Thinking is dangerous

Through school and whilst doing my A Levels i was always forced to take a fine art kind of approach to everything because thats what my teachers thought i'd get my marks in; and fair enough i did get decent grades. But all that forcing to do artsy kind of stuff put me off and for the past three years almost i've being almost scared in a way of touching a pencil or a paint brush; i have a half finished painting of my mum that i've been looking at for almost three years now in my kitchen.
I always said to myself i'd never stop drawing and painting, but here i am, not a piece of work in years, not even a doodle.
Do you ever get the feeling like your scared to do something that you were once so good at just incase you've lost it and people are dissapointed?
I'm sick of copying and pasting.

Nick Waplington

'Fly on the wall' type of photographer, turns mundane subjects into something you double take at.

Advertising technique

Two adverts that use shock tactics to get the point across to the viewer, harsh but effective:

Sorry, i had to...

Brains perform best when hydrated.

http://www.martinparr.com/

Martin Parr - Playas

Another collection from Martin Parr that i found whilst searching for his Common Sense work. These images are a little less in your face than the common sense series.
The series 'Playas' was made into a book, which was completely designed by a Mexican design company with the final decision on Parr, who chose the design he thought fitted best, which ended up being brightly coloured and over the top (think an over the top drag act). The bad taste of the book design i believe reflects on the images themselves, with once white tourists spread across the South American beaches

Martin Parr - Common Sense

Photographer Martin Parr produced photographs that bring up emotions of discomfort, and lead you to forget about those photographed but about the emotion which they add to the image. Shocking pink nails against an over tanned aging body adds a cringe worthy element to one photograph in the collection along with again barbie pink slippers with crusty nails sticking out of the end. You feel as though you are almost forced to see the unsettling truth that the images show.Away from Martin Parr's 'Common Sense' he always approached his subjects in a more polite way, and his photography was not in anyway nearly as shocking as this one collection. Perhaps this is why it it his most famous collection to date? Common sense. Begun in the mid 1990's

Zines???

Over the past few days i've been trying to do some research on zines on the net, and all i really come up with information on zine libraries that stock them (all of which seem to be in australia stragely), which really doesn't help me because i havent got a clue what to do! I think this kind of does say something about exactly what a zine is, it shows that they are basically chucked together and rushed out and there is no time to do the little complicated things like publish them online; although it is a bit annoying that i can't find anything!