Urban Photography 1

Porcelain Page

I have had an idea to make a book, like a travel journal or a sketch book, from pages made with various materials (this first on is porcelain but it could be clay or just simple paper...etc) that i would like to explore the properties of. The pages would have groups of objects which will be printed onto the clay and recorded by their imprint. 

Print of the different leaves outside Bezalel

First Cylinders

Space Manoeuvres

Marcus Coates

Birds sing at a higher frequency that the human vocal chords can ever do. However, Marcus Coates cleverly has employed opera singers to sing a stretched version of bird song. The precision of the opera singers allows the stretched version to be sung perfectly, and when sped up it turns out that with the help of technology humans can sing like birds.

Charlemagne Palestine

If you think past the annoying sound of Charlemagne Palestine's voice he aims to create, you are able to hear the incredible frequencies that mimic that of the motorbike that he is riding. He wants to escape the island he is on and does this by taking the viewer on a journey around the island while liberating himself with this performance.

The escape is finalised when he gets to resonate with the horns of ships leaving the island.

Anthony McCall 2-13-07
or McCall's Webpage

Anthony McCall experiments with the light in "Line Describing a Cone" by highlighting the light projected from a projector. The projected video starts with a beam of light, to make a single dot on the wall. The dot then extends to become a projected circle on the wall; meanwhile the light coming from the projector makes a cone. The first time this was practiced my McCall he had many people smoking so that the light projected would be seen better as a cone in the space. I really like the idea that light can make shapes and occupy space in the same way that an object would, yet, at the same time be fluid and only a resonance of the particles in the air, such as smoke. 

In class we recreated the original "Line Describing a Cone" by projecting the video of a circle being made onto the wall and every smoker in the class to smoke a cigarette. 

Beit Yanai

                                      

Beit Yanai Beach

Tel Aviv Skyscrapers

Tel Aviv Skyscrapers and Cranes

Beit Yanai Beach

Beit Yanai Beach

Mevo'ot Yam Harbour

Kingfisher - Mevo'ot Yam Beach

Mevo'ot Yam Beach 

Beit Yanai Kite-surfers at Sunset

Helen, Cristina, Eva and Jakub in the Setting Sun

Golden Sunset - Beit Yanai

Humus with Mushrooms - Tel Aviv

Mahaneh Yehuda

Smell fresh bread wafting on the shouts of selling market men,

The constant jangle of money in a cup keeps a rhythm to the many footsteps and bubble of conversation,

Conversation of so many languages, nations culminating in one country;

Israeli, American, British, Spanish, Austrian, German, Canadian, Danish, Russian, Chinese.

Red, yellow, pink, whit bags... so many bags. Prams, trollies, daughters and sons all now donkeys. 

Fruit, Vegetables, spices, nuts, baklava, breads, shoes, clothes, pillows...

Familiar names intensified by 100 times in a desert heat. Flowering smells and tastes. Coriander, cumin, chilli, paprika, cinnamon, black pepper, turmeric, dill, rosemary...

Busy hot ovens are kept going by skinny short haired young men in tight bleach worn jeans 

Obvious orthodox jewish men walk past in their black and white pride and glory - tassels hanging at the   four corners of their suit jackets. Big beards and big bellies.

Women with head scarfs wrapped neatly around the crown of their heads, long skirts flowing around each step.

Huddles of young self conscious travellers in short shorts yip their familiar languages in excitement

...as everyone buys food before shabat silences the streets.

Black Smoke Over East Jerusalem

Noisy Neighbours

Edward Weston, 1886 - 1958

"one of the most innovative and influential American photographers…"

My tutor read something from a book to me today and it rang so true with me; it was like every time i go to articulate my work this is what I should be saying... or at least something very similar:

"Art is weakened into greed according to the amount of personality it has"

It made me think twice about when your tutors tell you to express yourself. He also said to us something along the lines of, "I am trying to become identified with nature, uncover it, reveal it, to learn about". Edward weston collected things; shells, seaweed, rocks etc - much like I do - just to see what they would do to him.

When my tutor said this to us it felt to me as if all the misunderstandings in crits and every time I get asked 'what is your work about?' I now had an answer for. I didn't get time to write down the exact quote but ill get it another day*. 

Today, also talked about was Jackson Pollock, famous for his new and free way of painting. He said he was, "painting the rhythms of life". Pretty big statement, well 'Scientific America Magazine' suggests that Pollock's work made fractals...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=can-fractals-spot-genuine

Bustling People at MAX Store

This shop sells many things for the home, perfect for students as it is cheap and cheerful. We went in to buy cups and plates etc. Everything just stacked up fascinated me; human being really do go through a lot of stuff! This situation reminded me or a film I recently watched "Samsara", which means suffering. 

http://barakasamsara.com

The stop motion above is inspired by that. Also, it reminded me of a film called "Our Daily Bread"...MAX store is defiantly not as shocking but has the same consumerism themes.

http://odb.org

Another thing to look at if you like that kinda stuff is the book 'Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives' by David Eagleman (I personally haven't read it but i can remember my friend has. He did a project on on of the short stories that clocks up all of the hours you spend doing certain things... sleeping, eating, reading etc. and made a short story on it).

Ribbon is the New Belt!

Turkish Coffee... British Style.

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