These three are from a series of blurred and out of focus stuff ive been playing with...
These images are shots iv taken of the tv in mid program....some overlayed in camera some not
Friday, May 29, 2009
Some_new(ish) things
I always go out and take some shots of something i like, or something that looks good, or an idea that doesnt take off but sits on the shelf for a while. These shots normally never see the light of day until i go on a hard drive purge...so i thought id put them up here instead!
These three are from a series of blurred and out of focus stuff ive been playing with...
These images are shots iv taken of the tv in mid program....some overlayed in camera some not
These three are from a series of blurred and out of focus stuff ive been playing with...
These images are shots iv taken of the tv in mid program....some overlayed in camera some not
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Aaron Hobson - Cinemascapes
The pictures below are from a series of "cinemascapes" by Photographer Aaron Hobson. He is not only the photographer but the star of these works. The works are full of complex detail and as Hobson says on his website, they are very hard to do justice to when reproduced on the web ( as opposed to 4o inches long on a gallery wall)
The images are not overtly shocking (bar one or two) but they have an energy that draws in the viewer and provokes them, providing the dark and in some ways sensual undertones of the images. Hobson has an amazing eye for the detail and cinema-like panoramic quality to these works. It is also amazing that these are predominantly 'self-portraits'.
He has extended these ideas out into a new series of work entitled "femme verite". To quote Hobson directly:
"These works continue the artists personal narrative through self-portrait while bringing to the fore his female alter"
"chrissy's tub"
"pegs leg"
"answer the fucking phone"
Also look here SlashSeconds: an awesome videos compiled from tourist vids and promotional stuff..creepy as hell
The images are not overtly shocking (bar one or two) but they have an energy that draws in the viewer and provokes them, providing the dark and in some ways sensual undertones of the images. Hobson has an amazing eye for the detail and cinema-like panoramic quality to these works. It is also amazing that these are predominantly 'self-portraits'.
He has extended these ideas out into a new series of work entitled "femme verite". To quote Hobson directly:
"These works continue the artists personal narrative through self-portrait while bringing to the fore his female alter"
"chrissy's tub"
"pegs leg"
"answer the fucking phone"
Also look here SlashSeconds: an awesome videos compiled from tourist vids and promotional stuff..creepy as hell
Things I thought I had put up...but havn't....
Polaroid'd image of the below construction. Note the cropping of the polaroid program
Here are some of the images i was working on a couple of weeks ago with photoshop. They are all constructions from the images that i have been shooting in the studio in the last month and a half.
I am not that stoked on them. I dunno...i dont fell that this sort of thing is where i want to go with this years work at all. I dont know how to take this stuff and steer it back to what i want though...
This is an image again from the polaroid machine, of the group shot from the below post.
The Image beneath is made up of only two shots...patterns and stuff...hmm
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
Drawing/Realism/
Some more photos of the "photo" drawing that i have been doing. Im not to sure yet where i want to go with them but i am really enjoying the process and the creation of quite epic (in scale) drawings (for me anyway)
Yves Medam
These photographs take the construction of the photographic image one step further and playfully distort perspective and the image. There is a definite construction from multiple images of the same scene. there is a sense of time changing in some of the works, a movement of time. I really like the images because they artfully play with the notion the photographs are constructed and are only representations. On top of all this they are beautiful images!
Recherche personnelle Pont (Paris)
Quartier de La défense (Paris)
Aside from these constructions he also works in a reportage style, taking some amazing images.
There is a beautiful quality to the light that he works with. This comes across in the many layered images of the construction but is even more clear to see in these images from two different seires of his work.
Maroc
Cuba
Truth and Photography///
I am totally and ruthlessley stealing here from Emily's blog but i think that this photographer has relevance for what i am doing at the moment. (her post here - http://emilyhlavac09.blogspot.com/)
Jad Oakes - 'Preserving Time' series.
These images are created fromt he layering of static images (photographs) As Emily is looking at them they make an exellant relationship between the stillness of photography and the idea of the mooving image. The reason i ahve stolen them is that they also make an interesting reference to the idea of the truth in the photographic image. Because these images are several still shots layerd up onto each other, multiple "decisive moments" if you like, does this give them a closer relationship to the truth>?
Sure we dont see like this, but then we dont see in still images ether and we hold the still photograph as a document of the truth...
Jad Oakes - 'Preserving Time' series.
These images are created fromt he layering of static images (photographs) As Emily is looking at them they make an exellant relationship between the stillness of photography and the idea of the mooving image. The reason i ahve stolen them is that they also make an interesting reference to the idea of the truth in the photographic image. Because these images are several still shots layerd up onto each other, multiple "decisive moments" if you like, does this give them a closer relationship to the truth>?
Sure we dont see like this, but then we dont see in still images ether and we hold the still photograph as a document of the truth...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
[Linkzoid]
This article is freaky. It goes back to Surveillance and the current changes and developments taking place in this field.
The article looks at a new computer system which is able to monitor the actions of retail staff on a checkout. The cameras and computer coupled together are able to register and analyse the movements of the staff member, in real time, in order to check if they are "sweathearting". This is a term for where the cashiers may deliberately obscure a bar code or not scan an item in order to give things away to friends.
The scary part is that this system can monitor an entire department store with no need for a human security guard (like the one in the pic) , it has replaced the need for many security staff memebrs to monitor the banks of screens that represent the hundreds of in store cameras. Instead, when this "sweethearting" is detected it simply alerts a single security guard who can then review the relevant piece of recorded footage and take action.
How long would it take to develop this system further? it has the very disturbing ring of Orwell's 1984 to it...cameras watching us, keeping our movements and behaviour patterns in check. Panoptical theory is also apparent, we would be altering our behaviour through fear of being watched. This is much like current surveillance theory but this seems to add a new dimension to it...What if the computer goes wrong? what happens if we come to rely to heavily on this sort of system for domestic and international security ( the arctilce mentions a similar system with audio being developed to go in aircraft) and it gets it wrong? Are we prepared to put lives at risk through use of a system like this....?
Article here...
The article looks at a new computer system which is able to monitor the actions of retail staff on a checkout. The cameras and computer coupled together are able to register and analyse the movements of the staff member, in real time, in order to check if they are "sweathearting". This is a term for where the cashiers may deliberately obscure a bar code or not scan an item in order to give things away to friends.
The scary part is that this system can monitor an entire department store with no need for a human security guard (like the one in the pic) , it has replaced the need for many security staff memebrs to monitor the banks of screens that represent the hundreds of in store cameras. Instead, when this "sweethearting" is detected it simply alerts a single security guard who can then review the relevant piece of recorded footage and take action.
How long would it take to develop this system further? it has the very disturbing ring of Orwell's 1984 to it...cameras watching us, keeping our movements and behaviour patterns in check. Panoptical theory is also apparent, we would be altering our behaviour through fear of being watched. This is much like current surveillance theory but this seems to add a new dimension to it...What if the computer goes wrong? what happens if we come to rely to heavily on this sort of system for domestic and international security ( the arctilce mentions a similar system with audio being developed to go in aircraft) and it gets it wrong? Are we prepared to put lives at risk through use of a system like this....?
Article here...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Creepy Stalker with a 400mm...
The title says it all really...
Stalking, Fear, Paranoia, Suveillance, FEAR, Darkness, Grain, Hidden rooms and doors...
"...photorealism..."
So this is what i have been doing whilst not putting thigs on here...
The title bit came from MaxO walking past me working on some of these and all he said was "ah Photorealism!" and walked off. Madman. BUT it was actually a really relevant comment considering all of the things i have been thinking about in the last few Weeks in regard to this essay and the ideas about truth and authenticity in the photograph...
These are projected images i have taken, they are just projected onto paper and then i have been drawing around them (tracing) and kind of photoshopping them together but in the real world...
More to follow that show this image manipulation better.
I also really liked the fluke i created when i half stood in front of the light...there is this nice interplay between the projected photograph and the line drawings. Its like erasing the image and being left with the lines...or filling it in depends what way you want to go...
The title bit came from MaxO walking past me working on some of these and all he said was "ah Photorealism!" and walked off. Madman. BUT it was actually a really relevant comment considering all of the things i have been thinking about in the last few Weeks in regard to this essay and the ideas about truth and authenticity in the photograph...
These are projected images i have taken, they are just projected onto paper and then i have been drawing around them (tracing) and kind of photoshopping them together but in the real world...
More to follow that show this image manipulation better.
I also really liked the fluke i created when i half stood in front of the light...there is this nice interplay between the projected photograph and the line drawings. Its like erasing the image and being left with the lines...or filling it in depends what way you want to go...
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