crazybobbles

Today was quite an exciting day, had loads of stuff planned including art exhibitions and gigs. I’ll write the gig in a separate section. But yeah, was invited to an art exhibition that was filled with artwork from foundation students, some weren’t bad, some were pretentious and dire. I have my weird conditions and expectations on something that’s good art, it should either make you think, or wow you by how immense the piece of art work is, having both is grand too haha. But yeah, most of them DID make me think… but in the wrong way, most of the time I kept asking what their logical intervention was for the piece. Some are just blatant day care centre products haha. Art is kind of like a 60 paged report, you should be able to sum everything up in an Executive Summary so you should be able to sum up an idea or thought at a glance, not 20 with the aid of asking the artist or whatever, those who don’t stand up by themselves are merely illustrations or just ideas. But yeah, thats my opinion in art anyway. Skills or something that makes you think (the good kind of think), everything is subjected to different opinions so why not embrace your own one etc.

Here’s some lovely photos I took of them.

Some large shots, only large so you can see the hardcore depth of field haha

This one I dont like, but the photo I do haha.

Yeah, I’m just as confused as you haha. You’re either taking photos of your toes to feed the foot fetishes or you’re using your toes to take photos. Quite a weird spin, but it makes sense, for me and Alice anyway (most people are disturbed by the idea). Anyhow, I think it all started when Alice took one of her photos with her toes pressing the remote switch (actually… I’ve got a photo idea now haha), I asked her if she used her toes to take the photo (since her hands are busy in the photo) and she said yes. Not too sure how the rest went but eventually a whole Toe Photography thing started haha.

Anyway, as well as using your toes to take photos, there was another thing in common… stripey socks. Alice had already taken a photo of her sporting some long stripey socks and it was that which inspired me to take a photo of some stripey sock action myself, then I think she did the same and I sort of did the same too so yeah… lots of sock photos.

But yeah, now theres a group called “Toe Photography” that I’m the admin for so get snapping. But don’t join the group if you’re a foot fetish or enjoy the socks a bit too much.

One landscape I like most in Kingston is the “Out of Order” phonebooths. This was a line of phonebooths positioned so it looked like it had been pushed in a domino effect type thing. The photos should explain it all.

I tried taking photos of these things 2 times beforehand. This time I managed to get them how I wanted them to be (lots of light and all). Anyway, I used a bit of photoshopping and managed to desaturate the background colours and leave the red phonebooths in tact. It looks pretty nice, and is something fresh (no more band photography for a long long time haha).

Been really going nuts with my dSLR camera lately, been experimenting with the features most and have taken quite a few photos which I like quite alot. And here they are:

Theres more obviously, the first two were just playing around with composition whilst the last two are more about using a long shutter speeed to take the photo.

After hearing about this news on Digg.com I immediately got myself a Pro account. The fact that you can upload ALL your photos (in their original form) all onto Flickr means you’re pretty much sorted for archiving stuff as well as sharing it. I manage to upload all my photos onto Flickr as soon as I got it. Later on I had to reupload all the photos since I did the uploading stuff in a weird way (uploading from present to past rather than the other way around).

Now I’m definitely a happy flickr user. The interface, tagging, note taking feature and community is just amazing. I feel more creative and in the mood to take lovely shots so I can upload it onto Flickr. Flickr is also perfect for gifts so I’ve bought a few friends a Flickr gift.

So yeah, best £12 I’ve spent for a years subscription.