Life is a gift

A while back my sister had an idea that if every family in Bangalore (where I was working at the time), adopted a stray dog, there wouldn't be any stray dogs left. I thought that was a great idea. Unfortunately as you can imagine it doesn't have much chance of being implemented. But then, today I came across another excellent idea (originally conceived by claypoole) on wolog.net. And it's such a nice idea, that I'm going to play along too. So here goes:

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me!
My choice.
For you.

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
- What I create will be just for you.
- It'll be done this year. No guarantees when, it will be a total surprise!
- You have no clue what it's going to be. I may draw or paint or knit something. I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you have to repost this, and repost right away.
We can all make stuff and make someone's day a little bit brighter!
Don't respond if you aren't going to offer the same thing.

Love,
Satchit

P.S: Email me your address. You can find my email in the right hand column. Hope you play along.

Light Painting

Light painting is a technique of creating a photograph by exposing selected parts of the subject by moving a narrow light source by hand (almost like brushing the scene with light), while using a long exposure. The technique works best when the ambient light is low. The technique comes in handy when you don't have sufficient lighting available. A major downside of light painting is that it involves a lot of trial and error. The two photographs above were both made using this technique, although I didn't know it was called light painting while I was making them. Also, I wasn't trying to get a light-painting like effect in these photographs. I was simply trying to do with whatever lights I'd available, which in the case of the above photographs was a penlight. But now I think I'm going to try to experiment some more. You can see some nice results of using this technique here and here. The latter has a video of use of the technique.

PFCOne 2008

A great showcase for first time as well as up and coming film makers. Part of the PFC One annual competition, organized by Passion for Cinema, a collaborative blog/portal for and by film buffs.