Flora Abstracts: This project is aiming to explore an area where graphics and photography overlap.
This is part of an emerging body of work that is a departure from a more conventional photographic approach ignoring form and surface in preference for exploring colour and time. The intention is to abstract very traditional subject matter leaving subtle clues to it's origin.
Photographer: Giles Revell
Ten years ago there was no Facebook or Twitter. Fifteen years ago broadband access to the internet in your home was an unimaginable luxury. Just twenty years ago you still had to buy your books, music and feature films from a high street shop. The digital revolution might still be young, but it has arguably brought about the biggest change in our lifestyles in the last two hundred years.
For £13 a year, subscribers can become part-time crime fighters. "We receive live feeds from CCTV cameras from shop owners ... images are then made available, over the Internet, to you and to other registered users (Viewers)" Internet Eyes
Inc (Independent Northern Creative) in association with L&K Creative are very proud to present 'Typeface - the film' in Yorkshire, for the first time.
'Typeface' shows the reality of the digital age as it challenges master craftsmen in their environment, this film opens up a very real life portrayal of the effects, changes and fight for survival in an age of throw-away creativity.
From the onset, it clearly shows a passion for creative skills, showcasing a place where international artists and retired craftsmen remain true to their heritage, but for how long and what can be lost? The historical and contemporary approaches in rural and urban America, combined with passion and logic makes for a fascinating film.
'We offer a way to visualize our words and emotions in a permanent work of art so that it may act as a continuous reminder to us and to others of what is important. Our developed technique offers you the ability to capture your specific voice or any significant audible moment from your life. '
Voice art- http://www.voiceprintsart.com/
'The version of Street View technology used in the galleries involved an extremely high tech and rather silly-looking trolley. It was to be pushed around the rooms at a particular speed and on a peculiar route, and seemed to me to be a marvellous combination of garden-shed and cutting-edge.
Battery change. At 23 kilos each they were not fun to carry around
The trolley was not simple. It had lasers and cameras and GPS and all sorts. You could not stand in its view, for fear of being captured. Yet it could see you, left right, up down, back and forth and everywhere in between. So it must be operated by a squirrel (a trained man with a perfectly shaped back) who hides in its visual wake and guides it through the rooms.
Then you have to be completely out of sight. Which is interesting when you are trying to oversee the logistics of the operation. And in an empty museum at 2am you begin to think that this rule of not seeing what is going on provides perfect cover for some daring and complex ploy to steal a masterpiece. And that must be what the lasers and cameras and GPS are for.'
MAPPING DERBY
FORMAT wants your help to map Derby through photos, thoughts and memories. QUAD artists working with the public, will be creating a growing photo map installation of Derby City Centre, you are invited to take part through workshops and drop in sessions.PHOTO POINTS
Look out for the QR code photo points across the city, inter-linking with MAPPING DERBY and MOB FORMAT, this is your opportunity to photograph Derby city 'Right Here, Right Now'.
A great concept map (mind map) of creative apps for your smart phone. Image capture in bottom left might be useful.
Computer anywhere using wireless internet, phone and a projector. play about halfway through to see it in action.
http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html
