Amy Hildebrand

DAY 900, Amy Hildebrand March 2 2012.

DAY 903, Amy Hildebrand March 5 2012.

This week I came across an article about a woman whom born completely blind due to albinism; in her teens she had special surgery performed and this improved her eyesight. Once her sight had partially returned she then studied photography at college and has become a commercial photographer and is nearly finished an ambitious goal she set of a “1000 photos in 1000 days”. She started this in 2009.

  I think the work she has created is inspiring and proves that despite having been born with a genetic disorder she has overcome the complications and made some astounding images.  Too look at the full 1,000 days so far her blogger is: 

http://withlittlesound.blogspot.co.uk/

DAY 927, Amy Hildebrand March 30 2012.

Birds Eye Views - Katrin Korfmann

'gravitation, amsterdam' by katrin korfmann, 2010

  

   In recent months I have been visiting London a lot and been wondering about they way society is being portrayed in different ways; the business of the city makes you wonder what it would look like from above and then this week I came across female photographer Katrin Korfmann and her birds eye view images. I saw them on a website I regularly look at just out of interest and really liked the way they were shot and her ideas upon society.

  German born Korfmann a large-scale image connoisseur captures scenes of daily human life in public spaces focusing in on the vibrancy and tries to show society when observed from an Ariel view.

   She uses several final images and molds them together to create a constant flow of movement and display a progression of events or occasion giving it more significant importance.

  I really like her photos of the vast public spaces and daily life because its an angle we rarely get to see of the world and society and it makes you feel as if you are watching the public without being really having to be in that place. My favorite image is ‘Horizon Vanished’ and image of the public but the way in which their shadows fall in somewhat perplexing as you see the figure almost as if they in the scene and not shot as an Ariel View.

 

'horizon vanished' by Katrin Korfmann, 2011

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/20537/birds-eye-view-images-by-katrin-korfmann-at-galleri-anderssonsandstrom.html

Jeff Divine - Surf.

1970's Surfer, Jeff Divine

Jeff Divine is a surf photographer with a career span from the 1960's taking photographs of his fellow surfers and believes that he is one of the photographers that took photos before the media took hold of it. He has the largest archive of surf photography known and has some really time defying photographs with intense knowledge of the sport itself. 
  Before University I surfed every year if not twice a year and my love for water and the sea allows me to appreciate the archival photographs of the surfing and I am really intrigued by how the surf lifestyle has shaped the photography used and taken within the sport.

1970's Surfers, Jeff Divine

1980's Surfers, Jeff Divine

Brighton Murmations.

  Four years ago a close friend moved to Brighton and it is a fascinating city with not only man made productions but some of the most fascinating natural spectacles. Every time I visit I walk down the beach to get to my friends flat and each time I aim to be able to see the murmuration of starlings over the west pier. I think its really fascinating but adds a humble aspect to the very highly populated city that Brighton is and means a lot to both me and my best friend because we always associate it with each other and the love we share for the City she moved to. 

The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

The book itself.

  The Perks of Being a Wallflower is an epistolary novel written by Stephen Chbosky; based upon a series of events in an alias called Charlie's life who writes to an anonymous person of whom he does not know. The story explores topics such as introversion and the awkward times of adolescence. The book also touches briefly on drug use and Charlie's experiences with it. As the book progresses, various works of literature and film are referenced and their meanings discussed.

 I read this book in 2004 and since then it has laid heavily upon my mind because of the truthful descriptions of his real life. I adore this book and despite it not being a traditional book I find the references to my own life at the time beyond comprehension and recently The Perks of Being a Wallflower has resumed itself into my life. The novel is being made into a film with Emma Watson starring as one of the main roles; surrounded by gossip I cannot wait to see the film itself!

The film is set to be released in September 2012, I am very excited and cant wait to see what adaptation director Stephen Chbosky has done with the written documents into cinematic movement and acting.

 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1659337/

Ron Ulicny

Antler, Ron Ulicny

Ron Ulicny is the creator of viscurrealistic fabrications, he makes contemporary sculptures amd earns his living with an inherent tendency to make "stuff" his 'viscurrelatistic' version of art is in fact from a group of words combined;

- visceral, a relation to deep inward feelings rather than intellect

- surrealism a 20th century movement in literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, e.g. irrational juxtaposition of images
- fabricate to invent or concoct. 


Ulicny has a really farfetched version of objects which I really adore. 


Here is some of his sculptures: 

no...ahhh...no!, Ron Ulicny

skateno.2 Ron Ulicny

http://www.ronulicny.com/

Bestival Website

Website homepage, 2012

Info page, 201

  Since attending festivals in 2008 I am really interested in one particular website which has been going since 2004, Bestival's wesbite is an arrangement of illustrations, vivid colours and clever animation its a visually exciting site and has made me buy tickets for the last two years in a row. I wanted to link this to my blog just because I am attending this year and a lot of my friends are and I would like to put this down to the way Bestival is pitched visually as well as physically.

http://www.bestival.net/