Introducing Fisher & Price, PI

[susie_flo]

Good evening fiends. Today I popped into the Science Museum and bought a pinhole camera kit in readiness for Sunday.

While this is all delightfully steampunk and all, the down side is that this piece of cardboardy gadge requires actual film... which, erm, nobody seems to sell any more. At least nobody within easy reach who's still open when I finish work.

And where, in the name of feck, does one get film developed these days? (my local Boots no longer acknowledges the existence of such ludicrous olde worlde methods). I have to confess the lack of instant gratification inherent in all of this does not sit easy on my shoulders. But I do so love pinhole photos that I shall persevere.

What really tickled me at lunchtime was the profusion of Spy-Gadge for children that you can buy in the Science Museum. They've got real, working stuff like listening devices and glasses where you can see what's going on behind you.

Now i am gagging to open a detective agency that runs on primary coloured fisher-price gadgetry. I mean, who on earth would take me seriously while I stake them out wearing X-ray specs, a bright blue earpiece and mumbling into a plastic walkie-talkie watch?

So who wants to be my partner?

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Comments

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Oooh pinhole excitement :-)

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

It's giving me fear. The idea of possibly getting it all wrong and not finding out until I get the film developed... ulp.

But I am excited too. Are you not tempted to join in?

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I am but all being well we'll be in that Whitby and probably not in a in a fit state to carry out any kind of do it yourself photography malarkey.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Excellent! We shall carry large plastic cameras and water pistols and perform our work amid a continuous stream of filthy one-liners.

[rosamicula.livejournal.com]

We could be like the Cagney and Lacey of plastic steampunk.