MUST recommend this film short, created by Marc Isaacs.
It's a great exploratory piece- Isaacs films in a lift in a tower block in London for 10 hours a day, everyday-- meeting the residents of the building and prompting them to share various thoughts and opinions with the camera. It's really endearing and at some points even shocking.
Watch it!
LIFT
Friday, 25 September 2009
Thursday, 24 September 2009
Hasisi Park
I found a wonderful flickr, well in fact, I found two - one being Hasisi Park and the other Jackson Eaton.
They both share in their photostreams a really intense relationship (between the two) wherein Eaton, a newcomer to Korea, teaching English, meets Hasisi - falls in love - and stays in Korea for three years. It's pretty eye opening- Hasisi takes lovely, if sometimes a little strange, self portraits alongside everyday snapshops. Jackson shows a more intimate insight into their loving relationship, it's really quite captivating!
I think Jackson Eaton is exhibiting his photos in Australia at the moment--
oh +ve is a love story. In 2006 I moved to South Korea to teach English; after only a few weeks, I met Hasisi Park. These photographs document the next three years. They are not only a story of love but also of the search for belonging in a foreign culture, and the difficulties associated with needing one thing to constitute your ‘everything’.
Most of the images that make up this exhibition were originally part of a joint project entitled Jackson and Hasisi Were Never Married. In late 2008, we self-published a book of these photographs and intended to have a show. We broke up a few months later. Truthfully rather than playfully looking back on the relationship, I titled this exhibition oh +ve, a name that suggests two opposing yet equally futile forms of finding answers in relationships. It cynically refers to both the self-directed method of maintaining a positive attitude and the deterministic theory of blood type compatibility. Not knowing my own blood type, Hasisi would tell me that if I were not of type B then we would never get married. O+ is the most common type in Australia. With this exhibition I aim to present some fragments of our intimate, fragile, comical and passionate narrative and invite viewers to piece them together and explore the belief that ‘all you need is love’
A few photos I quite like:
In other news, I finally have a student bank account. Shame about getting the Student Finance money.. I gave up holding the phone after 27 minutes of particularly shitty music.
They both share in their photostreams a really intense relationship (between the two) wherein Eaton, a newcomer to Korea, teaching English, meets Hasisi - falls in love - and stays in Korea for three years. It's pretty eye opening- Hasisi takes lovely, if sometimes a little strange, self portraits alongside everyday snapshops. Jackson shows a more intimate insight into their loving relationship, it's really quite captivating!
I think Jackson Eaton is exhibiting his photos in Australia at the moment--
Most of the images that make up this exhibition were originally part of a joint project entitled Jackson and Hasisi Were Never Married. In late 2008, we self-published a book of these photographs and intended to have a show. We broke up a few months later. Truthfully rather than playfully looking back on the relationship, I titled this exhibition oh +ve, a name that suggests two opposing yet equally futile forms of finding answers in relationships. It cynically refers to both the self-directed method of maintaining a positive attitude and the deterministic theory of blood type compatibility. Not knowing my own blood type, Hasisi would tell me that if I were not of type B then we would never get married. O+ is the most common type in Australia. With this exhibition I aim to present some fragments of our intimate, fragile, comical and passionate narrative and invite viewers to piece them together and explore the belief that ‘all you need is love’
A few photos I quite like:
In other news, I finally have a student bank account. Shame about getting the Student Finance money.. I gave up holding the phone after 27 minutes of particularly shitty music.
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
I hate money
No really, I wish it weren't so important.
I was sent an enormous list of architectural equipment I'll need in all of two weeks' time, and it's worth a small fortune. Not to mention a very explicit laptop specification that my planned Macbook buying doesn't adhere to (apparently, I need a 15" screen and 13" simply isn't good enough). Great.. so that means what was going to cost me roughly £700 is now skyrocketing to over a grand. Not to mention suggested graphic cards and security locking systems.
And also on the subject of money, I've been temping at an office to scoop up a few extra pounds before university. I spend most of my time browsing flickr to be honest. Here's some finds:
Ohhh Hedi Slimane... (I thought he was a woman until a few months ago, doh-- the photographer that is, not the above model)
Pavlunka photography
"Hello Hand's" photostream
That'll do for now. And I'll continue to mourn over the loss, or imminent loss of money which I'm about to or have just spent.
I was sent an enormous list of architectural equipment I'll need in all of two weeks' time, and it's worth a small fortune. Not to mention a very explicit laptop specification that my planned Macbook buying doesn't adhere to (apparently, I need a 15" screen and 13" simply isn't good enough). Great.. so that means what was going to cost me roughly £700 is now skyrocketing to over a grand. Not to mention suggested graphic cards and security locking systems.
And also on the subject of money, I've been temping at an office to scoop up a few extra pounds before university. I spend most of my time browsing flickr to be honest. Here's some finds:
Ohhh Hedi Slimane... (I thought he was a woman until a few months ago, doh-- the photographer that is, not the above model)
Pavlunka photography
"Hello Hand's" photostream
That'll do for now. And I'll continue to mourn over the loss, or imminent loss of money which I'm about to or have just spent.
Saturday, 23 May 2009
on a fave.
So here's a bit of a fave image.
There's something so well composed about it. Not to mention the alien-like beauty of the model Sasha Pivovarova.
-Jenny
There's something so well composed about it. Not to mention the alien-like beauty of the model Sasha Pivovarova.
-Jenny
Saturday, 16 May 2009
on fashion hype
If I had the money, I think I'd probably like fashion more. If I weren't surrounded by what is basically, diluted fashion, everyday- I think I'd also probably like fashion more.
For the last few days I've had to walk around in a lurid pink T-shirt endorsing Matthew Williamson's new collection for H&M and yet I'm still asked 'Do you work here ... ??'. And they even wait for me to actually answer, despite having obviously clocked my haribo ensemble. Anyway, so Matthew Williamson... I think I've always admired the red carpet pieces over the last few years, spread over many 'hot looks' pages in various fashion and gossip magazines. But H&M... really? I honestly think 90% of the womenswear at H&M is ugly and bland. And now H&M have probably paid Williamson a fortune for him to produce his 'trademark' styles and patterns and put them onto cheap material. But everyone has gone mad for it. Even that sweaty nylon material dress- however much deodorant you plaster onto yourself, with that nylon you WILL be the sweaty body odour lady for the latter part of the night.
However, having said this. The sweat could be well endured if you could pull it off like this.
(photo credit: WENN.com)
Sigh.
-Jenny
For the last few days I've had to walk around in a lurid pink T-shirt endorsing Matthew Williamson's new collection for H&M and yet I'm still asked 'Do you work here ... ??'. And they even wait for me to actually answer, despite having obviously clocked my haribo ensemble. Anyway, so Matthew Williamson... I think I've always admired the red carpet pieces over the last few years, spread over many 'hot looks' pages in various fashion and gossip magazines. But H&M... really? I honestly think 90% of the womenswear at H&M is ugly and bland. And now H&M have probably paid Williamson a fortune for him to produce his 'trademark' styles and patterns and put them onto cheap material. But everyone has gone mad for it. Even that sweaty nylon material dress- however much deodorant you plaster onto yourself, with that nylon you WILL be the sweaty body odour lady for the latter part of the night.
However, having said this. The sweat could be well endured if you could pull it off like this.
(photo credit: WENN.com)
Sigh.
-Jenny
Monday, 4 May 2009
on being at the final stages of a mammoth read
There's nothing quite as satisfying as finishing a good 1000 or so page book. In fact, I think this is probably only the third time I've achieved such a feat. The first was Hugo's Les Miserables, then painstakingly Modern Architecture since 1900 - (it was good.. but painstaking all the same, if only for the shoulder ache it caused for having such a heavy book in my bag) and now Dostoevsky's The Karamazov Brothers.
Admittedly I've been a bit leisurely, and it's taken enough time for me to lose a whole load of the story's momentum and meaning. Sigh- as is life. Either way, I highly recommend it! It's BETTER than Crime and Punishment, by a long long shot.
-Jenny
Admittedly I've been a bit leisurely, and it's taken enough time for me to lose a whole load of the story's momentum and meaning. Sigh- as is life. Either way, I highly recommend it! It's BETTER than Crime and Punishment, by a long long shot.
-Jenny
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