MIX Festival Camera Auctions: See What Develops

If you're the kind of person who likes rummaging through other people's stuff or throwing money at eBay auctions where you aren't entirely sure what you're bidding on, then you'll be excited about the return of the MIX Festival's Celebrity Camera Auction. If you recall, this project involves giving 150 celebrities and pseudo-celebrities disposable cameras that they fill up however they see fit, and then you buy the undeveloped film and take your chances that you'll end up with something interesting. It's also a fundraiser for the New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film Festival, so you're not completely throwing your money away. Some of the participants this year include Colton Ford, John Cameron Mitchell, Ty Hudson, and other members of the gay glitterati (gayerati?), including Michael Lucas—as if you didn't have enough of him in your life, now you can get a glimpse at what goes on in his. Provided the negatives come out okay. The guy may be a director, but those Fuji cameras are tricky.

· MIX Festival eBay Auctions: Michael Lucas, Ty Hudson, Colton Ford, full list here
· MIX NYC Festival (mixnyc.org)

Previously: The Naked Eye: MIX Festival Mystery Auctions