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knightofleo · 5 months
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Tomb Raider's Main Themes by Nathan McCree & Peter Connelly
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ilovebeingaturtle · 6 months
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4, 10, 12!
It is very hard to steer me away from a version of tmnt as I’m endlessly curious and happy to experience weirdness, but….I am kiiiinda avoiding Mirage. I just don’t find primarily darker toned tmnt stories that personally interesting, also I’ve heard about some yikes things that happen in it that-yeah SHAJS, I probably won’t delve into the original for a while because it seems like most the elements of tmnt that I’m drawn to aren’t in it. I’ll still give it a shot one day!! But ye, I just don’t expect it to really click with me. I’d probably rather watch the turtles Christmas album again AHAJAHA
I also think I’m just never going to read the last ronin. I’m sure it’s good!! It’s just again, not for me. The concept just isn’t the type of story I ever want to read (…that said, if the game is really happening I for sure want to play it. So I guess I will still experience TLR eventually!)
For turtle merch, I have my beloved 87!Raphael pillow pet!! I also have a offbrand Raphael keychain, and two t-shirts! And badges of the 87 turtles, AND! Custom 87 turtle pizza plates in the shape of a pizza! This has made me realise I actually have a lot more TMNT merch than I thought I did AHA
My favourite turtle across generations is probably Donnie! I know, I know, I’m the 87!Raphael guy, but when it comes to the turtle I’m most consistently am drawn to overall, it’s probably Donatello. He’s my favourite turtle in 80% of versions AHA
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tiredspacedragon · 2 years
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Ooh I wanna send some questions. I think A3, A21, A22, B3, B17, C6, and C11 interest me the most!
Ooh, lots to answer here
A3 Favourite Villain: It might not be an interesting answer, but it's Makuta Teridax. You really can't beat a good big bad. At least not one like Teridax. He's got one of my favourite qualities in major villains: charisma. Some big bads are just so thoroughly unpleasant that it's not fun to watch or read about them because you just want to drive a stake through their skull whenever they're around, or worse, they're boring, but Teridax is just a joy. He is so theatrical, so secure in his arrogance and superiority that he chews up just about every scene he's in. And it helps that he's actually smart. So many villains are portrayed as that "backup plans for my backup plans" evil schemer archetype, but then fall flat in execution when they get undone with relative ease. But Teridax actually manages to pull it off, both because he's terrifyingly good at using that facet of his personality as an intimidation tactic; go ahead, try to fight him, he has a plan for every move you could make; and because he actually wins. To this day, Teridax is the only villain I have seen succeed in their plans by taking advantage of the trope of Good Guys Always Win. How do you, as the villain, succeed when the heroes are always going to come out on top? Easy, make the heroes accomplishing their goals result directly in you achieving yours. Brilliant! And I will say, I enjoy both versions of Makuta. Both the schemer, and the malevolent force of nature of the early years. I would have liked to see more overlap between the two characterizations, but I'm happy with what we have.
A21 Favourite Order of Mata Nui Member: Uhhh...Axonn, I guess? I don't know, I've never been a big fan of most of the OoMN. I like them in concept, but very few of the characters actually interested me after they were revealed. I mean I like Helryx, first Toa and all that, and Krakua is sweet, but picking one of the two members who are Toa feels kinda cheap, especially given the whole "no Toa allowed" rule. So I guess Axonn. I do enjoy me a good heavily-armoured holy warrior every now and then, and it helps that whenever I read any of Axonn's lines, I hear them in Kevin Michael Richardson's voice in my head, so he feels a lot more defined and present than most of the 06-08 characters.
A22 Favourite Dark Hunter: Well aside from everyone's favourites, The Shadowed One himself, Lariska, and a certain spidery lad, I have a soft spot for Darkness. 'Cause like...what the heck is he?? He just shows up one day, tells TSO "Hey, I live here now. And btw, if you ever show a sign of weakness, I'm going to eviscerate you and claim your criminal empire for my own," and apparently that was totally cool? We're never given any indication that TSO hired him, or pays him for his services. He doesn't go out on jobs, doesn't make any profit, just sits there and waits for murder time with 0 explanation of how or why he is in that position. He is fascinating and I don't want to know anything else about him because quite frankly, that might just ruin him.
B3 Favourite Titan Set: I answered Lhikan and Kikanalo as my favourite set in a previous ask, so I guess that qualifies here too. For the sake of saying something different, though, I'm also gonna give some credit to the Axalara T9. I never used to care about the vehicles in Bionicle, but I have since come around. I am older, wiser, and I know awesome when I see it, so I've warmed up to the gigantic flying battle machine. It's good old-fashioned Technic wizardry, and I completely understand how it managed to win awards.
B17 Favourite Movie: Web of Shadows, no contest. I get the feeling this is an unusual choice in the fandom, but I love Web of Shadows. It's easily my favourite of the original trilogy, and TLR really does not come close. The voice acting, the music, the visuals, everything about this movie does it for me. Especially the character designs. I love the asymmetrical, more bestial Toa Hordika, especially how their weapons became natural tools, and also, I'm just gonna come out and say it, the Rahaga's propellers should have been cannon because they absolutely rule. My only gripe is that, like its predecessor, Web of Shadows moves too quickly. The pacing feels a little rushed sometimes, especially Vakama's side changes, and so much of the 2005 story is cut out to fit into the hour-and-a-half-ish time frame. It's handled better than LoMN was, but still, I would have at least appreciated an acknowledgement of time passing between certain scenes. Like at least a hint that there's like a whole month between the first scene between the Hordika and the Rahaga when Vakama storms off, and when he actually gets captured and betrays the team for that sweet snake-lady...uhh, affection. But that's my only complaint.
C6 What Character do you Think is Underrated?: Gonna stick with Morak and Krahka on this one. And also I'll add on every single Turaga ever. Like sure we talk about their Toa selves all the time, but I feel like the Turaga don't get talked about much, in-story or out. Which is a shame, because they're still our guys, just in a new stage of life. I feel like Turaga in general get written off as a little lame, and maybe if they were talked about more, that impression might start to fade a little.
C11 What Character Should Have Been Given (Another) Physical Set?: I'm tempted to say Teridax here, because it seems odd that the big bad only ever got one true set, excluding Dume and Maxilos as disguises, and completely disregarding Ultimate Dume because it's a travesty. Hell, you could even argue he appeared in every Piraka set too, in their Zamor Spheres. But I don't know if I actually would have wanted another set for him. Teridax worked pretty well as a behind-the-scenes villain, he didn't need another physical form, because the one we got for him was great. I wonder sometimes if Icarax was planned to be a Teridax set, but Greg nixed the idea for the same reason I just stated and made Icarax his own character to continue letting Teri stay in the shadows. So with that said... I might have liked to have seen the Turaga Metru re-released in larger forms to stay in-scale with the later years. So either them, or another proper Teridax set, because it still would have been cool, even if it made no sense.
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scope-dogg · 5 years
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Thoughts after my return to Votoms
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Having an excuse to return to Votoms, my favourite mecha franchise of all time, was just another reason for me to get hyped about the upcoming SRW T. Having rewatched the TV series in full and the two OVA series set during its timeline, I can now look book and see whether it still holds up.
Mostly, I still think the answer to that is a sound yes. The things I liked about it the first time remain in place, mostly in the way that I think it creates a real sense of place better than most other mecha series I’ve seen. People laud Votoms for being realistic, but I think that has less to do with the design of the ATs and other military gizmos and more to do with the grittiness of its setting and how the people who inhabit it reflect that. There are very few characters who are purely “good” in the world, with almost everybody out for themselves in one way or another. That even extends to Chirico, the protagonist, who I actually liked better on this viewing than my first. I’ve often seen Chirico as being my favourite “bad” character, as hits a lot of the checkboxes for bad characters in various other media, however, if you view him through the lens of being an anti-hero and don’t just accept him as being “the good guy”, I think he becomes a much better character, albeit still probably not to everybody’s tastes. Once you better realise that his icy exterior conceals a lot of anger fuelling his quest for revenge, you get a better idea about the sort of person he is. Once again, however, his lovable peanut gang of Gotho, Vanilla, Coconna and later Ru Shako keep things from getting too dour or angsty.
It’s still a pretty dated looking show in a lot of parts. This time, with my eye a little better trained, I could tell where the show’s budget was clearly slashed, some point early on in the Space Battleship X arc. Additionally, after that point is where the story starts to lean a bit more on conspiracy and mystery rather than flat-out action, and I found it a little bit of a drag seeing as how this time I already knew all the plot twists. For that reason I found the Woodo and Kummen arcs at the start of the show to be the most enjoyable this time around, although I still don’t think the latter portions are bad, even though Space Battleship X still confuses and annoys me a bit.
As for the OVAs I watched, well, there’s not too much to say other than that they’re probably the difference between Votoms being a good franchise to me and being the great one that I see it as - even just The Last Red Shoulder and Big Battle, the ones I watched, are great, with TLRS being exciting and full of great moments and character development for everybody involved, with BB just being full of well-animated and exciting action. That’s not even going into the other excellent OVAs out there for this franchise, like Roots of Ambition, Armor Hunter Mellowlink or Pailsen Files.
While Gaogaigar’s recent remaster has probably just given it that little push it needed to solidify itself as my single all-time favourite series, Votoms still remains my all-time favourite franchise and universe, and I’m incredibly excited to see it in SRW T, particularly because it looks like it could have a pretty substantial impact on the plot.
Now that I’ve seen two of my three favourite series of all time, both of which are taking part in SRW T, there’s only one left for me to redo the trifecta. That’s next.
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chromacomaphoto · 6 years
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Rolleiflex 3.5f: Maybe the Best Camera Ever?
This is no easy claim to make now is it? People are so invested in the ‘best camera’ concept and there are so many cameras out there that could claim the crown. Hassy’s, Leica M’s, FM3A’s,  Linhofs etc.
I have fallen in love with the images from those candidates myself over the years but there’s just something about this choice that I can’t automatically relegate to second place. It is a close fought thing though. I know the M3 would be top of the pile for so many and it might just be for me too although I actually prefer the M2 with a fast 35 and so this would definitely need to be hashed out properly if one were to make an all-time favourite pick. In the meantime, if it had to be just one and only one and you put a gun to my head, you’d still probably have to pull the trigger after you got annoyed at me still not being able to make my bloody mind up, the original solid brass Leica M’s and the 3.5f Rolleiflex take the crown kind of equally.  However, having already written a lot on this site over the last few years about classic Leicas, let’s examine the case for the ‘Flex in a tad more detail shall we?
I, like so many Rolleiflex nutcases, have rotated my way through ownership of many of them  (probably more than I’d like to admit to publicly) over the years  and so I have had ample chance to see the pros and cons of each. I have to say, the 2.8f’s very nearly win out as they are also dear to my heart but in terms of real world use, the images that I get (and handling and carrying around), I just have to give the 3.5f’s the nod. If there are any hardcore devotees of the 2.8f out there that would beg to differ, fear not…I really do understand. Indeed, there are many useless debates in the world of the Rolleiflex user and the top two offenders would have to be those of a ‘Planar vs. Xenotar’ and ‘3.5f vs. 2.8f’ nature. Woe betide anybody daft enough to enter such debates into internet search engines and then try and find the time needed to actually wade through all the info and arguments that will come your way.  Let me save you the trouble:  In  both of the above ‘battles’ , the correct answer is usually somewhere in the ballpark of ‘they are as good as each other, choose the one you prefer’.
So, why do I prefer the 3.5f Planar?  Why is it one of the truly VERY best cameras ever?
Simply put, I find the 3.5 to be more compact, less bulbous, easier to handle and carry, nicer to use, cheaper to buy (and sometimes find accessories for although that one doesn’t always hold up lately) and better proportioned to look at. When I have had both in my rotation (which has happened from time to time), I always felt drawn to the 3.5 when leaving the house and going to grab one. I also like the ever so slightly wider field of view with this model, sure it’s very slight indeed but I find it a useful edge. Again, if all you ever wanted was to do natural light portraits, the (ever so slightly) longer 2.8 lenses and one third of a stop extra speed might serve you well but for me I find that a non-issue really and I do shoot a lot of Rollei portrait stuff that isn’t on this site for various reasons). Also, a Rolleinar close up filter for either camera might make some of that a moot point anyway.
I have found a higher number of my best ever pictures were taken on 3.5f’s, although I am not sure that this data really means much as even assuming that I owned 2.8’s for as long a period of shooting in my life (which might actually be true come to think of it), if I always reached for the 3.5 when going to shoot then my bias got in the way more than anything else I suppose.
One thing that I am certain of however is that the 75mm 3.5 Zeiss Planar 6 element lens is my all-time favourite Rollei lens ever. This is coming from somebody who’s owned most of Leica’s best brass stuff and somebody who likes the look of 50’s and 60’s Germanic, hi-res lenses more than any other. Sorry to fire shots here but these are also the words of a former Hassy owner. Believe me, this lens is where the buck stops. They say that Rolleiflexes can’t change their lenses like a Hassy.  Very true, but if this is the only lens you have on your camera (and you have a hood on it, ha) you will possibly never want to use another one anyway. It is simply THAT good. Surgically sharp, beautiful out of focus areas and a great all round balance and compromise of a design that works well for everything and anything that I personally like shooting.
I think the 3.5f late models really were the Magnum Opus of the Rolleiflex cameras, and by default, the TLR per se. Just handling, holding and operating one is a magical experience. The first time you get to see the negs that were born inside one, you simply will not have the words.
By the time that the factory were putting these together, they had already written the book several times over and really knew what they were doing. The 3.5f marked the last of the 3.5 ‘Automats’ which was a continuous production run of several decades. These are the crème de la crème of the classic Rolleiflexes from an age of workmanship and engineering that are sadly long lost. With the very rare exceptions of the classic all brass Leica M’s and their brass lenses of the same era,  I have never seen or owned anything quite as well thought out, beautifully well-made and so long term solidly reliable as these cameras.  Just a German rock of sheer photographic awesomeness.  The golden period, the heyday, call it what you will but I call it 3.5f.
I recommend a late model but not a whiteface as they are too costly and don’t take photos that are any better at all. I sometimes even think that the whitefaces were perhaps ever so slightly cheaper to produce for the factory at a time when high end TLR’s were becoming a hard sell. The fact that they are newer and made in less numbers is the only thing that makes them now (ironically) more expensive and desirable to collector types. I had a rough one once and I really wouldn’t want to part with the extra money for one again to be honest. As with all Rolleis (of the classic era), condition is more important than individual model differences and with cameras of this age one really should remember that. I recommend finding the number one repair person for Rolleiflex in your country (many countries have one or two and their names are legendary in such circles and so easy to find on the net) and having it serviced immediately after purchase unless you know 100% for sure that it is in perfect working order (for example maybe you are buying from a friend or trusted camera dealing expert). My point is perhaps that all things being equal, and given the choice between two freshly serviced and guaranteed 100% working cameras, a 2.8f and a 3.5f, I would go for the latter. Of course, in real life, that situation doesn’t always present itself to us. Even if it happened like that, it would also have to line up with the right time for our bank balance as well of course.
After several months of nothing but Rolleiflex shots on the blog, I thought I would turn the tables and actually show you some shots of the cameras themselves, all of these have belonged or do still belong to myself in recent times. After the odd dog and bad luck crap shoot, I have also been lucky enough to own one or two of the very highest grade ones both cosmetically and mechanically in the past. I have been paring down and finding a nicer example here and there to replace tattier ones. If any readers wish to do a deep dive on this subject, I highly recommend starting with John Phillip’s impressive and highly obsessive guide to Rolleiflexes (which is THE book by the way, the Rolleiflex bible and the only book you should consider against ALL other Rolleiflex publications out there) and then take things from there.
Anyway, sorry to sound like a collector again, I’m actually not. I strongly dislike it when I start to amass too much stuff. I normally do best with just one or two of my favourite cameras and a fridge full of film. That’s about where I am at with my photography at the moment, I simply cannot recommend a Rolleiflex highly enough to you…please get one, and just shoot with it often. You will be so happy you did. In the meantime here are some shots of mine, past and present, to tide you over.
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wionews · 6 years
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Opinion: A love letter, to a girl and to a city
I lived in Bastar, Chhattisgarh for six months between August 2014 and February 2015. While I was there, I met a girl whom I soon grew fond of. She left before me, returning home to Bengaluru. Sometime later she travelled to Delhi to visit her grandparents and I wrote her a letter, wanting to introduce her to my city. It was only the next morning, by when the letter had been finished and sent, that I realised I had written not one but two love letters. One of course to her and the other to Delhi. I reproduce the letter here.
Ms X,
If you have managed to get into my town, I hope you are not staring into your computer but getting “out there”. Should you be having trouble comprehending how to get out there in what might be a strange and unfamiliar city, may I please offer a few suggestions? Needless to say, they will be better than anything that you might find in a travel guidebook.
1. Have dinner at Karim’s in Old Delhi. Karim's is right next to the Jama Masjid, which gives it atmosphere. Plus the food at this Karim’s – it's the original – is better than at any of the branches that came after it. I don’t really know why but I have been meaning to find out. Please note: Their tomato shorba is to die for, especially on a cold winter evening.
2. Visit the Nehru Memorial, Museum and Library. Peacocks roam the lawns and you get to see photographs of a young Jawaharlal with his severe-looking father. I am an admirer of Nehru's and I wish people would not be so quick to censure him but I guess that in this country you can be authoritarian (like his daughter Indira) and people will still love you so long as you win a war (she won ’71). Nehru, of course, lost ’62, which is about the only thing people remember about him.
Have lunch here. Lunch is simple, vegetarian, and you sometimes have to queue for up to 30 minutes to get it but this is one of the few places in Delhi where time has stood still. And just for a minute, you get the feeling that you’re still in socialist India when our democracy actually stood for something.
3. Have lunch at Andhra Bhawan. They serve a staple vegetarian thali and you can order meat (fish, chicken, or goat) with it. Please note: Their (vegetarian) refills are endless, so you cannot expect to do much work after having eaten here.
4. Have tea at the cafe at Triveni Kala Sangam. Their carrot cake and brownies with cream are nice. So are their gulab jamuns. Their omelettes are wonderful.
Please note: They shut early, by about six.
They pushed up their prices recently; till some time ago you couldn't run up a cheque for more than Rs 250 but at least they haven’t tried to modernise in other ways. The curio shop within the compound sells interesting knick-knacks. And since they’re an art and sculpture gallery, should you look around, you also get to feel cultured.
Hauz Khas village saved Delhi’s soul. If it hadn’t been for it, we would have been reduced to a city of McDonald’s and TGI Fridays.
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5. Have a drink and dinner at The Living Room (TLR) or Yeti, the Himalayan kitchen, at Hauz Khas village.
Hauz Khas village saved Delhi’s soul. If it hadn’t been for it, we would have been reduced to a city of McDonald’s and TGI Fridays.
If that had happened, I would never leave Jagdalpur.
Unfortunately, HKV too has been corrupted – yes it has, it took me a while to realise it but it has – by rising rents and the commercialisation that comes with it. (We need rent control laws. The character is as important as commerce.) 
The place to actually have a meal here was Gunpowder, the coastal kitchen, but the proprietor Mr Warrier (a former, very unhappy-looking journalist) unfortunately decided to move to Goa. We hope and pray that he will return, but I do not think he will.)
6. Go to Chapter 25 in Shahpur Jat for an evening drink. The bar is so called because it was opened by three 25-year-olds. Women like it because the bartender is very good-looking, plus the bar is nice and they have some interesting EDM nights. I like the bartender because he pours large drinks. Or you could go to the nearby Potbelly, the Bihari kitchen, but they’re better for lunch.
7. On a Wednesday or Saturday evening, go for dinner to Le Bistro du Parc in Defence Colony. This is not in Defence Colony market but right under the Moolchand flyover, just opposite Flavor’s, the Italian kitchen. 
Le Bistro is run by the very pretty Naina (she’s half French, half Punjabi, and now that I think of it, has a nose that’s a bit like yours. It is a very nice nose). 
Le Bistro is obviously French and has a very good wine list. The French nationals who come here are all as slim as you, the Indians are all as fat as me, which says something about our cuisines.
Or of course, you could just try good old Flavor’s opposite. It’s run by an Italian who’s been around forever. His tiramisu and coffee are delectable and we like him because he was really the first man to teach us that Italian food did not mean Amul cheese dribbled over everything.
Should you decide that the food at Le Bistro does not contain enough oil and masala for your Indian palate, you could always try the mutton keema kathi roll (I think I might faint) at the Nizam’s right behind Flavor’s.
Please note: I hear that Le Bistro has the writer Rana Dasgupta – he wears his pants up to his chest – play the piano on Wednesday evenings.
In the winter, do a Sunday picnic lunch at Lodhi Gardens. Pack lunch and a bottle of wine. Get there once the sun is out properly.
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8. My little favourites. Drive to India Gate late in the evening. Park on the central radial, the road leading up to North and South Blocks. From vendors here, you can buy coffee, kulfi and chuski. Nearby there is cona coffee served in beakers at United Coffee Home in Connaught Place (I really haven't heard anybody call it Rajiv Chowk as yet). Their tajines are exotic enough too but I don’t recommend the food here. CP is a little decrepit nowadays, and UCH’s hygiene seems a bit off.
9. In the winter, do a Sunday picnic lunch at Lodhi Gardens. Pack lunch and a bottle of wine. (You’re not allowed to carry alcohol in so the bottle of wine will have to be hidden in a knapsack.) Get there once the sun is out properly. Don’t worry about when to leave, you won’t want to.
10. Finally, go watch a play at the National School of Drama, or Kamani auditorium, or the Little Theatre Group; they’re all next to each other near CP, close to Triveni. The NSD festival is held sometime in January, so you’ll miss that but if you’re lucky there might be an opera playing in town. The coffee at NSD during the interval is especially good. Plus it gives you the time to ponder why sometimes even going to a mediocre play can be enjoyable. 
And remember of course, as we say in Delhi, to “enjoy!” (I still haven’t figured out exactly what that means.)
(Disclaimer: The author writes here in a personal capacity).
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designhollyg-blog · 7 years
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Assessment 2: Creative possibilities of a Glitch. Alchemy & Memory.
When exploring the creative possibilities of a glitch from an analogue angle, it gave me the freedom to work physically and alchemically rather than being restricted to just a digital landscape. In this day of age, it is so easy to work digitally due to all the technological resources we have. Coding, photoshop, millions of other platforms to creatively explore the concept of a glitch digitally, although I felt more connected to playing with irregularities in analogue form as I felt that there was more freedom and possibilities.
In my Assessment 1 I explored how chemicals react to make something new. By bleaching a 35mm film negative, I created an unpredictable image which I trusted would be interesting. I enjoy trusting a process. Not having an idea of what the outcome would look like. I began this assessment with the same process in mind, playing with different chemicals in reaction to film, although after some research I found that it had already been done by several artists including  Ajay Malghan and Matthew Cetta who bathed film in substances to the likes of bleach, lemon juice, absinthe and more. I felt that as this had all been done, there was no more creative excitement for me in doing the same. So, starting afresh, I narrowed down my ideas to two words. Alchemy and memory.
Alchemy, transmutation in matter, has been a focus point as it relates to the topic of a glitch as it is changing one thing to another. Alchemy is a real process. University College London states, “Transmutation of lead into gold isn't just theoretically possible - it has been achieved…”, noting scientists including Glenn Seaborg and past Soviet physicists who have done just so. Even though this is a real practice (some beg to differ), I am more fascinated by the philosophy side of alchemy. Several years ago I read the book The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and several messages stuck with me since. What Coelho exclaimed in his novel was that we must never loose hope in our dreams. So with this in mind, I wanted to experiment with natural processes like alchemy with the intention of creating something that was bigger than it is.
Furthermore, the idea of memory has been very significant in my creative exploration of a glitch. Working with photographs, then removing an aspect of them (like bleaching the negative for my poster assignment), notes on how our memory of the past changes over time. This idea was the backbone to the majority of my work. Memory; a glitch in our mind. I felt that there was a great amount of room to work with this idea, hence the beginning of my experimentation…
I did not envision a final point to my body of work which meant that my creative process and experimentation was limitless. I was firstly inspired by the artist Chandra McCormick to make cracks in photographs. After doing so it left me with the words “removal” and “erasure” stuck in my head. How could I erase a memory? Got me thinking about Freud’s studies on memory repression, although I wanted to look at it more in the angle of confusion. I did so by erasing faces from a Photo Booth print out. Everyone was wearing similar clothing, so looking at it now I mentally struggle to decipher who was who. This then catalysed to the questioning of my own memory. How precisely do I remember things visually? I thought back to two images, an old and a recent, and tried to draw them from memory. It was interesting to see the outcome of this, comparing the drawing to the photograph, as it shows how time manipulates the past reality. I felt very connected to this idea although began to continue my experimentation more technically and went back to photography, firstly light sensitive paper so show how time and light implements an image, but then full circle to my film photography.
Analogue photography is my favourite medium and hobby. I love taking photographs of friends, capturing memories forever. I had recently been gifted with my best friends granddads Medium Format TLR camera which instantly reminded me of Diane Arbus who used to shoot on a similar camera. This felt very personal to me. Capturing memories on a camera that already held so many memories to it. I shot a roll over a few days with the intention of this assessment in the background, but no final goal or outcome imagined in the foreground. It just felt right. I loved the photographs once developing them. They felt very special to me and furthermore the day I developed them was Grace’s granddads 100th birthday, the previous owner of the camera, so it felt right. I loved the outcome. I decided to shoot again but do so in double exposures as I pictured them to be dreamlike, as if you were thinking back into your memory of a past event and it is hazy; a glitch in your memory.
I subconsciously came full circle. Creating an alchemical and analogue glitch in photographs, representing how time can glitch our memories. Our minds change over time, remembering details differently or completely forgetting them, and time, light and speed changes a photograph. Catching a moment in time, freezing it forever, although doing so twice on the same frame, creating a foggy and surreal depiction of how our minds glitch.
I am happy with my outcome to this assessment. In exploring the creative possibilities of a glitch I had the chance to think consciously about my own memories and what it means to create them. BIBLIOGRAPHY Alchemy: Lead into Gold, UCL London Global University, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/objectretrieval/node/329 .
Sigmund Freud’s Theories, Simply Psychology, https://www.simplypsychology.org/Sigmund-Freud.html .
Diane Arbus, Artnet, http://www.artnet.com/artists/diane-arbus/?v=2&utm_expid=.-iWJy1xgRzGyGb6sH8u9cw.1&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com.au%2F
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