MODELS NEEDED PLEASE HELP!

I am currently looking for heavily tattoo’d ladies with plenty of piercings too and who don’t mind posing in their bra and panties for a book project I am working on for uni. If anybody knows anybody or is interested theirselves please Msg me on here! Thanks

masks!

So i have been working some some wicked masks for this please follow me brief! They look awesome and i cant wait to get using them for the photo shoot! wicked cool!




Mood= positive!
Pics coming soon!

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Help Needed!

I feel like death with added snot :(




However, rather than feeling sorry for myself in bed as i originally planned, i have been thinking bout brief 2 for uni and now I have ideas on a grand scale and I need 2 models, a makeup artist and a rather out there fashion designer to make things happen! If you know anybody who wont mind working for free please msg me :)

New Name New Attitude

Michelle Webb Photography is my new blog, follow me there for something a little differnt!

http://michellewebbphotography.blogspot.com/

What now?

(this isn't really directed anywhere, just needed to let it flow a bit)

So, I have finished my first proper year at uni.  It's been......difficult.  I don't really know where to go from here.  I had little motivation to do anything related to photography and even less now I've been off since June. I get 'half' opportunities now and then, like a snippet of luck to do some work for this magazine my sister and her friends run but that gets taken away from me because of people more lazy than me.  People let me down all the time but most of all I let myself down.  My diet has gone to pot, as it usually does after a week or two and so the waist band is expanding again, just another example of letting myself down, yet i do nothing about it all, even despite a nudge every now and then by my boyfriend who, doesn't enjoy the backlash of a moody me when said nudge is applied!   I am fat, I'm bordering on obese, I am an OK photographer, nothing special in that department and I have found that rather hard to stomach through this year of rather a lot of self loathing.  There is one good thing in my life thou, after all this moaning and bitching, Aaron! He is the one pushing me despite me snapping at him when he does.  I would have left uni and given up, as I usually do and would probably be morbidly obese and about 30stone by now if it wasn't for him.  I would still be living with mother.  I would be a poor excuse of a human being if not for him dragging me kicking and screaming back to reality!

We plan to buy a house together in a few years and settle down, which is one of the things keeping me going, life after uni with my amazing boyfriend, in our own house and maybe even with a couple or 3 kids, and so I dig deep and find the tiniest bit of motivation and I scrap it out from within, and I look to him for a hand to pull me along when I falter.

On a lighter note, we have some of Aaron's family coming to see the flat, I've been a busy bee making it feel like 'home' much to his annoyance and depletion of our bank acc.  We have a couple of trips into London to look forward to. One being in the audience of Family Fortunes and the second a comedy night out for Aaron's birthday. I've been working for a few extra quid to help us out. It has been dull and so I have had time to catch up on some reading. I read the first installment of the Game of Thrones series that has been on telly. We didn't get to watch it cos SkyPlus ballsed up but we will catch the repeat that is guaranteed with anything on Sky channels.

I failed my study skills so I have to rewrite a 2500 word essay, which I started on yesterday, this also gives me something to do at work that they can't moan at me for because it will look like I actually have some work to do! I am hoping that by doing this essay now i can hand it in early and forget about it and find some kind of inspiration from it.  I am changing the three images i used the first time around and going for a completely different spin on it all.  I am using these images;

Stephen Shore, Nan Goldin and Richard Billingham and will be looking into the three different types of intmacy expressed in these images and I hope, that this time, after having a browse into its meaning, I can fully understand the meaning of 'critical analyse'.

And so, to  round off a rather random rambling on session, I have one small sentence to finish off.

Aaron, your love stops me from drowning, I love you lots!

Different Faces of Cindy Sherman

The series of 'Untitled Film Stills' by Cindy Sherman are that of pure genius. To use yourself as the model solves a multitude of problems on set, It is just you and the camera and the character you want to portray. The many different faces of Cindy Sherman leads me to question who she really is and the reasoning behind the series. The series ran over three years, 1977-1980 where she photographed herself in many different roles portraying a number of stereotype female roles which range from a giggling youngster and a untidy housewife to a model secretary and a scantily clad pin up. She manipulates every detail of her pictures. It is all staged and everything is planned. Sherman has said that dressing up helped her deal with depression and that dressing up helps you to become to character.

One of my favourites image from the series is Film Still 36, 1979. It is unlike many from the series, it is whispy and silhouetted making it a beautiful mystery. Who is the girl, what is she doing, what is she thinking or feeling? Many of her images make you want to ask the same questions but I find none are as beautiful as this one. The fact that Sherman's images are so mysterious you could ask which one is her? Which image has the real Cindy Sherman behind it and do any of the images portray an emotion of event that she is re-enacting?

I have used Sherman's work many times this year for research and inspiration and hope that, as this is my last blog for this uni project, you can too.

 

Modernism/ Post- Modernism

The term 'post-modern' is confusing. The word post means after yet in this context it is more like anti. Post-modernism leads us to believe that it is the movement after modernism when it is in fact running alongside modernism and reflects everything that isn't modern. 'It resists and obscures the sense of modernism' Post-Modernism, A Graphic Guide to Cutting Edge Thinking – Richard Appignanesie, Chris Garrett, 1995.




Modernism is based on social change and the rapid growth of technology with a passion for all things new and avant garde, where as post-modernism rejects all of these things and tries to create anarchy in any subject. Post-modernism is bout creating things for no other purpose than to create something yet everything created with modernism in mind is usable, it can update Facebook according to where you are and who you are with at any given time. It can record things from your telly even though you are miles away at work. You can read it on the go. You can drive it here and there yet anything post-modern is created to look pretty, to hang on a wall or to be forgotten about, because the freedom is yours.



Reading:

Post-Modernism, A Graphic Guide to Cutting Edge Thinking - R Appignanesie and C Garrett - 1995

All That is Solid Melts into Air - Marshall Berman -1982

http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0242.html