The work of others

There's so many amazing photographers!!! Personally, I'm more interested in close up imagery, as well as nature shots. Which is why I'm very fond of Andy Goldsworthy. He's a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist. His art involves the use of natural and found objects, to create both temporary and permanent sculptures which draw out the character of their environment.

He uses and experiements with a wide range of materials, often including brightly-coloured flowers, icicles, leaves, mud, pinecones, snow, stone, twigs, and thorns. He has been quoted as saying, "I think it's incredibly brave to be working with flowers and leaves and petals. But I have to: I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole."
Here are a few examples of Goldsworthy's work...

I find his work so unique and interesting, and a great inspiration.

100...

We've been asked to take a minimum of 100 photographs of: Objects, people, words, places and textures. We also had to choose whether to compose the photographs either landscape or portrait. Here's a few examples I took!!!

Objects

People

Words

Texture..

I've got loooads more, but these have to be some of my favourites!!
I tried to get one of each category, but I didn't really get any good ones of 'places'. Just boring buildings really! I'll leave that one up to your imagination!
I LOVED taking this pictures though!! I LOVE photography!! Especially when I've been told to go out and explore... textures and stuff! That category had to be my favourite!

Once we had brought in our 100 photographs, we were put into groups of 4, and were given instructions to categorise out images into: words, places, people, textures and objects.

Good ol' Tim there!
We had a little scoot around the room to see everyone elses attempts at the fun task. Then, were put into pairs... and was given a different pairs work to play with. We had Leighs and... someone elses............ the name escapes me. Basically, we had to find two interesting ways of categorising there photos. It was tricky, but we got there!!!


This would be Leighs photographs. We decided it would be interesting to split them up into two groups, showing where she took the picturs. i.e. inside, or outside.

And this.. would be the name which slipped my mind! However, they were good images. They consisted of a lot of colour, so we decided to categorise them in similar colours! It worked out pretty neat!

The 4 month brief

Well here's a few of the snaps I've taken during this week for this rather long brief. The definition I've chosen to focus on is... 'a formation of people, objects or things on besides/behind eachother'. I've tried not to think too literally, just to make it as interesting as possible.

Botox and mail shot..

I'm soooo glad this mail shot project is done and out the way!! Well, saying that, I've still got a voucher to put together and attach to a card! Hmpf.

But anyways, it's all done, and now I shall go through my though process. :)

The mail shot project was based on the newspaper article we researched for the previous project. Just to remind y'all, mine was 'Botox is great!'.

I researched some more, to see what exactly a mail shot is. We also had to produce a mailing list. All these complex words were totally new to me, so the research I found was vital!!

Once I knew exactly what a mail shot was, I came up with various ideas as to what I could do.

I went on a bit of a tangent, and kind of wandered away from the whole birthday thing (which I had done in the previous project). I wantedto see what other ideas I could come up with. I always knew I wanted to carry on with the birthday idea though. It's just interesting to see what else was available to be done.

I wanted the whole package to be about birthdays. So, I thought, what kind of things are there when it comes to a birthday?? Well, there's balloons, cards, wrapping paper, ribbons etc.. I grew a very fond liking to the card idea. So, I made it into a gift card. I designed a voucher and a card.

I didn't have many ideas for the mailing list. I didn't know exactly how to go about it. But as it had to be 'visually engaging', I thought, why not make it 3D? Well.. kind of 3D! Lol!!!!! I made birthday tags, and stuck a piece of string through the corner.

Even though my theme was 'birthdays', I also though, well, botox is very doctory, so, I thought it would be appropriate to make it look clinicy at the same time. I decided the card and vouchers would be a skin colour. This would represent where you'd have botox. Also, I used a scrunched up piece of paper to place behind the fleshy colour. This would make it even more obvious that it supposed to be skin. I then thought white would be good for the text. As well as these two colours, I decided to use a red. This, I made the envelope out of.

I think if I were to re-do anything, I'd change the colour. Probably the red. They look OK together, but I think it would benefit from a different one.

Here's my final resolution.

All 10 envelopes, with cards, vouchers and tags for the mailing list.

Mm.. tooty fruity

Ladies and gentlemen, I know present to you....... 

THE FRUIT LADY!

LittleBigPlanet

This so deserved a place on the blog!!

One of the most amazing games I've ever played!

Basically, you create your sac boy, choosing the skin colour, whether you want him to have hair, glasses, clothes etc.

Then you start the game, and complete levels, collecting prizes inside bubbles along the way! You can win stickers, objects, or more appearances. It's soooo good!

As well as it being totally AMAZING to play, I noticed the logo (above) for it is pretty damn good too.

Lots of love...

This was a rather tough, but interesting brief! For this, I had to produce a set of high impact posters which deliver a personal identified message derived from the research I gathered during reading week. They had to be presented at A3 scale with a 2:1 format. I was like, whaaaaaaaaaat... when we were first told. But with the help from little ol' Pheonix, I understood! Go mee!!

Most of the research I gathered was to do with how botox helps headaches. I picked this because I thought it was interesting, and would be different from the whole ageing thing. In the end though, it got the better of me. I went straight back to wrinkles. I really wanted to stay focused on the headaches, but my messages just weren't working at all. No one could understand what I was trying to say.
I did kind of stay with my initial idea, with the ''party string'' etc, only, I used it to represent getting older each birthday that comes around. I thought this was a more interesting approach.
I actually made finished pieces by hand, which I had to stick up in front of everyone. I was SO embarrassed. As soon as I saw everyone else's posters, I just wanted to curl up. Mine weren't made to a good standard at all. For a start, I used white paper.. even though the brief clearly states, 'You CANNOT use black or white in your final resolutions'. DUUUH. I also used pencil, which, of course, is a tone of black. GR!
So, here are my first set of final resolutions.

I can't stress how much I'm embarrassed by them. But I guess by putting them up here, it'll make me learn not be try and be such a clever arse!
I decided to re-do them... on computer. I actually think they came out rather well. It took a while. The spirals were the trickiest! Damn pen tool!