zumi obsession on a monday

i know I am obsessed with the zumi but it did so well today on this melancholy monday.
there is always more melancholy on flickr

school trip to Anish Kapoor

yesterday I was a trip with my art class to Anish Kapoor exhibition in London. It is the second time I have been as I visited with TJ a month ago. It was the first school trip I have been on years and it is was lots of fun, especially with lovely people from class, great conversation, coffee and fun art.

I was naughty in the visit in that the Zumi just accidentally took some photos. I have been playing with them a little. The Zumi is certainly getting a work out and I have enjoyed playing with the images and my love of the silhouette.

If you want to check out more about the interesting Anish Kapoor and his red wax the RA has some good content. What I took away from the exhibition was the notion of performance and experience within a show. I appreciated as a human you interacting with the sculptures and that it defined your experience, and I liked that it would be totally different to another human. The other aspect I loved is that the pieces well the ones with lots of gooey red wax evolved over the exhibition and were different from the first time I visited.

p.s. you can't help but like a exhibition that has a canon that explodes with red wax. Check out the live webcam video if you won't be in London soon.

commuting and workin in Bromley

so my first week of the zumi and I have taken over 600 photos, yes i have been snap happy. So I am going to share some photos that pretty much some up commuting to Bromley Kent to work.

I am loving the fun and delight the lovely little snapper is bringing me whether the images are the best or not. It is also teaching me to see the beauty in the ordinary things that are in my world.

Here are a few images with the rest of my day adventure via Flickr.







see my photo journey of a day commuting

a new friend

oh I have a new friend and it is very exciting. All the way from America(well designed in Japan, made in China and sold in the USA) it is the Zumi camera. A crazy little white camera with a bumble bee. Purchased from photojojo a great website for all photography fans. I discovered this delight on Karen Michel's blog with this photo

It is a digital version of the lomography concept. It had me at hello and within an hour of the battery being slipped in I have snapped 100 crazy distorted photos and a video on the tube. Beware I have another way to make images and it is crazy and splendidly imperfect and not so expensive with the printing. I even what photos of me with the camera, ok I know I am now scary.


UPDATE: The boy is not a fan at all of this crazy little camera but true love listens to no one.

london moments

three of the few images that turned out from the Diana F+ and the London photo adventure last Sunday. The images feel like pictures of my experience of London, my London. Not sure if they will go any further as images, but interesting all the same.

where have i been?

i have only small pathetic human excuses for not writing on my blog. I am determined to break the drought push through my procrastination to do something I enjoy. When procrastination takes over on certain aspects of my life I am always shocked how powerful it can be, how it can keep me away from fun aspects of my life.


life lately has been full of many funs things and a few lows. I have been shoving art in all the crevices of my life, the sketchbook has a life at the moment so full it will soon be impossible to close. In the evening I do some making, something even int he morning, hours on the weekend then art school and an exhibition and my life feels wonderful and brimming with it.

life in general has been:
*Beautiful autumn, see my little experiment above with my Diana F+ and slide film.
*Filling my sketchbook with tube pictures and crazy experimental variations
*Going to art school
*Drinking lots of coffee(nothing unusual about this)
*Spending a lovely weekend with Karen
*Dreaming of new world and new options for the work I want to do
*Going 'live' at my day job with my project
*Seeing Anish Kapoor, John Baldessari, Futurism, new hang of Tate Modern
*Fun photo adventure day with Paul, Jasper and Lawrence - must do this more!
*Visiting the lovely new Anthropologie store
*Drinking Starbucks Red Cups (Christmas drinks are always good and I don't care what you say - Toffee Nut Latte, Dark Cherry Mocha, Gingerbread Latte)
*Wishing for the people I love to have their dreams come true, well at least a few baby steps towards them
*Discovering my new fav sushi place

I promise I will be back real soon.
x

lovely surprises

I have had a lovely weekend full of surprises, Karen had a trip to London with work so I spent 36hours hanging out and catching up. After starting the weekend with sushi and sake and art school Saturday it felt like an amazing london weekend full of goodness.

After leaving Karen at the hotel for her trip home, someone left me some heart on the tube, picture above.

I am now busily focused on catching up my project from leaving art school early, a 3D object that can fold into my sketch book. This combined with my day job project that has 'd' day this wednesday has reduced my time for creativity, so hopefully things will calm down this week and I will do some more blogging and making.

Oh well, I am happy all the same. x