Showing posts with label black and white. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black and white. Show all posts

12.23.2011

Decorative Jargon


I really enjoy doing labour intensive work, that almost makes me feel
like i'm going to go blind i have to concentrate so much.





The above work is part of my self-directed work on medical quackery and spin.
although what i've done so far seems to be what other people have told me to
do and, by going through the motions, i've lost a sense of WHY i wanted to do it.

By highlighting elements of serious side effects which are tucked away in the
DECORATIVE JARGON of small print in medical leaflets that are designed to be
as offputting to read as possible thus disguising potential hazards of painkillers
like nurofen which can result in heart attack or stroke // infertility in women.

Suffice to say after looking at it properly, the top type size on each is too
small to be properly legible (or communicate what it's supposed to...effectively
the point of my degree....) and the bottom of the first can only be [sort of] read
if small or far away. and that the fact that the one legible one is off centre.


Hopefully i'll be putting more work up here soon!

here's hoping though.

I seem to be trying my damndest to fail this year.
And by that i mean this dissertation is trying to kill me.



10.30.2011

Your Hair Wants Cutting





all from the wonderful: whoresatmydoor.tumblr.com

9.07.2011

I started drawing again




A bit sad that this is the first proper work post
after loads of youtube videos.

I like how the mask looks like the little boy's (a bit?) below.


9.03.2011

The Boy with the Mask


I need to start using my camera again.
Even if the outcome is rubbish
(which is more often than not)

this is good: jwanderson.tumblr.com

6.01.2011

Close Up Etchings


that i made for my outcome 2 wall piece.
I was etching for about 7 hours to get these
4 plates done last week and i'm really
happy with how they came out.










Space is often seen as scientific, whereas place is personal. So collection is based around the idea of ‘Science of Memory’ highlights areas of the brain that deal with memory which I made by etching and relief printing which I liked as the process of printmaking gives an aged quality without being a pastiche.

5.15.2011

The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater






Meatyard's photos remind me so much of 'haunted air'
(which is still sadly sitting in my wishlist).
Loads more beauties here

4.28.2011

One of my favourite ever photos


and i can't remember where it's from or who did it.
i think i pulled it off someone's tumblr?

I do know that this one of a boy reading Captain America
is by Hugh Morton for Life Magazine (1942)


http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/morton/index.php/2008/11/life-photo-archive-online/p081_ntbs3_000366/

Lucy, I Love You




Reminded me of this, which has been sitting on my desktop
for about a year now. Absolutely genius for when it rains...
must try and get my hand on a pair...

4.15.2011

Garry Winogrand







http://www.masters-of-photography.com/W/winogrand/winogrand_la_sidewalk_full.html

3.09.2011

Work in Progress


Slowly but surely





i'm quite proud of being finally able to use illustrator now. Although the tv took about 5 hours. How much does it not look like it took that long?

1.16.2011

Lartigue





images from http://wanafoto.blogspot.com/2010/07/jacques-henri-lartigue-floating-world.html

1.14.2011

Inez van Lamsweerde + Vinoodh Matadin




Inez & Vinoodh are one of my faves and i love the concept for this shoot. could adapt this for collaboration (what do you think dulcie?)

10.31.2010

What's Your Damage?


They threw my week's worth of printmaking in the bin last year. Bastards. This includes most of the pictures i took in Barcelona.
As it's all I have to show for a wasted week last summer, would i sound smug if i said i thought they were 'Choice'? No? Good. I feel like watching Heathers again...



Etchezzzz



10.16.2010

The Geometry of Pasta

I remember seeing this over the summer but foolishly didn't bookmark it or anything so was pleased as punch when i found it again on the imprint website. WHAT A BEAUT, i wish i could do something as good as that and I'd bloody love to work for them. It's almost a crash course in layout in itself, plus the jacket folds out to form a pasta poster. What's not to love? I can't wait to get my greedy mitts on it...


On another note, i can't wait to start doing some actual work again and posting that stuff. I'm a bit sick of just posting bits i've found. Roll on next week, even if it looks to be full of 7am starts...