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A cheap plastic camera doesn’t have to be naked and ugly! Here are some of my works on various ‘toy’ cameras …
Stardust La Sardina : The most girly design I’ve done … a La Sardina for a friend.
Summer Holga : A last minute design for a friend …
Diana’s Butts : A fun design (with a crappy name) Diana+ made specially for ThirtySix’s 1st anniversary.
Woodpecker, Fly : A ‘wooden’ version of the famous Blackbird, Fly camera … made specially for those guys in Superheadz. Camera sponsored by 8storeytree.
Pop Diana+ : A slightly different approach compared to the ‘Woodpecker, Fly’ and Holga cameras I worked on. This time, I decided on a rather ‘raw’ & ‘pop’ look for the design.
Playground Holga : A crazy idea which turned out to be one of my personal favourite.
Woody Holga : My first ever attempt at dressing up a camera. Sold it off in a charity sale.
Postage-free Holga : A stamp covered Holga with a coat of clear paint. It was pretty challenging working with those old stamps as they were very fragile.
*** Here are some other images of dressed up Holga cameras sent to me by readers ***
Owner & designer : Hurlumhej http://www.flickr.com/photos/rynage/
Design name : English Walnut Holgamod
Owner & designer : Jimmy Phua | Singapore http://www.8storeytree.com
Design name : Zebra Holga
Owner & designer : cyanwater | Singapore http://www.cyanwater.com
Design name : Cyan Holga
Owner & designer : Matteo aka lomobarba | Villabella, Italia http://www.flickr.com/photos/lomobarba/
Design name : color.holga
Owner & designer : Konah Zebert | Fayetteville, United States http://www.flickr.com/photos/zebert/
Design name : Bluberry Holga
Owner & designer : sapienz | Singaporehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/disruptiveresistance/
Design name : sapienzHolga
Owner & designer : Naresh Kumar | Singaporehttp://www.nareshinc.com
Design name : Louis Vuitton Holga
Owner & designer : mscrafty | Singaporehttp://mscrafty.livejournal.com/
Design name : Tokidoki Holga
Owner & designer : Jia | Singapore
Design name : Red Floral
Owner & designer : i.am.hAliS | Singapore
Design name : Holga “Dope” GN
Owner & designer : exact-colour | Singapore
Design name : Anti-slip Holga
Very nice!
Awesome designs!!!!!
These are really cool stuff. Cant wait to get my hands on one then I can start customizing too
nice! love ur woody.
LV HOLGA!!! hahahaa!!!
Wow, you did such a good job on beautifying those cameras!
I hope I’m not causing too much trouble by asking how you did it. Did you glue the stamps on directly? Is it just paper that the first camera has been wrapped in?
Am so awfully envious of your collection. You’re so blessed! (:
Kim, thank you. The Woody Holga was made using some adhesive sheets I found in a DIY store. These material are meant for furnitures etc, thus they are pretty durable. If you were to use paper, I’m sure you’ll need a layer of clear paint to protect it, else it’s gonna be messy.
As for the version with stamps, yes I glued the stamps directly on the Holga. I carefully applied few layers of clear paint to protect it once it was done.
It ain’t that hard, really. All you need is lots of patience and some careful planning … else the Holga’s gonna be in a mess. LOL!
Stay tuned for my most challenging design ever …. it’s 70% done now and I’ll post photos of it in a week or two.
Oh, I will indeed stay! Thanks much for the reply; will embark operation on my Holga as soon as possible!
Anticipate the unveiling of your concoction, eagerly. I do like your website very much, and am mooring over your collection of cameras – am ever so green! (:
Kim
Kim, you are must welcome. Do remember to send me photos of your cool design after you dress up your Holga, so that I can include it in this page here. Have fun! Cheers!
woah, awesome! i would like to customize my holga soon and this has given me some great ideas!
I really like the wooden looking one.
Durkin @ http://goholga.com
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Hey ndroo thanks pro posting my holga.. i link you on my blog hope you wont mind thanks,, your woody tell you SUPER AWESOME!! give me a lots of crazy idea now can’t wait make a trip down to home fix to get my material =) next item i will call it “cage holga”.
Hey ndroo, pieceofmylomo here.Do u help me pple design holgas ? I getting my new Holga 120N soon thinking of dressing up a little.I quite like the wood holga.Very nice.I looking for pple to help me dress up my Holga as I totally dunno how to do sia.
Rachel, I’ll contact you regarding this.
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the stamp one is just so darn cute!
lurhfveeee your lego holga… just thinking of getting a holga or a diana today! hahahaha. Two thumbs up, i would lurhfve to decorate my camera once i get it. *cheers
WAH!!!!!!!
I dun have ani HOLGA….but i think i’ll customise my DIANA then!!!!
WEEEEE…great idea with that wooden thingy!!!!
Great that you guys like em’.
Massy, I’ve always wanted to work on a Diana but still too lazy to start planning on one. Do remember to share photos of your cool Diana when it’s done.
there are other people like me!
now that i know about this, i’ll have to find somebody with a camera to take a picture of my holga!
K.T,
That’s cool! Remember to send me some photos of your Holgas.
How about this one?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/voskhod/3222910953/
Kaarle … wow! That’s the best Leica camera ever!
playground holga is my favourite… sell me please… please…. hehehe
ten10, thanks. Sorry but the playground holga is sold. They were all sold during a charity sale not too long ago.
i love the stamps but the playground holga is amazing! are you still customizing?
Diana,
Thanks. Hey you are having the same name as my favourite camera! LOL!
I have not been customizing Holgas for a while because I’m dedicating most of my time to my little boy. I’m working on a Holga 135BC though. It’s been quite a while but I’m trying to finish it in a month’s time.
OH MY GOSH HOW DID YOU DO THAT! how did you do the wood one? what did you use?
did you cut out like exactly the measurement?
oh yeah im singaporean where can i buy holgas? jhaha how much was urs?
li en, I get my Holgas from 8storeytree (http://8storeytree.com/store)
I used some self-adhesive material from the DIY stores for the wooden one. I did not cut exactly but used several small pieces to make it.
OHMYGOD!! would you do customizations?
DDDD
OMg!? A wooden blackbird?! WOW! Love the black bird and the lego holga! Super cool!
@kira-kira : Thanks. I’d love to do customizations but I seriously need to find more time in life to do those. Haha.
@Karen : Thank you
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BBF damn nice..
Was the lego one difficult to do? Where did you get your lego pieces from? How long did it take you?
OH and the stamps one. how many stamps did you need? and you used superglue to stick them down right?
@Su-Lyn : The Lego one was the toughest to do. I bought some 1×1 lego blocks from a shop in Novena Square (now closed) and took me about half a month (on and off) to arrange and stick them. As for the stamp one … I don’t know how many was there. Haha. I had many stamps, so that wasn’t a problem for me. I used those UHU glue instead of superglue for the stamp one. It’s only after completion, a few layers of clear paint was applied.
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cyanwater’s furry camera is so cute : >
@red : Yeah. That’s a very cosy design.
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Where you got your original holgas from? cheap not? email me
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i wannttttt the lego holga!!!!! amazing work.
@greybreaks : Thanks. Glad you like that design. Too bad it was sold in a charity sales some time ago. I’ve been finding time to work on some new designs but … grrr …. life’s been so busy.
i’ve been staring at this for hours! you designs are so nice!!!
*your designs HAHA
@renee : Thanks.
That lego Holga rocks the HOUSE!!! I’m gonna have to try that one!!! Well done!
@Jenni : Thank you
Hi i love the lego one. Any idea where i can get that? If any one do please email to this email felchia.jx@gmail.com thanks(:
@Fel : I made that one and it was sold in a charity sale some time ago. Sorry I’ve no idea if anyone else has made a similar one or has the buyer put it up for sale later on.
Will it be possible if you make another one?
@Fel : So sorry to disappoint you but I won’t be able to make another one. Firstly … it was supposed to be a ‘one piece only’ when I sold it and secondly … I don’t really like doing the same thing again. Hope you understand. I’ve been saying this but maybe I can *cough* repeat it again … I’m trying to find time to work on some new designs/ideas but … *cough* free time is something that is hardly in my vocabulary anymore.
These are amazing! I already covered one of mine in feathers (click my name for link) but the anti-slip Holga has inspired me to knit a skin for another one (at first-glance I thought exact-colour had crocheted that fetching blue & white skin!)
@6x6pix : Your chicken Holga is cool and very interesting! Hahaha! Now how do you actually bring it out for shoots? Hahaha! Don’t me adding your link here for those who wanna take a look at your cool work. http://www.tasteslikeyellow.com/6×6/chicken
inspired me to knit a skin for another one (at first-glance I thought exact-colour had crocheted that fetching blue & white skin
@القصيم كام : Cool! Don’t forget to share your new work when it is complete. We’d love to see it.
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Impressive designs!!! I love the lego holga and butts diana! So cute and colourful!
@cutebun : Thank you.
We always reeembmr our first.Plastic camera, that is. Mine was a modified Holga. I ordered it while working on a long-term, out-of-town project in Greenville, Texas. Aimlessly surfing the net one afternoon, I found some images made with a toy plastic camera of a cemetery in New York City. I was mesmerized. A few clicks and a couple of Google searches later, I purchased what would become my precious Holgy. That pile of plastic and a fistful of film were waiting for me when I returned home. I was immediately sent to Pascagoula, Mississippi on a new project, so that is the city where I lost my toy camera virginity. At first, I thought my return to film-based photography was, like Proust’s madeleine, a remembrance of things past. I certainly realized how sterile digital photography was compared to the tactile experience of inserting a roll of 120. I also relished the sweet pain of delayed gratification mailing the film off to a lab in California and waiting and waiting and waiting for the return of my prints. That four years and countless rolls of film ago. Today, I am the steward of a second Holga (one can never have too many), a niew Diana+, an original Diana, a Banner, and an Arrow (thank God for eBay), as well as a Horizon 202 panoramic. I define myself as a toy camera photographer, to which most people respond with Huh? or What’s that? followed by Why? My response usually includes something about obtaining images possible only with the combination of film and low-fi optics and the unpredictable nature of the two.But that changed two months ago. That is when my mother asked me to help her clean out her storage room. One large tub was filled with old family photos. And there, in all that deckle-edged, black and white, Kodak Brownie blurriness, was my toy camera A-ha moment. It was a truly Freudian experience. Sometimes a plastic camera is more than a plastic camera. It is a return to my childhood. Like a long-forgotten dream, I realize how those images informed my memory of my childhood. There I am in all my out-of-focus, snapshot glory, playing with the garden hose, petting my beagle, Pete, standing next to my pet duck, Ducky Doodle, in a shallow wading pool, holding my great-grandmother’s hand, and showing off my new pair of cowboy boots. No wonder I cherish the portrait I took of my youngest son last winter, standing with my old Flexible Flyer sled. Except for the Gap sweatshirt, it could just as easily have been of me 35 years ago.That is why now that I have gone plastic, I can never really go back. And, why I will always reeembmr my first.
@Youssef : That’s awesome!
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