..hang on!
CADBURY'S smash???

Communication Technology 1

..oh what nightmares the future may hold!!!!

Children of men

As i chose to look at surveillance for this next project (website project) as a start i watched the film 'children of men' (to be truthful i kind of also watched it because its a great film).

It didn't really have much reference to surveillance but gave a good impression of what the future may hold. It particularly shows the STEEPLE analysis quite clearly (social, technical, environmental, economic, political, legal, ethical), mainly through the seperation of ethics which builds the basis of the film. I could talk about the film extensively, but at the end of the day i'm not doing a film review!

If you haven't watched it you have to, especially within this project!!!

Prof. Heinrich Hoffmann

Christmas Tree Decorations

Nazi Propoganda Booklets

Photographed at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, 22/10/09

Was looking around the display of books for reasearch on book project when came across these, quite amusing really

Hans Eijkelboom

World Financial Centre 12.00 - 12.00 hours,

Manhattan, New York

May 8, 1996

Image photographed at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, 22/10/09

For the last 15 years Hans Eijkelboom has been studying three major cities in the world, chosen for their high status at the time. Through his photographs he studies the cultural, and urban life style throughout the cities making comparisons between all. In his images you can see the similarities made between each location.

Paris, New York, Shanghai

A book about the past, present and (possibly) future capital of the world

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Water Towers

1970

Image photographed at the Baltic centre for contemporary art 22/10/09

Series of images by Bernd and Hilla Becher of various water towers across America. They were particularly facinated in structures that had similar designs. All images were photographed with a straight forward, informative type of view; therefore making all images very similar and very 'text book' looking

Framework houses, area

1989

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.