A letter I wrote for to Caroline a month ago. Scanned the letter and put it on a nice old texture I found somewhere (?), made it more dirty and old looking, added pictures I've made inspired by her. Scanned flowers from outside my apartment and put some song lyrics in it also and finally made it into a little booklet. The white and blue pictures on the package is just paper I cut from a design magazine as wrapping paper. The package contained a a Wire in the blood t-shirt and a really cheesy fanpic of one of the actors from the show lol :D In the pic I've included some of the pages from the booklet.
I'm moving to my new crib on Wednesday! It's gonna be good but I wont have any internet there so I'll probably gonna appear to be dead But I'm not. I'll be back!
The first session features some of the photos I shot with my friend Veronica in the little beach suburb Cottlesloe. I had to feature at least three different garments but I choose also to have at least three different locations for that shoot. Joshua was with us to assist me with the flash.
The second series of photos features the WAAPA-dancer Alissa (Wester Australian Academy of Performing Arts). On this shoot I worked together with a fashion design student; Anita Gadenne who had made these really cool dresses. So the assignment was to showcase her dresses in a way that suited her and my taste.
Alissa was the perfect model for this shoot coz i really wanted to show the dresses in a "flowing" kind of way. I first had thought to use a ordinary model from the agency and to shoot it at the Art Gallery. But when that model didn't show up because of some miscommunication with the agency we had to cancel that shoot, which was really sad because the Art Gallery would also have been a perfect location to show off Anita's dresses. But it worked out anyway, I'm pretty pleased with the result anyway and I think Anita was pretty satisfied also.
This third batch of pictures is from my Images & Narratives assignment where we had to tell a story with text and pictures. Or at least with pictures. First I an idea that was about this character going to the European Space Agency's radio telescope (Space :P) close to New Norcia and his dream of coming as close to space as he could right now.
But I ended up doing another idea I got and did like a mystery novel containing pictures and journal entry's in this character Henry Bukowskis journal. Above is just a few pictures from the 23 double page spread story. I tried to make it as "multimedia" as possible by using photos, drawings, notes, maps, real letters sticky taped on the pages itself and other things. I also wanted to make a homepage for it which would've the reader be a part of the story even more but unfortunately I didn't have time for that.
Right now I'm forcing myself to drink this weird lemonish tea I got from my nice house mate Emma. I'm having a nasty cold and I'm on day three now which really annoys me. It disturbed my "going-on-a-walk-each-day-schedule" and some other stuff I really had to do.
OH by THE way. I'm moving out on December third! Me and some other people living in the village got a nice little letter a few weeks ago saying that we couldn't live in the student village anymore because we had lived there to long now and had had the village "experience". But on the same day as we got the notice Gordon found a really nice apartment that his friend was gonna leave behind. Sooo, me and Paige who also got kicked out, got to move into that apartment because Gordon could live here in the village next semester coz he's a newbie compared to me and Paige who have stayed here since mid 2007. But anyway, It feels great to finally have an own place to live in. We have a balcony also and it's really close to the liquor store and a supermarket :D.
After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.
Read about the real story here. It's really interesting and a bit sad.
PS: Oh yeah, my website was up for a few days, or maybe just one as you may have noticed. The owner Uber.com went bankrupt or something some days after I joined them. WHAT ARE THE ODDS?!
I dont wanna make this post to long, but I have some great news regarding myself :p
Some of my artwork got chosen for that exhibition in Melbourne a few weeks ago and now one of them has been SOLD! To one of the jury members of the exhibition itself! This is great because this is the first time ever I get one of my artwork or photos sold, anywhere. So, congrats to me! :)
Yahoo! After a long struggle, my frames have finally made it to Melbourne where they are hanging in the C3 Contemporary Art Gallery.
I've had so much trouble with these frames. To make it short im writing the story in a list version (it doesnt sounds like much trouble but trust me, it was ridiculous sometimes) :
three visits to Ikea after buying the wrong colour of the frames and one of the frames broke which i had to change.
Getting denied by the post office to send them to melbourne cos they might brake.
Calling three different couriers that couldnt help me either.
Carry them all over Perth.
Paying for a 40 dollar taxi trip from Ikea coz i hated the world.
But, when all hope was gone and the only sollution for me was to fly them there myself, a miracle happened! Out of nowhere, this dude from norway writes to me on facebook. Ive only talked to him very few times coz he was a member of the ANSA-group which is the norwegian student group that i joined a year ago coz there wasnt a swedish student group and they gave me and Joakim Daim-candy. I think that he knew the people in charge of the exhibition and wsa exhibiting one of his pictures also and anyway, so he asked me how it was going for me and my pictures coz the deadline was closing in. He said that the post office wouldnt probably have enough time to send them to melbourne by then buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut he said that HE could take them to Melbourne because he was going to the exhibition himself! WOHO! There is a supreme being!!
So I met up with him and handed the frames over, packed in ten meters of bubblewrap and cardboard in a nice blue Ikea-bag :D.
EXHIBIT A - The broken frame to the left. As I dont have anything new that really matters I'm showing some stuff that I'm working on and some smaller stuff that I've made some time ago.
Working on:
I'm also working on three photoprojects right now:
First one is about a fashionshoot where we have to work together with a fashion designer, model and make up-artist and use the fashion designers clothes and find a location and contact models. Which is gonna be fun and i have found my locations that i wanna use and almost narrowed it down to a model i wanna use.
Second one is very similar to the first one but we have to work without the fashion designer and we have to find the clothes ourselves that we wanna use for our models.
Third one is about telling a story sort of, in twelve pictures at least. I'm doing some research where i could go to do that one coz i wanna find some place really interesting and unusual and big. I like big.
I also have my graphic design class to do assignments for every week also. uuuugh!
Little things finished:
A little cheer-you-up-in-the-autumn-gift to C. It's a lightbulb in the package.
A dress I made for my graphic design class where we had to make something look like fabric with the texture and shadowing.
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My new favourite colouring markers. These are awesome! The colour dont leave any big lines as cheaper markers do, so the colour like melts out and mixes together which is really good when you different rendering. The only bad part is that they cost 8-10 dollars per marker :O.
And what else? I'm hopefully going to get a liiiittle closer to space itself in short while. Get back to you guys on that :)
Some random paintings and a drawing i finished today.
One of the tasks in Images & Narratives was to do a cd cover with a "compressed conflict". That is, words that go against eachother sort of. Sooooo i made this weird cd cover. We also had another task but im not that fond of if so im not gonna show it. :p
The picture below inspired me to do draw this ^^. I also got inspired by these movies; Tatt Av Kvinnen (Gone with the woman), Paris Je T'aime and Amelie from Montmartre which i really recommend. All are set or have scenes in Paris where I very much would like to go to and sometime in the future, stay for a longer while. I was there when i was younger but I didnt really appreciate it back then. The sixth person in the portait in the drawing is my dad who took the photo below. The whole thing is a tribute to my family and the future, whatever that might have in store for me and them :). Unfortunatley my grandparents passed away a many years ago, but dang, i really miss them alot. Especially when i was started doing this picture coz then i had a dream about my grandad:
Me and my dad were cleaning out stuff from their old apartment after they had passed away. I walked into the living room and suddenly fell flat down on my face after tripping on something. Exactly when i hit the floor the sealing light turned on by itself. My dad came to the living room and wondered what had happened. I told him that i just tripped on something and that the light turned on by itself. Then he tries to turn it of but it doesnt work, he tries several times but it just doesnt turn off. I look forward and see my grandparents bed in the livingroom, which of course wasnt there in reality. I could also see imprints on the bed, as if two people were laying in the bed. I ask my dad if he can see the imprints and he can, he tells me that we should go.
After that we are in the hallway of the apartment. Someone knocks on the door, my dad opens and he sees someone who makes him very happy, he goes towards that person and hugs him/her. I suddenly see someone in the corner of my eye, a figure standing behind the wall into the livingroom. I get scared when the figure slowly dissapears behind the wall. But then appears again and its my granddad. He wears his grey trenchcoat he used to wear in the winters and walks into the hallway. He sits down besides me, i say: oh cool trenchcoat! He says: (in swedish) you were a little (in english) into fashion haha. I say: yeah haha... :O END.
Holy shietttt, listen to this, I just received an email saying that T H R E E of my pictures have been chosen to be a part of an exhibition in MELBOURNE!!! ScanArt is the name of the exhibition and it is for Scandinavian design students in Australia. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! :)
Yay! I finished (well almost anyway) my ads. Which is the second part of my assignment for the studio applications for advertising-class (the glassware was the first part).
I started a few days ago with some very rough sketches of the concept, but then i wasnt sure which direction i wanted for the pics so i tried a lot of different taglines for the ads which u can see in the sketches. After i had done the sketches i went to Toys-R-Us in Morley to find the masks. Unfortunatley they only had really expensive full-set costumes so i thought i had to make my own masks for a while. Until i passed K-mart, good ol trustworthy K-mart. Or something. There i found these supercheap masks which was exactly what i was looking for. So i bought Spider-man, The Hulk, Optimus Prime (transformers) and Batman. I then had to organize the photoshoot and assemble the people; Joshua (batman), Stanley (the hulk), Nicky (spider-(wo)man and Tri (optimus prime).
And then yesterday afternoon (friday) we had the shoot in the business area of the city which had the perfect big-city-super-hero-kinda-feeling to it. On location i tried a few different things with my heroes and tried to find the right meaning for the pics, which eventually came through. Sadly enough, i can only hand in three pictures so unfortunatley The Hulk got left out. But im gonna edit that picture also and show it here eventually.
Started to edit the pics yesterday evening and kept on editing until 4am and then continued today. The ads are for a cinema company called Union Cinemas i made up (short for U.C, get it? :p).
I was actually really lucky with the finished shot coz i had only planned on to shoot in that area and in a bus stop, and some bench. But after first finding the bus stop for the Spider-man shot, which was relatively easy, we then found a little spot for another batman-photo that i havent edited, but turned out really good. We then walked by a building that we went into and asked if we could shoot in the lobby, but we had missed that it was a government building so no photography was allowed in there.
After those pictures were done we found a van just opposite the stairs which was perfect for Optimus Prime to pose infront of. We didnt want to make it look like we were braking into the car so we had to shoot fast and then walk away. On the way from that location we walked by another really awesome lobby. Went in and asked if we could take a few pictures there and i got the above Batman shot from there. And then we were done and went home :)
One of my assignments for Studio applications. We're just gonna use one pic so i cant decide which one im gonna choose. Stuff like this is so hard for me, decisionssss. Hate it :O I used these two vases from IKEA (smygreklam) that i bought last time i was there, after the shoot they served as birthday presents to Nicky and Stanley, wooh.
I just had a hallelulja moment regardin my other bigger photo assignment. So i have to take a break and draw it down. Laters
Meanwhile, enjoy this awesome video from DR SMOOV, Destro Featuring The Baroness - Get Money :
We do these kind of stuff in my Graphic Design Foundation class. Or most of the part we sketch and do perspektive drawing but this weeks homework was to paint with Gouache and Pastel-colour which i hadnt tried before. Liked the gouache colour very much coz it became much stronger than watercolour and didnt go pale after it tried. Hard to see on the pictures above but ive used alot of water to get the light colours in those.
EDIT: After seeing some of the others work of this homework on todays class, my really sucks!! but that's okey coz i haven't done this stuff before and they're all graphic design students and I'm here to learn :).
Today I got a great nostalgic moment when i found a tv-show that i watched when I was younger. I found this list of: Top Ten 80's theme songs, and this show was numer one and when it started to roll i immediacy recognised it, memories came back and everything felt great haha.
I watched a lot of American tv-shows when i was younger coz we had The Childrens Channel (TCC) and a bit later on; Cartoon Network. Which was really good coz i learned alot of English by watching that. But yes i also watched the ordinary stuff on SVT and other stuff, Bumbibjörnarna (Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears), The Smurfs, Trasdockorna (The Raggy Dolls), the one that was about the blood cells, viruses and people who lived inside the body to teach you how the body worked in different situations but i cant remember its name...
But the ones that i truly remember and attracted me was the animated american action-shows like G.I. Joe, Transformers and M.A.S.K. Ive listed the theme songs from each show and just listen, its fantastic, genius, still awe-dropping, exciting and fun:
And the one that triggered my flashback of nostalgia was Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors:
Just listen to that synth in the background!! (dutidutidutidutidblipblapblipblipblipdutidutiduti)
So much violence, but I love it. Yeah, still! (The worst thing is that i thikn ive written about this a few years ago, but what the hell, cant rmb everything :p)
What tv-shows affected you the most when you were growing up?
EDIT:
The show that i couldnt rmb its name, was...Once upon a time... Life!
There was also a SPACE-version of this show, listen to the funky theme song here.
A letter I wrote for to Caroline a month ago. Scanned the letter and put it on a nice old texture I found somewhere (?), made it more dirty and old looking, added pictures I've made inspired by her. Scanned flowers from outside my apartment and put some song lyrics in it also and finally made it into a little booklet. The white and blue pictures on the package is just paper I cut from a design magazine as wrapping paper. The package contained a a Wire in the blood t-shirt and a really cheesy fanpic of one of the actors from the show lol :D In the pic I've included some of the pages from the booklet.
