Identity is expression, vision allows oppinion

I love the new Topshop lines and Kate Moss's new designs, I love the indie designs about have a real natural look about them and are so delicate looking. I love the sleeveless prints that are printed and have zips down the back. I saw a while ago in the really large Topshop in Oxford Street a silk top which was embroidered and appliqued with beading. When I tried it on it was extremely heavy but it made me look dainty anf it was pastel so it had this innocence colour about it.

Winter's Bone

 

 


 
 


I was looking at my photos from the old canon 350D and I came across some photos from the cottage we stayed in, in winter. I think the most extreme weather conditions can often be the most beautiful. The snow we had was inconvenient to say the least and most people were only looking at the bad sides of it, the traffic, the conjestion, christmas hold-ups which were all bad and disppointing. But I want to show the photo's I have found that were particularly beautiful.


The white on white are often mistaken and sometimes the snow almost could be in black and white when they are pictured in colour. I think there is a real sense of mystery in the limitted yet azure, fabulous colour palett you get when photographing the snow. I think it is one of the most interesting things to photograph as it brings out the world no-matter where and when in a good beautiful light. The colours of the city, the crystal lanscapes.


Though it is not Winter and we have just left it, I like looking back on it and the changeable nature of our world, I love the way photos help us look back on the beauty we often miss.

Rosamund Purcell

For my Art GCSE I used a lot of artists over 3 books. I can't remember all of them but one really stood out which I won't ever forget using. Rosamund Purcell really connected to my theme. Our theme was Similarities and Differences and I specified to a comparison of natural things. One was Decay and her work real  linked to it.


 

I loved this chapped effect she creates here. It's like the natural chapping you find over the book. It reminds me of the desert and the dryness of the landscape. I'm really not sure how she did this but it is beautiful. The earthy colours and the nature of the surface creates this kind of nostalgia and the book links it to our human nature to document. It reminds me of a victorian book in which the writer drew and studied his findings in nature.

I really love her work as it really reminds me the natures within a persons mind. This book shows a broken mind, the inner madness within the mind I think. Here are some other bits of her work. They are like collages made with such interesting dead objects, decaying things and very interesting textures it was really good to try and reconstruct or draw them.

Though the art is considered to be grotesque and unnatractive I think it makes the dsead things and burnt, broken things look beautiful again.





 

My Photos

I was experimenting with my camera and the monochrome setting. I really love black and white things. I said before when I looked at black and white it gave so much more tone and mystery and gave some kind of new look to the person. The face was very interesting to me and on my new canon 550D the picture was so crystal at 18 mega pixels from my original canon 350D which is 5 years old now. As I am leaving getting my friends to model for me till after my exams so I was using the self-timer. I am still trying to get the hang of the vast range of settings and on looking through a photography lanscape magazine I found the shutter speed mode and I cannot wait to test my lanscape photography. As I am basically revising the only photography I have been doing is on the portrait side.

Indie Girl

I'm a big fan of Lissie and I think she is actually more unconventionally beautiful than other rock stars. She's very different. I love dressing in that indie style like her.









This above is my favourite. I love shooting in black and white, I think it gives this kind of mysterious intellingence that makes anything seem beautiful and Lissie looks so natural here, she doesn't generally wear make-up and to be honest it really suits her without it. I love her look with her wavey dirty blonde hair and her blue eyes it gives her a kind of innocence.

Bad Romance

I really love folk and Rock/Metal music so when I went to the 30 Seconds To Mars Gig last year I was really surprised when the frontman Jared Leto started to play Bad Romance by Gaga. I have to say it was brilliant.



Also the folk singer Lissie actually released the EP Bad Romance. She gives such a kind of funky slowness, and guitar rhythm to it, it was really brilliant. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWe07krS8_E

Gaga for Gaga

This weekend I bought the new Lady Gaga album, I already think it's great because though it is a pop album gaga manages to make the all of the songs really different and personal. I think that even though she's completely crazy she manages to connect to people of all ages, I generally don't like her type of music because it is usually very manuafactured. But I'm saying gladly that she is an excellent singer/songwriter. I got carried away so I thought I'd put some pictures up of her.

 

Beginning

I have just started up a new blog because I didn't really know how to use the other one and didn't really have very much to say on it.