At first glance this may look like the activity of a child at nursery school, however, this is the elaborate master plan to transfer an image directly onto mirror.

1. Print your image on normal white computer paper.
2. Thickly apply oil pastel  to the back of your image
3. Turn the image (image facing up, oil facing onto the mirror) over and Sellotape it to the mirror
4. Draw over your image and transfer the oil with the lines that you draw.

Then I used 2mm tape (Go faster stripes for a car bought on ebay) to map out the pattern. I then used the sand blaster to fog the mirror that wasn't covered with tape. When the tape is removed the mirror that wasn't sand blasted shines through.

b.e.a.u.t.i.f.u.l

A selection of images created in Motion (bottom 3) and then the top one is from After Effects.

After Effects has a Sphere effect that instantly makes it look like a planet and this image also has a colorama effect on it. The bottom 3 I did on Motion and I made the planets revolve (sort of) around the fire planet (symbolic of the sun). 

I think I like the after effects planet better as I am only looking to create the illusion of one planet not tryin to recreate the solar system.

How DO they do that!? God damn CGI effects !!

Shear Configuration

Jack got played on Radio 1 introducing! Woop

The closest font I could find to that of my mac book pro is VAGABOND Rounded Light

How Nasa first saw the Universe

BBC link

Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Room at Tate Modern

Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Room

Robert Canali

Found some inspiring art work tonight by Robert Canali. His work is like wow, cool.

The idea of digesting the medium I am working with ie: film/photography and breaking it down into it's basic elements is something I find interesting visually and conceptually. This idea is present in Canalis work:

"Every Thing Gone comprises vintage prints, family photos, snaps shots
and “art” photographs, collaborating in an interchangeable narrative.
This is not a delineation of genres but a selection of the types of
photographs that exist within the medium itself. "

It can also be seen in his use of; primary colours, colour film, light and mirrors.

-colour - rgb/cmyk
-light
-space
-mirror - all present in the medium of photography.

I think his work is interesting because it mixes the genres of photography elegantly and not intrusively or in a way that makes the images clash. There is enough continuity to bring them together as a body of work. He has made an interesting use of space by using mirrors to create optical tricks and compositions.

WEBSITE

Yay my website is live - it's not great but i'll learn how to make it awesome soon enough! Just glad I finally have it live!!

www.m-w-x.com

MO-CO

MO-CO - Mole Constellations

Did some photos of mole constellations, wouldn't normally invert a photo but I think in this instance it really works. Wonder if you can invert stuff in the dark room, that'd be cool to shoot on film then print them inverted. Inverted makes it look instantly spacey.

When I first looked on google images for mole constealltions I seen everything I thought I would - people drawing lines between moles, arsey black and white photos of moles and I thought meh it's all been done before but i've managed to make something quite different of it so I'm happy with that.