1. the truth about modern music
2.leap of faith
3. 4th term Royalist
4. Can you hear me mother?
5 Too shy!
1. Endgame - the Musical
or
"My old man's a dustman - 'e wears a dustman's 'at..."
- the person plays to earn his living
- it is a traditional male-dominated competition
- principal magnet of tourism
- it is a desperate attempt to hear/understand
- It's hot in here.
1 - What happens when you treat my soul music like sold out music
2 - Most inventive way to get into a bar
3 - Never judge a gal by her shoes
4 - Technological institutionalisation
5 - The dark arts of the internet (the cat that wanted to be a meme)
1. You can hear me but you can't see me
2. Stag weekend
3. Puppet love
4. Can you hear me?
5. Go on, I dare you
The truth about the 5 images
1. A busker in Bath playing pretty good music for someone stuck in a bin.
2. Pamplona Festival has a couple of interesting traditions, one of them is that all the statues are greased up, making them impossible to scale without help. Once you are up there is only one way down. The only side rule is that, if you did not help the next person up, you may not be caught.
3. This is an image of me dressed as the queen. It was for a viral video made where The Queen challenged someone to run a race. I was recruited for the job in the morning with no idea that we would be escorted out of Heathrow by the British transport police, who were heavily armed.
4. An old man who I see often. He received a mobile phone (as a present), but Brick lane is not conducive to mobile calls at the best of time. Once I spoke to him we realised he had the phone at its lowest volume and it had been like this for the three months he had the handset. I've never seen him on the phone since.
5. Alley cat, our little stray that walked in one day and stayed. It's been 12 years, and he is still as happy as this, his first night off the street.
To be fair I did pick some of the most obscure images I had to push the boundaries of what the discontinuities to these images would be.
1. I think that most people got the idea of the busker quickly, its something we are used to seeing, a busker trying to impress by doing something odd. Everyone got the concept of what was going on in the image and it was not surprising for the viewer to see someone sitting inside a bin, playing music to the public. Some of the give aways, that also featured as visual clues were the open guitar case in front of the bin.
2. Pamplona festival was a lot harder to decipher, without the knowledge that it is at a very male dominated (even though some comments got this part right) mucho event where most of the activities are life threatening, makes this image a lot harder to associate with, as with the busker.
3. The less information I gave the viewer the more obscure the answers around them became. Here I presented an image of someone, presumably a male, dressed as the queen, with three corgis in tow. Without the knowledge of it being an advert for something else the viewers took it at face value and let their imaginations run wild.
4. This was similar to the image above where, without context people had no framework to judge the image by. The one common thread was the realisation that it was an old person trying to talk on a modern phone and that can only be gained through life experience and the generalisation that the older generation struggles with technology. This was something I hoped to get out of this image, I wanted to see if people would use their day to day experience and conceptions and attach it to an image without being told to do so. From a learning point of view this image has taught me how we use our everyday life experiences and apply it to images as a filer.
5. Again this was an image that we could all relate to, a friendly cat indoors, the main difference here is that I see a cat smiling and no one else sees that. Meaning that I have an emotional connection to the facial expressions of a cat, whereas no one else sees it that way...
As I said in one of the previous posts, what we shoot are shot with one eye, to see the world you need both and to understand it you need to see it through a thousand others. These five images have shown that without a tight framework to judge images by we see images as we experience life and each one will be different.