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fflo ([personal profile] fflo) wrote2015-10-12 05:06 pm

I found a disposable camera inside the back of the piano.

It says it should be developed by some date in 2005.  Did you know you can still get film-film developed at some drug stores?  You can.  I don't know why I say film-film.  One film is probably enough, the same.  Cuz the phone doesn't have film.

The camera had 7 shots left.  I took a few today and will knock off the others, and then see what if anything comes out.  I do wonder what the heck else might be on there.

[identity profile] peteralway.livejournal.com 2015-10-13 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe selfies of rats plucking the strings?

[identity profile] fflo.livejournal.com 2015-10-13 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Eww! I am not such a slob as to have rats in my piano, I am fairly confident. :)

[identity profile] peteralway.livejournal.com 2015-10-13 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I was assuming that the rats, like the camera, belonged to the piano's previous owner.

Nice try at a save, but ...

[identity profile] fflo.livejournal.com 2015-10-13 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
... the previous owner was my mamma. And I think her folks bought the piano new for her in the 1930s. Anyhow there'd more likely be rats in my piano than in hers.

Re: Nice try at a save, but ...

[identity profile] peteralway.livejournal.com 2015-10-13 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
So much for my image of you having just gotten a used piano for free off of Craig's list, and finding the camera in it as the movers set it up, and the camera having antique-shop-style mysteries in the photos.

Re: Nice try at a save, but ...

[identity profile] fflo.livejournal.com 2015-10-13 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha. I don't need any more pianos right now.

Re: Nice try at a save, but ...

[identity profile] peteralway.livejournal.com 2015-10-13 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
How many do you have?

Re: Nice try at a save, but ...

[identity profile] fflo.livejournal.com 2015-10-13 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
1 proper. And a little Casio keyboard in the closet, and a vibraphone in the back room practically perpetually waiting for me to put a new O ring on it, and maybe another variation on the theme somewhere.
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[personal profile] paperkingdoms 2015-10-13 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, fun!

[identity profile] fflo.livejournal.com 2015-10-13 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I accidentally took the penultimate picture this morning when I dropped the camera as I got out of my car. The flash went off. It may capture some glimpse of me and/or of my car door or roof. Or the sky. Or not turn out at all.

Perhaps this experience will get me started on making old-school-film art, in the "damaged" film subschool thereof.

[identity profile] cha-mel-eon.livejournal.com 2015-10-13 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Very exciting!

[identity profile] fflo.livejournal.com 2015-10-13 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
got my fingers crossed I'll get some throwback pix, yep

[identity profile] wednes.livejournal.com 2015-10-13 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh, I look forward to hearing what you get.

[identity profile] fflo.livejournal.com 2015-10-13 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll show y'all if I get anything to look at.

[identity profile] crankyasanoldma.livejournal.com 2015-10-13 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I recently took one of these cameras to Meijer to be developed. They had to send it out, but they did it!

[identity profile] fflo.livejournal.com 2015-10-13 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Funny how it feels like a decades-old practice, and it's not been all that long. A tiny fraction of an eon, for instance.