A Collection Of: August 2013

Thursday, 15 August 2013

A Collection Of is a documentation in various photographic forms of a week in my lifeline. These are images that I have collected over the course of a week. They include pictures of everyday things seen from a different angle. Each day has its own post with a collection of photographs. Videos of everyday actions are also on the blog, including the start of the timeline - waking up - and washing dishes. The most bland, most normal, unexciting actions, with the camera held in front of my face, making people see my viewpoint, focusing on the same things I normally do.

The pinhole photos are, to me, very symbolic of a timeline as well as new media, because pinhole cameras act like video cameras, in the sense that we leave them running for minutes or hours, and the only thing we get from it is one still image. Everything that happens in the camera's eye is compacted into one singular moment, and so we find that a pinhole picture tells a story of its own, even though some actions go unnoticed, literally giving us a ghost of the actions.

These have all been compiled onto this blog and represent a week of sights, the blog becoming my diary and visual diary.

Sources (Harvard Referencing)

Barbera, P. 2004. Where they create. [O].
Available: http://wheretheycreate.com/
Accessed 4 August 2013.

Chow, L. 2013. Writiers having a drink. [O].
Available: http://www.lostateminor.com/2013/08/02/writers-having-a-drink/
Accessed 12 August 2013.

Chow, L. 2013. Falling Everywhere in Pictures. [O].
Available: http://www.lostateminor.com/2013/05/21/falling-everywhere-in-pictures/
Accessed 10 August 2013.

Chow, L. 2013. Classrooms of the World, and the Students in them. [O].
Available: http://www.lostateminor.com/2013/07/24/classrooms-of-the-world-and-the-students-in-them/
Accessed 12 August 2013.

Dillon, J. 2011. Slavery Footprint. [O].
Available: http://slaveryfootprint.org/
Accessed 12 August 2013.

Downsland, A. 2012. Monstrosity. [O].
Available: http://vimeo.com/54805397
Accessed 14 August 2013.

Germain, J. 2004. Classroom Portraits. [O].
Available: http://www.juliangermain.com/projects/classrooms.php
Accessed 12 August 2013.

Hagen, O. 2012. This Is Fear. [O].
Available: http://vimeo.com/53676892
Accessed 12 August 2013.

Hoffman, P. 2010. Peter Hoffman Photography. [O].
Available: http://www.peterhoffmanphoto.com/
Accessed 13 August 2013.

Iraili, N. 2012. Tension. [O].
Available: http://nirarieli.com/
Accessed 12 August 2013.

Kezelos, C. 2010. Zero. [O].
Available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOMbySJTKpg
Accessed 13 August 2013.

Lasko, H. 2013. The Pixel Painter. [O].
Available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVQHeowMdjI
Accessed 12 August 2013.

Marsh, N. 2013. 9-Eyes: scenes from Google Street View by Jon Rafman. [O].
Available: http://www.lostateminor.com/2013/08/13/9-eyes-scenes-from-google-street-view-by-jon-rafman/
Accessed 10 August 2013.

McCrea, K. 2011. Fauna & Flora. [O].
Available: http://www.hellokirsten.com/flora-fauna.html
Accessed 10 August 2013.

McEvoy, M. [Sa]. [new lyrics for old songs]. [O].
Available: http://markmcevoy.tumblr.com/
Accessed 14 August 2013.

[Sn]. 2013. Pinterest. [O].
Available: www.pinterest.com
Accessed 13 August 2013.

Rejeb, K. 2010. Lino. [O].
Available: http://vimeo.com/54805397
Accessed 13 August 2013.

Rhoden, R. 2013. Elegant Overlapping Photos of Dancers By Nir Iraeli. [O].
Available: http://www.lostateminor.com/2013/07/10/elegant-overlapping-photographs-of-dancers-by-nir-arieli/
Accessed 12 August 2013.

Skarbakka, K. 2010. The Struggle To Right Oneself. [O].
Available: http://www.skarbakka.com/index.htm
Accessed 10 August 2013.

TwentyFourx7. [Sa]. [O].
Available: http://twentyfourx7.tumblr.com/
Accessed 10 August 2013.

Wikman, A. 2013. Animal Kingdom illustrations by Sweden’s Åsa Wikman. [O].
Available: http://www.lostateminor.com/2013/08/02/animal-kingdom-by-swedens-asa-wikman/
Accessed 10 August 2013.

Wildman, M. 2013. Illustrations of Grown-Up Cartoons by Celeste Pille. [O].
Available: http://www.lostateminor.com/2013/07/26/illustrations-of-grown-up-cartoons-by-celeste-pille/
Accessed 14 August 2013.

Wisse, P. 2013. 500 Photographers. [O].
Available: http://500photographers.blogspot.com/2010/10/photographer-134-myoung-ho-lee.html
Accessed 12 August 2013.

Moving Research

Other videos can be found:

http://vimeo.com/54805397

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkF6hLmZ3qs&feature=share&list=PL8648C015B1C66617

http://vimeo.com/53676892

Wednesday, 14 August 2013

Day 7

Day 6

Still Research

TwentyFourX7

TwentyFourX7 is a blog about New York City, a collection images all surrounding this city, made by Chris Godfrey.
(http://twentyfourx7.tumblr.com/)

Fox River Derivatives

This is a series of photographs taken by Peter Hoffman. In his process, he burns developed negatives and gets these odd images.

(http://www.peterhoffmanphoto.com/)

Collecting Writers and their Drinks

Low Lai Chow collected pictures of famous writers and their drinks.

(http://www.lostateminor.com/2013/08/02/writers-having-a-drink/)

The Struggle To Right Oneself

Kerry Skarbakka has took a series of photographs of himself falling through air. " His work is in response to the human experience of uncertainty and balance; of relinquishing and taking control." As he says in his artist statement, the images “convey the primal qualities of the human condition as a precarious balancing act between the struggle against our desire to survive and our fantasy to transcend our humanness.”

(http://www.lostateminor.com/2013/05/21/falling-everywhere-in-pictures/

http://www.skarbakka.com/index.htm)

Julian Germain's Classroom Series

Germain is a collector.

….the power of the images is in their direct connection to the viewer. We remember our own schooldays and wonder what happened to our own classmates. By presenting different pupils, different schools, different year groups, Germain asks questions about contemporary educational practices and social divisions. Already we can imagine the life trajectories of some of these young people. Here are faces full of hope and promise. Here also, is the silent threat of failure. Aspiration competes with apathy…..”
Tom Shakespeare. Archive Magazine, October 2005

(http:/www.lostateminor.com/2013/07/24/classrooms-of-the-world-and-the-students-in-them/

http://www.juliangermain.com/projects/classrooms.php)

Tension

Nir Arieli creates stunning overlapping photographs of dancers.

(http://www.lostateminor.com/2013/07/10/elegant-overlapping-photographs-of-dancers-by-nir-arieli/

http://nirarieli.com/)

Animal Kingdom

Asa Wikman's illustrated series. On Lost at E Minor, she wrote" I am a Swedish illustrator and designer who works in London. I love character design, doodling and patterns, being inspired by childhood memories, my bad sense of humour, and my love for nature. With my constantly growing Animal Kingdom collection, I combine all that with a bit of “nature strikes back”."

http://www.lostateminor.com/2013/08/02/animal-kingdom-by-swedens-asa-wikman/

http://asawikman.com/Animal-Kingdom

Celeste Pille

She makes illustrations of cartoon characters after they have grown up.

http://celestedoodles.tumblr.com/post/55277746718/wiccanwarrior-celestedoodles-rugrats-grown

http://www.lostateminor.com/2013/07/26/illustrations-of-grown-up-cartoons-by-celeste-pille/

Flora & Fauna

Kirsten McCrea writes on her webpage:

"Taking inspiration from mold, fungus, and moss, these colourful blooms of ornament and pattern come to land on and obscure everyday objects, animals, machines, and even language itself.
Coming to enshroud objects both everyday and remarkable, these pattern blooms eliminate detail, surface, color, and texture of the original form, replacing the visual appearance of familiar objects with something alive, organic, and visually stunning. Like a careful manicured, miniature garden, the base objects become a foundation, the soil in which dedication, repetition, and a commitment to form, pattern, and colour grow."

http://www.hellokirsten.com/

My Slavery Footprint

This is a cool website where you can go work out exactly how many slaves work for you, created by Justin Dillon.

http://slaveryfootprint.org/

[new lyrics for old songs]
This is a blog by Mark McEvoy

(http://markmcevoy.tumblr.com/)

9-Eyes

Scenes from Google Street View by Jon Rafman

( http://www.lostateminor.com/2013/08/13/9-eyes-scenes-from-google-street-view-by-jon-rafman/ )

Tree Series

Myoung Ho Lee uses canvases behind trees that make them artworks.

(http://500photographers.blogspot.com/2010/10/photographer-134-myoung-ho-lee.html)

Where They Create

"My name is Paul Barbera. I am a photographer. ‘Where They Create’ is a visual documentation of the creative environments of artist & creatives that I meet during my travels for assignments."

(www.wheretheycreate.com)