Sorry for the delay everyone! A post from the very first bob Hero now! the one and only Hakimbo Hakim!

Bob first arrived in Singapore on the 8th December 2010 from London. And boy was he excited in this hot and humid place! Bob went to shoot at Fort Canning Park on Lucky Black & White and looks amazing! Here’s bob in action! Bob at the Zebra crossing.. Pretending he’s on Abbey Road! Bob posed with a tourist which looks like Anna Wintour, the Fashion Goddess! Feel the wind against the hair!! Bob Mutated for Double Trouble! Ship Ahoy!! Bob wanna climb the lighthouse! Bob shot with a couple sun tanning. Bob second shoot was with a fiery hot Redscale film! Bob definitely look HOT! and enjoying the heat! Peek-a-boo Bob..! I see you hiding in someone’s mail box! Bob played a swing from a rubber tyre! That looks fun, Bob!! Bob on the railway track 778.25..! the grass looks like its gonna burst into flames anytime soon! With the scorching heat, Bob seek shelter under an umbrella someone who just walked past..! Nice trick Bob! Bob mischievously crept on my shoulder by the railway track and this is my personal favourite of Bob!! Lomo on Bob!

Check out the rest of Hakimbo's bob photos here

bob's first exhibition!!

Wow! well that was exciting! bob's first exhibition was a bit of a whirlwind, hence my blog post about it being two weeks late! we were not really planning to hold exhibitions this early into the project, but it worked out really well, with bob making an appearance in the BBC newsroom and local press!!!! (he is a better TV personality than i am it turns out!)

We only had a week to prepare so we were scouring the charity shops for tacky golden frames while i was busily threading a bob map and Jake printed polaroids all night! (it was fairly manic! and now my house is full of horrible picture frames) Jake also made feedback cards so visitors could tick the photos they liked just like facebook! (feedback to follow!)

Everyone was blown away by the scale of the project and keen to join! there were 70 bobs at the gallery for visitors to take and after one day they were all gone so we are expecting an influx of local photos! The photos looked amazing framed and properly presented it is really great to see how much amazing work there is already! We will definitely be having more exhibitions in the future and we are talking with the Wobbly Bridge about a larger scale Exhibition Soon!

Jake was armed with his Diana for the whole night so there are some great photos from the opening night have a look!

Jake and i would like to thank the Wobblybridge Gallery, Redbox Cameras and popasylum!! thanks!

Bob news!!

Hello all, sorry we have been a bit lax on the blog recently. Things have been pretty busy, bob's first exhibition was a great success and around 170 new bobs have gone out into the world! but there will be plenty more information about that soon. The exciting news of the day is that bob's blog is changing!! From now on members of the "have you seen bob?" community will be submiting their bob adventures for your enjoyment so if you have had a bob adventure get writing and mail your submissions to tinlizard@hotmail.co.uk and we will feature you!! To start things off please enjoy Danielle Dillahunt Elkin's bob adventure in Southern California!!

Bob's Southern Californian Adventure by Danielle Dillahunt Elkin

Bob is very excited about being in Southern California although he is a little upset that he has not yet run into Angelina Jolie. He is ever hopeful.

I typically photograph Bob using my Holga 135. Holgas have lots of available accessories such as a wide angle lens, colored filters, soft focused colored filters, and a colorsplash flash. I break out of all these when taking photos of Bob. Bob, being an artistic guy himself, likes it that way.

Bob's first photo shoot was in the Old Town area of my city of Camarillo California. Camarillo is a small town north of Los Angeles with a very small and very quaint Old town section. I captured Bob taking in the local sites, window shopping, and generally soaking in the local color. With Old Town being about a mile long give or take, the photo shoot went rather quickly.

Bob's next trip was to Ventura beach with Ventura California being a small but very cool beach town also north of Los Angeles. Bob spent the day eating at a great 50s diner, going antiquing, and then going for a nice walk along the beach. I used my colorsplash camera for this photo shoot so no double exposures but some cool light effects photos were taken in the 50s diner.

Next Bob took a drive with me up the coast to Northern California. There he came along on a hiking trip. Part of the hike passed a farm where Bob narrowly escaped a potentially dangerous incident with a goat. Phew! Having survived the Goat Incident, Bob made it all the way up the hill to take in the glorious view of Northern California from up on high. I switched to b&w film for the drive back. We periodically stopped during the drive to give Bob a chance to stretch his legs and check out one particularly scenic beach. Here Bob hiked in the hills above the beach before heading down to check out the rocky shore. Although the water was cold that day, Bob made a run for the water and spent the rest of the car trip wrapped in blanket. You know, I had warned him . . .

This week Bob went to Santa Monica to check out the Santa Monica mall (hoping to see Angelina Jolie) and also to check out the world famous pier. He was photographed using colored flashes and colored filters and generally had a great time. He discovered he doesn't really like shopping that much as it was rather difficult finding items in his size. As usual he preferred the walk along the beach and of course taking in the sites of the pier. . .

By Danielle Dillahunt Elkin

See the whole album HERE

Spring has sprung! hooray! Finally the grey season, the bane of lomographers, is over! With an imaginary drum roll i switched my aperture setting to sunny and Jake and i were off to the woods to capture springs first shoots! it was a day for experimenting and adventure! Jake has a new camera to try out (with three aperture settings: cloudy sunny and yellow, yes yellow!) i was in the mood climb trees and on a mission to get a decent shot from my splitzer!

Jakes yellow aperture was surprisingly successful as you can see, meanwhile i discovered that by the last quarter of my splitzer photos i have forgotten which way I am going and miss a quarter every time! It was even sunny enough to dust off the spinner so there are some 360 shots complete with sprocket holes courtesy of our very diligent developer at redbox cameras!

I think the few people we saw were a little shocked to see me all my cameras and accessories half way up a tree with a small cardboard man! my vision of bob overlooking an epic spring vista was an epic fail but at least Jake managed to get a shot of me in a tree looking like Bigfoot the photographer!

This Week Jake and I headed to London for our weekly bob adventure. Armed with our Diana's, various other cameras and my newly acquired stroboscopic flash we walked into Trafalgar square. I had visions of a multi flash, pigeon, bob, extravaganza! But yet again the "bird mob bob photo" (new title) has alluded me! it turns out that there aren't any pigeons in Trafalgar square anymore!! How did I miss that! After a little research I discovered that this was a massive thing and that at one stage (according to www.savethepigeons.org) the GLA where using industrial hoovers to suck them up!! Now they employ birds of prey to keep them away!!! WOW!! the search for the "bird mob bob photo" continues!

Slightly bereaved but not discouraged we pushed on strobe flash firing into a freezing night! Some how bob managed to draw a crowd of Russians and after a few minutes of gesticulations and misunderstandings they left with a bob! Who knows, maybe their bob photos will appear some day! We didn't even manage to get a photo of them!

Then we went to the south bank where bob was run over by quite a few skateboarders and generally got in the way a bit. Overall the big city was a little bit too big for bob but at least he didn't end up in the Thames! (thanks sellotape!)

bob's Hastings Adventure

This week Jake and I took bob to Hastings! For those of you who don't know (most of you) Hastings is a slightly horrible British seaside town characterised mainly by tacky arcades, miserable weather and seagulls. Perfect for a bob adventure!

We went to Hastings hoping to get a photo of bob being carried away by seagulls. But it turns out that the seagulls insatiable desire for and aggressive procurement of chips is vastly overstated! After half an hour of taping wet chips to greasy cardboard and chasing seagulls around a muddy car park we gave up. I will get that shot! But not today!

Despite the seagull failure bob did have an exciting time. He met a giant mosaic moth, an angry chef, a mob of wrestlers and more besides. So please take a look at the album we've created and see not only how bob faired in not so sunny Hastings but also an exclusive world first: A seaborne bob!

By the way we love Hastings!