Well, You Can't Do That With Digital Photography...

It's worth a try?? aint it??

well...that's one way to do it I guess...I don't want one of them though and you can't make me, lol!

Urine -- The Untapped Natural Resource

(I'd pay a lot for a car that could run on urine. Of course, that would take 'smog' to a potent, new level . . . )

Damn, I think I just destroyed my memory card :(

It just looked like a dirty photo to me. People pay a fortune to have images cleaned that have this type of damage. Ugh.

i wouldn't call it beautiful... easy enough to pee on something else and scan it in as a texture. yet because its unique it will sell for a fortune. i remember a guy dropped his camera in a river. and it survived, but when it took pictures the colors became really funky, and that became his shtick.


---Mike Savad

After looking at those, I think they would do better by dunking their camera in water, and rolling it in the sand.

I suppose some artists believe that a scatological mindset is a way of leading others to view their work as somehow 'thinking outside of the box'.

Some folks think it is extremely funny to watch a monkey fling their dung at a human. I believe that it is the monkey that, in truth, has the last laugh. In some ways monkeys are more intelligent than the lower rung of humans.

I find it interesting that anyone promoting such as this---by way of sharing it---even under the guise of humor, should give it a second thought.

Certainly, I am a human and have told my share of off color jokes, yet I don't consider this either a joke, or a substantive addition to any discussion conducted by mature adults.

Of course, this is only my opinion. And I suspect I may raise the ire of more than one individual on this forum, but I have never been reluctant to be outspoken.

Wendy, you may be surprised to find out that all diesel vehicles in US made after 2010 do in fact "run on urine". Well, not exactly, but they use urine solution to clean up the exhaust.

This guy took "photography" to a whole new level:

http://beautifuldecay.com/2014/03/16/photographer-swallows-35mm-film-allows-digestive-fluids-create-astounding-images/

I have 4 dogs so I will soak my pics in dog poop. Might make some really nice sepia images.

OK then.

@Walter. Are you saying that I should never made the original post?

I think this is part of the lomography thing taken a bit farther. While I don't see the point of doing it myself, it doesn't offend any sensibility of mine that someone else did it.
People do things like put their film in the dishwasher etc. For this technique I wonder if vinegar wouldn't do something similar.

However you feel about it, the artist has hit on a way to get attention to her work. Of course the reason for that is peoples sensitives and embarrassments in talking about bodily functions that everyone has. Maybe that's part of what she is doing? I have no way of knowing.

@Robert. You could also collect the poop from the street, thus providing an additional public service and free "material". ;)

@Alexey. Somehow, I don't think their gastroenterologist would approve...

Vinegar would probably do the same thing but it wouldn't give the same 'flavor' to the art! I see nothing wrong with posting the article, even though I don't want one of her prints! There will be buyers for this...there are always buyers for the unusual and strange. Hey, she figured out a niche for herself, more power to her.

Interesting, liked the textures but not sure if art can survive in the long run with gimmicks.

Nothing new.
Andy Warhol among many others before him used urine in their
art works.
See Andy Warhol"s , " Oxidation Painting
copper metallic pigment and urine on canvas
76 x 52 in. (193 x 132 cm.)
Painted in 1978.
current price in USD. $1,889,000.00

This story reminded me of seeing blood paintings a few years back.

People have used different mediums with film that makes them unique. I am not that interested in the urine work on the film, just as I was not that interested in the salt water soaking either. The urine and salt waster soaking at very similar in effect, from the look of it. None the less, I have known people to use coffee grounds in their processing, used and fresh, for effects as well. The coffee grounds are actually a good process. Film is so open to the artist's imagination of working that it is more diverse.
I know when I get my lab set up, I want to have the coffee, and copper dust to do some processing with. Maybe even some magnesium dust as well. I have seen work with these and they all look great!

technically though i can do that, i just, well i need to borrow your camera and computer for just a moment.

---Mike Savad

Thanks Mike. I'll pass though ok?

lol!!

What a stupid gimmick.

It's just a no-talent shock gimmick to get people to buy the photographs. Nothing new there. Some might buy, most won't. IMO

Gimmicky and uninteresting...

oh, you're all just being pissy. ;)