068: My Procrastination

My Procrastination, originally uploaded by gingerpig2000.

Procrastination Station

When I procrastinate, I distract myself with my own thoughts, but that is a little less than interesting to watch. I thought about this shot all day, but then eventually I could not put it off any longer and got my camera out...

Did you know that studying can seriously affect your ability to produce art? And this includes discussing your work with other people from the same field. This seems to be partly an effect of distraction by the influence other others work,and the absorption in gaining craft skills at the expense of cutting out your own niche.

It can be beneficial instead to concentrate on the acquisition of raw data and the post-creation analysis of your own work and others. understanding through teaching is often achieved through a process of comparison with 'great' works or traditional methods. The final result is that your view of the world can become restricted, you lack the vision of an empty horizon that the originator of the great work or tradition had.

It seems to be better if you talk about what you see and feel, and limit your examination of the world to what people are doing in other fields. You have to get out of the cage that is peopled by those competitive to you, and talk to people who are not but who have a different view of the world.

036: Pee'er

Pee'er, originally uploaded by gingerpig2000.

Water

Ah, well, if there was no direct humour, it just would not be me. One of the few school report comments i can still remember was from a maths teacher - "Trevor gets on with his work with occasional flashes of brilliance - and humour!".

Words are what I deal in during my working hours, and I am fascinated by hour sounds and spelling relate. This combination of image and words was just too great to resist, and although it might look silly i thought it was important that anyone trying to understand what i am saying also realises this part of my thinking.

Although simple, it did take a moment to select the right position to stand in relation to the images, and the best position for the camera. luckily the sun was in a good position, so there were no awkward shadows to deal with.

4: The Kissing Project

This one was complex to process, having to cut and paste images, and I did not have enough time to do anything about the colour balance between images. The top right image is also out of focus, again that lack of time to achieve that professional finish - but is that really important? If you could achieve a professional finish given the right equipment and time, but lack one or both of them, is it not better to invest the available time in the basic concept behind the image?

Like yesterday, it is a four shot collage, but this time in a balanced square format to try and give it the feeling of a cartoon that the images suggest. If I have the time I would like to take a copy, shrink it down to a quarter area and paste that in place of the the emptier top-left image, and then do the same with that image.