I have been in the blog wilderness but it is worth coming back to the online world to share this street art!
Baket St
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When I am far away and I don't live in London anymore I think this maybe a favourite image. Much of my life in London has been book ended by journeys and experiences on the tube. I captured this image with my SX70 and Impossible Project Silvershade 100 on the way back from a work meeting.
So much fascinates me about the tube it has become a big part of my art and at the moment I am really digging in to all the meaning and cultural significance it has.
If only I could taken decent film photos inside a carriage.
the inspiration of a rainbow cake
image credit: Hula Seventy
sad day at the mill, yet inspired by the amazing cake by Hula Seventy! Check out Hula Seventy a great blog.
DianaF+ and my london
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Originally uploaded by amandajaynecarmichael
My london is the one of quirks and greys and browns of all shades.... no whites and not quite black. I feel like the DianaF+ helps me capture my version and experience of London. The specific images and characteristics that make it London and nowhere else.
I start to realise that this is home. If only for a period of life, it has now worked it way into my veins and being.
breakthrough on my Diana F+
I picked up these photos today and I feel like it is a breakthrough I am really starting to feel the magic of the Diana F+ I have had the training wheels on for a longtime. I am starting to wobble my way along the road.
Very excited.
See flickr for more of the photos taken on 120 film.
xx
the sketchbook project
I am currently waiting for the delivery of my sketchbook, to get cracking. Check it out www.thesketchbookproject.com a great concept and I love how these guys have grown their ideas of a gallery space.
I am being full of adventure and participating, are you?
I am being full of adventure and participating, are you?
image credit: My Love for you is a Stampede of Horses
Via Katie Armstrong i discovered Lauren DiCioccio.
A marvel in creating with stitch that which is disposable.
Lauren's artist statement
' My work investigates the physical/tangible beauty of commonplace mass-produced media-objects, most recently: the newspaper, magazines, office papers and writing pads, plastic bags, 35 mm slides. These media are becoming obsolete, replaced by the invisible efficiency of various technologies. In some cases, this transition is a good thing- faster transmission and distribution of information, streamlined systems, openness to user input, less waste. But a hole is left behind by the disappearance of these everyday objects. What will happen when we no longer touch information? When newsprint does not rub off onto our fingertips? When we no longer write longhand?
The tedious handiwork and obsessive care I employ to create my work aims to remind the viewer of these simple but intimate pieces of everyday life and to provoke a pang of nostalgia for the familiar physicality of these objects'
somehow an angel
Image: piccadilly line taken with my digital harezumi
somehow this image that I took on my journey on the tube reminded me of an angel about to take flight. Recently I have been tired, anxious I have had a few meltdowns. Generally just exhausted from life and my fight for a good one. So I need to see angels occasionally.
Bad things have happened again to good people in my life that has added to my understanding of how I have built my life, it has allowed me to embrace the good bits. And be kinder to myself about my life. For me there has been a shift, I am starting to embrace who I am, where I am and the role I am good at playing.
SX-70 obsession
Oh my new to me but old SX70 vintage polaroid camera (purchased via the Impossible Project) is a love of mine. Still working out how it all works and exposure etc but this is my workings from last night. A good distraction from my current career crisis, creating images.
visual image of a brain fade
I am sure this is what it would look like when I have one of the brain freeze and reboot moments.
gapingvoid gallery
this pretty much sums up my life challenge, I love Gaping Void!
gapingvoid gallery
gapingvoid gallery
over my head - check out Katie Armstrong
I am over my head this week with stuff, finishing my animation, preparing for the end of the course and tutorial with course co-ordinator, work being frantic. and so for inspiration i visited Katie Armstrong's website and animations - well worthwhile take a look!
one of her masterpieces below and check her website out.
one of her masterpieces below and check her website out.
Goodbye Sorrow from Katie Armstrong on Vimeo.
Summer Sunday
On our one day of the week together the boy and I made the most of the British Summer Sunday in London.
drawing into the third dimension
thanks to of paper and things blog (wonderful by the way for art inspired and me with paper) I discovered Birgit Knoechl. She is just up my street, clear crisp definition of shape and form, pushing drawing into three dimensions.
described on her website
" The desire to find ways of making drawings outgrow the limits of the two
dimensional surface is the driving force of Birgit Knoechl’s practice. She draws
ever-new forms and patterns based on the shapes and structures of all manner of
vegetative life forms –- and then cuts these forms out and arranges the cut_outs
as sculptural objects in different spatial scenarios, or animates them by filming
them in close-up. Trying out these different scenarios for staging the cut_outs in
installations, Knoechl continuously explores how these drawings cut into space
and what the space would do to them, how their staging in the space could bring
them to life, and how the space could be brought to life through the drawings.
Knoechl thus shows installation and video to be media that can open up a space
(a real space as well as an imaginary one) around a drawing –- or more precisely,
that in space and video the immanent potential spatiality of drawings can be
unfolded. "
very inspiring, a worthy use of your time.
described on her website
" The desire to find ways of making drawings outgrow the limits of the two
dimensional surface is the driving force of Birgit Knoechl’s practice. She draws
ever-new forms and patterns based on the shapes and structures of all manner of
vegetative life forms –- and then cuts these forms out and arranges the cut_outs
as sculptural objects in different spatial scenarios, or animates them by filming
them in close-up. Trying out these different scenarios for staging the cut_outs in
installations, Knoechl continuously explores how these drawings cut into space
and what the space would do to them, how their staging in the space could bring
them to life, and how the space could be brought to life through the drawings.
Knoechl thus shows installation and video to be media that can open up a space
(a real space as well as an imaginary one) around a drawing –- or more precisely,
that in space and video the immanent potential spatiality of drawings can be
unfolded. "
very inspiring, a worthy use of your time.
sketch crawl
image from Elizabeth Graeber and the Sketch Crawl supported by Worn MagazineI stumbled on a 'sketch crawl', I didn't even know what it was. I was delighted and suprised and I wish I was in Washington DC on July 17th. I am inspired and maybe I can organise a few over the summer here in London town. Shout out to the inspiring and amazing Elizabeth Graber and the Sketch Crawl.
the moment of decision
the moment of decision captured
to remind myself
not to turn back
and how good it felt
interesting thoughts
'Blue-sky thinking, finding the inner you; if you look up ‘creativity’ on the internet you’ll be bombarded with sites to help you get in contact with your creative potential. I blame Joseph Beuys, that modern art guru of fat and felt, who claimed “everyone is an artist”. Now we all feel we have something to say. But do we? Of course Beuys didn’t mean everyone has the potential to be a Picasso. Motivated by utopian beliefs, culled from Romantic writers such as Novalis and the anthroposophy of Rudolf Steiner, he believed in the power of universal human creativity to bring about revolutionary change. '
from Sue Hubbard on Creativity - full article here
I really found Sue Hubbard's article on creativity interesting in the Observer Magazine yesterday. That creativity can often be an outouring from a life that doesn't smell like roses. It also reminded me about how great the concept of the School of Life is. The School of Life is a new social enterprise offering good ideas for everyday living. Check it out - www.schooloflife.com
from Sue Hubbard on Creativity - full article here
I really found Sue Hubbard's article on creativity interesting in the Observer Magazine yesterday. That creativity can often be an outouring from a life that doesn't smell like roses. It also reminded me about how great the concept of the School of Life is. The School of Life is a new social enterprise offering good ideas for everyday living. Check it out - www.schooloflife.com
lost in the abyss
At the moment I am lost in the abyss of not knowing what to do (which I also realise is a defence mechanism). I made a decision while in Glasgow to make a turn towards something I love and although desperate to do, I am finding it painful and super challenging.
I will show you photos of time of decision, I knew it was momentous, and I needed to stay committed to the clarity in that moment so took polaroids. I will post tonight.
In the meantime I am getting lost in completing my animation project ( which I must admit the boy is being incredibly helpful with).
I will show you photos of time of decision, I knew it was momentous, and I needed to stay committed to the clarity in that moment so took polaroids. I will post tonight.
In the meantime I am getting lost in completing my animation project ( which I must admit the boy is being incredibly helpful with).
straight from the sketchbook
As part of my CLFA at City Lit, today I spent 6hrs sketching in the Natural History Museum a stibrite - chief source of the mineral antimony - spray of bright lustrous crystals.
I felt wonderfully exhausted at the end, a day of arm soreness, concentration and frustration and then a sense of satisfaction and contentment.
hours animating
busy working away at my animation project, due to work I am going to miss one class so I need to make up for lost time. Wow don't the hours disappear when you are working in After Effects. Fingers crossed there will be something at the end that I will love to share. My fascination with the tube is getting another outlet. I am loving putting together a little cut out animation.
Sneak peek of one of the drawn images.
Sneak peek of one of the drawn images.
