Family Ties

What kind of a garden do you come from?

Had to babysit my nieces a few weeks ago. Decided to involve them a little bit in my project. Took them around my neighbourhood and photographed them and their surroundings.
I then pieced them together just like the previous pieces.






I then tried it in an opposite manner. Instead of moving the camera, I kept still and photographed my niece on a rocking horse thing in the park. I love the slightly broken up feel of pictures. I like the fact that there is no fluidity to them.

Through the Looking Glass

If I were looking for a white rabbit, I'd ask the Mad Hatter.

Okay so it's been decided. Every single one of my posts has started with a quote from 'Alice in Wonderland'. I've made up my mind to incorporate Alice and her friends into my photography project. I think it adds a great touch of irony to my project. BUT I want to make this perfectly clear: they are not the main focus of my project or outcomes. My objective is still to observe the mess that Bradford has made out of it's buildings.
I will create the characters out of hama beads and implement them ever so subtly.


I've also been looking into experimental & artistic photography. Youtube has so many great videos on time lapse photography/videography - my current favourite is the Sony Miami Foam City video: found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Yj3V9cEqE&feature=related Here's the actual commercial:


I've also been looking into Lomography. I realise it has quite a cult following and I love the way that it's such a creative and experimental form of analogue film photography:

Life Consists of These Little Touches of Solitude

To put it bluntly, a weed.

Been reading Camera Lucida by a certain Roland Barthes. It's interesting how he mixes emotion with philosophy and technicalities.
He's brought up some rather fascinating points. Almost inspiring.


I realised that my idea keeps changing because I wanted it to be accessible to others. Which means changing my agenda every now and again, which is what's made me spend more time thinking rather than doing. Here on out... It all changes.

Life Out of Balance

The time! The time! Who's got the time!

A few weeks ago in another lecture we watched Koyaanisqatsi. An interesting movie that's ultimately about the relationship between Man & Machine. It is amazing to see how Godfrey Reggio, the film-maker, views and captures The City. The one thing that struck me the most was the use of stunning Time-Lapse videography.




It's something i've been experimenting with on an incredibly rudimentary level.

I took my idea for the 3 minute piece and decided to do it using multiple images. It's still a work in progress though. I simply took multiple images zoomed in to the murky water and adjusted the focus while zooming out to reveal the cold sand stone fountain. Again, really simple and very very short. I would love to try it out on a much larger scale.