BROKEN BIRDIE RECORDS BLOG

new camera new photos

noreply@blogger.com (Sean Baker) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:48:00 +0000

I bought a new camera, a Lomography Mini Diana +F excited to use it, also added new photo's to website

Its complete!

noreply@blogger.com (Sean Baker) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:22:00 +0000

Ive finished the website hurray!
www.BrokenBirdieRecords.com

Guess what....?

noreply@blogger.com (Sean Baker) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:44:00 +0000

www..BrokenBirdieRecords.com IS NEARLY COMPLETE!!!
there's a few tweeeks and twaaks i need to sort out... and also i need to add content..
but very... very soon it will be up!

Black and white fish eye.

noreply@blogger.com (Sean Baker) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:45:00 +0000

Quality of the photo's here arent great as the scanner is shit!!

The planning

noreply@blogger.com (Sean Baker) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:16:00 +0000

I've been Planning the website, going well... still not finished planning it so it will be a while until www.BrokenBirdieRecords.com is complete, then when the website is finished, its a matter of Content!!!
which could take a while to put up or not... i actually need to do some more photography and art and writtings,

New website!

noreply@blogger.com (Sean Baker) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:53:00 +0000

I've Aquired the Domain, BrokenBirdieRecords.com Hurray! which you may have noticed, I've also changed the name of the blog too, to go with the website.. which is not yet up.. actually no way near completion! But if i get the squishy pink wet stuff up there to work overtime something may happen... but i wouldn't count on it being any time soon!

I've been really lazy with everything lately, no suprise there, actually it would be jaw dropping if i acheived at least 1 goal on my imaginary "goal list", even to me!

but for now, i leave you the present of Le Corps Mince de Françoise!

Niece and Nephew

noreply@blogger.com (Sean Baker) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:02:00 +0000

Pastels :)

noreply@blogger.com (Sean Baker) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:45:00 +0000

Get your pastels out! its great reminds me of my childhood days in Nursery!

Action sampler!

noreply@blogger.com (Sean Baker) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:21:00 +0000

The first shots were just to test the camera and get used to it, pretty simple camera, wind and shoot wind and shoot, no flash no add ons, just shoot!

the camera takes a series of four photos, over about 1.5 seconds. Which is why some of the photos differ from the first frame of the four on the photograph. This camera ive found really is best used in good weather and outside, if its not used in great weather and/or indoor the result isnt great but good enough to experiment! none of the photographs i took are as i wanted them to turn out but to be honest I wasn't totally sure what i'd expect from this camera!

I done the majority of the testing at a friends barbecue, the weather was fine to say the least, no wet burgers.

Lomography Action sampler camera

noreply@blogger.com (Sean Baker) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:05:00 +0000

Just bought one today, it takes four pictures on the same negative, :D cant wait to develope.. need to take 30 more shots!!
the only down thing about this camera is it can only be used in sunny weather with 100 or 200 ISO BUT can be used at night with a higher ISO like 800+ the ISO i have is 400 at the minute so should work in cloudy shitty weather we have here!

FE2

noreply@blogger.com (Sean Baker) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:18:00 +0000

^ tipsy flash ^

^ two exposures on the same neg ^

^ two exposures on the same neg, just turn the camera around :D ^

FE1

noreply@blogger.com (Sean Baker) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:54:00 +0000

^ traffic cones at night with a wiggle of light :D ^

^ a wiggle of exposure then flash a drunk ^

^ night shot, flash ^

^ on a bus no flash, then retake on the same neg in a different position ^

Change is coming....

noreply@blogger.com (Sean Baker) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:22:00 +0000

Title says all...

Kitty The Mill Ghost

noreply@blogger.com (Sean Baker) — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:51:00 +0000

The following tale is based upon real events and is desired to be local folktale of the Willington and Wallsend areas.

Catherine Devore, aged 43 had been working at the Haggies Rope Factory in Willington Quay for 4 years before the following disastrous event occurred in 1906. Catherine nicknamed Kitty by fellow factory workers was a large, vociferous character to say the least, especially known for her steady flow of hearsay. Kitty’s constant array of hearsay made her unpopular amongst the other girls and incredibly un-trustable. Kitty’s hair, key to this story was shoulder length unmanageable and generally left to hang.

Haggies Factory was specified to making Large 6inch in diameter ropes for industrial use generally for the use of ships. Their machine’s for making these ropes were highly dangerous and marginally aggressive for Kitty was not the first to be “attacked” by these monsters. Numerous past workers have lost a finger or two in their duty of attending the callous binding machines.

Kitty’s story was more vicious than just losing a finger however, for kitty’s trademark loutish hair was the centre of attention this day and not her scandalous mouth. Although her word hole was clanging, thus distracting her from paying enough attention to where her infamous hair was travelling. Her hair caught in the binding rope machine, spinning fast giving poor Kitty little chance of survival. Screams roared from Catherine within a literal 5 seconds the skin from her scalp was torn bearing her skull to fresh daylight. Blood traversed the workshop, machines and employees. The body falling to the solid concrete ground smashing the skull instantly killing Catherine.

This short but fascinating tale has been popular local folktale along with many other tales about the Willington Quay area. With more research into the Willington Mill I have found maybes before the “Kitty the Mill Ghost” tale, the mill was haunted by the witch whom lived upon the site before the mill was built in her cottage sometime in the 2/3^rd century.

The Victorians regarded the Mill as one of the most haunted buildings in the North East driving many of the residents out of the mill and surrounding area, in popular culture it is said kitty’s ghost wanders the Dene and walks under the Seven archer’s (bridge).

I’m hoping this isn’t true as many a time I have walked the mile and a half journey from a pub I used to visit to my home walking right past the Mill and right under the seven archers late at night in the pitch of black. If I had of been thinking of any of the old ghost stories about this area whilst walking the journey goodness knows what I’d have done or thought. I’d have been petrified!