What is a line..... continued

So I had some images which were in a sequence that I decided to use for the purpose of a stop- motion animation which I had taken a while back in resurch towards the whats I line project. I took the images in lines and sequences which I gradually wanted to get to a more effective and fluid piece, using stop- motion.... Although its slightly poor quality and not very smooth, I felt the process was a good insight into how I developed my skills in stop motion. The last video of the tea bags I felt was the most effective... This then enticed me into the pattern with stop-motion field. Stage one of the obsession......

















I also took pictures in our flat of some decorations that had been left for the 4 birthdays in our flat and from christmas,
which reminded me of a line.... they are pretty too....

Development of Rubbish

So after recognising that I needed to choose a more appropriate and understandable project theme which would be realatable to the format of my book. Although I new it would be tricky, I still was very keen to include the Rubbish in the gutter theme, as it was origional and lets face it, quite whitty for me!

I then began to re think how I would go about the book in terms of being direct with the intended audience and still appropriate to the brief. 

Although we were realistacly meant to do all our reaserch for this project in the christmas holidays, I still wanted to improve it and also make it more specific, so In doing so I began to identify rubbish issues in leeds specificly.

Heres a little from leeds city council:

Our aim is to collect as much recyclable waste as possible. The materials collected from the green recycling bins are passed onto a contractor. The contractor separates all the materials using mechanical and manual sorting. The materials can then be sold on to be used to make new products. Here is a virtual tour of the materials recycling facility (MRF). The council has implemented various schemes to help reduce and reuse your waste.
We collect any excess recyclable waste at the same time as your green wheeled bin as long as it is loose in transparent bags. Please make sure any excess recyclable waste is placed in a plastic bag, do not use a black bag because this will not be collected.
All drinks cans, plastic bottles and food cans must be washed out before placing in green bins/bags to avoid contamination. Squashing them will give you additional space in your bin.


I also then created a way of finding out and collection information from my target audience of the book which was students in the area. In specifying this I thought it would be wise to create a facebook group in which I could potensially get a collection of answers. The outcome was actualy quite helpful, and most were quite humerous. Heres a few answers:



- seems pretty insignificant compared to other problems we should be thinking about, so i just dont bother. ANDY JONES

- I do put them in the right coloured bins! Just that sometime we get them muddled up when taking them down and forget which ones were in which bins! TIM WAN

- main reason being the recycling bins given especially in certain areas are not collected on a regular basis or sometimes not at all. other than that we don't have enough information on where and how to recycle. MARTYN WOOLLEY

- I'm lazy :) CHARLOTTE MINDEL

I then began to just do a little resurch into the general bid to improve the environment. The news was obviously an important one:

After a crit where I decided to reconcider the idea of helping students to almost have a handbook to litter correctly, I began looking at other age groups I could aim at. Children became my first option as they are easily influenced and persuadable. A lot of imagery came off the internet into getting the idea into a childs head about recycling. But do I want to really go down this route? Why not tackle students?

So I began to scan the net for a more appropriate age group.

Influence from youtube

After a lot of thinking and brief explosion of ideas of what to create for my final book for this project, I then decided it was time to take a step back.....

Although I liked a lot of the ideas I had such as making the small books inside an already made big hardback book, it was just not practical to what I effectively wanted to achieve. So I took a step back..... again...... the stress of having to have a final thought to the project and create a mock up was getting to me a bit and I decided to begin searching for effective book making skills that would interest me instead.

I then came across this you tube oragami technique that looked fun and a little more me. It helped me to strat thinking outside the box once again......

Rubbish in the gutter of just rubbish idea??

After a good think when getting the brief of 100 and our new task to develop a book, I began to think harder how I could approche it in also being creative.



On these lines I began testing ideas using the theme of creating an actual rubbish bin out of books and still combining this thought with my origional imagery of "rubbish in the gutter". Heres some of the results....

Book of 100... statement of intent

My title will be called ....... "Rubbish in the gutter"


It came from the work I was investigating about peoples rubbish and my own responce of how people generally find it easier to recycal when you are organised and effitiant . In that sence I began to think of the concept of throughing rubbish away and not caring about where it was going. Leaving rubbish in places where they arent supposed to be was my later train of thought..........

During our Monday lecture about the anatomy of a book, I picked up on the section of the book called the GUTTER. Still playing compelete attension to the talk, I then had a train of thought about what I could do with a gutter concept... In terms of leaving the rubbish out on the streets in the gutter....

Over the next few days i will start playing around with the way a book can be made and develop work which shows my origional 100 pictures coming out the centre fold. I will follow the book style we developed on Monday in Which I will make on a1 paper and then fold up into the 16 leaves and 32 pages that we are asked to in the brief.

I have my book making workshop on friday so I can try to experiment as much as I can then and work out how my book can be binded and properly and appropriately made and developed.

video elective

Over the course of the first few weeks of my video elective we had to create a short film to show that we could basicly use the equipment that was shown to us. Unfortunatly there were very very minimal people who actually turned up to the elective in those weeks so I had no partner to work with. Me...... being left alone with a camera and the opertunity to be a nutter, bagan to create a small dance sequence with just my feet in the shot.

After quite a bit of tricky editing and experimentation with Final Cut, I had a short music video which answered the brief which was to show how to do or make something.

Mine was "How to choose a pair of shoes, and look awsome in them!" I may have potensially been the only person to have thought that was funny. But definetly origional.


Heres the final product, remember I filmed by myself with limited time......







Footloose is a good example of the work and specifically feet based dance that I was trying to create......... but obviously a little more modern day. No effence Kevin Bacon!

100 things

Given the project of 100 things......... and what came to the top of my thought pile... Rubbish................. LITERALLY
So many things to choose from and i pick the smellyest most mundane topic I could....

Well I got over the stupid decision I made and actually started to do something about it..... I wanted to document something oppose to take pictures of 100 bins....

I then had the idea of slightly splitting my resurch up into using maybe 10 people or places and 10 bins around that persons enviroment... I used postet notes to write and document some points about that persons rubbish. More than anything I actually used it to help me to remember what It looks like so I then could begin to try catogoriseing certain things.

To create the desired effect I had to go around in the holidays to many of my friends houses to document back home in London. The thing that I learnt was that people, especially familys that for example may be fairly conserned about where my project was actually going, were a little questionable to what my intensions were. From more than two houses I had very awkward conversations with adults that live in the house whilst sitting next to their bins with a camera and pen. I shall not be returning back to London for a while!

Heres some of the glamerous resalts:









This one above was definetly the funnyest and most orgional of the 100 pictures. It was defiently a pickal to take as not to be rude, but bloody stunk..........

The work ended up forfilling my wish to document what I wanted but I found one of the main downfalls and problems that surrounded all the photography was that although I had my hands on good camera at the time, I still couldn't get a sucessfull view of the writing on the postet and also include the contents of the top of the bin. Not the kind of sentence you hear every day! As a result some are sucessful in that the postet is very readable and visable whilst the background could simplay be anything. On the other hand some look distorted but show a good image of the surroundings and the bin in general.

This project reminded me of previous work I have done when I created writing on an old tyre, questioning the impact of cars on the environment. The irony was infact that the bin men refused to take away the tyre...... as it was not the right kind of rubbish and it had to be taken elsewere to help the environment. Three weeks later my dad drove to the rubbish tip a mile away to get rid of it.
IF THAT ISN'T IRONY I DONT NO WHAT IS!

What is a book.........

For me a book is an excuse to go into the mad world that is MY HEAD. As unlikely as it sounds, in judgement of my awful spelling and poor use of the English language, I do actually really enjoy ready, when I have time to get round to it. I feel the words on a page seem to tell a story that people can interpret how exactly they want.

For example.......... My favorate nursery rhyme was one I found written in a childrens book at a young age....... It was insy weensy spider. Last year in foundation I did a project that made me think about this poem alot, as it was based on fears and phobias. I searched the house and eventually found my old book to use as inspiration for my project as a lot of my arrasional fears of the animals, I felt had come from that book.



Incy Wincy spider climbing up the spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain
Now Incy Wincy spider went up the spout again!


Heres my images from last year:






Although Its not quite along the lines of spiders, Tim Burtons Vincent came to mind when I thought of things that scare me. I pretty much feel terrified whenever I see his work now. Any of it!!!!

Early line project images

Being given basicly any direction to go with for our project for Visual Language I decided to use the oppertunity to create a project from an angle of art that really interests me, which is perspective. I began taking pictures of whatever I could using angles which in itself was quite fun, but then I wanted to add a theme.








From this I thought......... How do I see the world...... to make it a little more personal to me........ sure enough I found my answer.... before I new it I was next door asking my neighbours with their 2 year old toddler, If I would use his toys for my project. So I guess a simple childlike look on the world is what apparently descibes my personality. How embarasing for myself.



I created some lines of animals, like a safari type theme and effectivly photographed them once I had also stolen a friends Canon EOS 300D Digital SLR Camera just to make the image look a bit more sharp. i found the results quite contradictory because the expressions on the animals are humerous but It does genuinlly look like animals from a safari... Good bit of irony.





This then led onto my experimenting with other techniques and ideas with differnent kinds of childish toys..... heres some of th e results....