Reading List

Here is a list of some of the books/websites iv been reading during my Photography_Project:

Sontag, Susan. Regarding the Pain of others. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003

Jean Baudrillard, Selected Writings. Ed. Mark Poster. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988. pp 166-184. Reproduced on: http//www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Baudrillard/Baudrillard_Simulacra.html (accessed 19/09/08)

Debored, Guy. Report on the construction of Situations and on the International Situationist Tendency’s Conditions of Organisation and Action. Media Art Net. [unpaginated excerpt] URL:http://www.mediartnet.org/source-text/53/.

Kember, Sarah. Surveillance Technology and Crime: the James Bulger Case in Virtual anxiety – Photography, new technologies and subjectivity. Written by Sarah Kember. Manchester: Manchester University Press 1998.

Morris, Errol. "The Most Curios Thing" The New York Times Online. Published November 6, 2008. http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/19/the-most-curious-thing/?ref=opinion. Retrived 12/8/08

Round Four///// (Also Entitled: What the fuck am i up to...)

Round Three/////

Canon EOS 5D, 17-40mm F4
Taken using a macro object backdrop in between the subject and the camera. This created the awesum blurred out effect on the model. The further off the backdrop she moved the more this effect increased. Same as the Hands image a few posts back.

Round Two////

Digital: Canon EOS 5D, 17-40mm F4

Round One///

Shot on Digital, Canon EOS 5D, 17-40mm F4

Project

This project feels like it is blowing up in my face. I have a sub-folder on my HDD labeled "what_the_fuck_am_i_doing ". This is not a good sign.
I have so many artists in my brain, so many images that i want this body of work too look and feel and smell like but i cant seem to get that out. And what does come out doesn't seem to stick to any of the stuff that is in my head.
I just now took another look at the Russian Alexander Rodchenko. Fuck, hes amazing and its set me off on another path that is so divergent from my ideas about Fear and the relationship of the photographic image its insane...
Ok ill post up everything i have been working on but heres a Rodchenko:\

Current Project Images

This is the first of several images but the internet at tech is poked so ill do the rest later...

Oh yea...all of the photos below. I should explain>
These are all froma tour of NZ in August by three amazing bands. Second Gear Grind from CHC, House of Capricorn from Auck and dirty old SoulSeller from (south) Dunedin.

these pics were shot in Auck CHC and Dunedin. Technical wank (for the photo kids): all using Canon EOS5D, 17-40mm L lens, ISO 1600(equiv)

YAAARRRRRRR Peel it back....

Blogs

This i hopefully going to become a place to show some of the work i am currently engaged in and some cool stuff that i find along the way. First off everyone has to look at this because it is nerdtastic :

http://current.com/items/89204971_death_star_over_san_francisco

That is all for now. Dogman.