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I have done it !!! (finished the D&AD project that is)

Below are the final (submitted) images.

Just as a reminder for those of you who don't know what this is about. The four images below are my submissions for D&AD Student Awards 2008 competition http://www.dandad.org/studentawards08/

The brief - Use the power of photography to communicate the many facets of dementia.

Below are links to some of the competitors.....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mackphotographer/sets/72157603652697689/

http://www.kaymay.co.uk/photo/index.php?album=current-projects

1st life in 2nd life?!

I have spent a lot of time 'playing' 2nd life, and have discovered few interesting facts and 'people'- avatars. What begun to perspire is that 2nd life characters are not really fantasy or fake they are merely reflections of peoples real lives in 3D, so 2nd life allows us to fulfil our fantasies, however our fantasies are part of who we are there for 2nd life is just a part of 1st life.

Who's pixel is it anyway?

My pixels are better than yours... are they?

Pixel, my pixel. How are thou?

Professional development project

Great. Got to find a client and make him/her like my work so then I can convince them that they will actually benefit from my work.... bleh...

Ok. I have got a client, not very good one but it's a client anyhow.

It's a project that I have been working on for some time now, not very successfully due to my clients incompetence or client not being available, now I know how frustrating it must have been for all those people that where crazy enough to employ me in the past. What goes round, comes around.

The project is to build a website/web page for restaurant menu, which also promotes organic ingredients from India. The site has to have scope for expansion as the business will be expanding to include other services.

We have agreed on colour scheme, look and feel, amount of pages that will be included. One thing I have not been able to obtain from my client is the content for the website. Because of that I have not been able to evaluate amount of work that I will need to put in to it, hence I can not price the job.

My client managed to cancel something like 5 consecutive appointments. _______________________________________________________

At last my client has arrived on time and on the date arranged. Full of all sorts of excuses and reasons why he couldn't make it before. Oh well. That is just another reality of working freelance I suppose.

Client liked changes that I have made to the original ideas, Logo, web page layout, color scheme if you want to see latest updates to the above mentioned follow this link http://flatproduct.co.uk/mika/ and http://flatproduct.co.uk/indiaorganics/

D&AD - photography - Alzheimer's

This the state of my appartment while working on the D&AD project, I will be glad when it's over. D&AD - photography - Alzheimer's. Got some ideas, need props and good photos. Oh dear, this is a big project.

Work so far...

• this is just a test shot, to see if it's worth me working more on this image. After three hours of cutting bits out of this book, my thumb swelled up and it hurts!

I think it was worth it. Got one more book to cut up, and then I'm ready for a photo shoot.

• This is a set for another picture that I am producing

• and another one - this image after some deliberation has been scrapped from the repertoire. Shame. It's a nice image, but it just doesn't say what it supposed to. Oh well, another one for the wall.

Transmediale

WOW... what a great event, I'm sure most will agree. Loved the animations, films, interactive music shows, seminars, installations. My favorite must be the blade attached to a computer installation sculpture. In my opinion this encapsulates the essence of computer/digital interactivity. Man putting computer/machine in charge of, what is essentially supposed to be mans decision or action - is this wise? I believe that, that is what this piece is exploring.

long, long time ago in a blog even further away.

It has been a long time ago since I've updated this thing, not through the lack of not wanting to. I have been busy with all of the projects running at the same time, and trying to have live beyond university, bleh...

dj or the egg - dj scotch egg

Minimal sounds = minimal production?

What is minimal sound? - it's not just 'white-noise', it is a singular note, instrument or maybe a chord, these are used in such a way as to fill in empty space with these simple sound and create something that might resemble what we call - music.

DJ Scotcheg's minimalistic approach to art in general, is inspirational and refreshing in the age where noise - music is generated using many samples of sounds, voices, beats, instruments etc...

Make sound not noise, make music not sound?! Music is sound, sound is noise. Minimisation + Repetition = Creation

Art for technology or is it technology for art?

• What was first Chicken or the Egg?

• Does art need techno?

• Does techno need art?

• Both need each other, however both also exist and function perfectly well without the other. Is this true?

• Is art necessary to produce new technology?

• Does new technology inspire new art?

“Society, Luhman argues, is a system comprised of variety of sub-systems. These are operatively closed and functionally distinct from one another. Each system operates according to its own internal and self-defined rules.”

Systems meaning, rules like communication – languages, country specific traditions, social knishes – Punks or Hippies or even science Physics or chemistry all of the above follow certain line of rules, even something like Punk rock movement follows rules, i.e. hair styles or leather jackets (looking at the aesthetics of Punk Rock) have to follow certain set rules, thus creating a subculture and existing within society which is a system that comprises of many sub-systems, of which all of the above are part of.

Systems within media arts are often used in such a way where one system is used in relation to another system that did not/was not designed for its original purpose, i.e. as in ‘Semiconductor’ art installation/performance, they use data that is originally decoded to create a digital image, to generate sounds. Data for image decoding is a form of a system, this applied in to a sound decoder creates a sound.