Some photos from the hen 12/03/10

Taken with my Holga. 120 100 and 400 films.

Easter Fair

Me and Sarah are making easter egg surprises/pinatas to sell at the Easter Fair to raise money for our external show. We didn't want to bake, but make something a bit more fun. We bought sweets, chocolate and some small stationary items to go inside the surprise eggs. We paper-mache balloons (with the sweets inside), and covered them in coloured tissue paper. Fun, but a bit too time consuming! Especially as we'll sell them for about £1.50 and they'll be smashed open...

Made me want to make a 3D object for my unit 11 project. Paste photographs and text together/onto something...

Ideas so far

Collections, connecting to people, friendship, relationships, objects, story telling, memories, identity, communication, shared experiences, capturing a memory or period of time.


I have chosen old photographs of friends which represent them or our experiences/time together, and put each with captions of text from old emails we used to keep up to dat and in contact while away at university. I have removed all names.

I have looked at the language we use, and want to experiment with text and possibly letter press. I have printed some A4 sheets of enlargements of text from text messages, to experiment with size, colour and font.


Next...
* Look at the ways we communicate (email, text, phone calls, facebook) and create a letter to post round the group to make communication more personal.
* Create a form of time capsule- a comment on a particular age group from a particular background
* Look at cultural influences from 2004-2010 (our time spent together as a group of close friends)
* Creating an object/installation.... photographs set in resin, images or film projected...
* Create a short film
* Portraits of individual friends, and group photos
* Carrying on recording our experiences through photography (possibly voice recordings, filming)
* Typographic posters

Tonight..

Going out tonight to my cousin's hen night at Mahiki club in Mayfair (for cocktail making) then onto my friend Charley's birthday at Proud in Camden. I'm taking my Holga camera, bought some 120 400 ISO colour film, and also have a fuji disposable camera to use up too.

Going to be quite a long and eventful night, so hopefully can take lots of photos...

Paul Jasmin



Tracey Emin

Dash Snow

Sophie Calle

Artists to look at

Sophie Calle, Tracey Emin, Eric Roma films (The Green Ray, My girlfriend's boyfriend), Paul Jasmin, Jenny Holzer, Dash Snow...

Thursday 11th March

Yesterday, me and Sarah went into uni to try do some work together and set a short project together. We talked to Dave about our projects too.

We went next door to see The Art BIn, and then onto The British Museum to see Cradle to Grave by Pharmacopoeia.


'Cradle to Grave explores our approach to health in Britain today. The piece incorporates a lifetime supply of prescribed drugs knitted into two lengths of fabric, illustrating the medical stories of one woman and one man.

Each length contains over 14,000 drugs, the estimated average prescribed to every person in Britain in their lifetime. This does not include pills we might buy over the counter, which would require about 40,000 pills each.'

The personal photographs with hand written descriptions underneath were interesting. I am experimenting with hand written and printed text, from emails, text messages and recorded conversations with my friends.

BA Graphic Design Camberwell- 3rd Year, Unit 11

Moving on from looking at Collections and hoarded objects of sentimental value in unit 10, I am focusing on friendship, forms of communication, language used, and themes discussed between friendship groups. I am starting by using my own friends, in particular 4 close ones, whom I have known for 7 years.

I am looking at ways we have communicated and kept in touch (while away at different universities), subjects we share and discuss, language we use, and the collections of photographs we have created over the years.

Project titles.... Shared Experiences, universal experiences, circle of friends...