Saturday 22 November 2014

Pecha Kucha

Pecha Kucha presentation for 4 week project. my project is at the the lantern slides and new ways to use and view the old technology, alternative ways to present images on glass and how to alter the images to recreate something new.
Images:






Two images on slides that I played with in PS and AI





Sunday 16 November 2014

Slideshow project

A project based on images from the Visual Resources Centre ( the slide library) at Manchester School of Art. With a couple of others in my class we are putting on an exhibition at the Salutation on the 19th of November, this is in response to a group project where we were asked to come up with a campaign to raise awareness of the existence if the slide library, the project was hypothetical but we found out the threat of closure to the library was real so decided to take it further and do a real campaign.

I created a few pieces of work, titled "Now and Then" that essentially combine old and new images, methods, tech and equipment, I have recreated lantern slides in A4 fomat but instead of the usual two sheets I have done 3 layer versions, these are not intended to necessarily be projected but are perfectly happy just being looked at!
I used original vintage lantern slides which I then photographed on 35mm film, developed and then manipulated with Photoshop and Illustrator, combined with some mobile phone photos that I overlaid and then sandwiched together. I wanted to use a combo of new and old tech to create /recreate images of the same places. I used laser printing, risograph printing and letterpress as well as the physical glass pieces.
Some of the work is focused on the city of Manchester and some of the machinery that formed the indistrial past. The point of this is to highlight the fact that our history is always important and worth remembering and hanging onto.

here are a couple of the images I have done:

http://interactiveartsblog.wordpress.com/2014/11/24/the-view-through-ashs-work-in-the-link-gallery/



 
Making the large sized lantern slides


my little vintage Kodaslide machine, one slide at a time goes in the top and the previous one pops out the bottom, fantastic gadget but it does get very hot.


A couple of the images I produced for the project using old imagery and new technology, not the newest idea under the sun but relevant for this project and really fun to do.



Some work in progress








I scanned in this Arabic Phrase and made this with it in Illustrator


vine project

Vines workshop from October, here you will witness the world famous AwfulBad CamelVines among other masterpieces of the genre, not my finest hour to be fair. But you can't tell a camel what to do, as we all know. Some are mine, some I am in others etc.