I’m moving my office home, and what WAS my “8mm film room” (that I never got around to working on my films), has to be turned into my home office. It’s a small room, with a small closet and a window.
Buying pre-made desk and shelving will not only cost a lot of money, but it’ll also be awkward and waste space. I’m sorta okay at building stuff, and I’d build a two-wall desk/shelving at the new Reptilian (soon closing) and at my old apartment.
I’d taken measurements a few weeks ago and designed the whole thing in Adobe Illustrator. Well, three of the four walls at least. The fourth wall with the two doors will be a mail order center, and that’ll wait until the three other walls are done.

Went to Home Depot and priced lumber and came up with a very rough figure of $300-$350 for three walls.
When I finally got the time off, I drove down to the Depot with my plans and measurements and started loading up lumber into one of those orange metal luber carts. I’m not a cerpenter, so I’m thinking through the project as I’m loading, trying to keep measurements and etc. right.
Then, at some point, I see these damned white Melamine pre-drilled boards marked CLEARANCE $3.00. I look at my cart filled with $10 to $16 per planks of wood, back at the $3.00 sign, up at the white color, then started loading the unpainted pine back onto the racks I’d just pulled them from. For 66%+ off the price, I’ll deal with a white desk. Plus, no painting needed.
Because I don’t have a truck, everything had to fit into my Buick LeSabre, so everything was cut to less than 7′.

At the end of the first day, I had the 4 major shelving units done for the desk, and I was able to figure out what I needed for the other two walls. I also had all my fingers still, and kept relatively warm. Went back to Home Depot again before they closed at 7 and picked up the rest of the wood I needed. Left it in the car to start again tomorrow morning.

I’ll post photos of the empty room, and everything installed tomorrow – assuming I get it done, and don’t have to go to the ER.

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This is a collection of 8mm films I transferred. The method is not professional telecine, but done after much experimentation to maximize the equipment I have. It’s not like these were shot by masters of the craft in the first place.

The clips titled “Bondage Highlights” are all from a single compilation film. Since the films often broke, the scenes were most likely culled from longer films that had worn down, and edited together “in house” at the porn shop.

Culled from my collection of many hundreds of 8mm porno films, purchased from one of the peep booth shops from the infamous “Block” in Baltimore. These films were used in peep booths a quarter at a time.

The films were sold off because the remaining booths that used films were being refitted for DVDs.

The films are silent, as original. I had the choice of recording the sound of the projector, but decided against it. Play your own music!

Flickr started allowing 90 second video clips. I transfered a few 8mm films from my archive this weekend and though I still don’t get the quality I want, it’s getting better. They look better on Flickr than anything I’ve uploaded to YouTube…

Because someone asked, these are from my archive of films, aquired from an old porno shop formerly operated on Baltimore’s infamous “Block”. I own a very large collection of these films.

(edit: Funny, the video below was removed by flickr, for inappropriate content (boobs?), but the above where a woman is hanged is still safe)