new monochrome Polaroids and construction update

I went ahead and bought two boxes of the new silver shade/mono-chrome [black and white] Polaroids last week and they finally came yesterday. One pack from eBay and a post my the postie and another delivered by DHL. They came about a 1/2 hour apart...synchronicity.

I've used up one box yesterday on my jaunt into town and photographed some buildings and other close-up subjects. The first photograph didn't have any image developed onto it, on which I was a bit miffed and the rest came out in an abstract style. The better one was the last one. I will upload some examples when I get the chance.

They are super temperamental and have to be covered up for at least three minutes. If these stict guidelines, which are on the The Impossible Project website, you may have under-or-over exposed photographs.

My structure which I have procrastinated over since Easter has now been started in earnest. The front and backs are now cut up and bolted together and just needs to covered in my fruit-box wood. I may have trouble in leaving it within the confines of the workshop. They are a funny about work being left in the space. What I am having to do I lug it up and down and to and fro until it is finished. Bah! humbug.

sleep and finding a prize

I fell asleep on the busride home tonight and after the motorway part of the journey, and with activity shifting my consciousness, found myself at the traffic lights at Haslingden. When I looked out the window, I saw a Builder's skip with a pile of business lettering chucked on top like a set of golden text[ural] cherries.

I had to get home and soon as I reached the phone, I went straight over the builder's skip in my friend's car. He helped me with the haulage and I had to put some juice in the automobile. The letters that I found are:

S E O C G U T S R O

I just need to develop a profound word or phrase and hopefully have a good piece of art to exhibit. I just want to have my own exhibition. Not saying that I'm selfish but, as in the Goldsmith's programme last night, the gist is self-promotion. If you can't sell yourself or have belief in your work...you're screwed in the art world.

too much to do in so little time...

Well today is the last day for the journal hand in. This document has to have the blog, a CV, Personal Maps, Review of the Year and other things to bump it up. I have printed this blog and it is costing me a small fortune. I've had a chat with Hazel and she has given me a little extra time, good stuff.

The end of the year exhibition is pencilled in for Monday 29th April and the deadline is 26th April, next Friday. After the chat with Haze, and a mini tutorial, I have decided to complete my nine foot sculptural construction and after another rendevous with Mike from the Workshop, that will cost me around £30-.

I watched the second have of The Goldsmith pogramme [Is It Art]. It was kind of okay to see a erm... prestigious art school and their graduates. Their work was 6 of one and half a dozen of the other in the wow , great art guys, stakes. The better programme was the one on Art Schools...quite informative and generally interesting in a matter-of-a-fact way. The photographer, Duffy, was well worth the wait and I really like the guy.

Polanoid is still on my mind, and then there is Polarnoir a website dedicated to Polaroids. Some of the work are on offer for grands a piece...Grant Hamilton is one to watch and I want to buy one of his pieces. I am getting a little better at my composition and wondering on getting three printed up on to A2 size. Hazel has said that I may have another space at the end of the year show. I am going 9 foot in the foyer of the Link Gallery and going to have a place in the studio.

heart[shatter]

A painting collage based around my heart condition...Dilated Cardio-Myopathy.

polaroid 600 film

The prices for Polaroid 600 film is so high they must be on the same level as gold or crack. For 10 films it's usually £28.99 or for 20 films, I have paid £54.99. This IS the going rate and having used up a pack of ten and most came out with a purple twinge, another pack has only three usable prints, I had to buy two more packs. I've used a pack on the rust, debris theme and they are okay and saving the other pack for a sunny-rainy day.

Don't get me wrong though, I have at least ten that I am going to use within my project but they are so expensive. I haven't used a Polaroid for years and needed practise but at near thirty quid a pop, that is a damned money pot waiting to happen. I'll upload my Polaroids when I get the chance, they are the colour-field end of the art historical spectrum.

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I've just bought a pack of 8 Polaroid films that are Black and White from eBay. I think they are a new batch, so hopefully they are bringing them out once more. I'll be using them for the demolished night-club/graffiti site project.

the phone rings and there is no one there

catch-up

I went to the Collective Vision art-space [exhibition] last night at the noiseLAB pop-up gallery/cafe/shop thing in Manchester Arndale. The map on the link on the Facebook page directed me to a side street in Farnworth, Bolton and that was where I was heading. After diligent research on my part, I realised at the eleventh hour that it's in the town centre.

I was about an hour late, no shock there really, but I DID turn up. There was some good stuff and it was about time that there was some involvement, on my part, in outside Uni sociology. There was work mainly by the third years and a splattering of work by second and, I think, a first year.

I've noticed that there is a project called 36exp. It is a project to find 36 photographers/artists/etc to take 36 photographs. An exhibition is being set up where the final 36 [winners] have their contact sheet, photographs and etc shown. I'm doing a project on rust, remains and debris so, I'll get involved.