I love Bruno Mars' 'The Lazy Song' on his debut album and couldn't get enough of it... that was untill I saw the video and swapped my iTunes version for the youtube official video! It is brilliant and so funny!
Well don't take my word for it, have a look yourself!
Friday 29 April 2011
Wednesday 27 April 2011
Easter Sun
Just a few family snaps from the Easter weekend I spent down in Salcombe for you to enjoy!
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Wednesday 20 April 2011
Readers
Ever since I got to see Andre Kertesz's series 'On Reading' at the Photographer's Gallery I have been inspired to do my own project about reading.
I love nothing better than a good book and just getting totally absorbed in it's world and therefore whenever I am out and about I photograph someone else who is absorbed in the wonderful world of literature. Nowadays, compared to when Kertesz embarked upon the project, there are so many different ways and materials for reading such as laptops, i-Pad's and phones, alongside the usual books, magazines and newspapers we are so used to, so it has been a really interesting project to embark upon, capturing the various methods and situations that people read in.
So far I have a collection of strangers, family and friends who I have photographed reading. Mostly done so on film camera as I normally have one of my film cameras along with me. So here are a few of my favourites that I have captured so far. Let me know what you think, and as my collection grows expect more blog updates on it!
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I love nothing better than a good book and just getting totally absorbed in it's world and therefore whenever I am out and about I photograph someone else who is absorbed in the wonderful world of literature. Nowadays, compared to when Kertesz embarked upon the project, there are so many different ways and materials for reading such as laptops, i-Pad's and phones, alongside the usual books, magazines and newspapers we are so used to, so it has been a really interesting project to embark upon, capturing the various methods and situations that people read in.
So far I have a collection of strangers, family and friends who I have photographed reading. Mostly done so on film camera as I normally have one of my film cameras along with me. So here are a few of my favourites that I have captured so far. Let me know what you think, and as my collection grows expect more blog updates on it!
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Sunday 17 April 2011
Saturday 16 April 2011
Susan Hiller at the Tate Britain
A few days ago I went to the Tate Britain to see an artist who I had heard of but knew very little about, Susan Hiller. I went not knowing what to expect, only knowing her for her series called 'Rough Seas' all about her collection of British postcards from around the coast of, yes you guessed it, rough seas!
I was absolutely blown away by this exhibition and loved how provocative and thought provoking each installation was.
Susan Hiller has lived and worked in Britain for over 30 years and is one of the most influential artists of her generation. The exhibition provided a focus on a selection of her key works, from assembled postcard images made in the 1970s to her pioneering mixed-media installations and video projections. The exhibition really highlighted Hiller's interest in the subconscious or unconscious mind, whether in the form of dreams and memories or as supernatural or visionary experiences.
My favourite piece was definitely 'Monument 1980-1' which displayed forty-one photographs of memorial plaques from George Frederic Watts‘s Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice in Postman’s Park, London. Each plaque commemorates someone who died while performing an act of heroism and really got you contemplating the lives and heroics of these people depicted by their memorials.
The soundtrack, that accompanied the photographs were placed upon a park bench set in front of the series of plaques, is Hiller’s own voice, addressing heroism, death, memory and representation. Sitting on the bench to listen makes you an integral part of the installation. She talked about how a portrait will live on much longer than your body and that these plaques kept alive the people they were remembering, some decades longer than they actually were alive for. It was a really touching, thoughtful piece.
Another brilliant installation was From the Freud Museum 1191-6 where Hiller uses traditional archaeological collection boxes to display an object that she has collected with a text of her own choice to go with the object. Hiller comments on this work saying 'I deal with fragments of everyday life, and I'm suggesting that a fragmentary view is all we've got.' It was fascinating to see what objects she put with what text and why, and how this comparison created a new meaning, life and use for the object.
Witness, 2000 is an installation first seen through the frame of its entrance: an open 'forest' of silvery wires and dangling objects, which I thought to be orbs at first glance, filling the top half of a beautifully lit room. As you enter the room a dim, only faintly perceptible hum of talk emanates from the space and as you enter the room further you see that this hum of talk is coming from flat round speakers, each hanging at the end of the wire.
When you listen to an individual earphone, taking it in from the whispering ambient sound, you hear a single speaker telling a story. Each earpiece is of a different speaker from different countries and so the room is full of a great range of languages all telling a story of UFO sightings they have encountered.
The experience was beautiful. Just standing in a beautifully glistening room surrounded by just out of sound whispers each retelling a story of something they have experienced. I absolutely loved it.
So I am urging EVERYONE to go see this exhibition at the Tate Britain, you have till the 15th May, so hop to it! It's definitely worth it. But to get your taste buds tingling for it, here are a few more images of some of the other works from the exhibition that I loved and that you can go and experience for yourself!
Auras: Homage to Marcel Duchamp, 2008
Levitations: Homage to Yves Klein, 2008
The Tao of Water: Homage to Joseph Beuys, 1969-2010
10 Months, 1977-9
Self Portraits, 1982-7
Work in Progress, 1980
I was absolutely blown away by this exhibition and loved how provocative and thought provoking each installation was.
Susan Hiller has lived and worked in Britain for over 30 years and is one of the most influential artists of her generation. The exhibition provided a focus on a selection of her key works, from assembled postcard images made in the 1970s to her pioneering mixed-media installations and video projections. The exhibition really highlighted Hiller's interest in the subconscious or unconscious mind, whether in the form of dreams and memories or as supernatural or visionary experiences.
My favourite piece was definitely 'Monument 1980-1' which displayed forty-one photographs of memorial plaques from George Frederic Watts‘s Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice in Postman’s Park, London. Each plaque commemorates someone who died while performing an act of heroism and really got you contemplating the lives and heroics of these people depicted by their memorials.
The soundtrack, that accompanied the photographs were placed upon a park bench set in front of the series of plaques, is Hiller’s own voice, addressing heroism, death, memory and representation. Sitting on the bench to listen makes you an integral part of the installation. She talked about how a portrait will live on much longer than your body and that these plaques kept alive the people they were remembering, some decades longer than they actually were alive for. It was a really touching, thoughtful piece.
Another brilliant installation was From the Freud Museum 1191-6 where Hiller uses traditional archaeological collection boxes to display an object that she has collected with a text of her own choice to go with the object. Hiller comments on this work saying 'I deal with fragments of everyday life, and I'm suggesting that a fragmentary view is all we've got.' It was fascinating to see what objects she put with what text and why, and how this comparison created a new meaning, life and use for the object.
Witness, 2000 is an installation first seen through the frame of its entrance: an open 'forest' of silvery wires and dangling objects, which I thought to be orbs at first glance, filling the top half of a beautifully lit room. As you enter the room a dim, only faintly perceptible hum of talk emanates from the space and as you enter the room further you see that this hum of talk is coming from flat round speakers, each hanging at the end of the wire.
When you listen to an individual earphone, taking it in from the whispering ambient sound, you hear a single speaker telling a story. Each earpiece is of a different speaker from different countries and so the room is full of a great range of languages all telling a story of UFO sightings they have encountered.
The experience was beautiful. Just standing in a beautifully glistening room surrounded by just out of sound whispers each retelling a story of something they have experienced. I absolutely loved it.
So I am urging EVERYONE to go see this exhibition at the Tate Britain, you have till the 15th May, so hop to it! It's definitely worth it. But to get your taste buds tingling for it, here are a few more images of some of the other works from the exhibition that I loved and that you can go and experience for yourself!
Auras: Homage to Marcel Duchamp, 2008
Levitations: Homage to Yves Klein, 2008
The Tao of Water: Homage to Joseph Beuys, 1969-2010
10 Months, 1977-9
Self Portraits, 1982-7
Work in Progress, 1980
Thursday 14 April 2011
Musician Final Series
So I finally decided on a final edit for my musician shoot and am really pleased with the outcome. My final series are taken from throughout the project and are only of the non singers. This is because I felt the two didn't mix and I really loved how absorbed and peaceful the non singers looked. Ideally, if I got more singers to do the shoot I would have loved to have had two series, non singers and singers as some of my favourite images were of Anushka, the jazz singer. But in photography you have to be harsh and your favourite image does not always make the cut if it doesn't fit in with the others.
But anyway, here is my final series and I hope you like them as much as I do!
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But anyway, here is my final series and I hope you like them as much as I do!
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Monday 4 April 2011
Fantasia
Yesterday, whilst in ASDA I saw they had a 2 Disney DVDs for £15 (bargain!) so I decided to get Bambi (sob) and Fantasia, which I ended up watching last night.
I haven't watched Fantasia since I was about 7 and completely forgot about quite how incredible it was. It is just visually outstanding, especially the opening sequence where they create visual symbols of the sound each instrument makes. Just breathtaking, it has really inspired me for some new photographic ideas.
So for all you Disney fans out there who have forgotten past childhood films, go get Fantasia. I can assure you, you won't regret it!
I haven't watched Fantasia since I was about 7 and completely forgot about quite how incredible it was. It is just visually outstanding, especially the opening sequence where they create visual symbols of the sound each instrument makes. Just breathtaking, it has really inspired me for some new photographic ideas.
So for all you Disney fans out there who have forgotten past childhood films, go get Fantasia. I can assure you, you won't regret it!
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