Book title: Digital Photo Artist Author: Tony Worobeic and Ray Spence I was really inspired by this book, especially the section about “Creative use of flatbed scanner”. From the book: “The flatbed is a much undervalued means of capturing images- used as a macro lens, it is easy to photograph small man-made and naturak [...]
Inspiration
Source: Book Cover Scanned photo I really liked the water droplets on the glasses. This has inspired me to take a series of photos similar to this. I used one of them in my coursework.
Inspiration
Book: Fundburo Author: Siegfried Lenz In English the title means Lost and Found. This book is set in a small Lost and Found office in a train station . The narrator “I”, records his observations such how people react when they heard that what was lost was returned. People came in everyday, when they lose [...]
Writings: 2008 EOY Section B
3a) “Another Place” by Antony Gomley shows his attempt to catch a glimpse of the other world that we would live in. In other words, he is trying to materialize the after world. Antony Gomley had gone to India to study about the Buddha. The Buddhists believe in recarnation, after-life, etc. We can see that [...]
Photography: China 2
Title: China Media: Photography Approximate date: Dec 2008 Series 2 of me in China::)
Writings:2008 EOY Section 1
1a)The photo depicts a migrant mother in black and white, as suggested by the title. She is probably in a tent. Two children are leaning against her shoulder, using her as a support. They are probably her children. They are either resting of sleeping, with their heads facing inside. The mother looks stressed and worried, [...]
Inspirations
Inspiration: 《不不不》by 农夫 This is the theme song for Hong Kong’s “Say no to drugs” campaign. The song cooporates educational lyrics with rap and hip hop music. The MV conveys the message of saying no to drugs clearly because through out the music video, big, three-dimensional chinese works “不”appears. Almost every scene, people are holding [...]
Writings
Discuss the significance of Buddhism in ONE of his works, giving evidence from the work to support you answer. The “House of Hope”, which hovered in the centre of the gallery space was constructed from 1648 strands of hanging herbal beads, spilling onto a stair-like stack of 440 wooden stools. The suspended “house” had a [...]
Writings
Discuss the similarities and differences between the works of Joseph Beuys and Montien Boonma. You may cite examples for your answer. Both artists include themes such as harmony in their works. Joseph Beuys developed many ideas such as harmonizing the forces and nature and civilization, man and technology, while Montien Boonma has ideas about [...]
Inspiration
http://www.douban.com/event/10698999/ This is an activity organized by someone on the internet. It’s called “我只能为你照照相”, I can only take some photos of you. Basically the idea is that you will be a professional photographer for one particular person for one whole day. You will be taking photos of that person the whole day, capturing him/her in [...]
