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Grow an aubergine plant. When the fruit appears, hollow it out carefully without removing it from the stalk, prick a hole in the end and cut a longitudinal slit, then insert a leaf from the plant into the slit and turn it through ninety degrees, again without removing it from the plant. Fix the aubergine
in position and leave it for several months, then remove the leaf and steep it in tincture of iodine. The result: a completely aubergine-based long exposure of the area by the aubergine.
The problem is how to do all this without killing the aubergine. Any ideas?
Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey
http://www.artsadmi...html#Living%20Skins
These artists have baked this with grass, but using transparencies, not a pinhole camera [krelnik, Nov 24 2004]
Leaf photography
http://www.grand-illusions.com/roman.htm
Without the vegetable [Worldgineer, Oct 26 2006]
Don't forget…
http://www.pinholeday.org/
[Ian Tindale, Feb 16 2007]
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There appears to be a paragraph missing just before "The Result:..." |
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Oh, it's an eggplant (had to look that up). |
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An eggplant pinhole camera, using a leaf as your film? I assume you mean that light will make the leaf green where it strikes it over time. Don't know what the iodine's for, however. |
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If you perform this eggpendectomy under sterile conditions, add some sort of sealant around the leaf, and embed sterilized glass near the pinhole to keep bacteria out you may be able to save the eggplant. |
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The iodine is to turn the starch in the more heavily photosynthesising areas black. I think the problem is not so much potential infection as cutting off water supply from the fruit. |
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Tricky, but[+] for anything to do with pinhole photography. |
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Aubergines, as we eat them, are unripe. They ripen over a period of about 2 weeks, going soft and brown and collapse into mush. |
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This idea won't work, because of that, sorry. It might be better to try it with a gourd of some sort. They are already hollow and are much more rigid. |
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What about a capsicum? They're already hollow inside, but maybe the seeds would get in the way. Or, breeding a hollow aubergine? Some aubergines already have spaces inside them.
I think the link is fantastic! However, my idea is to use entirely vegetable materials. |
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Don't agree with Unabubba. Thomas Bachler of Germany
made pinhole images by placing film in his mouth and .... A
camera does not have to last more than the time needed
to take one image. Giving you a plus as I like the idea of
vege cameras - candid carrot. |
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