this week I watched #5

cinematography of the exorcist.

What an absolute visual feast! Today, as sad as it is, using light to emotionally manipulate your audience is almost a forgotten concept.

the essence of memory.

As with all photography, it's usually the things that aren't in the photograph that are most interesting, and perhaps, most revealing.

When you look over childhood photographs, chances are you don't remember those moments. The only "proof" you have that they existed are unreliable human accounts, and the photograph itself. With me, I've been triggered by certain elements of a photograph to remember something else; a moment outside of the photograph. I remember the orange tent and how I hated the smell of it, but not standing beside it for a posed photograph for my dad.

This was only a fraction of a second of my short life. Why should I remember it?


What do we forget? How & why do we forget it? Where do those details go? Did we ever remember them to begin with?
Other people talk about their childhood with such clarity. People older than me. I'm only 19 and I only have these photographs and a handful of colours and shapes that reflect how this person was.

this week I watched #4

here's johnny

jack nicholson, absolutely incredible beyond words.
the unpredictable face of a complete maniac.

i heart huckabees.

in between.

this week I watched #3

exeter 2

exeter

I always hated studying maths but there is something intensely satisfying in geometry.

the fake

an introductory uni project based around fakes and hoaxes. even though I am somewhat used to 4am wake-ups, on a sunday morning this was a painful early morning shoot!

sometimes it's what isn't there that's more interesting...

28 hours later.

this week I watched #2

pop magazine, britney cover, autumn/winter '10.

Firstly, what an absolutely brilliant cover. Why more newsagents don't stock this kind of magazine remains a mystery to me. Actually, no it doesn't. It's because magazines like this are for stupid pretentious art school hipster kids. (When in actuality the kind of people that call it that are the people who don't *really* know what pretentious means.. plus the fact I am proof that this label is flawed.... ANYWAY I DIGRESS >:D)

When I first ordered my copy I wasn't sure what articles were in this issue, but eagerly anticipated the pages anyway.
So how excited did I get when I pawed my copy and came across this gem hiding, waiting for me in the centre pages?



An interview and new work from Cindy Sherman. Yes, that's right. New work. Having her books Retrospective and the Untitled Film Stills, this is a very welcome addition to my bookshelf. Her dressing up box lives. The female stereotypes remain. This woman does everything I could only ever dream of, and for that I salute her.

i-D magazine, lady gaga cover, pre-fall '10.

The 30th Birthday Issue of i-D magazine (pre-fall 2010).
Kate Moss & Naomi Campbell. Here is what you can create with a white background and well thought out but subtle lighting (oh, and an admirable collection of latex clothing).





This issue is also packed with portrait upon portrait / mini-interviews with creatives from around the world. I fell in love with this issue the moment it came through the letter box. But I won't spoil it for you... you should buy your own hard copy!

this week I watched

the sketchbook project 2011

I am currently working on my sketchbook to submit to the Sketchbook Project 2011. The Sketchbook Project brings together artists from all over the world, from every age and style and medium, and exhibits the most personal art projects of their lives across America the following year.

Unfortunately I won't be able to go over and see the exhibitions for myself and the work of others like me, but the idea of a stranger looking at one small book and having some idea of the inner workings that were outputted on that page, straight from wherever my mind was at the time, is exciting. Actually, the fact I won't meet anyone who reads my sketchbook makes it much easier to make. They won't have any preconceptions of who or why.

I'm very early on in my book. My theme was 'If You Lived Here'. Rather than document too much of literally 'where I live' I've been more interested in dreams and celestial space.
I may or may not post photos of every page as and when I finish them...
Here are the first few pages.

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