I’ve been looking at possible locations for filming on google maps as it’s a long drive to some of these places.

I’m trying to keep a mix of landscapes so I have as much to edit with as possible. There’s Fremantle port (top) and Kings Park (left) which are fairly local and I can scout out a bit more myself. Kings Park is a botanical garden with some bush area that could be ideal. There’s also the Pinnacles and some landscapes on the way (last 3 images), but that is a very long journey so I would need to give it a lot of thought. Filming there would definitely help with the setting though.

Very quick experiment to see how well the green works. Overall I’m happy with it as in principle it seems to work. I took the photos directly underneath the light to see how the shadows would effect things and I definitely need to film under a ‘flatter’, more frontal or less saturated, light. As it was I had to use the wand on the several different areas of shade.

Saya Woolfalk

Saya Woolfalk (Japan, 1979) is a New York based artist who uses science fiction and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions.  … Woolfalk has created the world of the Empathics, a fictional race of women who are able to alter their genetic make-up and fuse with plants. With each body of work, Woolfalk continues to build the narrative of these women’s lives, and questions the utopian possibilities of cultural hybridity. -from her bio 

Top 2 rows: The Empathics, video stills, 2012

3rd row: ChimaTEK Life Products, Virtual Chimeric Space, 2015

4th and 5th rows: ChimaTEK Beta Launch, Installation shot from exhibition, 2014

source: http://www.sayawoolfalk.com/

The process of my mask over Summer term. It took ridiculously longer than I thought it would and I’ve considered starting again as I’m not particularly happy with it.

But i’ve decided that if I start again I’ll spend another month trying to create something ‘perfect’ – so instead I will edit and embellish the current one until I do like it. Starting with the removal of the orange fringe on the forehead

Rammellzee, artist and musician – pioneered ‘Gothic Futurism’, appeared in public in home made ‘armour’ and also created “cosmic characters” (times), inspired by Samurai warriors

“Rammellzee was an elusive, self-mythologizing figure who was rarely photographed without wearing one of his elaborate science-fiction-inspired masks and costumes” … “He cast himself as an urban philosopher whose overarching theory, which he called Gothic Futurism, posited that graffiti writers were trying to liberate the mystical power of letters from the strictures of modern alphabetical standardization and that they had inherited this mission from medieval monks” – Times

Top: http://radicalpresenceny.org/?page_id=1790

Bottom: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/arts/design/rammellzee-exhibition-new-york.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/02/arts/02rammellzee.html

Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, The Walk to Dover, 2005

At the time she was known as Lali Chetwynd

https://vimeo.com/98127367  video piece documenting the walk

http://www.studiovoltaire.org/exhibitions/archive/lali-chetwynd/  info about the walk

A 7 day expedition from London to Dover in full costume, emulating the narrative of David Copperfield. The group attempts to live off the land and draws parallels between class structure and debt in Victorian England with today’s “credit card culture”

Think about: act of walking as pilgrimage – the manner of documentation (edited photos & footage accompanied by narrative, sound and voiceover) – use of costume to build character – ritual/repeated aspects like gathering food