lomography returns!

its back! after the last camera fell apart into cheap plastic chunks in the middle of texas, ive got a shiny new medium format HOLGA colourflash 120 magic thingamebob. beautiful images, but tragically the bastards take a good 3 weeks to develop...more follows...

im still around

sorry to anyone who checks here regularly (both of you)- ive been engrossed in uni and essays, so havent really had time to keep this thing up to date. regardless, expect some new updates veryvery soon, as ive got some nice new pics to share...

playlist-

thurston moore- trees outside the academy
alexander tucker- old fog
chris corsano- the young cricketer
kevin drew- spirit if...
fuck buttons- bright tomorrow single

motion panoramas- a conclusion?

Los Angeles, 2019

Manhattan, 1989

New England, 2002

Northumbrian Coast, 2010

Washington DC, 2007


As a possible conclusion to the motion panoramas project ive been working on for the last month (see below), ive been piecing together panoramic landscapes from movies- removing segments of several individual frames from a single shot, then putting them back together, editing out the main character in the shot. above are a few examples of the pieces, but the final set will likely specifically be cityscapes. im pleased with it as a piece- taking a shot out of its original narrative context, just showing the scene's environment. im investigation the possibility of displaying in lightboxes when theyre finished. click for a better view...

ps- in case yr wandering, the films from which the shots are taken from are...
Bladerunner
American psycho
Final destination 2
Reign of fire
Die hard 4.0

motion panoramas continued

a continuation of the previously posted panoramas, created by stitching together stills captured from an old reel of super8 film. the upper image is taken from the window of a car, while the lower one (taken from my grandparents balcony during a thunderstorm) is a good demonstration of the problems im having with the software- the boundaries between the stitched frames are very obvious, with dark bands interrupting the image. as always, click for a better view...

free transformations mark 2- RESULT

a MASSIVE thankyou to all those who came down on saturday night for my second ever night of multimedia based dataflow. in the end, i only made a loss of thirty quid, which is a rousing success in my book. a big thank you to all the performers, video makers, and the people of invention for allowing me to deafen them for a night.

HIGHLIGHTS!

adam burton piecing together a backing track on his laptop (live on the projector), before slaying it with noise warbles

me screwing up the sound on all 3 video pieces by cacking about with the sound desk

alexander thomas playing the loudest theremin set in the history of the instrument, before finishing off with the quietest, most beautiful sounds ive heard live

joinedbywire slaying with harsh, fists in the air, noise

i videotaped all the performances, so once i get them captured (damn you final cut pro...) ill post em up for all the world to see on a popular video sharing site...keep a look out!

free transformations mark 2

looks to be a good show! come on down if yr in town

TEXAS

it saddens me too report a tragic demise in my photographic world. my trusty lomograph camera, scuffed by glastonbury mud and duffed about by dozens of gigs, has perished. Here i sit in Fort Worth, Texas, visiting my fantastic grandparents, and i had no means of recording the visual delights i was experiencing. be my rash self, i went ahead and got a new polaroid camera...hopfully it will bring me as much joy as my lomo did. Many more images will appear when i have got round to scanning all of them. In the meantime i am busy planning the SECOND FREE TRANSFORMATIONS NIGHT. slated for october 6th, it will involve 3 great noise performances, and hopefully a load of terrified freshers :)

more to follow...

motion panoramas

using the same (lo-tech!) image stitching program that i used to create the glasto panorama below, these images were created by joining together single frames from a super8 film. in doing so, the image displays the progression of the video as a single image. as you move across the images, you can follow the motion of the camera- the image blurs as the cameras panning speed increases. im thinking of doing this to shots from famous films as well- creating panoramic landscapes of the fake sets...as always, give em a click for a good view!

also, a quick big up to the guys at the AOFR gig- i shoulda brought my camera for some great pics, but i forgot :( it was AWESOME

finally...

due to pressure from certain people, *cough* oli *cough*, here is a few blurry, poorly composed pics from the lurking hole's mighty '07 future easter freakout. if you can figure it out, theres shots of dead sea fuckin scrolls, frightener and Army of Flying Robots.

back in notts

assorted scenes from summer in nottingham...

colour fields

i project ive been working on sparsely for the last few months has been my 'colour fields' series. the aim is to show how a specific visual medium influences the information which it displays. to achieve this i photographed a CRT monitor displaying solid blocks of colour, and then blew up sections of the image to show how the monitor distorts the tone and brightness, and leaves bands in the image as it refreshes. other works in the series have looked at images taken of colours projected through a data prjector. the work has taken the form of slideshows and large format printouts. the aim is to suggest that the outlets which feed us information are not merely passively displaying it, but also altering it.

unfortunately to really get a good feel for the images, they have to be blown up quite large, so naturally this isnt the best context for them...

a word about my blog

mmm this blog hasnt really been exactly what i planned for. initially i viewed it as some kindof online portfolio- place to direct people who wanna check out my work. alas, due to ongoing problems relating to condensing/uploading massive video files, not much of my actual uni work has been shown on here, instead its serving as a form of photo blog. i cant lie- this will probably continue, but with a bit of luck therell be some videos and sound up here soon, and you guys can get an idea of what i actually do...


what the heck, heres what ive been listening to:

beirut- the gulag orkestar
capricorns- ruder forms survive
terry riley-les yeux fermes & lifespan
kevin drumm- sheer hellish miasma
bruce springsteen- nebraska

last of the glasto images

a special one here, folks- a panaramic, badly stitched photograph of our campsite on wednesday before the collective horror of the wind and the rain reduced it to a quagmire...

click for a good view, and try and ignore the shifts in colour as my camera died.

glastonbury 2007

a veritable orgy of lomograph pictures here, showing the maina that was glastonbury. Ironically, my camera seized up before saturday, so theres no pictures of the comical expanses of mud that began claiming victims.
Standout acts:
beirut
arcade fire
bjork
annuals
holy fuck
iggy and the stooges
css

glasonbury 2007

FREE TRANSFORMATIONS

Ok, i shouldve posted this much earlier, but i logged myself out of this account, which was astoundingly clever. a coupla weeks ago i threw a little event here in bath, brining together local media based artists and my friend james smith (aka forest/stables) for an evening of video art, music and noise. Originally there was goin to be Pong on an original 70s console, but it died on the day...

Video works included a new piece by me, playing with ways of converting image files into sound, with loud results (online soon!), new pieces appropriating videogame and action film culture from Jason Rouse and Al Pritchard, and new works by Rob Jackson, including this baby:




Homes For America
from RobertJacksonArt

a reinterpretation of dan grahams 'homes for america', the work shows every youtube video with the title as a tagline, playing concurrently in a mass of audio and colour.

the show was a mixed success, with slightly dissapointing turnout (not helped by a last minute venue change), but an enthusiastic response to the video works. Unfortunately my friend James' fantastic noise set (using prepared tape loops and a mixer) didnt find the most appreciative audience, which was a shame. In the end, im pleased with the results as a first attempt, and i hope to work with the venue to put on more shows, with more succesful advertising...

all tomorrow's photos

atp vs the fans, minehead butlin's, may '07. i dont want this to be just a lomo photography blog, but nevermind...

lights on

this is a project from the end of the first year. for this piece i recorded used a cameraphone to record video of a neon striplight being turned on, then cut the video into single frames. within the image, each row shows the changes in colour and brightness as the tube fires up.

black noise installation

the above photo shows the setup for a small sound installation i set up last month at university. the two speakers played a sound piece, composed of sine waves. One speaker channel had the signal inverted, playing the mathamatical opposite of it's partner. In theory this would create a region equidistant between the speakers where the waves would cancel each other out and tehre would be no sound. Onlookers were invited to suggest where they thaught the silent region was located on the white board provided. In practice, the region wasnt silent, but was distinctly quieter than its surroundings. I will hopefully reproduce this on a grander scale if i get the chance...

edit- when i manage to uplaod audio onto this thing i'll be able to post the sound recording i used...

lomograph fun