After a weekend, several trips to Wilkinson and just a little bit of pain and effort, the door is now a lot more mobile with the addition of the trucks, wheels and bearings (I'll use the deck for something else) from a cheap skateboard, as well as some castor wheels. This opens up a new world of possible places to cart it off to, so although I didn't take any new photographs, I was doing some work towards my project over the weekend ...
Today's headline again comes courtesy of the Daily Express, largely through a lack of choice of headlines not involving either Madeleine McCann or Big Brother and because this little snippet of Conservative Xenophobia is a great example of bias and influence in representing the world. If you think Newspapers excite me too much, you should have seen what I was like playing 'Daily Mail Danger' ... it was like extreme camping - In Tents! Anyway, our headline to strike fear into the heart of any Britain who truly cares about the state of the nation is: "Britain to build 2 million homes for migrants."
Today's location doesn't exactly reflect the brave new world of possibilities made available by my weekend work because it is in fact just outside my halls and down the street a little. Must take the idea further ... literally.
Today's headline again comes courtesy of the Daily Express, largely through a lack of choice of headlines not involving either Madeleine McCann or Big Brother and because this little snippet of Conservative Xenophobia is a great example of bias and influence in representing the world. If you think Newspapers excite me too much, you should have seen what I was like playing 'Daily Mail Danger' ... it was like extreme camping - In Tents! Anyway, our headline to strike fear into the heart of any Britain who truly cares about the state of the nation is: "Britain to build 2 million homes for migrants."Today's location doesn't exactly reflect the brave new world of possibilities made available by my weekend work because it is in fact just outside my halls and down the street a little. Must take the idea further ... literally.
4 comments:
sounds like an interesting idea, do you have any idea's where you want to photograph it? It may be interesting to pick up a local newspaper and some how link it to the stories...
i like the headlines, kinda reminds me of the graffiti I saw but its actually 'fact'
Yeah, I was thinking this Thursday, getting one of my friends back home to text me the headline from our little town's local weekly newspaper and then on the Friday doing the Nottingham EP and because we have th day off Friday going out and shooting with something relevant.
If it doesn't work out this week I can do it another time until the end of the brief but I definitely want to play with that contrast of my old sleepy market townn and Nottingham.
Because I've had the idea (of taking a door around, not necessarily the newspapers) in my head for a few months I've been walking around and spied places I think the door would look good in X composition, nothing more than that but I do have a few places in mind for taking it. There's some places back home Amy (my friend) and I really wanted to take her door as well ...
Now it's on wheels it's not as much of a mission to take it somewhere, although it's still a fair bit of work to get a headline, stencil it, spray it and then wheel the door off someplace ...
I really like the idea of photographing something relevant to the headline of the day. Although im not sure it fits the brief of 'representing your world' I think :s Im still stuck
Looks an interesting project - the main problem is keeping going and making a link headline and the image...
Keep going
Hugh
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