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THE MIRROR

2010-07-03T21:19:00.000-07:00

A BEACH WEDDING

2010-07-02T23:39:00.000-07:00

UNKLE

2010-06-30T04:13:00.000-07:00

The current soundtrack to my life: Where did the night fall, from Unkle. Beautifully moody and dark - perfect sounds for the midwinter workday. Check it out here. Also, the limited edition c.d pack is worth a mention - it's about the sexiest packaging available, complete with a small book of artwork. Enjoy.

fjmt

2010-06-10T01:22:00.003-07:00

www.fjmt.com.au

IOGRAPHICA

2010-06-09T01:39:00.000-07:00

Stumbled upon this amazing application that traces the path of your mouse across the computer screen. Instead of tracking the wanderer through a city using a GPS, every curve + movement of your wrist is traced as a 2D vector diagram: movement creates thin lines, while pauses are recorded as dark circles.

This work shows a 2hr InDesign / Photoshop session using 2 monitors - you can see where I've been dragging windows from one screen to another.

Download the free application from IOGraphica here.

RATATAT

2010-06-06T21:39:00.000-07:00

I don't usually post anything but images, but the sounds this New York electronic duo make are worth a thousand pictures.
Check them out here and here.

[Image: http://headswillrollonline.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/ratatat9.jpg]

PRIVACY DOESN'T EXIST

2010-06-06T21:28:00.000-07:00

Not even for a quick milk run in blue pajamas. There's nothing at all illegal about broadcasting an image like this, but the act of 'taking' + 'capturing' this image (aptly assigned verbs) remains so morally wrong and there's nothing we can do about that.

SUSPENDED IN TIME

2010-06-01T15:27:00.000-07:00

WINGS

2010-05-31T15:58:00.000-07:00

1600 + airport scanner...

2010-05-18T17:30:00.000-07:00

These photographs were taken on very sensitive neopan 1600 then passed through airport security scanners twice..... the last time I shoot with this film overseas. But perhaps this overexposed quality suits the retrospective pining for summer from the depths of mid winter?

ESCAPE IN THE CITY

2010-04-28T02:54:00.000-07:00

The city has always been a point of departure for me during holidays. But after my first 'local urban holiday' with the aid of enforced trading bans, I now appreciate that to 'escape in the city' is a valid form of leisure.

LAND OF DREAMS

2010-04-14T17:34:00.000-07:00

The most beautiful view in the world at 10972m. I couldn't help but think of the cloud scene in Michel Gondrey's magical film The Science of Sleep. Rising up through these clouds is like departing from grounded reality and entering into an imaginative landscape of dreams much like those seen in Gondrey's film. But this alternative landscape isn't solely a visual wonder, it holds an immense emotional power too. I forget that above all those clouds the sun is always shining beautifully bright. But for now I'm back under that blanket of gray clouds..

SHEPHERDS WARNING

2010-03-11T01:11:00.000-08:00

Morning view from my apartment window:

REDBIRD

2010-03-06T14:43:00.000-08:00

A windswept Australian beach + Rollei Redbird =

TRIP TEST

2010-02-22T22:30:00.000-08:00

I've had an old Olympus Trip 35 collecting dust for a while now, but yesterday took it out for the first time since rescuing it from a junk store last year. Was half expecting the film to be one big exposure, but the images aren't half bad.

THE [im]PERFECT IDLER

2010-02-20T03:05:00.000-08:00

The latest images from more wanderings across Melbourne: I've been house-hunting for the last 2 weeks, attending endless open homes and visiting neighborhoods + suburbs I didn't know existed - the best way, it turns out, to go beyond the shallow gaze of the tourist. Now that I have a place to (temporarily) call home, it's interesting to look back at these photographs and the searching, almost lost quality they hold.

MY OTHER HALF

2010-02-05T20:23:00.000-08:00

"WHAT USE IS HAVING A GREAT DEPTH OF FIELD, IF THERE IS NOT AN ADEQUATE DEPTH OF FEELING" *

2010-01-30T16:47:00.000-08:00

In an attempt to get the bulk of my photographs up on this site, I've been trolling through old images taken before I got seriously back into analogue. These were taken with a cheap but good digital while backpacking through Asia in 2006/7.

As we were leaving Angkor Wat these children pressed themselves up against the side of our taxi; they wanted to sell us chewing gum and pineapple. All I could think about however, was the significance of that sheet of glass... no matter how hard the tourist tries to connect with the other, we remain a world apart.

Mekong Delta

Shanghai Subway

* title quote from W. Eugene Smith

YOUR NEAREST EXIT MAY BE BEHIND YOU

2010-01-27T16:57:00.000-08:00

These are a collection of shots taken over the last couple of months, both digital and analogue. The only thing connecting them is their nostalgia; I look at them and immediately miss the moment they depict. At the time, these events were great, but didn't seem overly special. It's funny how photographs can do that. Fabricate the past.

'But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, truth profane'.

Feuerbach

MELBOURNE

2010-01-23T22:48:00.000-08:00

There is nothing quite like the first film processed after arriving in a new place (or revisiting a forgotten one). I found myself obsessed with the everyday urban and domestic details that would otherwise have been overlooked in a familiar environment. These images are a selection from that first film.

BDO

2010-01-17T20:50:00.000-08:00

These shots were taken with my Diana at a recent music festival. The soft / slightly out of focus quality of these images perfectly captures the mood of the day. It was definitely an 'audience-is-art' moment when the crowd turned out to be much more interesting than the artists we had come to see.

DON'T BLINK OR YOU'LL MISS

2010-01-12T14:13:00.000-08:00

a few 'don't blink' moments captured on polaroid from a summer soon ending...

beach cricket...

'the picnic table' restored faithfully each year

celebrations

time to just watch...

... and wait

JAPAN DIANA

2010-01-12T00:27:00.000-08:00

TRANSIENCE

2010-01-10T01:32:00.001-08:00

HIDDEN

2010-01-01T20:12:00.000-08:00

i HEART PINHOLE

2009-11-21T21:31:00.000-08:00

The promised photos from my unpredictable pinhole camera. Had some issues with the number of rotations needed in order to space the exposures out, so had a lot of double (+ triple) exposures. Used fujicolor superia 800, but perhaps a 100 would have been better - may have sharpened the dreamy diana-like quality.

PINHOLE CAMERA

2009-11-21T17:16:00.000-08:00

Just made my second pinhole camera. The first projected directly onto photo paper, but this one uses film. Black cardboard, black tape, metal from beer can and pencil stub for film advance lever. Photos to follow.

STORM IN A TEACUP

2009-11-17T21:31:00.001-08:00

FAMILY

2009-11-12T22:00:00.000-08:00

50mm, Fijifilm Neopan 1600

2009-11-12T13:38:00.000-08:00

VISUAL SATURATION

2009-11-02T15:34:00.000-08:00

ABOUT

2009-11-01T01:05:00.000-07:00

I take photographs,

I experiment,

I destroy,

I make mistakes,

Sometimes these mistakes are beautiful.

My photography is about translating atmosphere to image.

The subject isn’t necessarily a dramatic scene; it can be as insignificant as light capturing dust particles, or rain on a window.

I use 35mm film because the proportions work and because I like the sound of the shutter.

Digital is too instant; I prefer to be scared by the possibility that my film may fail.

Life is more interesting that way.

Please comment / critique / review any posts on this site. Alternatively you can contact me at:

audience.is.art@gmail.com