Necklace.

My scanner isn't scanning stuff the way I want to and is picking up on the fact that it's sunny today, so I might have to re-do this one.

© Ruth Johnston 2011

Mock-up.

So, I presented my idea yesterday and it totally bombed. At least it's because I'm absolutely rubbish at presentations and was so nervous I felt like I was going to be sick, and not because it's a bad idea.
I really need to find the 'social comment' of it though. I think I have an idea but it needs a bit more of a push. However, at this stage it doesn't matter so much.

So I have a general idea of how I want the finished product to look and it's going in a book. Don't mock the photo, I'm hoping as I get more images, I might be more comfortable with the camera being in my face. As well as this, I'm hoping that the settings will become more interesting as the weather gets better, although the domestic setting is ideal in any case as the project is mainly based around fashion blogging at this stage.

This is generally how I hope the pages of the book will look, that is until they rip it to shreds in my tutorial next week. I should have around 6 images by then so it might look a bit more meaty. You'll have to click it to make it big.

© Ruth Johnston 2011.

Next project..

..is gonna be about my spending habits surrounding clothing.
I'm keeping all receipts, photographing the new clothes 'as items' and documenting each outfit I wear once a month for a week. It will last three months and I'm going to show the project in a book with large prints for exhibition purposes.
I'll hopefully be able to just use natural lighting and most of the images will be accompanied by text. The text will include; where the items of clothing are from - shop, town, how much they cost, the weather and the date.

I'm not sure whether I'm going to like what I find, but I'm hoping it will help me in the real world. One of my New Years resolutions is to spend less by giving myself an allowance. This will affect the project, but I am very bad with money so I should imagine that the project will still be doable.

Now to finish off my dissertation - I had to get this idea typed up so I can work to writing it in a proposal, it also helps me to remember that it exists. I was starting to get panicky as I didn't have a solid idea yet and the presentation date wasn't getting any further away.

Oh Shrigley, I love you...

I think I would really like this, but I don't think I could justify £25 on one, especially an unsigned one. Oh Don't Panic!, you were giving these away for free in things, it's a bit extortionate to sell them at such high-prices now isn't it, even if it is by a more 'high-profile' artist? Especially since this poster is over a year old anyway, meanies. I'm glad to have a few of the posters they're selling already, maybe they could just charge P&P instead, if I lived in Brighton, I'd be getting most of them for free anyway.

© David Shrigley via Don't Panic!.