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Making Things

It’s about 7 o’clock in the evening and we’re making stuff at The Lab. Andrew’s over there building a portable darkroom (minilab, he calls it) for making wet plates in the field, and tinkering. Last time I glanced over he was yanking something with a pair of pliers – I just looked back and it’s…

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Workshops: July through November 2013

A New Lab (time to play) In March 2013 The Analogue Laboratory relocated to The Mill, an arts hub located in the heart of Adelaide City itself. After two months of construction and a whirlwind fundraising campaign, The Lab is bigger, better, shinier, and we’re itchy to get back into making things. Get on board…

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Lab Progress!

Buying Gyprock and Pine at Bunnings A great big pile of the stuff in the studio. First stud wall Nail Guns certainly speed up the process hanging plasterboard in the large darkroom Plastering the dang stuff Sink installed in the small darkroom, complete with happy face Large darkroom plastered and sanded, with light-tight vent holdes…

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Tintypes and keeping your Silver Bath happy

First successful Tintype at the lab, Saturday the 8th of December. We ran a wet plate Collodion workshop in June with Alice Blanch and James Tylor, who popped over from Tasmania to do us the honour. Since then the equipment and an awful lot of silver has all been sitting waiting for idle hands and…

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