Well its London tomorrow :)……….. but don’t expect any “top notch - arty photographs” as I’m not taking my SLR with me due to limited space , and instead I’m packing my trusty box brownie ( bb ) or Optio A30 compact …………..to you :)
I’m putting this camera down , rather unfairly here as it’s a really good piece of equipment with 10mp resolution and manual shooting capabilities , but unfortunately limited creative control ……..this is really making me sound like a snob …isn’t it :)
Anyway - as some of you may know , I bought the bb in Tokyo a few years ago , and consequently saved a fortune on something that wasn’t even released in the rest of the world at the time , and of course being a home market Japanese item , it has various little …………
………………errrrrrr………how can I put this……………errrrrrrrr…………….. ……………anomalies…….. on it……………………….,
………like the selectable , shutter noise options , which included the sound of a cat meowing , when you pressed the button to take a photograph………I kid you not :)
Now - anyone who knows me will have probably read my travelogs , but what I have decided to do for a laugh, and a bit of a project on Saturday , is to photograph the trip ……………. but from an abstract point of view ……….
I do admit - this will either be a load of visual gibberish or it will actually make
sense , ( probably the former :) ) , so if you see a maniac running around with a camera that meows , photographing odd things………….
……………..either run away …………….or …………phone the police :)
Painting with Light
I saw this particular technique in a book I was reading a while ago , and it simply - consists of shining a lazer pointer on to a dark back ground , moving it around , and then photographing it with a SLR camera set on long exposure .
Now - currently in the U.K. there is a load of fuss about certain individuals using lazer pointers to “blind “ police helicopter crews , so I’d better buy one quick , as no doubt the “ sharp scissor”- brigade , will be demanding they are banned pretty soon , rather like the naturally occurring plants that produce nerve agents , or what about - fertilizer as it could be used in explosives , or maybe even - education as it means people can think for themselves………..heaven f***king forbid…………. :)
There is also concern over knife crime in the U.K, and the banning of such weapons.
The thing is if you want to look at it another way , all of us have got an absolute drawer full of lethal weapons sat in the kitchen , but I’m rather like the other 99.9999999% of the population , I do not want to go on a stabbing spree , crash police helicopters or indeed - kill people - using nerve agents and bombs.
Yes I do accept there are some out there who do , but were back to the authorities - attacking the symptom and not the cause – syndrome - here – aren’t we .
Anyway back to the art - I’m thinking of doing a masterpiece entitled …..
Crash the helicopter , whilst blowing up and poisoning the people , I have just stabbed …….…………………eat your heart out………….. Damien Hirst ………………….
………………..pickled sheep… !!! ……PAH ……..that’s for kids……… :)
