ccdn 331 | project four | manifestation

Design Manifesto

I look at things from more than one perspective;

I do no harm;

I craft with love;

I question stereotypes;

I am organised;

I am never finished;

I adapt;

 I stimulate more than one sense with my work;

I do not waste my resources;

I value the practice of remediation;

I am engaged in a two-way learning process;

I design my world & my world informs my design:

It's all two-way

ccdn 244 | project three | data excercise

Instructions: you have to go into your back garden and take some shots of the sky on a dark, cloudless night (tonight may well be perfect for it). If you do this on auto setting you will get terrible images. But it you can set up your camera on a tripod or on the ground (something stable - not in your hands) and set the shutter speed to 30 seconds (obviously you need a DSLR for this). Set the apeture to around f2.4 and set the iso to at least 3600. Finally, be sure to focus the camera manually - if you have a zoom lens the zoom in on the stars, focus on them to make them as sharp as possible manually and then zoom back out to have as wide an angle as possible. And finally make sure that you are shooting in RAW format as you need it to try to pull information out.

These are my best images:

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© luckiestwomanalive 2014

© luckiestwomanalive 2014

© luckiestwomanalive 2014

ccdn 244 | project two | hand-in

This is my final hand-in. I have chosen three photographs from my remediation exercise where I projected my best three Holga camera images onto my back and then photographed it.

The final image is a composite of the three that were most successful in expressing the idea of eInk as a way of carrying my family with me everywhere. Literally on my back, just as I do with my conventional tattoo.

These are the images:

© luckiestwomanalive 2014

© luckiestwomanalive 2014

© luckiestwomanalive 2014

This is my final presentation PDF:

And this is my project, remediated as a video:

ccdn 244 | project two | final precedent

My final precedent for this project is " La Jetée" the 1962 film by Chris Marker which is composed of stills (in all but one brief scene) to tell the story of a post-apocalyptic Parisian man who witnesses a fatal shooting as a boy and is obsessed about it forever after.

The whispering scenes which are a memorable feature of the film have an effect on me every time I see this film. I will pay homage to the film by including a little whispering in my final hand-in. The whispering is well demonstrated as from 1:40.