4 posts tagged “ttv”

Just a few new TTV shots for now. My eyes have been burning for the last couple days, so I had to go to wally world and buy some allergy eye drops and that helped some. I had to take my new glasses back to wally world too because the lenses already scratched on them and I've only had them for about 10 days. It makes me really frustrated because of all the problems I've been having with America's Best messing up my glasses before, not once, but twice, and now the new glasses I got at wally world are now scratched. I'm not hard on my glasses either. I wear them or when I'm not wearing them I lay them on my desk... I'm scared that the case will even scratch them... Also I've been sneezing most all last night and today and feeling terrible with a headache. I got some work done, but not as much as I would have liked to finish.

I really must finish some custom orders asap before the end of the week. I'm kinda behind on things again. Gah.

I finally made a cardboard contraption to fit over my old Argus 75 camera. I took an old sushi master box and fit it over the camera, cutting and folded it around and taped the mess out of it. It was fairly tall and my kodak had a hard time focusing, so I cut it down to half. This contraption greatly reduces the amount of glare coming from lights or the sun. I even cut out a little place on the top, so my lens will fit nicely and I know the exact place to put my camera each time.

In the TTV group on flickr, I've seen much more nicer contraptions, but I'm not a professional photographer by any means, so this one works just fine for me right now.

TTV of Mae Starr doll, originally uploaded by jelene.

Shot with my kodak through an argus 75.

About this doll, the oldest doll I have in my collection: The Mae Starr doll is another doll that played music with light blue cylinders. Phonograph dolls talk, sing and play cylinders like a record... Mae Starr is 29 inches tall, four inches larger than the Genuine Madame Hendren. The Mae Starr doll was made from 1928 through 1944, when doll production stopped because of the shortage of materials due to World War II. On the back of the shoulder plate is the identifying name: "Mae Starr Doll". There is a rare advertising cylinder for Mae Starr titled "The Mae Star Dolly", which carries this title on the rim of the cylinder. These cylinders were supplied by the Averill Company.

Shots in my room... a little blurry, but it was hard to get light in some parts of my room for them to be clear enough.