Dolamieu

I really don’t know why, but one of my most vivid post-Katrina memories is this:

mr. padded bra i am so sorry. the other day i got an email from tumblr saying that my report against you had led to termination. the thing is i never reported you. i enjoy your posting and would like it to continue. but i may have done it while sleepwalking or something because i have actually blocked people while sleepwalking before. and i feel an immense sense of guilt. can i atone

you wanna see some badass shit from the early 20th century?? The Lumière brothers created the first full color photograph… in fucking 1903! So these dudes dyed potatoes (in red, blue, and green), mashed them down into just pure fuckin’ starch, and used these dyed potato starches as filters to block out/let in certain wavelengths of light. They coated one side of a glass plate with the starches and sensitized the other side with a mixture of gelatin and light sensitive materials (silver nitrate) and loaded these plates in their cameras.. This is a really simple explanation of the process and I may have missed some things A few of my favorite autochrome photos:

yes!

Here are a few more Prokudin-Gorskiy / Gorskii shots, and a reminder once again that these aren’t recently colourised BW images but original colour photos taken about 120 years ago. Many colourised pics don’t look this good. Some modern colour pics don’t look this good (as I know all too well. “Delete image Y/N? Y!”)