{"id":3019,"date":"2012-01-12T22:21:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T22:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2012\/01\/mirror_box\/"},"modified":"2012-01-12T22:21:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T22:21:17","slug":"mirror_box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/mirror_box\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirror Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/6686464831\/\" title=\"Mirror Box 2 by adambowie, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7034\/6686464831_095382e805.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Mirror Box 2\"><\/a><br \/>\nThese photos were made by placing a camera on self-timer in a &#8220;mirror box&#8221; built with mirrored tiles.<br \/>\nAll based on a very smart idea I saw on <A HREF=\"http:\/\/tumblr.photojojo.com\/post\/13645898961\/while-these-look-like-some-kind-of-crazy-cgi-tron\">Photojojo<\/A> and detailed at <A HREF=\"http:\/\/digitalcomposting.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/01\/mirror-box\/\">Digital Composting.<\/A> The box that I built was built precisely to those specifications.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/6686458919\/\" title=\"Mirror Box 1 by adambowie, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7034\/6686458919_7e507460bb.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Mirror Box 1\"><\/a><br \/>\nI used 12&#8243; square tiles I bought from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirrorworld.co.uk\/catalogue\/NewDetailPage05.asp?Name=AN012\">Mirrorworld<\/a> who you&#8217;ll be pleased to learn package the tiles very well indeed.<br \/>\nI used Duct tape to hold the hole thing together, taping the four walls together so that they fold flat, leaving the base mirror untouched, and taping a handle onto the top mirror for &#8220;closing&#8221; the box. I just need to add some kind of overhand to allow the top tile to sit comfortably.<br \/>\nI need to try a few more things, but now I&#8217;ve fashioned the box (which I can semi pack down), so look for some more photos soon. In particular, getting some smoke into it and trying a laser-pointer could be fun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These photos were made by placing a camera on self-timer in a &#8220;mirror box&#8221; built with mirrored tiles. All based on a very smart idea I saw on Photojojo and detailed at Digital Composting. The box that I built was built precisely to those specifications. I used 12&#8243; square tiles I bought from Mirrorworld who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}