week two

so were in week two , thanks again for the comments they have been most useful!

ive juts been dirthering along really i guess..

had an unfortunacy my film didnt develop! i developed it my self and i think i mustve gone wrong soemwhere along the lines with the chemicals bacause that little line at the top of the film strip with some writing on it hadnt developed properly either so im quite sure its not the cameras problem.

yeah so taht was avery disapponting morning.

looking over my sketch book im wuite happy with the level of prep im producing , dave assesed me earlier in the year and he suggested that i use a smaller sketchbook because im a really note takingy kind of person if that makes sense ? i have ideas and i kind of jot them down , im not like paula i dont think in shapes more, im not sure circumstances perhaps?? i think im abit defeatest about my idea as well , i wish i had chosen some of the topics other people had ,, fociusing on things like fear and what not i think its all really interesting , but i guess that me just thinking the grass is always greener on the otherside?

my question for today was ... what are the simple joys in life? i thought this what quite a good question when considering memory beacause generally the things we love doing have really great memorys attached, and tahts particially why we like doing them .

you see im trying to kind of narrow down the memorys i want to think about for my fianl piece.


its harder than i anticipated , this i feel may be because if my age , evidentally i have memorys but i have not experinced anywhere near enough anything really - i been looking at sophie calle alot this week (note to self to take book back to the libarary) i really love her work . her ideas are quite simple but really well constructed and thus , effective ....any opinions there??

she has quite an important piece centred aroud memory , its an image text piece of work, that what it is really , a piece of narrative and a correlating phot. waht makes the piece work in my opinion is how its produced , the pictures (as i can see them in this book) are very very large and varied there is a picture tht is of a letter that really interests me (by letter i mean the kind you send someone) i may take a role of film of some love letters i have been sent(although i might chicken out of actullay developing them my self)

i was thinking about polaroids alot today asa way of illustrating a narrative(we all know how much i love my polaroid!) but anytway its broken so i kind of took it apart abit and the films when theres no picture on them are this really deep shade of brown , and well , you know how classically the whole point of a polaroid is that you get to write down the date and maybe a little sentence at the bottom to describe the picture? i thought i might use this idea to write a bot of narrative on and then havea series like a little book. the blank films are like blank memorys or memories that do not even exsist yet and i really like that.

ive also been thinkin about slide film quite alot .

i was thinking about making lil sculptures that could illustrate moments ?

then taking pics of them all on slide film and then record the slide film going over all thses moments the on i movie i could add music and a voice. its kind of a play on the whole idea that a film should move by keeping an element still , like a slide film so its moving but its still .... a bit like memeory.

oh and my narrative writing is going well

ive been interviewing myself! tres fun.

final major project blog ... hello!

hello !
and welcome to my blog! itll only exsist for six weeks and its only here for me to a) vent my concerns about my final major project
b) to pass my foundation.
c) to give other people the opportunity to comment on my ideas and progress and to ofcourse help me out!
so read away happy internet user , fellow student or examiner have fun!

week one - and so the project begins!

i speak to you now at the end of the first week of my final major project, to clear up afew things , its about memorie - im interested in using film or photography and its essentially a narrative project .

ive been reading some interesting texts as offered by fellow student gethan , oliver sacks is proving interesting as is the echo maker .

ive also been reading a book from the library , 'the science of memory' those of you in the drawing group will have noticed my head in a copy.im finding parts of it almost philosophical (maybe abit odd as it is a very very science heavy book)
threes parts that talk about the idea that maybe we never ever actually forget anything and we have enough brain space as it were to hold everything , other theorys revolve around the idea that we have a survival based brain so we only rememeber things we NEED to know to survive , obviosuly survivng now is aloyt different to surving in the caveman times , so our brains have developed and evolved with us , theres a really interesting bit about how memory shapes us , i am really interested in thinking about taht statement .i think its really important , the idea that memory makes us who we are and thus if we lost our memory we would loose ourselves as we and people around us know us.

practically speaking i have been writing alot , thinking philosophising and curating ideas , im considering writing a piece of performance or making a film.i think when thinkigna bout memory its quite important to think kinetically .

also ive began shooting my first reel of balck and white film which i plan to develeop nextweek
see how that goes .

some of you wouldve seen my work from over the hols? lots of burning and bleaching of photos i like this , but ima lready sort of bored so im thinking of moving on from this.