Motorized Couch (4 September 2004)

(The thumbnails on this page are linked to full-size images.)

Adam Kraft, Dave Nelson, and Ryan Williams, along with Cameron from Third East, converted a sleeper sofa into a sweet vehicle powered by a surplus snowblower engine. The occasion was East Campus Rush 2004.

A Technical Note:
In an uncharacteristic departure from my principles, I shot these photos with a Nikon D1H digital SLR. Two results should be immediately obvious. First, the emphasis on quantity over quality. Second, in shots with a mixture of sunlight and shade, the highlights are badly blown out -- an ugly characteristic common to all digital photos. Modern CCDs can still only achieve a fraction of the contrast range of photographic film. More discussion on this subject can be found on Ken Rockwell's excellent web site.


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