changing of the guard

Well for my final project I had to completely change the idea cos it all went tits up

but it's not too bad I guess, instead of using my super 8 film (I couldn't because the royal mail hate me) I made a scrapbook of my travels accompanied with a diary of events that happened while I have been away. I decided to just use the past year of trips away as I remember them better, it's not as skilled to create as my old idea, but I do like the result and I will definitely continue to add to it.

muppets

I watched the muppet show, then kermit's swamp years then the muppets in space then a muppet's christmas carol yesterday... man i miss it soooo much

I want to live in a muppet house

croatia and marseille

finally getting a few photos up from some of my trips this year, I didn't have a digital camera so I took a SLR and a disposable one with me on these trips.

these first photos are on a disposable in Marseille.
















Here are the croatia ones, some ar SLR and some are disposable... I like to use both because I like the different effects they have. I did take some with a Lomo camera in Marseille but I haven't had the chance to scan anything in yet.









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I had such a cool time away, just looking forward to a month in italy now.. not too long!!

my FMP

I've decided I want to learn something really new!

So I will do Super 8 film, as I already have some knowledge of other video and animation stuff.

then I got to thinking about the content, and I was thinking about what i'm interested in and what would make good viewing... Travelling!

I want to film some or one of my travels with super 8 :)

I found this ace little vid on youtube as well to demonstrate what i'm on about



:):):):):)

Ooooh I looked some more and found some more good videos too

Work stuff

I figured it was about time I put something here actually relevant to the course.. perhaps!

A summary of some of my projects, and my feelings about them

First one was the book project. I decided to base it on the Central Viaduct towards the west of Leeds.





I did have some nice photographs of the top of the viaduct as shown above, but I had a lot of problems with Quark I recall in the printing and the printing quality was not great. The book itself was not too poorly made, I think with more practise I would be alright. I think this project dragged opn a little bit too long, it seemed to last for ages!!

Link the the project my Leeds reportage blog

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Next project

I think was my Beerfest plan. I decided to hold a one day Beerfest to promote a dutch beer

The idea was to create a brief, and think about everything, but not actualy do what the plan states. i felt this project was rather successful bar one factor, i couldn't attened the pesentation because of a cut on my foot that rendered me unable to walk for a week, oh man did that suck...

I did look in detail about where to hold it, what license i would need for booze, how to get volunteers, what staff I need e.g. first aiders and the all important piece, what beer to use!

This could have actually worked, but I emailed a company with some imaginery questions and they said they wouldn't do anything abroad, so if i were to do it I'd have to find another company... boooo

Here is my working stuff BEEEEERRRRRFESTT

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Comtech?

I tried making a website using a few different methods here. In the form of a blog, using dreamweaver solely, using a free website and using Flash.



My aim was to see which way was the easiest, cheapest, least effort to make the site above and host it online.

This project was quite helpful to me, I did improve my existing knowledge of Flash and Dreamweaver and i also learned how to host your website for free without using a stupid premade template.. yay.

Link me up! the comtech briefffff

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Uhh what next?

i think it was my tattoo site.. yes it was!

This is the audience brief, which actually I really enjoyed and found to be quite successful, hasn't been marked yet so i don't know if any teachers agrees with me..

Basically, we had to make something, based solely on feedback from people, specifically students.

This turned into me making a website gallery. Man it was tough making this website work, but i did it!

Here's the home page (y)



I don't actually have a blog for this cos we had to hand in a presentation, this might be the downfall of the entire project.. but only time will tell..


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Elective...

My how to video:

This isn't my most successfull brief i don't think, but here you are.. i like the song



Here is the video holly and I made as our collaboration, this is nicer

Travelling fiend

Photos of some of the lovely places I have been to :)

Ingrid Baars

She's a dutch photographer, though actually she does a lot more thasn photography, she uses pen, photos, collage, all sorts of textures and layering, of modern art this kind of thing is my favourite: mixed media but enhanced digitally.

Here are 3 examples of my favourite work of hers

psychedelic 60s

Here's a colection of posters from the 60s, particularly from the San Francisco art scene that I love.

Maharishi :)


Woodstock, I love the film so much, I watch it every week at least, it's amazing


This is Eduardo Paolozzi, he made this mad posters using cut out and collage, he didn't make music posters like those in the San Francisco scene.













Milton Glaser design this famous Bob Dyland poster, he's the same guy who made up the I Heart NY logo too but I haven't seen much else bar those two that he's done. I wonder how much money he made from the NY logo and if he gets royalties from copies...


Wes Wilson, I love the flowingness of his posters.




I can't find the artist who did this but I absolutely adore the colours!!