The Starting Point

This was just because I was in the mood to start taking some photographs even though it was done in the very tungsten light of my living room at night I think they have some potential. They are of my housemates Lauren and Natalie.

New Project Research

I have decided that I want to do a photography project, focusing on portraits mainly I think, and this is one photographer I found that I really like his work. He has a very graphic style and sense of fun to his photographs. His name is Joshua Black Wilkins and his lives in Nashville America.

Special Collections Childrens Books Research

Some pop up books for children I found in the library's Special Collections.

Birthday Pop up Card!

A Birthday Card I made that pops up. This has the extra support mechanism in the middle of the box shape to pull the sides out properly from a book I found in the library that my earlier improvised samples didnt have. It works much better.

Pop-Up Samples

Pop Up Books Pinocchio

I looked at pictures of pop up's but realised you couldnt work out how they were constructed untill you saw them move, so here are some videos I found on Youtube that helped me deconstruct them and make my own versions of the mechanisms.

Tutorial with sersha and hazel and Addams Family books idea

I had a half year reveiw the Hazel and Sersha and told them about my work. While they both liked my Mary Greg work and came up with some good ideas and perseption and tricking the audience to think  they were looking at a video of a real house when actually it was a dolls house; Sersha made a comment about my family album project asking why anyone but me would be interested in it, and this did make me think quite alot. They did however like the book I made and the idea of putting things into books and this got me thinking about books coming to life for the reader. I thought abou the sceen from The Addams Family Values where the books in the library litterally come to life, with a storm comming out of one of them, and how this has been used in other films such as Harry Potter. I think I am going to explore this idea and look at how I could make books come to life.