Photographic Cultures

The Kidz aren't alright

2006-12-12T05:09:00.000-08:00

Chorus
Nihilist the Elephant packed his trunk and said goodbye to the castle,
off he went with his ASBO's and Skunk, without the conrete junk.
Nihilist the Elephant could'nt give a fuck about saying goodbye to the Castle,
Wherever he goes we all knows he's gonna piss into the wind.

Verse 1
The head of the heard was calling far far away,
lining his pockets with bags of dosh
with future thats on the way.

No means to no end

2006-12-12T04:35:00.000-08:00

Unfortunately it seems that I might have failed in this urban quest towards the re-reconition of the enviroment. I have to say it so i will "Fuck tha Police!" They caught me in the act of littering grossly so here is a base level of the project. Potential is there. This is a primary level

Spacial Enviromental Awareness

2006-12-05T04:52:00.000-08:00

A strong sense of me believes that the regeneration of elephant and castle will be a great part of the modernisation of london into the 21st centry. Therefore my work will only try and demonstrate the relationship between the city and I. My ideals in relationship to it's thoughts. My idea is only to remind the people that we all are from the same origin. But on a simpler level humor will play a large part of this project. The pleasure of playing with the basic level that is sand will create a piece of empathy in the enviroment

Creating a Beach

2006-11-07T06:51:00.000-08:00

I have a few options in tow. An aid in getting to the final result has been from a highly respected artist by me, Jeff Wall. His photograph "The Flooded Grave" has given me the idea.
http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/JeffWall3.jpg

Current State of Affairs

2006-10-31T06:17:00.000-08:00

I have the rescoures, I have the equipment, I have the content, yet I am delayed. External forces such as work outside of university. No excuses no more prolonging. I will take the bull by the horns.

Mental Development

2006-10-16T15:56:00.000-07:00

"Under every pavement, there is a beach."
I awaken with the thought of emptiness. How can i learn the true art that is self-control? how do i become one of them? My feelings are dominated by the sweet need of a woman's touch. I wanna walk with someone. Have i lost myself? have i lost what makes me loved, by wanting touch too much.
But anyways my project is to create a paradox of enviroments. To show elephant and castle in a new light. Two entirley different eco-systems to clash. This involves me to travel to a contrasting place. This will be a country side surroundings. A form of pirate art that attacks the men and women who are at the beginning of the river at the top of the mountain. These are the fellows who end up selling out their rich green land for property development. Not fully responsible as the modern UK farmer suffers from the mass production and ultimate cheaper prices of other less developed countries. I am not entirely sure whether this is a good idea to demonstrate to these people.
Maybe to attack an enviroment such a woodlands. Using images of envrioments from E&C with intense words such as "Ready or not here we Fucking come!"
This falls away from the oringal idea of redevelopment, yet I feel in the bigger picture it is the most important point. The city will prevail. The natural planet is fucked as we are consumers devouring it all.
To me, the statement at the top resides to the fact originally us, as humans we came from the ocean, evolved from water creatures. Meaning as a city, it is just another movement in the state of human evolution. Or devolution of who we were........

Redevelopment

2006-10-10T05:51:00.000-07:00

Intervention:interposition or interference of one state in the affairs of another. The redevelopment of city scapes is constant. Shanghai is the world's largest building site as money and future promise flows throguh the streets. Elephant and Castle is the next stage on renewing a modern London. Before hand such areas have been redeveloped, most importantly the docklands. A dead area that has become one of the most important business areas in london. Canary Warf. For me a very inportant redvelopment, is in my home area of Portsmouth. i live in the counrtside outside of the village Denmead and over the past six years they have proposed a build of 20,000 plus houses that link Denmead to the neighbouring Town of Waterlooville. This is a terrible influence that humanity has on nature. The way the living metropolis is alive and slowly eating up the earth. It imposes a huge threat. Us, as humans are responisble.

Big Excuse!

2006-10-03T06:27:00.000-07:00

you feet always take you to a destination even though you don't know where you are going. Subconciously one will possibly will walk a certain direction knowing there is saftey. A certain monotonus human reaction to go to the usual. Fear is the unknown. With the dedication to routine and time in life, one will again deligate their walk to structure i.e. have to return at a certain time therefore knowing how long one will be out for. To be free and so to truely drift, one has to eliminate these final constants that are so ever present in our lives. Therefore one must leave their conventionl head. To go beyond and as far and as free as an impulse, random. Walk down the dark alley............. into the black.......... and become lost...... awaken non-jaded............. childlike and new.
With my knowledge of the area it is hard to truley get lost. However there can always be new ways in which the same place or subject can be seen. I propose to drive beyond my known of life and begin drifitng as far as it will take me following no preconceptions.