The secret lives of plants
Natalie Jeremijenko: Let's teach fish to text! and other outlandish ideas
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Friday, June 15, 2012
Butterfly Final selection to be printed
Screen needed to be recalibrate, only one machine has been working correctly, two wasted days, dropped prints off to framer made final selection out of these nine on the day.
See what they look like tomorrow when I pick them up.
Question still comes up regarding why I had chosen to take them - was it documentary?
No not really more they where there and very quickly would not be - who does not wish they could watch butterflies if they so wanted to.
This is the way I have ordered my life, many may think its disordered... but I get to stop and watch butterflies for a week if I so wish to - that seems like a well sorted life.
Friday, June 8, 2012
Journal Artical
Have added my pic essay as it may give more insight into what I am about. I do not tend to write a lot of notes which does not mean I do not read or research. Only that the time taken to translate from kimish to English takes far to much time.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Book Layout Final
Have placed order so should be interesting to see if it gets here in time.
Looking at family photo-albums and what is available - all images taken
on Ninas iPhone, passed around between the three of us. Purposely have
not placed any text explaining the images as that will be added by hand
once we get it.
K.B.N simply stands for Kim, Brittanty and Nina
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| Nina by Kim |
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| By Brittany By Kim |
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| By Kim By Brittany |
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| Brittany By Kim |
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| By Kim |
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| Buster By Brittany Luna & self By Kim |
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| By Kim |
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| By Kim |
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| By Kim |
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| By Kim |
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| By Anonymous By Kim |
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| By Anonymous By Kim |
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| By Kim By Nina |
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| By Nina |
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| Nina By Kim Kim By Nina |
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| By Brittany |
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| By Kim |
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| By Kim |
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| By Kim |
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Found Performed Construted/ Slide List
Found Performed Constructed Pt.2
Raimond Wouda Linde
College I, Eesveen, 2005
Raimond Wouda Dasmateda
Amsterdam 2003
Andrew Bush Man
traveling southbound at 67 mph on U.S. Route 101 near Montecito, California, at
6:31 p.m. on or around Sunday, August 28, 1994
Andrew Bush Man
heading south at 73 mph on Interstate 5 near Buttonwillow Drive outside of
Bakersfield, California, at 5:36 p.m. on a Tuesday in March 1992
Andrew Bush Woman
gliding southeast at 64 mph on U.S. Route 101 near Santa Barbara at 4:39 p.m.
sometime in March 1990
Amy Stein Steven,
Route 10, Louisiana
Amy Stein Route 14, New Mexico
Amy Stein Canadian Girl, Route 65, Alabama
Michael Wolf Paris
Street View 2009
Michael Wolf Paris
Street View exhibited in Amsterdam 2010
Mohamed_Bourouissa Périphéries
Mohamed_Bourouissa_ Le
téléphone, 2006
Mohamed_Bourouissa La fenêtre
Mohamed_Bourouissa Le
groupe, 2007
Mohamed_Bourouissa Le
cercle imaginaire 2008
Alex Prager Eve
2008
Alex Prager Annie
2008
Alex Prager Sunday
Inez-van-Lamsweerde God
2005
and Vinoodh-Matadin
Inez-van-Lamsweerde Dakota Fanning
and Vinoodh-Matadin
Clare Strand The
Betterment Room 2004/5
Clare Strand Lisanne
wears wool shift dress, felt scarf and leather gloves with bell sleeves by
Emporio Armani
Matthew Brandt Fall
Creek Lake, OR 7, 2009
Matthew Brandt Klamath
Lake, OR 2, 2009
Dirk Braeckman Pyramid
Club N.Y.
Dirk Braeckman E
113
Dirk Braeckman N.P.-I.K.-04
Alexander Binder from
the Allerseelen series
Alexander Binder from
the Allerseelen series
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Book Design / Natural Lighting
Over the weekend, I discovered an online book editing program, called Blurb. It allows you to import images from a number of web locations, as well as your own computer.
I had been looking mainly towards my mothers, family and landscape, snapshots relating to my childhood. I thought it fitting in gaining some balance in adding a contemporary element to the natural lighting project.
All images were taken on my youngest child's (name omitted) much converted iPhone S4.
The purchasing of the iPhone, by said child, was given the go ahead for two main reasons.
1. She saved the money for the phone herself.
2. SIRI ! Voice activated technology, in the world of dyslexic-child, priceless.
- small print she had to share...
The out come was a memory-bank of snapshots an element that has been missing in our family, for far too long
- lugging around a D90 does not really scream 'spontaneous'.
It was also interesting finding editing programs and web uploading/sharing solutions, instagr by far my favorite.
The fact that in answer to public demand publishing companies such as Blurb, work in alignment with web-based social-networks, may mean that the family photo-album, is not heading for extinction.
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| cover |
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| flaps |
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| Spine |
Removed flap to correct spelling mistake... this will go on for days as I spot more...changed cover removing 'A Picture book' and just leaving K.B.N
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| Pages 1 - 13 |
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| Pages 14 -29 |
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| Pages 30 - 36 |
Thursday, May 17, 2012
UKIYO-E/ Floating World
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http://www.katsushikahokusai.org/
“From around the age of six, I had the habit of sketching from life. I
became an artist, and from fifty on began producing works that won some
reputation, but nothing I did before the age of seventy was worthy of
attention. At seventy-three, I began to grasp the structures of birds
and beasts, insects and fish, and of the way plants grow. If I go on
trying, I will surely understand them still better by the time I am
eighty-six, so that by ninety I will have penetrated to their essential
nature. At one hundred, I may well have a positively divine
understanding of them, while at one hundred and thirty, forty, or more I
will have reached the stage where every dot and every stroke I paint
will be alive. May Heaven, that grants long life, give me the chance to
prove that this is no lie.”
Hokusai: Peonies and Butterfly
“From around the age of six, I had the habit of sketching from life. I
became an artist, and from fifty on began producing works that won some
reputation, but nothing I did before the age of seventy was worthy of
attention. At seventy-three, I began to grasp the structures of birds
and beasts, insects and fish, and of the way plants grow. If I go on
trying, I will surely understand them still better by the time I am
eighty-six, so that by ninety I will have penetrated to their essential
nature. At one hundred, I may well have a positively divine
understanding of them, while at one hundred and thirty, forty, or more I
will have reached the stage where every dot and every stroke I paint
will be alive. May Heaven, that grants long life, give me the chance to
prove that this is no lie.”
―
Hokusai
Hosoda Eishi: Yang Guifei
Floating World Exhibition
http://karenlamonte.smugmug.com/Works/Kimonos/Floating-World-Exhibition/19471241_PNHVtf/1427459769_JdDFK83#!i=1427463134&k=WKVXN5Q
Cropped Selection Natural Light
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All images taken by my Mother, Dawn Clark.
In approaching the selection /editing process I was first drawn to images that had children interacting within their environment - with backs towards the camera.
The approach of section with 'child in image' was based trying to translate my own personal family, visual language. I wanted to investigate what aesthetics within choice of composition and subject matter had been passed down, within generations, mother to child.
I found a shift in styles appearing in years 1950 -1960, that moved away from staged portraiture, to a more carefree snapshot that was well established by the time these images where taken (1970's). This would relate greatly to the change technology available to the amateur photographer.
I believe that the amateur photographers of this era have a very unique aesthetic. Using my mothers work as an example - my mother first took images on a Box Brownie with only 12 exposures per roll of film combined with development costs meant care had to be put into her choice of subject and composition.
The images above, are very much snapshots, but not taken by a person that had the luxury of a digital. They have a stillness that notes the patience's required in learning to take photographs, on such cameras as Box Brownies. There is no snapping off a hundred images within one day... its a approach that is rapidly being lost within our digital era.
Aesthetically well within my mothers images there are many posed family group photographs. Its her landscapes I'm drawn to. With or without a trace of a human element they speak of a very nonhuman centralist approach to her environment.
Monday/ 21/May
Having spent the weekend working on less formal family snapshot, I have decided that the triptic is overdoing things a little to much.
The images enlarged should be seen closer to there origanal shape. Though this may all change again if I dont like the results.
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