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Monday, August 9, 2010
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Book Ideas
Two ideas:
1. A fictional, darkish children's book. I have a simple story idea that i am working on.
2. My Grandmother lived in the town of West Wyalong, and at least once a year for years and years we would travel their to spend time with her. I was thinking the book could document the drive from Canberra to West Wyalong and all of the little towns or certain landmarks etc that I remember. Or I could simply document the town of WW and the little things I remember fro when I was a child like the park where I used to play the railroad I would treasure hunt at and my Grandmothers old house of course. I might combine the drive, the town and see if I can gain access to my Grandmothers house - that would be cool.
This book would be printed in a standard hard cover design with perfect binding and a nice cover image I hope.
Photographically, I would just try and take the best shots that I can and see If a style develops.
1. A fictional, darkish children's book. I have a simple story idea that i am working on.
2. My Grandmother lived in the town of West Wyalong, and at least once a year for years and years we would travel their to spend time with her. I was thinking the book could document the drive from Canberra to West Wyalong and all of the little towns or certain landmarks etc that I remember. Or I could simply document the town of WW and the little things I remember fro when I was a child like the park where I used to play the railroad I would treasure hunt at and my Grandmothers old house of course. I might combine the drive, the town and see if I can gain access to my Grandmothers house - that would be cool.
This book would be printed in a standard hard cover design with perfect binding and a nice cover image I hope.
Photographically, I would just try and take the best shots that I can and see If a style develops.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Present Tense Exhibition NPG
Christopher Allen, writing for the Australian (http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/through-a-lens-darkly/story-e6frg8n6-1225885738649) slammed this exhibition - basically describing it as boring, "One struggles to find any piece that is memorable or even particularly interesting, let alone anything that touches the imagination more deeply". On the piece which myself and my class mates engaged with he says "Worst of all, though, is a dreadful piece by Rineke Dijkstra, of girls dancing in a desultory way against a white backdrop; we don't really need this to understand that teenage girls dancing in nightclubs may be alienated, and meanwhile the invasive disco music from this room makes half the exhibition unbearable". Reading this critique is a bit like leaving a cinema after watching a movie that you found really thought provoking and engaging, only to hear the well to do couple walking in front of you describing the movie as a boring movie made for simpletons. Oh well, i may not be educated regarding these things, but I really enjoyed the piece and I think that it was an insight into the lives of people that is rarely seen by those who live outside of that world.
Photograph sourced at: http://bintphotobooks.blogspot.com/2008/08/portraits-by-rineke-dijkstra.html
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