Well my project 365 didn’t go so well after all. Having a 9 to 5 job makes things a bit difficult as it doesn’t leave much time for photo taking. The snow provided a few good pictures in January but it soon got boring. I finally gave up on Day 43- 12th Feb.
I’ve decided to focus on my fisheye photography instead. More of those will be on my flickr next month.
So a few months ago I added some of my photography work to a flickr group called ‘Getty Images Call for Artists’. I thought why not try make some money out of my work, no harm in trying.
Then a few weeks ago I got a Flickr mail from Getty saying they wanted to put 8 of my photos on the site.
I’m really hope that something good will come out of this.
Something I did a while back when I was researching David Hockney. I did it by selecting sections of the photo in Photoshop and putting each bit on a new layer and moving it about slightly.
So I’ve decided to take 1 photo/ image a day for the year of 2010. I suppose it started off well but then when I started work on the 5th Jan, things went a bit down hill. Working 9 to 5 means taking photos very early in the morning or late in the evening, by which time I almost forget. Then I look round at what I can photograph which is just completely random with no thought or preparation gone in to it. I don’t think I could last a whole year doing this because the pictures won’t be great, but I think it will just be an achievement on the 31st Dec just to have done it.
Wish me luck! view the set on flickr
Over the past week I’ve been making these cubbe craft characters. It gave me something to do over the festive period and it’s quite addictive. There’s some really good ones on cubeecraft.com and there free (apart from the ink and card). Now I’ve got to find a place to put them.
A list of songs which I listened to quite a bit over the past 10 years. Some good, some bad, but each one reminds me of certain things, people or moments in my life.
I remember back in 2000 when I started buying CD singles from ASDA, Woolworths and HMV with my £3 pocket money. I even bought a few on tape. I made mixtapes by recording the top 40 from the radio to a cassette, then forcing my dad to play them in the car. Back then I used to buy Now compilations rather than albums, but as the decade has gone on I’ve found myself exploring the artists a lot more and buying more than just the single.
I made this Spotify playlist so I can look back at my taste in music, and now I can see that about 40% of it was utter crap. So my resolution for 2010 is too buy better music and also stop ‘buying’ it for free!
- Stop biting my nails
- Take part in project 365 on flickr
- Buy and iPod
- Use msn
- Stop leaving things until last minute
- Make more designs
- Drink more water
So then, my fisheye photos came out ok for a first try. The ones of manchester are a bit grey because of the lack of light but the ones I took at home the next day turned out good. At least now I can learn from my mistakes. Next time i’ll use a 400 film and wind the film on fully each time, oh and remember to take the lens cover off.
You can see them all here
So we’ve had about 8 inches of snow over the past week here in Manchester and this morning I found at least 50 icicles hanging from the guttering all round my house. So just thought I’d take a picture, it lasts longer :)
So my christmas present this year is a fisheye 2 camera. I got it from ebay with a few films last week. I persuaded my parents to let me have it early so I could take pictures of the snow. So today I took it out to the christmas market in Manchester at it felt really weird using a camera which wasn’t digital and didn’t have a screen on the back. I just put the film in and hoped for the best really. Looking through the viewfinder the pictures seemed to look quite good, but developed is a different story. Its was also a bit tricky trying to work it with gloves on and trying to stop it getting wet. So all I need to do now is develop the film and I’ll post the best pictures here and on flickr. Fingers crossed
The first ever Photoshop thing I made. With a tutorial in Digital Arts magazine.
Geoffrey Key oil pastel on sugar paper
My first claymation character attempt
Concept for a TV Breakfast Show re-launch- billboard
Round at breakfast
E4 Web Background- competition entry 2
E4 Web Background- competition entry
Boredom drawing. Based around the Coca-Cola advertising campaign.
Experimenting with Photoshop filters
2 logos representing the fictional food and drink festival ‘Taste’. Using Illustrator
Made with the Merry Newsinator
Kendra Wilkinson
(via picturesthatlooklikethis)
Can I haz workspace?
Broken Bells- The High Road
If you have a last.fm account- Create a ‘Fantasy Festival’ line up to win stuff
I really do love paper sculptures.Istvan Vasil • JOLLY ROGER, 2009 Illustration and paper sculpture • via fairspot
something by Nazario Graziano.
Love his work, all of it, amazing! i dig his style its totally what i’m into.
(via onmyowntwohands)
Ikea furniture in a metro station
London 2012 pin badges
I’d give them a 6/10
Natsko Seki- Playground
I Hardly Know Her
is a minimalist Flickr viewer created by the wonderful web designer Justin Ouellette
Look at my Flickr photostream
I LOVE THIS
Jeffery Bowman
To celebrate the new Pokémon HeartGold Version and Pokémon SoulSilver Version releases on the Nintendo DS & Nintendo DSi, VICE asked seven of their favourite artists to reinvent those strange little Japanese creatures from the 90s, creating Pokémon inspired artworks, entitled RE: Pokémon.
One of my favourite design studios ‘Studio Output’, now has a new website. Check it out
IDN magazine- Branding Issue
Two Door Cinema Club - What You Know.
Light Boner is wearing an early version of a theme I’m working on. There’s still a lot to do, but I’m having so much fun with it I couldn’t not try it out for a few days.
I’d love to you what you think. The theme is inspired largely by thinking for a living and I’m hoping would be even more fun on a larger tablet device.
NOTES:
— there will be bugs.
— probably doesn’t work in IE.
— only about 30% done.
— will eventually have keyboard navigation & slideshow support.
— no, you can’t have it (yet).?
frontgrafika- Julien Vallee
(via graphiceverywhere)
“A coloured scanning electron micrograph of a wasp’s head (order Hymenoptera)” Picture: STEVE GSCHMEISSNER / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/ BARCROFT MEDIA
Creepy crawlies: Amazing Scanning Electron Microscope pictures of insects and spiders - Telegraph
please recommend my blog if you like it.
(in the inspiration section)
Audio Bullys- Only Man
(via graphiceverywhere)
Portmanteau redux (via Sainty WHAT)
send and receive random stuff
idesign-my-world: Yes. It sure does.
Chrissie Macdonald. One of my Favourite designers.
Panda- Jason Parry
Secret of Apple
Bestival 2010 newspaper ad
Commander headphones with noise canceling microphone.
