Evaluation!

I always struggle with this part, I guess its because I never feel as though the work is final.
I will talk about my thoughts on the work so far and use that as the basis of the evaluation.
So what do I want to say with this work, I guess what I am trying to point out to everyone is that we a vunerable, we know we do not live forever thats a given, but what I have noticed is we strive to live longer yet don't really know why?
Are we that selfish now that we just don't want to let go? with the advances in medicines and surgery we have so many more options for longevity now. as I have stated in my research this can be a burden on society, family even the health sector.

I see this (linking it with the brief) as a true shift in destination, we are beggining a new journey into unchartered territory.

I have also chosen to present the photographs in many different forms thus shifting their destination. I hope the viewers are open enough to realise the approach I have taken is that of a begginer and that the photographs themselves are not the main part of this brief but catalysts to other and more advanced things.

This has been a huge learning curve for me, Realising the amount of forums there are in the world now to present work in photographic form, but clearly not that easy to attract an audience.

I hope to carry on with this throughout the course to start using this type of forum as potfolio, as well as some conventional ways.

Preperation

Well so far tonight I have managed to mount the images onto alluminium , I first mounted black card onto the alluminium as a barrier it also flattens out the imperfections in the sheet metal, I then adhere the photo to the card.

I am now waiting for the iron to heat up for the t-shirt transfers.

Oh and this is my 100 post (Lee).

More from Christopher belshaw

A ban on killing

Forget carelessness, frivolity, wanten destruction as things to avoid. forget too all the fine points about good and bad reasons - it's black and white. human life is sacred, and we should never bring it to an end - full stop.

Ask people what they understand by the sanctity of life, whether or not they believe in it, and if theres an answer at all, it will most likely be along these lines.
It has supporters and opponents both in large numbers. But those who find this view hard to swallow do not, of course want carte blanche to do away with whomever, whenever, they choose, most people think that killing human beings is wrong in almost all cases.

Is it bad to die?

He who pretends to look on death without fear lies, Al men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentinent beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
(jean jacques rousseau, la nouvelle heloise)

Reading

After doing a little more reading at work today, of 10 good quetions about life and death by Christopher Belshaw, it was interesting to read that there was reference to John Donne the poet and Durer who both have connections with the use of death as a subject in there work.
I have chosen to show a few on the blog as they have relevance to the work I am trying to produce.

Durer

Durer's etchings of death.

John Donne

Poems that have reference to death.

No1

No2

I have a couple of other ideas

I don't won't to let on yet but these will be used in another way other than the ones being used already.

Pages

They are of course just the pages that have been designed in dreamweaver and published on to the web site, but as I said before the photos do not seem to appear on the web page nor does the home button?

Page 6

Page 5

Web Pages, Page 2

Well this is what the web pages should have looked like when browsing the site, I have taken a photo of each page that is complete, well started anyhow and published them to the blog so they are there for research purposes.

Poem

I have chosen part of the poem "Tithonus" by Tennyson to give clue to the work/photographs that will be displayed on the wall.

What I am trying to present is the many ways in which you can display/present images/photographs and have the context or narrative the same yet shown and explained in numerous forms, I will not know how successful the outcome will be until the crit!

Postcards

Well the postcards arrived this morning, and they look great, better than I imagined infact.

I am so pleased with the service moo.com offer, I must thank mr gavin for his introduction of moo.com, so Thank you mr Lee Gavin from Tony May....

For the Crit

I need to get organised for Thursdays crit, I will need to organise a computer with web access in the base room, a table to lay out the postcards and any other information, also a wall space preferably behind the desk and mac.

I might consider a poster with the relevant blog, web and flickr addresses on it.

Aluminium Sheet

I have used this company before, they are really good at supplying the material I request at short notice.
I will be getting 3 sheets of 2mm aluminium 420mm x 297mm to mount the photographs on.
The price is very reasonable too, at £12 total.

I prefer the aluminium to any other material such as foamboard, MDF, etc..

Other Web Page Examples

Some of these web pages had sound when they launched which was a bit annoying, and some took a little longer than others to load.

Homepage

This is the homepage so far, I guess that this will be the way it looks on the day of the crit as I seem to be still having problems uploading images?

As it said in the book on having a web page, the best rules are to keep it simple, us dark background colours to enhance the photographs (if you can get the buggers to load).

Considerations

I began this brief feeling as though the right decision was to go down the web way, I was naive to think that this would generate a wide audience of people because of its accessibilty.

I did not consider the fact that I would have to advertise this in some way! and try and promote it. With very little success so far I might add, I realise now that even my own database of contacts/friends etc would not even be that great at contributing to its success but be part of its and my failing.

I still have a lot of buisiness cards that have to be distributed, not only here but in Australia as well.

So I continue on, in the hope that as I persue this I will start to iron out the pitfalls and begin to reap some of its benifits.

I understand that this is my first encounter with this type of technology and I still have a lot to learn, not only the technical aspects of web design but also the required content and actual audience I am trying to attract.