From: cybes@wildcard.demon.co.uk (Cyber Surfer)
Date: 1 Feb 1996 05:52:44 GMT
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The simplest way to explain this site is to give you the words
of the man who took the photographs:
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My name is Howard Stone. Briefly, a few years ago I had a delivery
job (I won't say what I was delivering or for whom). It was very
boring and badly paid but I soon found a way of livening it up.
I discovered that the van I had to drive could very easily be
persuaded to produce very loud, frightening backfires as and when
I wanted it to (I'm not telling you how, find out for yourselves)
and as I've always been keen on photography, I tried an experiment.
I mounted a camera, pointing backwards, from the back window of the
van, I hid it behind a retractable black cloth shutter and operated
it with a cable-release long enough to be operated whilst driving.
I would make the van backfire and photograph the frightened mayhem
I'd created as I drove past. Out of (partial) consideration for my
fellow man, I avoided pensioners, dentists' surgeries and gynaecologists.
I had a lot of extra work to do. I had to damp down camera shake,
I had to get the timing right and I had to do a lot of work in the
darkroom to get a good enlargement. Don't forget, as I couldn't
point the camera (I was driving the van) I had to use a standard
50mm lens and enlarge the interesting bit. I never knew what I'd
captured until I developed the film and I had a lot of failures.
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The Pavement Terror is at <URL:http://www.enrapture.com/pterror/>,
and the Cocknee Pavement Terror version is at
<URL:http://www.enrapture.com/pterror/cocknee.html>.
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