These two are manipulated using bleach, hinners and hot water. They are both part of a series entitled, Amnesiac.
Monday, 17 May 2010
manipulated polaroids
These two are manipulated using bleach, hinners and hot water. They are both part of a series entitled, Amnesiac.
Catch-up
It's been awhile since the last input but hey...I don't even know if this Blog gets read by anyone else, anyway. This is all for my own reference then and probably for some accidental tourist...
I have started The Nick project which is based on SCALE. I like the one worded titles, just like the Oxford entrance exam that they are putting a stop to now. Apparantly only one in six entrants pass the 3 hour essay that the University sets. they write a word such as NOVELTY etc and leave the poor blighters to mull this [question] over. It is A pity that they have put an end to this torturous exam concept because the prestige is now over with...
So the Nick mini-final-project that a handful of us are doing is all about scale and what we can do with such concept. The usual big buildings and out of focusness has been shown and Manchu did some rather good panoramic shoots on his expensive camera...they WERE good though. A couple of the girls found an abandoned raliway station across from the brand new Piccadilly Station in Manchester. As I am excited about dereliction and abandonment, I zoomed of pretty quickly to find said building but to no avail. I did take some nice black and whites that need developing now.
I have finally bought a SX-70 Land Camera [The Button] cheap of eBay. The film came from The Impossible Project on the same day...what synchronicity. I went over to Preston and proceeded to take photographs of the subway that stars at the Bus Depot and leads through the the Guild Hall. I'll have to upload them because they are quite special...I did tae some digitals and they will be here pretty soon. I like the desolation aspect of isolated freedom. As the adage of photography goes...for a good photograph, time and a good eye is needed.
I have started The Nick project which is based on SCALE. I like the one worded titles, just like the Oxford entrance exam that they are putting a stop to now. Apparantly only one in six entrants pass the 3 hour essay that the University sets. they write a word such as NOVELTY etc and leave the poor blighters to mull this [question] over. It is A pity that they have put an end to this torturous exam concept because the prestige is now over with...
So the Nick mini-final-project that a handful of us are doing is all about scale and what we can do with such concept. The usual big buildings and out of focusness has been shown and Manchu did some rather good panoramic shoots on his expensive camera...they WERE good though. A couple of the girls found an abandoned raliway station across from the brand new Piccadilly Station in Manchester. As I am excited about dereliction and abandonment, I zoomed of pretty quickly to find said building but to no avail. I did take some nice black and whites that need developing now.
I have finally bought a SX-70 Land Camera [The Button] cheap of eBay. The film came from The Impossible Project on the same day...what synchronicity. I went over to Preston and proceeded to take photographs of the subway that stars at the Bus Depot and leads through the the Guild Hall. I'll have to upload them because they are quite special...I did tae some digitals and they will be here pretty soon. I like the desolation aspect of isolated freedom. As the adage of photography goes...for a good photograph, time and a good eye is needed.
Monday, 10 May 2010
New project set and started
We was given a mini project that was set by [Nick] all about scale and depth in Manchester. I weren't there at the meeting so I have only a couple of snippets of information and a blank envelope...
My new project is about the distrubtion of numbers and letters (also inneresting) text that I find on walls, the floor thrown objects and others in between. I will find and post a truer concept when I think it through.
These are the start of the project in the acquisition of numbers [a'la Sesame Street].
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
Presentation, PX600FF and Polanoid
I had my final assessment/presentation yesterday. Six students sat around a table fit for two with the two main tutors busily scribbling notes upon their writing boards. It was an up and down process and I was fifth in line for the torture.
There was some interesting work and one that stood out for me was L.Burke's projects that she did, left and then started afresh. She basically found a whole bunch of bits and pieces of rope on Cornwall beach (I think it was Cornwall. She molded each length of rope into a piece of plaster and for her final project, left at least 24 pieces of these little models for others to pick up. She has pointd a little CCTV camera at the place where she's left them to record a film. Good Idea and well conceived.
After spending a pretty penny on the PX600FF Silver Shade Polaroids that came direct from the Vienna factory, the The Impossible Dream guys have sent an e-mail apologising for the LLP, Laminating Lifting Process. This is a nice name for a defect. The chemicals ARE leaking and spoiling the photographs. I thought this was just me and my inadequacies in photography but, this is a reason why a lot of the PX600FF's that I have taken are SO weirdly temperamental. There are blank photo's, chemically smelling ones, orange ones, yellow ones and others in between. I have put the better ones up onto POLANOID under the guise of thearcadesuperhero.
There was some interesting work and one that stood out for me was L.Burke's projects that she did, left and then started afresh. She basically found a whole bunch of bits and pieces of rope on Cornwall beach (I think it was Cornwall. She molded each length of rope into a piece of plaster and for her final project, left at least 24 pieces of these little models for others to pick up. She has pointd a little CCTV camera at the place where she's left them to record a film. Good Idea and well conceived.
After spending a pretty penny on the PX600FF Silver Shade Polaroids that came direct from the Vienna factory, the The Impossible Dream guys have sent an e-mail apologising for the LLP, Laminating Lifting Process. This is a nice name for a defect. The chemicals ARE leaking and spoiling the photographs. I thought this was just me and my inadequacies in photography but, this is a reason why a lot of the PX600FF's that I have taken are SO weirdly temperamental. There are blank photo's, chemically smelling ones, orange ones, yellow ones and others in between. I have put the better ones up onto POLANOID under the guise of thearcadesuperhero.
Monday, 3 May 2010
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