University of Brighton Photography exhibition

On my way to lunch after the CSM show I bumped into this exhibition. I didn't get all the details down about the artists unfortunately and have no information about the course and am not even sure if it was University of Brighton. I am however sure it had something to do with the words "Brighton", "University and "photography". I was hungry. But i did find a few pieces to be worthwhile and very useful research for the project I pan on starting.

These are the ones I found relevant to me(in a rush):

I really like the composition and lighting of this image. I have a thing for dreads and feathers in photography, and found this to be a great representation of this obsession of mine. 

I like how these look like organisms, like something that belongs in your body, they probably are guts, I didn't read the tag. Although they look a little more like under-water paint clouds. Never the less, I enjoy the texture and the colours of these images, and am seriously contemplating making a big scale illustration of one of them or even a set of the four.

This is a piece about breast cancer(I presume) which is something I have lived with to an extent(it runs in the women of my family). I just really love the way these were shot, it shows a little bit about the subject as well as the effect this illness has on their bodies. It really is a beautiful piece, and highly inspirational.

CSM Graphic Design Show Snappys

So I went snapping away at the pieces presented by the final years of the CSM graphics graduate show. I found a few pieces interesting but in my opinion it wasn't a very strong show. It worked well collectively but some pieces definitely stood out from the majority. 

Here are some I found pleasing to the eye and the mind:

I didn't really look into who did most of these. A lot of people did work that is relevant to what I'm planning on initiating over the summer, which I'm using as inspiration. I am thankful for those pieces also and I will feature them as soon as I start working on that project.

Assessment.

So obviously the thing I haven't talked about yet was my assessment, how it went and stuff. Whatever. It wasn't that great. Fallow this link to see one of the parts that I submitted and a short intro to the work I presented for assessment: P U B L I C

My feedback grade was not what I wanted or what I think I deserve. Nowhere near it. Although the feedback did give a bit of a realistic description of my work, my weaknesses and my strengths. I guess it always boils down to two words with me "work harder". It's true, I don't work half as hard as I should, although this is not for my projects that got assessed. Or at least it's not true in regards to my efforts for the last 6 weeks we had... Okay so I was a bit lazy in the beginning of the year which I thought would be a plausible drawback, but what I got criticised on was the group project. This project only initiated 6 weeks before assessment, and I'd say we did a pretty good job at being hermits as a group in order to complete our goals... which we sort of did in the end. The problem with this group in particular was that we all had so much fun doing work together... and maybe more fun than work.

This is something else I have trouble with, see I was put in a group for my advertisement elective and my modern thoughts project with people I didn't exactly get along with, yes we didn't exactly "waste" time socialising about something other than our work, so it was strictly professional. But because of this meeting up was more of a dreaded chore for me and the work itself was less enjoyable. Whereas for the initially mentioned project the four of us enjoyed each other's company, making meet-ups more regular, because we wanted to work together, and also making them less dreaded. We were also hence more likely to produce more work by spending more time together, and being all constantly sharing out work made development a much easier task.

The tutors didn't seem to enjoy this so much. But I'm really just saying this because I'm bitter, I know that they were more interested in the outcome and documentation, which we did deliver, only apparently it wasn't enough. Lets drop this subject because frankly, it's making me pissy again, something which took me 2 weeks to drop.

Anyway, This is what my tutorial sheet says:

"Student: Pedro

Pathway: T/G

Date: 14/6/10

Year: 2            Term: 3

Progress Report:

Disapointed with assessment(duh) & felt worked harder this unit.

See assessment sheet of project feedback(I don't really want to post this, because I'm having a hard enough time translating my tutor's handwriting from this sheet as it is)

Summer work: SI work / research

                       Dissertation

Issues / Actions:

Develop ways to document your projects as a fluid evidence. Discover other methods to record process. Develop over time / during summer. Organic better than mechanical. Find a method you enjoy!"

So that's me this summer. Woot.

A short break.

A lot has happened since I last posted. I'm not going to try to make excuses, I was just too lazy to care. In a way I still am, seeing as I'm back in my hobo mode. As in, if I didn't have my parent's support I would be a hobo.

Anyway I have been to a view places and a few things have happened. I'll make sure to talk about this things today, that's going to be my goal, rather than spending the whole day playing Marvel Ultimate Alliance. So please bear with me, as today, I'm yours.