Also

Also can i want Grayson Perry's fringe / to be as fabulous as him in general / just to be him. Fullstop.

His work looks incredibly fun to make, and he becomes work in himself through his alter ego Claire.
I think it should be this way, as both a person and artist, being visibly creative, a creation in myself, artistic nature should never stop.
Somehow in what seems to be few materials Grayson generates work that is seemingly multimedia, multigenre. The pieces are pottery, sculpture, painting, illustration, graphics, everything, and that excites me, the fact that nothing is pigeon holed, or restricted gives me a desire to feel like that with my own materials. These works are led by their narratives but the materials are at one with the artist. You can see how pieces have become, from initial ideas, and drawings, and rather than seeking perfection through any kind of minimalism, they feed off the notion of idea, plans, brainstorming brought together through collage. Because memory is cluttered, and this is what Grayson's work is about, stories, emotion and memory, non of which are clean cut, but unraveling as they all go on.

The Taxidermist

God i want to be a taxidermist. I have done for a long while now, well perhaps two years and watching a few parts of the documentary on BBC ONE 'Imagine 2010 /2011 - 3. Art Is Childs Play'
The part i caught [as i am yet to watch the remainder tonight], looked at the taxidermy artist Polly Morgan.

www.pollymorgan.co.uk
Her work has literally made time stand still for me. It's like my heart stopped when i saw it, sometimes something clicks inside, to make you realise this is what you've been missing.
I have since been brainstorming ideas into how i could use taxidermy in my work, whether i choose to make it myself or alter the ready made. As much as do wish to learn the art of taxidermy, courses i have looked into are running at £300 for 3 days, which is steep, there are video courses but i feel in order to gain the best skills i should find myself a tutor. Until then i want to look at altering the ready made, ready made taxidermy such as birds, insects, fish and small animals such as rodents.
At least this way i can familarise myself with taxidermy forms.

Wotsit

Need this NOW. Not for me. For someone else :]

Dammit it isn't on sale. But seriously with this floating in your mug every time you made a brew, how could you not be happy?! Tea making has never looked so fun!

ruined affair re-captured

I want to find some hidden gems.

Places unfound, untouched for a while, completely derelict.

I was inspired by a website sent to me by someone dear.

Most inspirational was this location; a derelict Russian submarine base in the Ukraine

I'm not sure who has done the photography here, as i haven't done my research yet [this is a bit of an un-detailed excitable post] What i loved about these images is the fact the location structure at hand, isn't ancient, nor was it ever made to be particularly beautiful. It isn't in ruins, but the history of this place makes these images incredibly eerie. I also have a bit of a strange relationship with the sea, it's natural force and power scares me, the way it can be so isolating and all consuming, so i find the idea of life that far off shore, bizarre and alien. This mixed with the context of Russian war, and the cold industrial aesthetic is just all out chilling [personally] but it's very much a feeling i enjoy, the fact a photograph can evoke that much emotion in me.

Thinking of my re-submission for my Elective, which will now be Digital Photography, i want to at least do something that i will enjoy, and it's been so long since i studied old dilapidated architecture.

So i've set about researching secret places in Leeds, that will be good for Photographing.

On my internet travels i came across these lovely images of the underground tunnel works that run through Leeds by a photographer named Johnathon Turner > www.johnathan-turner.com

It seems that i have little chance of actually getting anywhere near anything this good however it has inspired me to start adventuring, i'd like to not only consider old structures but newer one's too as they can allow for different aesthetics as well set up an array of concepts. It would be nice to be able to consider combining these structural images with portraiture, hmmm but we'll see. Still a bit rusty on the photography front to say the least, so one step at a time.

hummmmmmmm

I've begun to rekindle my love for photography as of late.

Such a love comes for all forms of photography however it is most loyally upheld with analog. I like streaks of developer, marks on negatives and really just all imperfections are beautiful!

I don't think photographs should necessarily be perfect, elements of imperfections create a sense of honesty and love for the image. The film has been touched, used, printed, and thus is authentic. No image will ever be the same.

Saying this i still like perfecting analog images during the developing process, or via digital enhancement, but only to a basic degree [digitally]

There is so much i haven't done yet with photography, in my recent project i touched on slide making. I want to attain older cameras and to grips with medium format.

It's rare to find the talent to actually take really good photographs in terms of technique, composition and knowing the science of the camera, as well as having a concept that can be well executed.

Skill cannot be learned, it's just there, however I want to learn all the basic ways ways to use a camera well, so i may take a decent photograph, thus being able to appreciate 'making' a photograph in itself, but with the whole process being so scientific i find this hard to get to grips with.

Anyway here is some thing that i like, i was surprised that i found such subject matter allurring as normally i am less attracted to portraits and nudes. These are rather fashion based but i love their coquetish nature, the vintage quality and the blue and red lighting. The artist in question being a a girl called Iris it seems, who i found hunting around bloggitys.

http://nonflowers.blogspot.com

Divine!