Baboons, Gods & Breasts

Sorting through my old hard drive and came across some photos from my old Samsung D900 which I had in 2006-07. Found some pictures of the Santa's Ghetto installation on Oxford Street and came across a ruddy cool picture of this Baboon about the gnaw down on some bosoms!

After some rather intense googling I discovered that it's by a guy called Kelsey Brookes and it's called 'Baboons, Gods & Breasts.' After a bit more digging I found this fantastic website that does regular features on current artists etc. called Fecal Face Dot Com. What a name!

So anyway it turns out they've done this awesome feature on Brookes where he walks them through the creative process of 'Baboons, Gods & Breasts' - Check it out here.

Old Canon FD Lenses!

So I stumbled across this video of a very enthusiastic American chap who raved about buying dirt cheap Canon FD lenses and then, with the help of an adapter, using them on a modern day Canon EOS DSLR. As he says in the video; although these lenses are manual focus only, they are perfect for filming with a DSLR and their build quality is second to none. And to top everything off the price of these lenses is immensely low! I picked up the following from ebay, all in excellent condition:

Vivitar 28mm 2.8 FD fit - £19

Canon FD 35mm 3.5 - £20

Canon FD 50mm 1.8 - £15

The fotodiox adapter (which I'm still waiting to arrive because it's being sent from America - doh!) costs £30 and enables me to use all manner of old Canon lenses. 

The current Canon 35mm is £240 and the 28mm is £150. The 50mm 1.8 is actually pretty cheap, retailing at about £70, but it is about as rugged as a pair of paper swimming trunks. So to get 3 very good quality lenses to knock about with for under £100 is a pretty sweet deal! Cannot wait for the adapter to arrive so I can start messing around - will definitely post up some sort of filmic creation to show off what they can do.