Categories / Art and Photography

Build-It-Yourself Recesky Twin Lens Reflect Camera

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If taking photographs with a lomography camera isn’t challenging enough for you, then you might be interested in this Build-It-Yourself Recesky Twin Lens Reflect Camera.

Once put together the camera will take vintage-style soft focus photographs with the distorted colours you’d expect from lomography photographs. But first you have to built it, which looks like it could be quite a challenge judging by the number of little pieces of plastic it consists of.

The kit costs £35 from Pedlars.

Categories / Art and Photography, Travel

Ingela city prints from Lagom

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Ingela Arrhenius has been a frequent visitor on this site recently, from her alphabet print to her dish cloths design. However, how can we resist showing you more when she keeps coming up with designs as attractive as these city prints, available from Lagom?

She's produced prints, illustrating the delights of three of our favourite European cities. Each shows some of the city's landmarks and unique charms, as seen through the eyes of a Swedish illustrator and executed in her retro style. The baguettes, macaroons and Mona Lisa of Paris is shown in the print above, while you can check out London's pubs, punks and city gents over the page. The third city? Some Swedish style courtesy of Stockholm. 

Each print is limited to 200 and cost £45. 

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Categories / Art and Photography

Vintage ‘Bossy Woman’ Pictures

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Brigitte Herrod has created these limited edition Vintage ‘Bossy Woman’ Pictures exclusively for Rockett St George.

Each box frame consists of a vintage dolls with her hands on her hips and a message. Ready-made messages include Are you listening Frank!, Tea's Ready!, Put the kettle on!, Now wash your hands!, Happy Birthday! or I love you! (the latter two somewhat at odds with her stern expression). You can also opt to have a personalised message instead.

The pictures cost £59 from Rockett St George.

Categories / Art and Photography

More Tea Vicar Print

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This More Tea Vicar Print is in a similar war era style as the well-known Keep Calm series.

Whilst there has been plenty of these types of designs around in recent years, this one wins us over with its cute teapot illustration and a reference to our favourite beverage. It meaures 14cm by 18cm and is sold framed in a black wood frame.

It costs £12.95 from Vinegar Hill.

Categories / Art and Photography

Free Super 8 vintage film shooting app for iPhone and iPad

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It's actually a movie tie-in, but the Super 8 app for the iPhone and iPad is still one of the best apps around. Best of all? It's free too, making it a better proposition than the similar iSupr8 app.

Essentially it turns your mobile phone or tablet into a super 8 film camera, without the film obviously. You shoot at the touch of a button, with the option to switch lenses, throw in filters and add someshake effects.  When you are done, you send it off to be developed (another push of a button), then you can view it in your projector room (on our phone) or export it to a computer / share it with friends.

Seven lens effects in total, plus three animated filters, a scratch and dirt overlay and those shake effects offer real authenticity and as we said – it's absolutely free. Only free for a limited time though, so grab it now.

Find out more at the iTunes website

Categories / Art and Photography, Film and TV

Battle of the Planets limited edition prints by Hand Drawn Creative at Etsy

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If you feel nostalgia for confusing Japanese / American animations of the 1980s, you just might like these Battle of the Planets prints by Hand Drawn Creative at Etsy.

Hand Drawn Creative is Belfast illustrator Neal McCullough, who has drawn for everyone from Time magazine to CBeebies. But right now, his attention is focused on cult cartoon (and owner of the finest intro ever) Battle of the Planets.

Jason is above, with Mark and Princess over the page. All are A3 giclée prints, all are priced at £20, as well as being limited to 20, signed and numbered by the artist. Other characters will follow throughout the year.

Find out more at the Hand Drawn Creative Etsy store

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