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Quadtych – final prints
Here it is! The previously known diptych project for Studio Lighting has turned quad. Last you heard of these photographs I was at odds to what I was actually trying to communicate with them. Now that they are in the nurturing hands of the University marking world I am still none the wiser.
Technological time line
One in-class revelation was the connection of the quadtych and the 4th dimension – time. So no matter how much I pain over what I was trying to say from this work the most important thing is what you could take from it. Feel free to let me know.
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Rally for Palestine – My first taste of ‘activism’
On Friday 25th of September Students for Palestine held a rally at Sydney Town Hall speaking out and acting on the rights of the Palestinian People. Expectations of thousands of students tying themselves to street signs, sitting in front of traffic and resisting arrest weren’t met, but the one thing that did seem to meet my naive views of activism was the passion and conviction in all of the voices that spoke out. Read More
Diptych
A diptych is figuratively used in art to describe a work that has two separate images that are dependent on one another in order to express the meaning or aesthetic wholeness of the work. While having a look around for examples to show you my mind was flung back to a memory of trying to carefully fold-in the cover of my MAD Magazine to reveal the joke that I never really understood, but nevertheless enjoyed. Thankfully I found the New York Time’s interactive representation of some of the classic fold-ins from the 1960’s to today.
1967 MAD comic book fold-in, created by Al Jaffee
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Some Lascivious Advice
Are you coming too soon? Not feeling like a true masculine warrior? Maybe you are “dysfunctional”?
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Rostrum Camera Concept
For this semester’s second project in video two, we are faced with the task of creating a narrative in the style of a rostrum camera. A rostrum camera was a clunky old camera setup used to animate 2d images (most commonly seen in documentaries where only still photographs of the time were available).
The first point of call for me in this project was to have a concept, which I could be passionate about and that could also be suitable to this technique. In a previous pitch I made for a sound project I wanted to explore mental health in the mid 1900’s, and in particular the experience of women during this modern dark age of psychological understanding. After a bit of perusing I found an Australian poet, Sandy Jeffs, whose collection of poems Poems From the Madhouse inspired me.
Al Jazeera – Video footage from Gaza
Al Jazeera, the 24 hour Middle-Eastern news service known for its independent, uncensored reporting has opened up its resources to the masses. The news service has created an online video repository of high quality video footage from the conflict in the Gaza strip and licensed it under Creative Commons. Creative Commons is a non-profit organisation that has created freely accessible licenses for content producers allowing them to distribute their property to be broadcast or remixed, sometimes with very few restrictions.
Creative Commons Repository - Videos from Gaza
This site is not only a great resource for people who may want to use the footage for professional reasons, but it is also a place where people can have insight into lives that their own media outlets don’t deem relevant enough to air.