[Frameworks] speaking of Bleu Shut...

[Jeff Kreines]

Definitely not a lab effect. 

In the sixties, when fisheye lenses were a craze, those with no money for a real fisheye used a trick from Popular Photography.  You’d take a little peephole viewer (like you find in apartment building doors) and mount it to a lens cap that you’ve drilled a hole in.  Looks like that to me.

I don’t see the small black center hole in your photos, so I can’t comment on that.

Jeff “projected a Bob Nelson retrospective in Chicago in ’72 and met Tom Palazzolo because of it” Kreines

> On Oct 29, 2018, at 4:22 PM, Eric Theise <erictheise at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I attended PFA's screening of Luminous Procuress a few weeks back (https://bampfa.org/event/out-vault-luminous-procuress <https://bampfa.org/event/out-vault-luminous-procuress>) and was startled to see an effect I've only ever associated with Robert Nelson's Bleu Shut. There are at least two sections in Nelson's film – one where a group of people are repeatedly sticking their tongues out, one where a man is teetering around on a child's (bi-? tri-?) cycle before toppling into a large puddle of water, both in slow motion – where there's a kind of fisheye view with a small, very black hole at the center of the disk. Curator Emeritus Steve Seid thought it was a lab effect but I'm curious if any of you know how it was made, what the effect is called, and if you know of any other films that use it.
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> Grateful to Albert and the "clock" thread for reminding me to ask.
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> Eric
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