Family + Friendssssssss

Sooo.. every monday we have to shoot four photos over our weekend to show to everyone, we get a new topic every wednesday.. so on a sunday or something i may or may not upload some random photos :) 

My first one is of my brother, Simon. He's a slightly large douche, and he's ginger. But i loves him all the same! We were in my loft and he decided to put on my old ski suit with his biking goggles and pose for some photos. See, told you he's a douche. Check this motherbitch outtttttt! ;D Ps. In this one he's skiing!

My next photo, is my 5 year old cousin Olver :) he can be a real annoying pain in the ass! But he's absolutely gorgeous and i love playing with him and! He speaks as though he's a little old man :') its AMAZING! Here ya gooo!  

Next. My utterly retarded yet utterly gorgeous wife :') spend a whole day with this crazy mofo! And played papparazzi with her camera! heheh, but i kind liked this.. im not choosing some which ive set up or anything, just stuff which shows her craziness! LOVEYOU WIFEY ;) bahahahah! LOLOLOLOLOLOLLLLLLLLL.

 On the above, she decided to give us a funneh faceeeeeeee! nawhh :D <3

 She whipped her hair back and forth, she whipped her hair back and fourth! ;) (8)

I like apples alot... xD

I mentioned in a post about 5 minutes ago that we had a 'Visual Concepts' project before the new one.. and i realised i hadn't posted my final posters! I love music, it's practically my life.. yanoo, OTHER than photography, heh.. anyways! I really wanted to do something for that project that would get people talking, in a way.  

My first poster is my Studio shoot, i did fruit with eyes, i know.. crazy! But hey, in the end it worked out for me, as the final image made sense to people and it had something that you could smile at.. even though it was an unhappy pineapple, but i think you get what i mean! 

And this final image? This is my location shoot. I got one of my friends to do it, Luke.. or Lucas as i like to call him, and since he's very musical anyway, actually.. musical is abit of a lie, he's like a one man band! And he's in a band, House Of Cain.. who are pretty good.  Anywho! I am so proud of this image! Everyone loved it, well.. i think it was really the guy that they loved but who cares! One of my friends said that you looked at him, then read the slogan and you thought 'Hells yeah! I can be famous with an iPod!' or something to that effect.. but i'm glad i had positive feedback on it and i'm glad it turned out JUST how i wanted it! :D

Mermaid!

Well, time for another shoot. But this time, i'm actually proud of my outcome! Well.. so far anyways, let's just wait and see the finished product! 
I like doing projects at college which center around something to do with campaigns or publicity, so when we got this 'Visual Communication' project, straight after a 'Visual Concepts' one, i was pretty darn happy! I'm one of these unusual types, that comes up with a partially crazy idea, then gets herself in too deep. But i kinda like the fact that i do those things.. because let's face it, who would come up with a Mermaid shoot for a Greenpeace campaign? Not many! I enjoyed this shoot thoroughly, doing the make-up and effects.. now i just have to pray that the whole final idea comes together as i see it in my head!

My Mermaid <3

For the shoot, as my mermaid, my friend Charlotte came into college, and let me basically paint her with paint, eyeshadows and glitter! Then i took some photos of her alone in different positions ie. full frames, to see how the fish would look and close up, so we can see the effects. Speaking of fish, thats the other part! I photographed a Mackrel, one with a really nice tail, so that i could photoshop it onto the body, but i'm not really a "Photoshop" kinda person.. so we'll see the final outcome soon i guess! Take a look at some of my shots! 1 Fish/Rock & 5 Mermaid :)!

I think they may look a tad blurred/pixelly on here, but all the same i am very chuffed! Ahaa, I just hope everyone else likes them as much as i do!

Magnum Photos......almost as good as the ice cream.....almost.

Magnum Photos is a website that compiles up to date work of photographers from around the world. It boasts great diversity and distinction owned by its photographer members.  The magnum library is updated daily with over 500,000 pictures ready for browsing, you can find some amazing work on there and it makes it easy to find out about photographer, some artists even upload videos about their techniques and journeys revolving around that perfect picture that captures your attention.

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Trent Parke

Trent Parke (born in 1971) is an Australian photographer.  He started to look at the world through a camera at 12 years old and continued on to become a successful photographer and writer.  In 2003 he and his wife, photographer Narelle Autio made a 56,000 miles trip around Australia, which resulted in a series and book named “Minutes To Midnight”.  Minutes To Midnight is a collection of photos from his journey and offers a look at the sometimes disturbing portrait of 21^st   Century Australia, from the desiccated outback to the chaotic, melancholic vitality of life in remote Aboriginal towns.

http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/midnight < Here is a link to the outstanding essay of Trent Parke on his Australia journey, “Minutes To Midnight”. 

 

AUSTRALIA. N.S.W. Sydney. A building reflects the sun during and early morning storm over the cityscape. 2002.

This photo has a in-depth look at the Sydney coast line.  I really like the way your drawn to the epic reflection of the sun in a mad storm.  Also I like how the only other bright parts are the reflection of the reflection in the water, and the tiny bit of sun passing through the clouds above. 

AUSTRALIA. South Australia. South Australian Coast. Roadkill. Foetus kangaroo. 2004.

This photo shows a kangaroo’s foetus on the road.  It’s obviously dead and could be a distressing photo for some people.  This photo shows the disturbing side of the Australian outback, for reasons that don’t need to be written, as they are apparent in the photo.

Steve McCurry

Steve McCurry  was born in Philadelphia in 195j0.  His career was launched when, wearing native clothing, he crossed the Pakistan border into rebel-controlled Afghanistan just before the Russian invasion. When he emerged, he had rolls of film sewn into his clothes that contained some of the world's first images of the conflict. His coverage won the Robert Capa Gold Medal for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad Showing Courage and Enterprise. He has won numerous awards in the future.

KUWAIT. Persian Gulf. March 1991. Bird dying in an oil spill off the coast of Saudi Arabia.

This photo gives off an emotion when you look at it.  Solemn and harrowing, we see one of the world’s most occurring disasters, an oil spill.

USA. NYC. 2001. Streets of Lower Manhattan are filled with wreckage from the collapse of the WTC.     
This photo shows the after math of the collapsing of the WTC.  Devastation hit the world that day, and everyone remembers so. To capture such a world changing moment on a camera is a triumph but also a view of what evil lies in the world.

Futurism..Which is technically in the past.

"The art of the past is great nonsense, based on moral, religious and political principles. Only in futuristic art does art truly reveal itself."
Carlo Carra.



Futurism is an Italian art movement that was created between 1909 and 1944 (see what i mean about the past.) its a unique art style that rebelled against the times (sounds like my friend Jenny). Futurism was all about speed, noise, pollution, machinery and the city sprawls; it was a way of embracing the coming future whilst enjoying the comforts of that modern world!
Futurism artists explore every form of expression; from painting and sculpting to poetry and literature, and lesser so in photography.
Futurism became popular between the 1920/30s when many Italian futurist began supporting the movement in hope of modernizing their own society's.


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Carlo Carra (1881 - 1966)
Nationality: Italian
Movement: Futurism
Media: Painting

He was a Futurist painter who came into light in the 1910; he was an ani-mated by a belief in a universal model of a world impelled by motion.  He consisted of dynamisms, disassembly, interpenetration and simultaneity – the parameters of futurism.  Carrà's Futurist phase ended around the time World War I.

Giacomo Balla
Italian Painter 1871-1958

Giacomo Balla was on of the founders of futurism. Balla was a Italian painter who was also a teacher of futurism, he had pupils such as Umberto Broccioni and Gino Severini. During World War I Balla's studio became the meeting place for young artists but by the end of the war the Futurist movement was showing signs of decline.

Umberto Boccioni

Italian Painter 1882-1916

“With the writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, he was a leading figure in the futurist movement, the paintings and sculptures he executed from 1910-11 to 1914-15 have shaped our image of the first Italian avant-garde to this day.”

(Book;Futurism; Sylvia Martin)

 Umberto Boccioni (1882 - 1916) wrote the Manifesto of Futurist Painters in 1910 in which he vowed: "We will fight with all our might the fanatical, senseless and snobbish religion of the past, a religion encouraged by the vicious existence of museums. We rebel against that spineless worshipping of old canvases, old statues and old bric-a-brac, against everything which is filthy and worm-ridden and corroded by time. We consider the habitual contempt for everything which is young, new and burning with life to be unjust and even criminal."

(http://www.artinthepicture.com/styles/Futurism/)

Luigi Russolo (30 April 1885 – 4 February 1947) was an Italian Futurist painter and composer, and the author of the manifesto The Art of Noises (1913). He is often regarded as one of the first noise music experimental composers with his performances of "noise concerts" in 1913-14 and then again after World War I, notably in Paris in 1921. He is also one of the first theorists of electronic music.