Street Photography with the Sermon

So me and the beautiful David Sermon decided to go for a lovely walk in the middle of the night to take some photographs. This turned out to be one the best ideas we have had in a while. It was great to get back outside and start shooting again. although I have to say at first I was a little nervous being out with me camera in the middle of the night, it brought back lots of memories of my teens and being out shooting skate films, somewhere I really shouldn't have been with a few hundred pounds worth of filming gear strapped to my back, but after the fear eased I started to get some great shots.

These images bring together very well my ideas on decay and light which is brilliant really and I think I'm going to manipulate them fever to see what will happen.

Right so I guess after reading all this you really just want to see some of the shots, so here you go. oh yeah and don't forget that if you do want to see more of my photography you can always check out my flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/man-with-hat/

Decay

I was sat thinking about what my inspiration for my upcoming work would be and it finally dawned on me, on the one thing that keeps appearing in my photography is the decay and erosion of man made things. I also recently bought a copy of Beauty in Decay" which is an amazing book and well worth a read if you ever get the change.

So I thought it might be nice to post of a few of the images that have been inspiring me. I hope you enjoy.

Knitted Light 2

This was my first attempt at a knitted light sculpture that is free standing and on the whole I think it was quite successful. it might not to be most prefect piece of knitting I have ever made but I think it looks rather interesting and with a bit more work it could be a thing of great beauty. Oh yeah and it didn't catch fire so that is also a plus, energy saving light bulbs are the way forward.

Jam sandwich 4

While taking a break from knitting like crazy I decided it was high time I put another jam sandwich in something and this time I chose to sandwich my record player! Yeah, keeping the old school theme going.

I have to apologise for the quality of these photos, they really aren't as good as I hoped but they will do for now. Oh yeah and there will also be a video coming soon so you can see awesomeness that is vinyl sandwich!

concept light drawing and finally finding something to inspire them

Right so here are a few of my ideas for the lights I'm going to be making. To make them I'm going to tube knitting them on machine mostly to save time as them are going to be quite big. All of these are ideas for hung lights, which will ever contain LEDs or be hung over energy saving light so they don't over heat.

this second two designs are based on my photographs and drawing of road marking and signs for earlier in the year and this seem like a really good place to get inspiration for these.

Dominic Wilcox, what a legend

After extensive research (will after some research) I stumbled back onto Dominc Wilcox's blog. Dominc Wilcox is a product designs and makes some of the most insane and brilliant things I have ever seen. One of the main things that he is interested in is light, which is rather helpful for me, so here are just a couple of example of light fixture he has made.

admittedly they are not knitting but I love the idea of being about to make a light fixture out of anything.

Gjon Mili and Pablo Picasso; you saved my

Right so for my work with light I have found it difficult to find away of drawing that is in keeping and beneficial to my work but also interesting. This all changed when I found an article from Life magazine about Mili and Picasso light drawings from the late 1940s