Was great seeing most of you this morn! For Edwin, Han and Soph who weren't able to make it, we pretty much just caught up and shared quake stories, and decided that if we aren't allowed back in the studio on Monday we'll organise meetings/crits to be held in people's flats and keep in touch via the blog.
Would be cool if people could post their ideas for the year, however vague, up here so we can help by contributing things we come across that may be of interest? Cos lets face it I bet lots of us that have the net are spending quite a bit of time aimlessly surfing it? Or is that just me...
Anyway...I've been thinking a bit about pre-cinema optical illusions, and the cool things (props and 'magic' tricks) that were/still are used in theatre...kinda following on from when I was making kaleidoscopes and got interested in praxinoscopes and zoetropes and other things with crazy names, the idea being the atmosphere and type of scene that can be created by using technology from centuries ago... Don't really know what I want to make exactly though, but just thought I'd put that out there and get the ball rolling :)
Hey Rosalee, that sounds really cool! You might wanna check out Ben Cauchi's work- you might have heard of him anyway, he's an NZ photographer you does cool things with old photographic tricks and illusions.
ReplyDeleteThe photographic process itself is really cool and goes back to all the old technology you were looking at last year... there's an article to look at anyway
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0807/S00009.htm
Sorry I couldn't be there for brekkie, hope it was yum!
Hey thanks so much for that soph, this guy's stuff is really cool! It's actually just what I was looking for :D And yep brekkie was definitely yum, we'll have to do it again with everyone sometime
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