Archive for the ‘GC003-Hidden’ Category
experiment
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010Hidden poster 01
Saturday, January 16th, 2010Blue Tinge
Thursday, December 10th, 2009Darkroom experiements part001
Saturday, December 5th, 2009- 5 second intervals
- 2.8 aperture
- 3 contrast filter
Experimenting with contrast filters (left)
- 5 second Intervals
- 2.8 aperture
- 5 contrast filter
Experimenting with no contrast filter (right)
- 5 second Intervals
- 2.8 aperture
- NO contrast filter
- 20 seconds
- 8 aperture
- 3 contrast filter
- 5 second intervals
- 8 aperture
- 3 contrast filter
- 20 seconds
- 8 aperture
- 3 contrast filter
Experimenting with water
- 5 second intervals
- 2.8 aperture
- 3 contrast filter
test strip (left)
- 5 second intervals
- 8 aperture
- 3 contrast filter
test strip (right)
- 5 second intervals
- 8 aperture
- 4 contrast filter
- 45 seconds
- 8 aperture
- 4 contrast filter
book layout design 003
Saturday, December 5th, 2009After research I came up with the following design.
7×7 grid with 10mm gutters
16 margin spacing
font: palatino
One of the reason of choosing palatino is that I wanted to create age to the book. As this book was inspired by finding morris minors I decided to choose palatino because it was created in the same year – 1948 that the morris minor was created too. The greyish blue colour choice is also inpsired by the car.
book layout design reasearch
Saturday, December 5th, 2009I was advised to re-think my design/font choice so researched into this.
i looked at grids.
book layout design 001
Saturday, December 5th, 2009Book cover ideas
Saturday, December 5th, 2009Image trial
Saturday, December 5th, 2009Derelict/forgotten places part04
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009Derelict/forgotten places part03C
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009Derelict/forgotten places part03B
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009Derelict/forgotten places part03A
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009Derelict/forgotten places part02B
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009Derelict/forgotten places part02A
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009B & W FILM NEG index sheet 002
Monday, November 30th, 2009B & W FILM NEG index sheet 001
Monday, November 30th, 2009Gordon Matta-Clark
Monday, November 30th, 2009Hidden structures
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009ARTIST RESEARCH
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009IDEA…
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009To take pictures of disused/derelict buildings/places and create pieces of work that reveal their hidden history/use.
Bath Gasometers – pipe network (418 bus)
Bath printing press – book printing, letterpress, (number 5 bus)
Co-op society building (number 10 bus)
I will to add to this list as I travel round bath more.
Find out history, use of these buildings, take photos
COLOUR
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009The mayor who brought colour to Albania
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009Photos by Megan Ruth Jack
The mayor who brought colour to Albania
by Jacky Rowland, BBC correspondent in Tirana
Albania was once the most isolated country in Europe and its capital, Tirana, was blighted by socialist architecture and decaying infrastructure.
After the fall of Communism, there was a free-for-all. New buildings went up in an unchecked manner but no-one bothered to fix the roads, the power cables and the sewage system.
Now, however, Tirana has had a facelift.
The new Mayor, Edi Rama, was first elected into office in 2000 and has cleaned up scruffy avenues and repaired roads and public buildings. But the mayor’s unconventional approach and his strong personality have ruffled more than a few feathers.
Mr Rama is a former artist, basketball player and culture minister.
He is a big man with big ideas, and has made colour his trademark: paintbrush-wielding teams have turned grim concrete facades into a blaze of colour and abstract designs.
“I’m not sure I am a politician,” the mayor told me, standing on a balcony overlooking the main square of Tirana. “I would say that I am still an artist and I’m trying to use politics as an instrument for change.”
NEGLECT
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009Derelict/forgotten places part01
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009I’ve seen this building a lot and have always wanted to take a picture of it, I plan to develop some of these images myself using the darkroom, these are images I took of the building and other hidden places in bristol. I was quite fortunate with the weather as it had been drab all day.
- 400 ISO B&W film
- Cannon E0S3000N (film camera)
INFORMATION GRAPHICS
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009MAPPING
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009What are maps?
The dictionary definition of a map is, “a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation: a map of Canada.” Therefore maps represent areas, attributes and dimensions is a scale – usually smaller than lifesize. Maps help make understanding clear and lets us see beyond what our eyes are cable of seeing.
Anything can be mapped, and most things are: places, businesses, galaxies, histories, bodies, philosophies, devices and databases.
Maps outline territories from governments, Oil locations, Social scientists use maps to publiscise social problems.
They are seen by the reader as neutral information, however this is not always the case and therefore maps have a power that can persuade the reader without them realising. For example the map of the world is drawn pointing north and not south. This creates a hierarchy of the Earth.
The language of cartography is so ingrained that it has become invisible.
We do not question the orientation of the map of the world. An upside down map looks odd, it also give the southern hemisphere countries dominance over the northern ones.
Why use maps?
William Owen
Maps give their readers the simple and magical ability to see beyond the horizon. The enlightening and revelatory
characteristic of a good map derives from its encompassing vision, contained within a single consistent pictorial model. The map provides a view that slides instantaneously between panorama and detail. A map embodies the work, knowledge and intelligence of others. We obtain a vision of a place that we may never have seen, or divine a previously unseen pattern in things we thought we knew intimately. So, we ‘consult’ a map as we would an adviser in order to locate, identify and decide, or to be enlightened. As a result we suffer, sometimes, a grand illusion of omnipotence by believing that the map contains everything necessary for understanding or controlling a domain. We forget that the mapmaker has an implicit or explicit agenda of his own, not necessarily aligned with ours. Maps are imperfect They have missing layers and gaps within the layers (“London”, said its ‘biographer’ Peter Ackroyd, “is so large, and so diverse, that a thousand different maps or topographies have been drawn up in orderto to describe it”). Paradoxically, much infolillation can be gathered from the gaps left in maps, not least about the mapmaker’s intentions. This is one of the beauties of maps.
A BOOK OF CURVES
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009Pipe network
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009Pipe network to be mapped in 3D
By Jonathan Amos, BBC News science reporter
The maze of pipes and cables that snake beneath the UK’s streets are to be mapped in a £2.2m pilot project. An intimate knowledge of this tubular underworld is expected to help reduce the number of holes that need to be dug by utilities, and cut traffic jams.
Nottingham and Leeds researchers will trial new 3D mapping technologies at half a dozen UK locations. It is thought there are enough pipes and cables below ground in Britain to stretch to the Moon and back 10 times. Some were laid more than 200 years ago and accurate information on their precise positions is often non-existent or sketchy at best. There are 30 to 40 incidents each year where workmen are seriously injured because they have accidentally sliced through electricity cables. “When utilities and highways authorities are digging in the street, they often find things they didn’t expect, or don’t find the things they were looking for,” explained Mike Farrimond, director of UK Water Industry Research Ltd, which is managing the mapping project. “If we had detailed 3D maps of what was down there, we’d be much more efficient at finding and fixing leaks, and connecting people to services.”
Schematic showing what lies under a west London street (Leeds) .The schematic diagram above shows the typical level of complexity of pipes and cables that exists under one London street.
In the UK there are: 275,000km of gas pipes; 353,000km of sewer pipes; 396,000km of water pipes; 482,000km of electricity cables.
A third of the pipes in London were laid more than 150 years ago; 20 cable firms have worked in London in the last five years. Camden High Street in London was dug up 144 times in one year; Glasgow’s Great Western Road, 223 times. “You can’t look at an Ordnance Survey map to find out what’s under the ground,” explained Tony Cohn, professor of automated reasoning at Leeds University.
GASOMETERS
Monday, November 23rd, 2009I was on the bus in town and noticed these big drum like structures – they are not hard to miss! At first I thought they where water towers,but after research and found out that they where gas storage tanks called a gasometer. Gasometers maintain the correct pressure – otherwise housing systems would not work.Store get gas at different pressures, lower pressure system. Comes into house.
In summer = high
In winter = they become low
Without gas meters all gas would go out.
Map showing gas pipe network from gasometers
OBESELETE SYSTEMS, now they have become an obeselete system.
Energy.
UK gas grid
British energy takeover edf.
Power stations.
Hickley point power station.
Snowdonian north wales dinorrig first hydro-electric.
Hidden energy systems