Those are amazing. My 1st year drawing teacher at RISD, Nicholas Evans-Cato (http://www.georgebillis.com/nicholas-evans-cato.html http://www.georgebillis.com/ni

Those are amazing. My 1st year drawing teacher at RISD, Nicholas Evans-Cato (http://www.georgebillis.com/nicholas-evans-cato.html http://www.georgebillis.com/nicholas-evans-cato.html), taught us how to draw using cameras. We built our own camera obscuras from cardboard (about the size of a watermelon) and then made landscape paintings by looking at the image projected inside the camera as opposed to looking at the landscape directly. With his mentorship I then got into other "primitive photography" methods like pinhole cameras. My favorite thing I made was a camera that had a vertical slit, as opposed to a pinhole, and a gear system that would pull 35mm film across the slit as the camera was rotated on a base. It was effectively a panoramic camera, but the cool thing is you could follow moving objects like cars and stretch them out. RISD campus: https://i.imgur.com/VoONn1W.jpg https://i.imgur.com/VoONn1W.jpg Stretched out cars: https://i.imgur.com/Gm6LMRE.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Gm6LMRE.jpg See how on the far right, the front wheel of the minivan is a regular circle while the back is a long oval. That was a very fun hobby, I expect to pick it up again when I have more free time.