Current mood:

nostalgic

Flashback party
I'm getting ready for a conference of science technology historians, philosophers, and sociologists and the conference overlaps with Halloween so there is a costume party. I was helping my roommate get together a costume for being a cyborg (belts made out of CDs, circuit board bracelets and the like) and I suddenly realized it would be rad to dress up as dead technology (technology of the living dead) for this zombie-themed party. I ran around my room to see what old tech I could find (which was hard because I just moved and a lot of my packrat crap is in storage). I managed to find my old Minolta SRT101 camera (that is SLR film camera!) and a roll of ISO 200 film, a roll of Tri-X black and white film, a phone cord, a 3.5 inch floppy that had red hat boot disk from 1999 on it, and a couple of old cassette tapes. I stitched the tapes to the baggiest shirt I could find which I wore over some leggings and leg warmers my roommate had. Side ponytail and we have a decent dead tech costume though I could take it farther with more time.

What was more fun is I ran around the house with my flash cube and film camera taking pictures of things, reminding myself about aperture, ISO, and manual focus. That's the camera that had me captivated by photography in junior high and high school but then I stopped shooting when I lost access to a dark room in college. (Though, in hindsight, I wasn't so awesome a photographer. Maybe if I'd gotten out of the suburbs or gotten a real macro lens, I would have found better subject matter than kids, trees, and news items for our local paper.)