Monday, 14 September 2009
Sunday
I went for a wander around central, and didn't shoot too much other than this 1st picture, and the post from yesterday, but just as i was about to jump on the tube i came across this protest march.
Sunday, 13 September 2009
Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky And The Media
I can't recommend this enough.
Its not the highest quality video, and it is nearly 3 hours long, but its definately worth watching.
Or if you feel like splashing out you can buy the DVD here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Manufacturing-Consent-Noam-Chomsky-Media/dp/B001IO151K/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1252840179&sr=8-2
Its not the highest quality video, and it is nearly 3 hours long, but its definately worth watching.
Or if you feel like splashing out you can buy the DVD here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Manufacturing-Consent-Noam-Chomsky-Media/dp/B001IO151K/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1252840179&sr=8-2
Saturday, 12 September 2009
Chuck Close on Inspiration
"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that's almost never the case."
I came across the article below a while ago, these aren't my words.
This is a still frame, only moments before the man's straight razor slices the woman's eyeball, from the surrealist film Un Chien Andalou (1929) Directed by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí
My ENG 101 class watched this film today and then we discussed the idea of "meaning." So many of them are still under the impression that there’s such a thing as universal meaning, that there exists a right way and a wrong way to understand something.
Students said stuff like, “It didn’t make any sense.” or “What’s the point?”
As a teacher I’m excited to be the person who introduces them to the idea that there is no such thing as “meaning,” no such thing as “a point.” Just as there is no such thing as right or wrong, no such thing as good or bad - that the only thing which truly exists is our own personal perception of these things, our own personal truth, our own idea of what is good and bad. Not an easy concept to grasp when you’re 18-19 years old and you’ve been programmed by public education, religion, and American capitalism. But I’m impressed with their willingness to grapple with these new ideas. It was an exciting day.
Original Article Here: http://brightstupidconfetti.blogspot.com/2006/01/this-is-still-frame-only-moments.html
I came across the article below a while ago, these aren't my words.
This is a still frame, only moments before the man's straight razor slices the woman's eyeball, from the surrealist film Un Chien Andalou (1929) Directed by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí
My ENG 101 class watched this film today and then we discussed the idea of "meaning." So many of them are still under the impression that there’s such a thing as universal meaning, that there exists a right way and a wrong way to understand something.
Students said stuff like, “It didn’t make any sense.” or “What’s the point?”
As a teacher I’m excited to be the person who introduces them to the idea that there is no such thing as “meaning,” no such thing as “a point.” Just as there is no such thing as right or wrong, no such thing as good or bad - that the only thing which truly exists is our own personal perception of these things, our own personal truth, our own idea of what is good and bad. Not an easy concept to grasp when you’re 18-19 years old and you’ve been programmed by public education, religion, and American capitalism. But I’m impressed with their willingness to grapple with these new ideas. It was an exciting day.
Original Article Here: http://brightstupidconfetti.blogspot.com/2006/01/this-is-still-frame-only-moments.html
Friday, 11 September 2009
Thursday, 10 September 2009
Wednesday, 9 September 2009
Tuesday, 8 September 2009
Friday, 4 September 2009
Thursday, 3 September 2009
Thursday, 20 August 2009
Teaching.
I've been teaching two different groups of youth offenders for the last two weeks. Its been possibly one of the most rewarding experiences of my life so far. 4 students from my first group are planning to go on to college to study photography. I'm happy and excited for them. I've got to say though I am really looking forward to having a little bit of time off to shoot some new material. But before that i'm doing a project working with a hospital in kings cross, with a group a young people to promote alcohol awareness. Should be good.
I'd really like to start working with a writer, to do some social interest pieces.
So if you think your up to it please send me an email at charliewhatley@hotmail.com
Gonna watch this when it comes out.
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Monday, 17 August 2009
Thursday, 13 August 2009
Wednesday, 5 August 2009
1st Camera with in built projector
The world’s first compact camera with a built-in projector. Extremely simple to operate, you only need to touch a button to project your favorites onto any flat surface.
The COOLPIX S1000pj
Sick Nikon, Sikon.
Tuesday, 4 August 2009
Game Face.
Photographs by Robbie Cooper.
These images of kids playing video games were created by Robbie Cooper, a British photographer who employed a Red camera — a very-high-resolution video camera — and then took stills from the footage. Cooper, who says he was inspired by the camera technique that Errol Morris used to interview people in his documentaries, arranged his equipment so that the players were actually looking at a reflection of the game on a small pane of glass. He placed the camera behind the reflection so that it could look directly into their faces as they played. Cooper and his collaborators, Andrew Wiggins and Charly Smith, videotaped children in England and in New York.
Cooper, who grew up in Britain and Kenya and played a lot of video games as a child, says he tries to capture “people interacting with worlds that aren’t real.” In his last major project, which was published in the magazine in 2007, he photographed participants in Internet-based games with their virtual-world avatars. Cooper is particularly struck by the intensity of people’s experiences while interacting with digital realms. Drew Hugh, shown above, stares so intently at the screen that he doesn’t blink, and his eyes quickly fill with tears, according to his mother. Cooper says, “It’s fascinating that a world that’s purely visual can have a physical effect.”
Watch The Video Here:
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2008/11/21/magazine/1194833565213/immersion.html?scp=2&sq=video%20games&st=cse
These images of kids playing video games were created by Robbie Cooper, a British photographer who employed a Red camera — a very-high-resolution video camera — and then took stills from the footage. Cooper, who says he was inspired by the camera technique that Errol Morris used to interview people in his documentaries, arranged his equipment so that the players were actually looking at a reflection of the game on a small pane of glass. He placed the camera behind the reflection so that it could look directly into their faces as they played. Cooper and his collaborators, Andrew Wiggins and Charly Smith, videotaped children in England and in New York.
Cooper, who grew up in Britain and Kenya and played a lot of video games as a child, says he tries to capture “people interacting with worlds that aren’t real.” In his last major project, which was published in the magazine in 2007, he photographed participants in Internet-based games with their virtual-world avatars. Cooper is particularly struck by the intensity of people’s experiences while interacting with digital realms. Drew Hugh, shown above, stares so intently at the screen that he doesn’t blink, and his eyes quickly fill with tears, according to his mother. Cooper says, “It’s fascinating that a world that’s purely visual can have a physical effect.”
Watch The Video Here:
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2008/11/21/magazine/1194833565213/immersion.html?scp=2&sq=video%20games&st=cse
Saturday, 18 July 2009
Word.
A few words from a photography lesson.
In photography what is interesting for me is that everybody sees the world differently and has there own unique view on the world, and while there is no right or wrong, only differences in opinion. There are compositional rules that apply to the construction of any image. As a photographer it is your job to learn these rules, in the same way you would learn a new language, to begin with it may seem difficult, but with practice and understanding it should become second nature, like riding a bike. something you cannot forget.
In the same way a music track needs structure and balance, and not just a random combination of notes. A photograph - or a good photograph requires thought and also a technical knowledge of your equipment. But not always, photography differs from other art forms in that anyone can accidently create a masterpiece with no understanding of the process, unlike more traditional forms of art, such as painting or music.
The real skill in photography is to be able to constantly make arresting and interesting images that speak to people, and that people want to look at over and over again.
One of the reasons i like photography so much is that, for me anyway, it is a tool to look for peoples beauty. And when you can show this people without having spent any time in photoshop re-touching it, or lit it in a studio, and make them happy and comfortable with themselves, it is a very powerful and liberating experience for both parties.
In photography what is interesting for me is that everybody sees the world differently and has there own unique view on the world, and while there is no right or wrong, only differences in opinion. There are compositional rules that apply to the construction of any image. As a photographer it is your job to learn these rules, in the same way you would learn a new language, to begin with it may seem difficult, but with practice and understanding it should become second nature, like riding a bike. something you cannot forget.
In the same way a music track needs structure and balance, and not just a random combination of notes. A photograph - or a good photograph requires thought and also a technical knowledge of your equipment. But not always, photography differs from other art forms in that anyone can accidently create a masterpiece with no understanding of the process, unlike more traditional forms of art, such as painting or music.
The real skill in photography is to be able to constantly make arresting and interesting images that speak to people, and that people want to look at over and over again.
One of the reasons i like photography so much is that, for me anyway, it is a tool to look for peoples beauty. And when you can show this people without having spent any time in photoshop re-touching it, or lit it in a studio, and make them happy and comfortable with themselves, it is a very powerful and liberating experience for both parties.
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
TEef vs FrankMusik - take im Out
Check out: http://www.teefonline.com/ for some more tunes and more Teef related entertainment
Teef is playing a show at Open Sauce at Vibe Live on the 16th with another project of his called Million Knives. There sick go see them if you can.
More details here: http://www.myspace.com/opensauce
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Monday, 6 July 2009
Sunday, 5 July 2009
Street Scene, London
This ones been my wallpaper on my computer for a while now. Its one of my favorites.
Saturday, 4 July 2009
Benji B
hopefully this portrait, or another i shot, will be in rugged magazine next month. Keep an eye out.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/benjib/
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
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