DianaF+ and my london

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My london is the one of quirks and greys and browns of all shades.... no whites and not quite black. I feel like the DianaF+ helps me capture my version and experience of London. The specific images and characteristics that make it London and nowhere else.

I start to realise that this is home. If only for a period of life, it has now worked it way into my veins and being.

breakthrough on my Diana F+

I picked up these photos today and I feel like it is a breakthrough I am really starting to feel the magic of the Diana F+ I have had the training wheels on for a longtime. I am starting to wobble my way along the road.
Very excited.
See flickr for more of the photos taken on 120 film.
xx

the sketchbook project

I am currently waiting for the delivery of my sketchbook, to get cracking. Check it out www.thesketchbookproject.com a great concept and I love how these guys have grown their ideas of a gallery space.

I am being full of adventure and participating, are you?

image credit: My Love for you is a Stampede of Horses

Via Katie Armstrong i discovered Lauren DiCioccio.

A marvel in creating with stitch that which is disposable.

Lauren's artist statement
' My work investigates the physical/tangible beauty of commonplace mass-produced media-objects, most recently: the newspaper, magazines, office papers and writing pads, plastic bags, 35 mm slides. These media are becoming obsolete, replaced by the invisible efficiency of various technologies. In some cases, this transition is a good thing- faster transmission and distribution of information, streamlined systems, openness to user input, less waste. But a hole is left behind by the disappearance of these everyday objects. What will happen when we no longer touch information? When newsprint does not rub off onto our fingertips? When we no longer write longhand?
The tedious handiwork and obsessive care I employ to create my work aims to remind the viewer of these simple but intimate pieces of everyday life and to provoke a pang of nostalgia for the familiar physicality of these objects'

somehow an angel

Image: piccadilly line taken with my digital harezumi

somehow this image that I took on my journey on the tube reminded me of an angel about to take flight. Recently I have been tired, anxious I have had a few meltdowns. Generally just exhausted from life and my fight for a good one. So I need to see angels occasionally.

Bad things have happened again to good people in my life that has added to my understanding of how I have built my life, it has allowed me to embrace the good bits. And be kinder to myself about my life. For me there has been a shift, I am starting to embrace who I am, where I am and the role I am good at playing.

SX-70 obsession

Oh my new to me but old SX70 vintage polaroid camera (purchased via the Impossible Project) is a love of mine. Still working out how it all works and exposure etc but this is my workings from last night. A good distraction from my current career crisis, creating images.

visual image of a brain fade

I am sure this is what it would look like when I have one of the brain freeze and reboot moments.