Arm Chair or Theoretical Anthropologist

I have decided to call myself an arm chair/theoretical anthropologist, why? well all of my work I feel is of the humankind.
Reading Non Places has highlighted this to me.

There are also traces of the ethnologist in me too!

Have I just put myself in a box?

Competition

We seem to be in some sort of post war, Lee and I are trying to out do each other on the amount of post's I think I will win with quality not quantity!


i am sorry are you posting rubbish stuff to catch up with me??? o look i helped you out!

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Posted By fleebag to Photoaddiction on 11/16/2007 02:33:00 AM

WHAT???

i am sorry are you posting rubbish stuff to catch up with me??? o look i helped you out!

Learning Outcomes

LO1 - Understand contemporary and historical ideas and practices which respond to the movement of people, commodities and ideas and the complexity of the relationship between people, planet and technology.

LO2 - Deploy an increased level of skill in techniques of production and distibution, including control of the image quality, protocols of exchange, territory and reach etc.

LO3 - Understanding the reception of work by a specific or multiple audiences and the ability to locate the work in which it makes a contribution to current debate, including skills in negotiation with regards to opportunities to make and locate work.

LO4 - Assess and respond to feedback from a variety of sources, and make a considered response to the reception of images in a variety of contexts.

The Units Aims

A1 - Explore the changing nature of human structures of communication, travel and exchange, using the photographic image as a means of addressing a chosen discourse in a chosen context.

A2 - Explore the process of photographic production with regard to multiple final destinations, and the influence of choice of medium on the debate in which it takes part.

A3 - Gain skills in techniques of image distribution, including electronic imaging, print media and other potential forms.

A4 - Gain insight into negotiation with subjects and audiences in the creation of oppurtunities for making and displaying work.

Email responses

fleebag has left a new comment on your post "16 second video":

well not very impress with this ending, not only is it over 16 seconds, you dont get to see cassie dance!

fuck, fuck, mother, mother fuck fuck.

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Posted By Aaron_t to Year 2 PMA on 9/27/2007 10:41:00 AM

fleebag has left a new comment on your post "Tutorial":

you sneaky devil you!

http://www.google.com/addurl/

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Posted By Anon. to Year 2 PMA on 10/06/2007 09:37:00 AM

fleebag has left a new comment on your post "Tutorial":

hello there,

i totally agree with the statment of what can draw people in?

i feel very small compared to the scale of the interent, and how to get people to onmass look at my site and get invlolved.

if you come up with any ideas then please share, i am thinking on it,

maybe we should see how much an advert will cost in variuos places???

invisible worm has left a new comment on your post "On any corner in any City":

I like 'That's a lot of appetites to be sated', comes in quite unexpectedly. Gareth wanted to do found text himself, this works well. Maybe it's the advertising language!

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Yoga Soo 2":

Hows that for being crafty-good job

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Average Life expectancy":

Very interesting - good write up

Aaron_t has left a new comment on your post "Yoga Soo 2":

excellent, she's REALLY flexible!! hehe. no seriously, i'm very impressed.

i thought i would guest author you blog and do some shamless self promoting!

we need to get together and talk about that thing!

also visit the link for my blog page (leegavin.blogspot.com)

and my page for realted to one of my ideas (artanonymous.blogspot.com)

also if you would like to send some pictures to me via mobile of email, of anyhting you may have saved on your computer or mobile!

thank you tony, i wish you the best of luck!

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Posted By fleebag to Year 2 PMA on 10/17/2007 08:35:00 PM

C_J_W has left a new comment on your post "Suicide rates across the world":

how are you going to link the murder rates to your work? or is it just research?

i have an article for you to have! i'll give it to you on monday! also can you please send me a screen shot of your author list so i can pick some ppls emails to use!!!

thanks!

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Posted By fleebag to Year 2 PMA on 10/19/2007 12:42:00 AM

fleebag has left a new comment on your post "Web":

so your telling me, you didnt come in monday to post that ONE thing on your blog! what can i say! you said it all for us!

fleebag has left a new comment on your post "Extra work":

here here!

Did you manage to sort out your dreamweaver problems?

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Posted By C_J_W to Photoaddiction on 11/14/2007 10:38:00 AM

fleebag has left a new comment on your post "Exhibited Photos":

hey, i really like the bottom four images! how did you go about taking these??

also you said you entred 4 but there are 5 images up!? you tryin to trick us agian tony?

fleebag has left a new comment on your post "Exhibited Photos":

shut your mouth tony!

Aaron_t has left a new comment on your post "Bettina Von Zwehl":

it was really fun, there was a interesting exhibition on as well. first and second in the que!!
Bettina loves us

C_J_W has left a new comment on your post "Exhibited Photos":

The twilight shots are great! what camera did you use?

Exhibited Photos

Summer Exhibition

During the summer holiday I managed to spot an exhibition in the community pharmacy gallery in Margate, they were asking for people to submit work for this with the theme being seaart.
I approached the lady in the gallery and asked for information on how to submit some photographic work, she gave the e-mail address (thanet_coast@thanet.gov.uk).

I had only a week to submit work before the deadline of 21st july 2007.

I had to fill out and sign a form titled the terms of agreement for artists, I had to give my name,address,phone number,emailand a short biographical.

upto 6 photographic images of any size were permitted to be submitted.

I did 4 and they were all accepted. They were put on display in the old lifeboat look out in broadstairs. non sold!

The exhibition was on from the 4th august to the 27th august.

I did not have any control on how the images would be displayed or where, the conditions in the gallery were rather damp and crinkled the photographs, I was very dissapointed.

I have learnt from this experience and will try and have more input the next time I exhibit.

They take a commission of 30% on any sales.

The final images/so far!

What are the reasons behind the blacked out faces?
Well, I decided to black out the faces for a number of reasons:- to keep the identity of these people anonymous, blacking out is a metaphor for death, they are wiped from our memory, in rescue situations, especially for suicide the first thing they are told to do is cover the face as to not become traumatised themselves.

Cards

I have recently sent out a bunch of buisiness cards inviting people to view the web page under false pretences to Australia, my parents are able to distribute them around Sydney and it's suburbs.
I hope they arrive in time for the crit, I am hoping to get some e-mail responses as the web page will still be under construction.

another shift in destination! trying to broaden my audience.

I still have to distibute them around in the U.K.

Hopefully they will search the other links like the blog and flickr?

Producing Outcomes

I have decided to go about this in a slightly different way, I will now be producing some Postcards with a selection of images aswell as prints to be displayed either at ucca or if I have time or aswell as in a gallery, if I can negotiate some space? there will be the production of a book started and the web page, they will also be on flickr.
I am really examining the outcomes each will have on the reading of these images, of course some text will be used in some of the outcomes but not all.

Did you manage to sort out your dreamweaver problems?

www usage

This is the estimated usage of the internet World wide, what an audience!

10 Good Questions about Life and Death

Just before she died she asked, 'what is the answer?' no question came. she laughed and said, 'in that case, what is the question?' then she died.
( the last words of gertrude stein )

Gertrude stein was an American writer who became a catalyst in the development of madern art and literature. (1874-1946) exert from wikipedia..

Getting ready

Right I have until Thursday to get my images ready and talk to Gareth about getting them onto the web page aswell as adding some extra content to the pages, such as text and links also a counter to see waht sort of traffic I get viewing it.

Good News

Well we found out that we no longer have the project to do from gary, relax now..

Gathering Evidence

I am now begining to panic a little about what the content will be for the web page and possible book! My ideas are not really convincing at the moment, I believe I have confused myself into a sort of photographers block?

What have I learnt so far? well the blog (this blog) has been a means of escape as well as a means of collating and recording evidence ontop of the research journal that forms part of the overall evidence of research for final marking/observing.

I have been so mind boggled with the amount of different information on technical issues such as web based design, photoshop, domain names etc etc..that I have lost sight of the final outcome.

I am now aproaching things in a different way, sort of reverting back to my old way of getting research and evidence into some form of outcome.

Bettina Von Zwehl

Aaron and I are off to the photographers gallery today to get hold of Bettina's new book, Signed hopefully.
I was very interested in her work from the lecture we had with her at UCCA, I like her approach to her work and the way she spoke of not theorising the work to much.
I would like to think that in some work you produce it is upto the audience to theorise and debate the work you have created.
very inspiring..

Momentum

I have really lost momentum over the past week or so, what with all the techno problems I have been having and the lack of images I have managed to shoot,, aaaarrrgggghhh!
I now need the pressure of the final review to kick me into gear again..

I spent all day yesterday driving Lee to all the UCCA campus's for his installation, we had a good day, got lost abit but it has put me another day behind.

Creative Suite

Finally after asking numerous people about how to solve this problem, Mark Beer from UCCA sorted it.
I thank you Mark for your patients.
I can now hopefully get going with this web page......