writers block. So in place of a freshly minted post, I submit a piece of advice from American filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (and JLG): A great quote to read regularly

Camera Obscura

One of my earliest and most perplexing encounters with photography happened while I was a kid growing up in the country. My sister and her friends organized a summer camp of sorts, as a way to offer structure, I guess, to an otherwise carefree three month holiday. It was an honorable plan. The only problem [...]