C41: It's the New Black (& White)
Colour. There's that cliche in movies or TV when someone falls in love, or smokes pot for the first time, and everything goes from monochrome to colour. The Wizard of Oz moment. B&W's fine, it's just time to move on. Which makes discovering these formulae really very fortuitous. I've got some of those chemicals for B&W developing anyway. C41 developing, playing around in a sink full of warm water is the sort of innocent fun you don't get much in adulthood. Thanks to this guy , in this Flickr DIY Color Group thread for passing on the craic. I've been trying to get that on and off for years. My mate cliffdotmac flickrmailed me tonight and said he was giving up on film, because of the expense. Which is fair enough, if you've shelled out for a DSLR and its all-singing-and-dancing lenses, I can see how film would feel like and extra expense. But if you haven't done that, if your biggest expense has been a few hundred quid a ...

In the Daily Mail, the people in the shed would have been Romanian gypsies and the policeman would have blamed everything on political correctness gone mad.
ReplyDeleteI love the combinations made from:
ReplyDelete"PC brigade" + "diktat" + "in a world gone mad".
If you're really lucky, in a letter to a paper, it might begin with "Why, oh why..?" Or even "Am I alone in thinking..?"
I particularly like letters from Spain and the USA, especially ones that manage to moan about both host and home country.
ReplyDeleteAlways makes me smile.