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Back to it

Ive been back at Uni for a week now, overall it was a very enjoyable week, many many many things were crammed into the 7 days, only a couple of which were even remotely arty.
We had an insane about of words spoken at us, several hundred different time tables and deadlines and other various horrific things given to us, and overall i think its quite safe to say that i am just a little bit scared about this year!!

However on the plus, but also slightly minus side, i have an idea (FINALLY) which i think has the potential to keep me entertained for weeks and weeks, but at the same time im not fully convinced by it as its very different from my previous work. I dont know whether i want to take such a different approach to what i do, if i want to continue with what i was doing, and from where im looking i cant see a way to combine my old ways with my new idea.

But i have a tutorial on tuesday, so hopefully all will be sorted then!!

You know what doesnt help?

Breaking my camera, it really really doesnt help at all.

Searching Argos/Currys/Comet etc for a new one makes me sad

Stupid sand

Hopefully all being well i will have new things to show in the next week!

The most productive 24 hours in the last 12 months...

Oh yes, that is indeed what i have had!! And its been wonderful! I like being busy, i like the feeling that after i finish whatever im doing i have 100 other things to do, its far better then having nothing to do at all! Or at least that is what im feeling at the moment, but that may be mostly due to having nothing to for the past 4 months pretty much!

Anyway, CLICK HERE to go see the etsy store, its finally got items in it!! And at some point over this evening it will have even more!!

Ive also prepared my sketch book for being used (a process that involves gluing white tissue paper to every page,) and THEN i even filled 5 pages with thoughts and ideas and other such things!!

So yeh, last night/today has been good. Yayay for this!! =]

Then the inspiration hit back

So finally a full 4 months after i lost my art genius it has come back! I have to admit i was getting slightly worried that i was going to rock up to my first day back at uni and have to admit that 'i dont want to do art anymore, i just dont'.

But luckily it is all ok, it finally happened, the light came back on, i felt the sense of geniuses running through my veins once more, and finally i feel as though going back to uni wont be a waste of time.

YES, i had an idea, maybe at this point it is not exactly a completely original fully formed idea, but the spark is there, and i fully intend on making it grow into something fabulous and wonderful soon.

I even brought a new sketch book specially for the occasion!

In other news i have been in the process of creating an etsy store for the jewlry i have been making, the store is not quite finished yet, but ill update you on that when it is, should be soon, hopefully, i just have to work out how to use the camera or something!

Anyway watch this space for more interesting art based things soon!

A long time since i last wrote here

this lack of posting is for several reasons.

1. i have been rather busy doing several things, these things include, moving back home for summer, getting my wisdom teeth taken out, working, and planning.

2. we got our marks back for the end of the second year project, mine werent that great, the comments were horrible, i dont really want to make art for a while, in fact right now i dont really want to make art ever again, im hoping it will pass.

3. yeh actually i think there were only the 2 reasons.

But i have something else to share with you instead...

Not that there is anything actually there to see at the moment, but hopefully by the end of next week (?) we will have things to show, and they shall be fabulous!

So yeh, there you go!!

Just wanted to share this...

Look at THIS

I know its a bit like PostSecret, they even admit they're similar, but whatever i still like it, voyeurism and all that stuff!!

I could update with words of how the end of my second year went, but im far to tired to play that game right now.

Some images for you

Ahh lookie lookie here, what do we have? Well we have some wonderful photos for your viewing pleasure. Photos of the actual bits of 35mm film that made up my final piece.

Arent they beautiful? Yes, yes they are.

In other news by this time tomorrow i shall be done! Which is exciting yet also mildy terrifying, as really i find are most things in life. So right now i am working away at finishing my powerpoint presentation, which is a thrilling past time i can assure you!

Born Free

I was shown the video today for M.I.A's Born Free. Apparently it has been getting a lot of press since its release, but living in a world where the news hardly reaches me i was quite unaware.

As i began watching it i had no idea what i was about to see, i had been told 'go on vimeo, search for this, watch it, its really controversial' or words to that effect, and at first i thought it was simply because of the violent behavior of the police.

Oh how wrong i was. Im sure many people will laugh at the film, i however did not. Ok i could see the funny side of it, but it was just too gruesomely detailed and real. (theres a southpark episode that is about the same thing, which i found extremely funny, so its not like i cant laugh at the issue, just not like this)

Obviously the film is talking about how different minority groups get condemned and treated, but i think because it is a 'minority group' that i belong to that it effected me so much. That and the fact im not feeling too brilliant today anyway!!

Overall though i think it is an amazing film, i was just shocked by its contents to begin with!! Anyway, if you havent seen it please do...

And at the end of the day, its only the boys they're taking, so a) im pretty safe, and b) every ginger boy ive ever met has been strange, so maybe they're onto something!

M.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.

The End is in Sight...

Several things have happened.

First of all i will show you the final film i created for my crit...

Final 35mm Subliminal Film from Lana ap Rees on Vimeo.

And there you have it. 24 different seconds of cameraless film. Overall i think my crit went well, ive got a few things to research and modify before the presentation in a week and a half, but overall i am happy with how it all went!

However, this film marks the end of my experimentation with 35mm film. I simply can no longer take the horrible process of scanning/resizing/cropping/saving/compiling/saving/editing all to get a single second of film. So i am saying goodbye to the 35mm and moving onwards to 16mm film. I have just purchased a 16mm projector (an Elf RT 1), a splicer, 2 spools, and hopefully soon some actual film!!

So i will be continuing my cameraless film work with this!! In the hope that it will all be quicker, more authentic, and overall just better!!

In other news im spending an hour every day this week helping with an exhibition in Bournemouth's Lower Gardens, so basically im going to spend an hour every day sitting in the sun and telling people not to touch the super heroes. Sounds fab to me!!

And now im going to go play with my projector a bit more, and see if i can work out how to actually thread the film on to it!!

I had a dream...

And in said dream i purchased a projector, a 16mm projector, but a projector never the less.

And everything got so much easier. (it also helped me pass my driving test, but im not sure that would work so well in the real world)

So i am thinking of this summer saving money and buying a 16mm projector.

Obvioulsy this means the film wont be as wide as the 35mm im using at the moment, but i think in the long run it will be worth it, as i wont have to waste time scanning/cropping/editing/putting together digitally, and to be fair photoshop is number one on my hit list at the moment.

I have the super 8 projector, which is lovely but 8mm is just too small to do anything with. I have some 16mm in a draw at the moment so im going to take it out and work out if this plan is going to work or not. But basically unless i can see some kind of horrendous problem i will be moving to 16mm at some point.

Tutorial reminiscing

I had a tutorial today, after the ordeal that was my last non-tutorial i was kind of looking forward to this but also kind of not.

But it went amazingly, going into it i just kind of wanted her to say 'yeh your work is amazing you're clearly a genius'. And this is exactly what happened.

Well maybe not quite exactly but close enough to keep me happy!!

And now i have a week left, i have bleached all 24 strips, i have stuck stuff and made ready 10. So tomorrow and wednesday i just have to finish the other 14, then scan them all in and edit them and so on.

In other also great news, i get to use the cube space weather Sandra likes it or not. YAYAY for me!! So this also made me happy today. As did the sun!!

This is all.

Damn you Sandy Damn you

Dont you just hate it when people called Sandra swoop in a steal your cube space form under your feet?

No?

Well i do. I really do.

In other news ive pretty much finished my Prof. Studies Portfolio, other then i feel my artist statement needs rewriting as its pretty much a pile of shit, but other then that its good to go!!

In other news im finding the pull of iphones pretty much too hard to resist, to the point i have come up with a budgeting scheme whereby i could afford one! Damn apple.

In other other news ive had a super productive day and feel good about art (other then the issue of cube spaces)

And to finish off this post here is an old film of mine i did in college, which is now part of my show reel!! I cant really be bothered to type words about it, if you really care that much click on it or something to go to the vimeo page, there are words there!! Enjoy

DANCE DANCE from Lana ap Rees on Vimeo.

New York New York

So i went to New York, it was good, maybe i will show some of the photos and talk a bit about things i did and saw, but for now im just going to show you this time lapse film i shot out of the hotel window!!

New York New York from Lana ap Rees on Vimeo.

I had planned on doing a different one each night, of different views from the window, but i got distracted and kept forgetting! So theres only the one!

I also really wanted to do a time lapse in Times Square, however i didnt take my tripod with me and didnt feel it would work if it was all hand held and shakey!! Also it would have meant standing in times square for several hours, which, well i had far too many activities to be doing for such things!!

Maybe next time!!

I think in the future i may come back to this clip and use it for something else, or do something to it, but for now its just as it was shot!

In other news I now have 2 weeks to finish my project, and sort everything out for it, which is really not as much time as i would like, but whatever i dont have a time machine and thats just something i need to come to terms with!!

Flash Flash Flash

Flash Flash Flash from Lana ap Rees on Vimeo.

One last film to show you before i go to New York. This is basically 3 experiments in 1.

I wanted to continue looking at how i can use newsprint text in my film. I wanted to combine its use for subliminal messaging with using colour for sensory overload. So i began to use different coloured backgrounds. First i simply contrasted black text on white with white text on black, this is what the first part of this film shows.

The second part shows black text on white contrasting with black text on different colours.

And the third part shows white text on black contrasting again with black text on different colours.

Out of the 3 different techniques i think the black v white and black v colour are most effective. The white v colour just doesnt draw the eye in enough, maybe this is because the brain needs the frames of black to create the overwhelming-ness that i am trying to create!

Next i am going to try combining this with subliminal messaging. But that will have to wait till i return from my travels!!

A few older films (by which i mean not my current work!)

I thought seeing as how i have got a bit behind on editing my current work i would instead show you a few older films.

People Watching People Watching People from Lana ap Rees on Vimeo.

This first one was made at the end of my Btec National Diploma, so i think about 3 years ago now.

It started off as a bit of a joke between me and my course amte Gabby. We came up with the concept and shot and edited it within 2 days, so it was never meant to be this big final piece masterpiece, but then somehow that is what it became (well maybe not the master piece part). And i ended up submitting it as my FMP.

The idea behind it is that the viewer is watching something quite pointless, filled with 'in jokes' that they dont fully understand. The audience is almost waiting for it to get more interesting but it never does. It was shown as part of an exhibition, and we had lots of people coming up and telling us how frustrating they thought the film was. Which we loved as that was the whole point!

I like to think of this film as the start of my interest into people and the way they behave, and it is a theme which has run through my work since i made this.

Make The Space Your Own from Lana ap Rees on Vimeo.

This is a recording of an installation of a film i made as part of my first year of Uni. I had just switched courses (from Animation to Fine Art) and joined half way through a project, as such i had only 2 weeks to create this piece, yet despite the rush it is in fact one of my favorites!

It was in response to the title 'Time and Space'.

I decided to look at how people make a space their own, but over time it changes and becomes somebody else space, I felt this idea was particularly relevant to students, as we live in student houses. The room we call ours and have made our own this year, will belong to somebody else and look completely different next year.

This film shows 6 different people, each presented with the same space and how they make the space their own, by moving stuff round and adding their own belongings.

I then projected the film back into the original space creating the installation. So the viewer was watching the film on the back wall, they were able to look around the room and think about how they would sent up 'their room'

Fears from Lana ap Rees on Vimeo.

And then lastly we have this, another installation, but this time from the start of my second year.

I was inspired by Jim Lambies 'Screamadelica' which i saw at the Moma last summer. I spent ages sitting in front of the piece waiting for the eyes to blink. As they never did i decided to create a similar piece of my own that did move.

Rather then eyes i chose to focus on the mouth, and thus was also able to incorporate words and speech. I decided (after alot of thought) to have the people talk about things they are afraid of. I wanted a topic that everybody could relate to, something that showed we are all the same (in that we all have fears and phobias) but that we are still different (in that everybody is afraid of different things)

I then projected this into a bedroom setting, complete with the installation tape spider web that Lambie's original had. I chose the bedroom as it is a room that is considered 'safe' a place where your fears cant get you.

I had plans to develop this work, as i overall i wasnt that satisfied with it, in particular the bedroom setting, as it was all a bit rushed towards the end of the project. However i then became interested in the idea of cameraless film, and have been working on developing that since then.

Maybe one day i will go back to this idea and see where i can take it.

As always i feel i need to say that i had to compress these films quite alot, from around 700MB to about 50MB. So obviously alot of the quality is lost, but hey ho.

Another place for me to be awesome

So on my ever expanding list of places i upload and type about my work i can now add this one

Deviant Art

oooo look at that! Isnt it nice... actually to be quite honest, i dont no how to use it, but maybe by the time you are reading this i will have worked it out, doubtful though!

I had to send off some sort of application to be allowed to upload films, which was accepted, but god knows how i actually now do it.

But im hoping to get alot more feedback from it, which is something i need, especially when certain tutorials with lecturers dont happen.

But whatever.

In other news, i do have new films to show, i just havent quite finished (read as quite started) editing them together yet. But soon...

Old School Ginjavision

Ive been watching alot of stop motion videos on vimeo today, and its made me a bit nostalgic; for those days in college where stop motion was all i did...

Id go into the front room with a stool, and drape the curtains over it, to create a mini white infinity curve style stage set up, and then id get my little plasticine 'blobs' and take begin the whole stop motion process.

I remember the very first 3 i made i didnt have a tripod to put my camera on, so i used another stool with a pile of books and folders on top to get it to the right height.

My favorite was the one i did for easter, so i suppose it must have been almost exactly 4 years ago, cadbury cream eggs break dancing.

Watching it back now (and in fact all the videos on my youtube account,) is almost painful, the frame rate was something like 16, if that, so was no where near fast enough, but i was happy enough with the results at the time.

And it was all just for fun.

I think over the summer i would really like to make some more stop motion films, probably not with plasticine blobs, although i do still have them in my room, and to use it as a way to get away from the whole idea of an 'art film'.

I think after leaving the animation course, and hating it so much, i just wanted to get away from animation, and i started making far more artsy type films, which i have enjoyed, and i think are what i need to be making for the course, but for myself i think id like to go back and do some animation stuff again.

So i shall!!

And now for your viewing pleasure, some films!

(I would just like to say again i am horribly away of how jerky and slow they are, and i also apologies FoR TYpIng liKe thIs iN tHe CRediTs aNd TiTLeS!!)

Easter Egg Dance Off

Blobs 1 (which was the first even bit of animation i did!)

Blobs 2

Blobs 3

Blobs 4

Blobs 5

and there you have it! There are other various bad animations on my youtube page, but im sure you're cleaver enough to work that out and dont need me to link you to each and every one!!

More work for your viewing pleasure...

I have been continue my work on subliminal messaging, and think i have finally had a breakthrough...

so today i am here to show you 2 films. The first one is not great.

Newspaper Subliminal Experiment from Lana ap Rees on Vimeo.

Obviously, this is a continuation of my previous paper tear-away expeiremnts. I thought it was going to work be really successful, however, as it turned out it really wasn't. In fact you cant really see the words at all, which i know is the point of subliminal messaging, but i think these words are too abstract.

Cant really be bothered to say a lot more about it as it didn't work!

And then this is the second, and far more successful, experiment.

Hungary? Experiment from Lana ap Rees on Vimeo.

I am really happy with the way this experiment has turned out, and i think i have got a really good technique to develop.

In other news, i am back in Castle Lana for two weeks, 1 of which will be spent in New York, which i am super excited about, both for the shopping but also the artistic inspiration!!

And that is all i have to say for now...

Hit down with illness....

After last weeks constant working this week has not gone quite so well. To start with i got a cold, which keeps sort of going away, leading me to think im better, but then it pushes me down again and forces me to curl up in a ball in my bed. Which doesn't exactly led to good art making.

The weather has also been horrible, see last week was glorious and sunny and i did lots of work, this week has been rainy and dull and i have done no work. This things are clearly linked.

So basically i have done nothing at all week, this is also not helped by the fact that i had a tutorial booked for yesterday, i dragged my sniffling self in, sat around for 2 hours, realised lecturer man was clearly not in, got filled with anger, came home.

So in conclusion, i have done no work, i am ill, and i dont like the rain.

However today seems to be quite sunny, so maybe today i will achieve something....

And then on friday i get to go home

Oh look, some more work...

This week i have done a crazy amount of work, really its all very tiring.

I have been experimenting with different coloured materials, and how well they work on the film.

To begin with i continued using oil pastels, this time covering the whole strip in them, but found they were a) not bright enough, b) rubbed themselves off while being applied, and c) i just wasnt satisfied with the results.

I then moved on to acrylic paints, these were much more succesfull, bright, bolder and more appealing.

The last experiment i have done today is useing a technique i call ‘Newspaper Tear Away’. To do this technicque you use seloptape to lift the top layer of colour from a magazine page. I have used this technique in many of my other projects to great success, and as part of the first half of this project to create text on the film.

Newspaper Experiment from Lana ap Rees on Vimeo.

This time i just wanted to get colours, which i have succeed in doing. I am very happy with the outcome, i feel this is possibly the most successful experiment i have done today, as i feel it has many different ways of being developed.

I have only uploaded the video of this last experiment as i felt all 3 were fairly similar, so i would just show you the most successful and most relevant to the future of the project one.

Also i have had a break through with the pixelation issues i was having, which i think makes a great improvement to the quality of the film clip.

'I want to make art that makes you throw up'

oh yes indeedy i do. Well that and fall over, maybe start to fit, who knows.

So here are 2 film clips that i have been working on. I have a few more, but they are not fully edited yet, so you cant see them untill then.

Subliminal Experiment from Lana ap Rees on Vimeo.

The first one is me trying my hand at subliminal messaging, which doesnt work, the words are too pixelated, and too visible. But it has given me a starting point to try different methods.

ColourFlash Experiment from Lana ap Rees on Vimeo.

And the second film was me begging to play around with colour and flashes and such things. I used oil pastels to colour in the film strip, which works, but not as successfully as i had hoped, so it think next i will do some experiments into different materials.

As always vimeo has made the flashing effect much duller and stutter-y then it is on the original films. But at it gives you vague idea of what i am doing at least!!

24 frames of art a second

Sounds like a lot!!

Anywho, here is some work i have been working on for the past few days...

24 Artists in a Second from Lana ap Rees on Vimeo.

This was for an idea i has based on a phrase i use alot, '24 frames of art in a second'. This is the saying i use when i explain why i create films; for me when i see a painting or a photograph i see just a single frame, where as with my work, (especially the recent work i have been doing with cameraless film), i see it as 24 frames of art, each frame can be considered its own piece of artwork.

So i took this phrase and decided to play around with it a bit. The above films shows 24 famous pieces of artwork, played in a second!

I kind of liked this, i think it could have been really interesting, so i began to develop the idea a bit, as shown in the next film..

Artist Experiment from Lana ap Rees on Vimeo.

Ok, so this second film shows how i began to develop this idea.

I decided that rather then show 24 different pieces of art i would focus instead on a single image, but never show the whole complete piece. Instead i would show 24 different parts of the painting, leaving the audience to either work out what they were seeing, or just be bombarded with the imagery.

The idea being that i could then show many different pieces of art, and in affect show 'Art in 60 Seconds', playing with the idea that you dont have to spend hours in a gallery staring at one image, just simply watch my film and see all of art in a minute.

However, i do not think this film worked. This is mainly due to the fact that i tried to incorporate the cameraless film aspect back into it. This means that each frame was tiny, and thus when i made it bigger on the computer it became to pixelated to actually understand what was being seen.

It would have worked better if i had kept it all digital i think. This is one of the main reasons i have moved on from this idea. I dont like the thought of leaving camerlaess film behind. So i have gone back to my other of subliminal messaging and bombardment, but thought i would show you what i have been up to even though it is now all pointless!

just venting

ok, so i finally start doing like proper style work, ie working for more then 30minutes in a row, and it was all going fabby.

But now ive hit a wall, i dont no where i want to go. My work seems to have gone in 2 directions, 2 directions that cant both work together, theres a word for that but i cant recall what it is.

And i dont no which one to go with, the one that is actually inspiring me, but is quite possibly shit. Or the one that is what i am meant to be doing, but that i am stuck with.

It was all going so well to i realized these things. And now im not sure what to do, hence why i am typing here. God i wish uni was like college.

I also really quite want to create something with the film, like an actual thing, like a sculpture or something, which is quite unlike me, but i had this image in my last sketch book, it was of a victorias secret angel, walking down the runway, and she had these wings made out of film, and i think id quite like to make something like that, but out of the film ive done stuff too, but then why? what would be the point of that?

See i quite like just looking at the film stock on the wall, so maybe it doesnt even matter what the film looks like when played, maybe it should be about the filmstock being the art.

And now ive just given myself another option. I hate options, stupid things.

LOOK WHAT I WORKED OUT HOW TO DO

ok so there is nothing new to actually see here, but after 5 minutes investigation i have discovered how to embed the videos on this blog, not being able to do so was one of the main reasons i preferred the other site.

35mm FLASH Experiment from Lana ap Rees on Vimeo.

this is not a new video though, its the last one i did, i dont have any new films, i have nothing new, except a headache, i didnt have that before...

but somewhere below this entry is another entry about this film, like why i did it, so if you care, go find out.

this is all

some words i typed

i find it very hard to start work, i look back at the last project and i was filled with ideas and enthusiasm, yet when this project began i just stopped working. It was a 15 week project, and to my mind the deadline was so far in the future it didn't even matter. Yet now we have i think 5 weeks, i guess 7 if we're going to include easter in this, which im not really as i will be away for most of it. But 5 weeks to complete a 15 week project, and so far ive done an amount of work that i could have achieved in 4 days.

Yet i still cant bring myself to do anything, i look at my sketch book, the list of artists i need to research, the reel of film i need to bleach, and im just like 'yeh yeh yeh, whatever'.

And really this can not go on for much longer. Up until yesterday i could use the excuse i was writing my essay, but now i just dont have that luxury, that is no excuse i can give, im just being lazy, and its got to stop, NOW.

scary emails of the warning variety

i have just checked my uni email account, and in it was an email from some receptionist type person, that contained a letter from mike, the man in charge of fine art.

In this attached letter it basically says 'you never come in, start coming in or we will kick you off the course. this letter is an official written warning'

But i dont get what it is they want me to do, i could go into uni every day of the week, but im not going to achieve any work, because to do my work i need i need a sink, and bleach, and a clothes line, and a scanner, and my laptop. And ok the uni has scanners i could use, and i could take my laptop in, and i could set up a drying area for the pieces of film. but i doubt i am going to be able to do a bit of plumbing work and whip up a sink in the corner.

Thats the other thing that makes me unwilling to go into uni, there is no space, people who need to be in uni everyday to do their work have taken all the space, which is fair enough really. But it means if i was to suddenly decide on monday to go in and work there, there is no room for me to set up my drying area for film, let alone a sink.

And its just like, i produce work from home perfectly fine, i am in my own space, everything i need is to hand, and its all good. I go to pretty much all the compulsory lectures i am supposed mto go to, ok i missed one last week, but whatever.

So basically this letter that i have received has pretty much annoyed me greatly.

GAH, this makes my head hurt but i cant stop

COOL TETRIS GAME WITH A TWIST

and it gets to go on here because it has stopped me doing work for at least an hour, and thus is relevant...

Three videos in one day

Sadly they took 2 weeks to complete, i just happened to upload them all on the same day, so dont expect this kind of bombardment of things every day, or in fact every week.

FILM HERE

Also something id like to say about this film, WATCH IT FULL SCREEN, also vimeo has somehow made it softer or something. The original file is much more harsh with its flashes, which is how its meant to be. So when watching please keep these things in mind!!

Ermmm what do i want to say about this. Well its an initial experiment, from a new idea im developing, although clearly it is quite similar to the others, but yeh, hopefully as i develop this particular idea it will become more clear. Or it will continue to all look the same and i will have to make some rubbish up about what i wanted it to mean. Either way...

Once you pop you just cant stop

Or in my case, once you start doing and organising work you just cant stop. But it just doesn't have the same ring to it i fear.

FILM HERE

This was an idea that i started to develop from the previous experiments with the grass. I wanted to continue expriemting with the more natural and organic appearance of the grass and leaves but wanted the film to have more meaning to it then just lookign pretty.

So i started looking at jourenys, and using the film as a way to document the journey. This film sequence is a representation of the walk i take from my boyfriends house back to mine. So it is a journey i do fairly often.

Overall i am quite happy with this idea/experiment and may decide to develop it further at some point, but at the moment i have had some other ideas about film and want to see where i can get to with them first.

HUZZAR

Finally some work to actually show! so really this was done last week, but i had no enthusisasm to actually edit and upload it till today.

But here it is. CLICK

(see this is why i liek tumblr, they let me actually put the film in the post, not just a link, but as far as i can tell this place wants to me to upload it directly onto here, well no go away. so links will have to do im afraid)

Basically these were 2 seperate experiments i did sticking grass on 35mm. It was a starting point to see what effects could be achieved sticking different things to the films. The first experiment was not very satisfacotry, but the second half was much better, simply by bleaching the middle of each frame out, rather then the whole strip.

These experiments are very much in the style of Stan Brakahge, who is an artist i love more then just a little bit, so yeh im aware they are similar, that was kind of the point!

oh look, some more words...

im not overly sure i like this thing, i thing i prefer the other one. but never mind i will battle on.

Today was quite possibly the most productive day i have had since the start of term. i woke up at 9, was up and ready by half 9, went into the kitchen with my laptop, and wrote 949 words before breakfast (which i had about 11am), i was very impressed with myself.

As if that were not enough productivity for the day, i then did some sketch book work, bleached some film, came up with a plan for the next few days, and watched doctor who.

Ok so the last bit of that isnt really productive but whatever.

I am now sort of comatosed in my chair, my brain is turning into mush and i just kind of want a nap...

so we start again

ok, so i had, no i still have a tumblr, in fact i spent ages trying to decide which one out of tumblr and this i wanted to get, and i went with the other.

then i discovered that basically everybody had a blogspot, so now to cover all eventualities i have both.

so far my tumblr has several entries, which i cant be bothered to transfer to here, so THIS (CLICK HERE) is the tumblr. from now on i guess ill just update everything in duplicate to make sure everybody sees everything i want them too!!

and now i should really go write some essay, but i cant really be bothered, ho hum.