Day II

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.

Day I

Cutting a long story as short as I possibly can: A friend once painted a picture on a door. I came to Nottingham and saw this door stood in the barest remenants of a building and meant to take a picture of it for her. Went to do it, they were finishing demolishing the building. Went back later, stole the door. Have since planned on taking it various places and photographing it here, there and everywhere.

How it's being used to 'Represent my world' is as follows: I am very interested in current affairs and politics as well as the media representation of such issues and how this shapes peoples view of the world. I'll be taking a newspaper headline from a national daily newspaper and painting it on my door before wheeling it out into the world.


Today's news headline comes courtesy of The Daily Express and tells us that: "Bin tax will hit everyone ... Unless you are an MP".

The location is my room here at University. This isn't due to my laziness, although the stencilling and painting did take three hours and as yet, I have no way of moving it so, that is a lesser factor. I thought that given that this is my world we (by we, I mean I am) are representing here, that my room with all my worldly posessions was as good a place as any to start.