MEDI 117: Somthing Similar...

Afterlife: Making Rotten Food Beautiful: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/afterlife-rotting-food/?pid=3802

I had to post this article because it just reminded me so much of my own project on mold. It is fascinating to see another photographer get the same kind of results and to find out the type of mold I was photographing.

MEDI 323: Final Exibition

The layout got changed for the better... here is my final exibition.

MEDI 323: Finger Painting Studies

As part of this project I wanted to focus on child-like or childrens art. I chose to investigate this by producing collaborative finger-paintings with my friends four year old son.

When I scanned in the images to use them for making Dreamscapes they lost some of thier depth of colour.

This lack of colour put me off of making a Dreamscape image with them as they had lost quite a lot of original colour and therefore meanings and connertations would be lost or skewed. Also later I opted to keep the project a more personal and self reflective effort on the advice of my tutor but I have found some intresting things on finger-painting in the process.



I had originally wanted to prove that finger painting wasn't childish and was a valid art form which I feel the video does. Its increadible what you can actually paint with your fingers.

It would have been intreresting to produce a Dreamscape using the art that me and Mauwgan had made together and maybe something to look into in the future.

MEDI 323: Pop Art + Appropriation Art

I have always been interested in Pop Art. It has influenced this project quite a lot with its ties to Appropriation Art. I have been looking into this art style, as it is similar to what I have been doing with my images and my methods.

I have also tried to blend the ideas of photomontage and collage which also seem to be fairly prevalent in the pop art movement.

Appropriation art however is accesible for anybody nowadays with the internet freeing people to actually create. This image below being a prime example.

However it still is a vaild form of so called 'high' art. One of the most iconic appropriation images in high art being Andy Warhol's can of soup. It is simply a picture of a tin of Campbells Soup...

There is naturally a constant war between this style of art and Copyright Law because of its very nature. The artist WANTS the original work to be noticed, it the point to make comment upon the original, a notion that should fall under the terms of fair use. 

I do however very much like Appropriation Art even if my images don't quite fit the definition. Pop Art has definately been an influence.

One of the most inspiring Apropreation Arts for me on a personal level is Caroline Shotton. I have enjoyed her work for a long time and think is both witty and pleasing. She sticks to a very definate theme, being cows, which I like as it sets her aside and makes her instantly recognisable.

MEDI 323: Copyright and Art

I have been extensively researching copyright and have read a few law journals and art law journals.

The relationship between art and copyright has and maybe will always be fraught and

in my opinion the rules need to be relaxed a lot more. The laws affect all kinds of artists including the music industry especially in the case of DJ Girl Talk who I took a particular interest in because his music is referred to as ‘danceable musical collages’ since I both am interesting in collages and I love the imagery that is invoked by the term musical collage. 

The contraversial track 'Feed the Animals'

Copyright should be fair, protecting the artist whilst not crushing others freedom to speak, yet sometimes it falls short of this task I feel.

MEDI 323: Final Pagan Image

This image needed to be lighter for printing. It doesn't make a huge amount of difference on screen as the detail can be seen clearer on a screen than printed but to look its best printed it needed to be lighter.

MEDI 323: My Terms

Dreamscape: A digitally created image showing the pictorial representation of an imagined space.

The term Dreamscape lacks any real formal definition, yet it does have a shared notion of meaning. How I apply the term is probably the most common way people would understand it, as simply an image or ‘landscape’ of a dream, essentially forming a portmanteau of these two words and concepts.


Unrealestate: An abstract term categorizing material, which only exists conceptually or within a technological medium.

A portmanteau, but also a parody on the word real-estate. I haven’t found any definition matching mine but there is evidence of some kind of common notion that loosely fits with my definition. How I view this term is that Unrealestate is what exists both in cyberspace and purely conceptually. We perceive to have at least some degree of ownership over it, regardless of sates of copyright or actual legal ownership. Essentially this term can be used to describe the new entities that exist because of modern media and our ever-increasing relationship with the Internet. I think the best few examples of Unrealestate that I can give would be things like my World of Warcraft character. I pay £8.99 a month to play the game, but who actually owns my character? I didn’t draw her or program her, yet she is a part of me and I have spent effort and money on her. Another example would be fandoms in general, if you write fan fiction who actually owns the characters? Does buying the original book and mugs etc. entitle you to then feel some ownership over your fandom? Another common thing is for people to feel a degree of ownership over a song, first dances at weddings, the song playing the first time you met your partner, that particular song that everyone says is your theme tune… despite having nothing to do with the original creative input people still feel some degree of ownership.

MEDI 323: Refined Images

MEDI 322: Not so Back Up Plan:

I made a back up plan just in case the person I asked to help code couldn't deliver the promised result for the agreed upon time. This was a very smart move! Loren likes the site and it has actually ended up as the finished product!

It can always be found here at: www.allkindsofcake.moonfruit.com 
This site will remain live and has been live since I made it.

I actually really like this site and a back up plan was a fantastic idea.

Here are some screens of the finished site: 

MEDI 322: Phasing Picture

(some users may need to click for full effect)

Created from the images that Loren sent me. I am fairly happy with how it turned it.

MEDI 322: FINAL LOGO!

The Final Logo for all kinds of cake! :)

It has also been added to the blog now!

MEDI 322: How Life Nearly Derailed It:

I thought it important to make a note here of how hard the past year has been. I have personally been going through a really rough time in terms of evens surrounding uni and have not been in the best health the past year because of it. I know my collaborator Loren also has been having a very tough time of things. I think the most important thing though is despite this, despite how horrendous this last year has been for us both, we never gave up on the project and carried on not only working but working well!

We both worked around each others difficulties and tried to keep to on track.

I feel I have learned to be:
-Flexible
-Adaptable
-Understanding
-Dependable

And above all I have learned to work around situations so that I am able to still deliver on my word. 

MEDI 322: Overdue Update! = Logo Ideas:

Very overdue update about the collaborative practice, because it is nearly over I have been uber busy getting everything ready to hand in a work book so I have not been able to update the blog. However, I feel its important to update so here we go. Also since is there where my collaborator Loren is able to see my work the most often and easily its important I keep updating this so she can refresh what I have shown her in meetings!

Here are some of the sample buttons and logos I designed after Lorens input on the initial designs of the logos. Many of these were paper based and will be in the final work book but I thought it best to upload the digital ones now.  

I have opted still for an artsy style and I really liked the idea of the cherry so it is present in each of the images. I like them and Loren gave me very good feedback on them all.

These however were not picked as the final logo!

MEDI 317 + MEDI 323: Dissertation: Front Cover!

Since these projects are running in tandem it made sense that they influenced each other. Lots of the research has run into each other and inspired different aspects or avenues of the projects. I thought it would be a nice idea to produce the front cover of my Dissertation in the same style as the ‘Dreamscape’ images of my MEDI 323 project. This image is effectively a Dreamscape of the Internet and also all of the topics covered in my dissertation. So whilst it isn’t part of the final series of images I feel it is still an important progression and interesting given the overlap of research.

MEDI 322: Colaborative Blog

Last night I met up with my collaborator to help her set up her blog.  The meeting went really well and I feel confident she now knows how to make a blog post. I have however explained to her that I am always contactable if she needs help. These meetings will be ongoing for as long as she needs me.

Cakey Blog Here

At the moment I have just set her up with the a template for the graphic aspect of the site to get her used to being able to edit it herself. She did however like the favicon I designed for her so it is being used.

I am very pleased with how this meeting went.

Here is us making the Blog:

Here is a screen-grab of the Blog:

MEDI 323: DADA

Something that has also been an inspiration to me has been the Dada art movement. Its rebelliousness and certain amount of chaos appeal to me and it also founded the basis of surrealism.

Apparently a common thing in the Dada movement was to make a poem with bits that you cut out of a newspaper and picked at random! I thought I would also try this for brevity!

"She friend at bespoke south heard.
For training university businesses,
Innovative motorcycle networking is presentations.


West meeting dictator; explicit, unique, promoted.
The where and fused something freindly website.
Royal host Rockers question man died.

Find a yesterday with persuasive American.
Sex can being crashed, answer in social that flies.
A can mix, photographs of space,


Used giant posted room, his drunken sixties
Early of a during court, to on morning
Of the plans, a big circular the."  

• I find it very interesting how adding some punctuations makes it make more sense even though it is totally random and chaotic in its assembly. Yet given the fact I picked each word out (of a bag no less) at random it still feels like MY poem. My punctuation and the form I have set it out in further reinforce this but it is a wonderfully creative way of working. 

• I found a site that sells things to use in collage and also has a lot of information about Dada artists.