CameraLuv | Camera-Inspired Prints, Hand-Painted Art, Inspirations on all things Camera and Photography

We love making custom shoes, skateboards and painting on cameras and other products and like to see it when other people do to. Here’s a few images from Singapore artist Sun Lee Siew Loo‘s Lomo customization of the cool Sprocket Rocket for a Lomography Asia contest.

Here’s how she did it:

Here’s a cool camera-inspired, Limited edition screen-printed poster for the band The Hidden Cameras by Stéphane Monnet and Agnes Wong of Monnet Design.

Found via HOW

The talented Jason Munn has been making music posters out of Oakland, CA for a while now under the name The Small Stakes. He recently relaunched his site and we spotted this new Ben Gibbard Poster that we have to have. Be sure to check out his book, THE SMALL STAKES Music Posters which came out last year.

What do you get when you combine your favorite camera, an industrial design class assignment, and a month and a half of sweat and frustration? A lighter wallet and an awesome 3:1 scale model of your favorite Holga. Student Gil Adam of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, Israel originally sent his story into the Makezine blog. Even though most of his fellow students chose much easier objects to recreate at a larger scale, Gil knew he had to do the Holga even though it had more than 30 individual parts.

Gil’s a guy after our own heart and wouldn’t stop until his creation was complete. It took a variety of materials like MDF, glue and stainless steel as well as a host of tools like a laser cutter, lathes, hydraulic press, a 3D printer and more. We think the results were totally worth it. Check out some process images of Gil’s creation below and to read more about the process behind the camera, visit his Makezine feature.

Found via FourCornersDark and @holgajen

We’re happy to announce that we’ve been commissioned by Vans Shoes to create a variety of one of a kind shoes for their nationwide Custom Culture Campaign.

These West Coast Polaroids are collaged from nearly 100 of our photographs from last year’s West Coast travels up the California coast from San Diego to San Francisco. Some of the highlights are images from places like the Sunset Cliffs, La Jolla, Ocean Beach, Huntington, Venice, Santa Monica, Big Sur, Monterrey, the bay area and more.

Contact Us for details about getting your own pair of custom Vans.

Here’s a look at the amazing CG short film called The Third & The Seventh from the talented Alex Roman. Not only does this video give love to the architecture around us and to cameras of all kinds, it’s actually not video at all, it’s almost all computer-generated. Everything except the skies and the guy shot on green screen is all CG. It’s mind-blowing to consider this is all developed in the computer and not shot on a 5d or 7d.Enjoy and do yourself a favor and watch it fullscreen!

Our new Cameraluv skateboards are now available for purchase at our Etsy store. Check them out and buy something to support our camera-luving habit.

Artist and sculptor Kiel Johnson rocks out a sweet oversized twin-reflex camera the likes of which we’ve never seen. Kiel’s skills and attention to detail with simple materials like cardboard, tape and hot glue are amazing. Director of Photography Theo Jemison brings the process to life with the help of editing by Arthur Mor and music by Sixto Rodriguez. After the sculpture was completed the crew made it into a pinhole camera and captured these images.

Our Cameraluv art is now available for purchase on our very own Etsy store. Check it out and buy something to support our camera-luving habit.

The Oh Snap Project is a sweet new line of photography inspired t-shirts brought to you by the minds behind No Star Clothing. The project was founded by Erik Prowell and a host of other photographers have their own tees, like Cheyenne Ellis, Craig Eisenberg, Jesse Russell, Loren Carlie, Mathieu Charland, Nikolaus Jung, and Trevor Graves. This project is only in it’s first volume, so expect more cool tees from them in the future.

Visit Oh Snap:
Oh Snap Project