Just for kicks...

A little tiny giant City heheh

Mid-Semester Review Prints

So over here, there is a mid-semester review, much like the one that we went through just before I left Otago. Except over here it seems to be a much more intense process, although perhaps it seems that way to me as an outsider who isn't that familiar with procedure yet.
Anyhow, these three images are going to be my presentation for the review this friday. I have printed these images so that they are 40x21 1/2 inches in dimension. So there pretty big while not being so big that they cannot be hanged.
At this point in time i am not that happy with them. I do not really like where this work has taken me this semester so far. While this is only mid-semester for these guys it is under a month before i have to have show here and document it to submit for SITE09 and i am not that happy with the direction of the work.
I set out to capture these images that contained something that would look impossible, a figure suspended and floating above a surface, suspended in space and disloated fomr the space that they are in. I do not like how the space has become simply black, but it does make for an elegant space and one that emphasizes the figure within it. I wanted this over-all body of work to talk about a sense of isolation and a sense of dislocation...something which i dont know if these works do, the figure is certainly isolated but...i don't know its making me go kind of crazy right now. Feedback of ANY sort would be epic!

All yo!

Some Photoshop playing...

I really like how i have kind of vanished in this one...i like the ambiguous-ness and how i look like I'm going to break my face open...
Fuck this is going to sound so incredibly narcissistic but i like the way my arms stick out, the flesh colour compared to everything else and the way my veins are sticking out. It kind of links to the physical aspect that goes into creating these images.




So i started playing with this HDR stuff and i quickly realised i actually don't know how to do anything cool with photoshop! In terms of making images epic anyway, not just fixing them and what not..So here are some of the shots iv been playing with, there cheesy as hell but yea I am interested in getting much much better at this!