Facebook 2011

Hey how are you?

I always find new year is a massive let down. Lest we forget January 1st is only one "New year" in one of many systems of organised dates, but maybe I'm pissed cos I never get kissed at midnight.

What have I been doing? Sleeping, listening to New Order a lot, playing warcraft, making stuff. Today I went to print out some photos from an exhibition and my printer decides to break. I'm not sure why I should print out everything I do and put it in a sketchbook when it's easily archived online but I don't want to fail now.
(More on that exhibition coming up)

Anyway here is some stuff I have done over the festive period,  make your own connections and meanings etc

Isolation.

Isolating one element of a photograph to become another piece of internet detritus.

a beginning

The Moving Image

Supposed to be producing a 3-minute video/animation for one of my modules but how can it exist when everything I do is looped?
Perhaps down to the cyclical nature of our lives. We all return to the same point eventually.

I renamed this blog l$d s0unds5tyst3m. It sounds incredibly stupid but maybe that's the point of everything I do. I had an epiphany today, in a few years time will we even need galleries? The internet is the start and finish point for most of what I do. It's almost impossible to reproduce what I'm trying to do in a "real" environment.
Trying to convey a state of mind, digitally. Replicating thought processes with repetitive visual stimuli.


Here is a short video I made with my Movement Image Sound (or movement south vision as my baked mind decided to call it) project in mind. I haven't worked out how to use iVideo or whatever yet so it's pretty basic

Dolphin land from Lois Hopwood on Vimeo.

I want to make music to go with it but working out how to do that along with trying to edit anything to a decent standard is perhaps biting off more than I can chew...

animation

Somewhere in my quest for the ultimate form of low brow digital art I decided to try out some animated gifs. I have produced many of these over recent weeks, most of them merely experimental and un-noteworthy.
Part of what interests me about the Graphics Interchange Format is the range of effects available through compression and colour shifting (at least with CS5).