Aquarium

I went and took some test shots in the aquarium. I've been looking at reflections in the water and if you look to the surface it reflects the sea life. This is all the test shots i've compiled into a 10 minute long video of some angle and shots i have been thinking about.

One idea of what I would like to produce is a feeling of being submersed, under water or underground. Where it feels dense, heavy like feeling underwater where you can’t make much sense of things. I have been taking clips of the underground in London and sound clips, as I think it would be good to contribute it to my film. You can’t get signal underground or sea level, it’s kind of a out of touch feeling as you can’t communicate with anyone.

The noise of the tube as it screeches and thunders along is quite disorientating and could be a good asset to use in my work.

Also muffled and distant conversations overlapping the film to give a sort of distances between reality and other people and what they are talking and how it doesn’t make sense to you.

Tomorrow I plan to go to the Aquarium and film the large tanks underwater and show another world feeling, I want to look at patterns caused by water and waves and currents.

I have filmed the sun rise on the beach and it was visually amazing as the sea was a cool pink in reflection and the shore was frothy from the waves. 

Damien Hirst Retrospective. Tate Modern

I went to the Retrospective of Damien Hirst exhibition today at the Tate Modern after watching documentaries and reading about his work, I thought it be great to go see what it was all about.

There are a few pieces that I thought I totally understand what he was achieving to do here and good on him. A Thousand Years Later I think was my favourite installation, as it shows the process of life, how it’s born, lives and then dies. A dead cows head on the floor giving the thousand upon thousands of flys food, showing in a sense a circle of life how the dead body is food for another. The florescent electric fly killer being the fate of cause of death, as they fly towards it in an instant they die.

What you see is what has been happening for thousands and thousands of years, birth, reproduction and death, over and over again.

The floor was scattered with dead black dots frizzled up, it was like a holocaust for the insect world. Even being just flies, on an impact of that large of a scale it does make you think how visible death is, and how something could be moving then become an inanimate mass on the floor.

For most of his earliest work you can see how he develops quickly from painting to rather using found objects. Some people where saying behind me as I queue up to walk between the sliced cows in formaldehyde how he has his work mass produced and other people actually create them and it were something like in ikea. I thought about what they were saying but agreed to an certain extent, with most of his work you could just turn your nose up and say ‘well that’s just a fish in a case, I could of done that’. But I think it should be emphasized the point, well you didn’t’ come up with the concept, if it was so easy why haven’t you make shit loads of money off it?

With all the objects especially the pharmaceuticals cabinets it has been produced in a very visually pleasing manner, as all the coloured pills are strategically placed in order, just like how his spot paintings work. 

With the dead animals in formaldehyde I appreciate it for what it is, to me I believe it’s a representation of how live and death are so apparent. To see the body of a dead animal right in front of you but it’s missing that energy, that life. I think you can understand of what is being shown how life is fleeting, death can happen any point, it’s like a switch, your body can just become inanimate.

It’s also like how a corpse just becomes an object, which in Hirst’s work it has.

The butterfly work is impressive how they look like stained glasses windows and detail. You can see in his work the need of repetition and order, there is a process. I think without the body of work with butterflies that represent hope and lI went to the Retrospective of Damien Hirst exhibition today at the Tate Modern after watching documentaries and reading about his work, I thought it be great to go see what it was all about. 

There are a few pieces that I thought I totally understand what he was achieving to do here and good on him. A Thousand Years Later I think was my favourite installation, as it shows the process of life, how it’s born, lives and then dies. A dead cows head on the floor giving the thousand upon thousands of flys food, showing in a sense a circle of life how the dead body is food for another. The florescent electric fly killer being the fate of cause of death, as they fly towards it in an instant they die.

What you see is what has been happening for thousands and thousands of years, birth, reproduction and death, over and over again.

The floor was scattered with dead black dots frizzled up, it was like a holocaust for the insect world. Even being just flies, on an impact of that large of a scale it does make you think how visible death is, and how something could be moving then become an inanimate mass on the floor.

For most of his earliest work you can see how he develops quickly from painting to rather using found objects. Some people where saying behind me as I queue up to walk between the sliced cows in formaldehyde how he has his work mass produced and other people actually create them and it were something like in ikea. I thought about what they were saying but agreed to an certain extent, with most of his work you could just turn your nose up and say ‘well that’s just a fish in a case, I could of done that’. But I think it should be emphasized the point, well you didn’t’ come up with the concept, if it was so easy why haven’t you make shit loads of money off it?

With all the objects especially the pharmaceuticals cabinets it has been produced in a very visually pleasing manner, as all the coloured pills are strategically placed in order, just like how his spot paintings work. 

With the dead animals in formaldehyde I appreciate it for what it is, to me I believe it’s a representation of how live and death are so apparent. To see the body of a dead animal right in front of you but it’s missing that energy, that life. I think you can understand of what is being shown how life is fleeting, death can happen any point, it’s like a switch, your body can just become inanimate.

It’s also like how a corpse just becomes an object, which in Hirst’s work it has.

The butterfly work is impressive how they look like stained glasses windows and detail. You can see in his work the need of repetition and order, there is a process. I think without the body of work with butterflies that represent hope and love in life, his exhibition would be very out of balance. The room with alive butterflies was a nice touch too, as it felt like an comparision against the formaldehyde animals. As you could see them in the room hatching, flying and dying in a more peaceful way oppose to being electrocuted. But nobody would like to see butterflies being frazzled would they?

For the Love of God was very interesting. Cost 4.something million pounds now valued at 5.something million pounds, to most they might think this is profanity against the human body. But I think Hirst’s ideas of what to use for mediums to create work is intelligent, thinking of objects and ways of portraying work. After selling most of his work in Sotherbys for millions and millions of pounds, becoming in a matter of a day one of the most sought after artists for work. Why not create art from the money you have been givien of a ludricous scale and turn it into art.

It makes you think who are these people who have millions of pounds to fritter away on art, how can something be of that worth? In my opinion whoever spends so many thousands and millions on a piece of art is being mugged off by the artist. I can imagine there is a underlying thought of someone buying your work and the artist thinking, ‘Yeah you could say its worth that much if you want!’. As creating the piece was part of the process of the artist becoming, it’s what they would of made anyway, some of the pieces wouldn’t cost much at all to make.

But I understand where valuing comes when the artist has late deceased or rarity, if I was a successful artist in my twenties selling work for millions I would think people had too much money for the love of god (pun intended) why don’t you spend that money on something that is worth while and a good cause. But I wouldn’t complain too loudly, I would take the mugs money and put it to better use than they would.

White Noise Static

I can picture the use of White Noise in my work, the fuzziness and disorientated feel where you aren't properly tuned in. I would like to create the effect that what you are seeing is as if it's tv and that you are trying to understand what is being shown to you as a viewer yet the tv set isn't working.
Here are some free clips you can download from youtube users of white noise fuzz on tv.
I shall record some of my own also.



Having seconds of flickering of this on the set and wavering, a low fi effect.







A more noiser and intense static.

Over Head Projector Art

This is an example of something i would ideally like to do, but due to logistics and costs i wasn't able to afford to buy one of these. But hoping over the summer i will be able to and create some films.

Koyaanisqatsi

This film has influenced me in what i would want to acheive.


KOYAANISQATSI, Reggio's debut as a film director and producer, is the first film of the QATSI trilogy. The title is a Hopi Indian word meaning "life out of balance." Created between 1975 and 1982, the film is an apocalyptic vision of the collision of two different worlds -- urban life and technology versus the environment. The musical score was composed by Philip Glass.


Koyaanisqatsi attempts to reveal the beauty of the beast! We usually perceive our world, our way of living, as beautiful because there is nothing else to perceive. If one lives in this world, the globalised world of high technology, all one can see is one layer of commodity piled upon another. In our world the "original" is the proliferation of the standardised. Copies are copies of copies. There seems to be no ability to see beyond, to see that we have encased ourselves in an artificial environment that has remarkably replaced the original, nature itself. We do not live with nature any longer; we live above it, off of it as it were. Nature has become the resource to keep this artificial or new nature alive.


With this film it is dellivered in an artistic way where you can take back thought and see what you make of it, or what it meant to you. This is the sort of effect i would like to achieve in my work, feeling out of balance, uncomfortable and not telling you what it is, but there for you to decided what it is. 




I think about this film alot, and it's meanings, how i feel about the world and i think it relates. It depresses me how humanity has evolved so quickly and most wouldn't even realise it. I think that we have gone too ahead of ourselves, and i know we aren't designed by nature to think for the future, but i can't see humans existing longer than another 100 years with out something catastrophic happening. If you ever get a chance to read this book do, it is outstanding how many things you learn which is at the same time repulsive. Rainforests are estimated to be extinct in 90 years and at least 3 atomic bombs to kill off a large percentage of population is estimated in the next 200 years or so. I have been heavily influenced by work and books that propose ideas on society these days, that if men didn't take take take, and women were more incontrol, the world would be more nurturing and wouldn't be creating fucking nuclear war arms. 

Music videos

This is a music video by Pink Floyd "Comfortably Numb" this is sort of effect i would like to acheive in my video as you do get the sense of 'numbness' from it.  I also think how using a collage of combination of various clips of different things happening. Like how there is a shot of worms to the man being ejected with medecine.



This video which was edith and performed by Lana Del Ray, she has used a mixture of clips and made a sequence. This is something i am looking to do.