Joe Van Cleave's Blog

I now have a handful of 5-series Smith-Coronae, they're solid, reliable machines that're straight forward to work on and also wo...

Here's the Samsonite suitcase, retrieved from my storage shed and once again repurposed as a typewriter case. I like this better tha...

There were more problems not mentioned above, like the margin rack and adjustment sliders were so corroded that they'd hardly move. I...

I've been interested in the " Afghan Box Camera ," also known as the "Cuban Polaroid," the "Kamra-e-Faoree&qu...

A photo from our 2009 vacation to Southern California I was perusing my old Flickr photos when I came across this typecast, made with my ...

(Poem by Monique Olivia, written during the recent Cherry Hills Type-In) This poem's been sitting on my studio table for a few weeks. ...

(Rocker tray animated via bent map pin) I'm constantly brainstorming ideas for camera and darkroom devices. Here's a recent examp...

The blinged-out, tarted-up SM9 Here's my original idea, prototyped in cardstock: Yes, it worked, sort of. No, it doesn't look ...

I'm in the newspaper ! A few months ago I was interviewed by Cameron Knight, reporter for the Cincinnati Inquirer, about my fascinatio...

A collection of past journal books My journals are a hodgepodge of both handwritten material, sketches and collage, often intermixed. Sk...