Still Life photography.

Finally handed in all my work and scadaddled back home to Ayr through the snow and rain and i'm going to LANDAAN on thursday night so life is swell. Thought I would finally put up my still life photography work now everyone's handed in. I won't publish my studio photographs because they're not that interesting, but my location shots are a lot more interesting. I chose to base mines on the work on Martin Parr, Nan Goldin, Richard Billingham & Kevin Cummins.

 Kevin Cummins location, he does a lot of band, laddish and football photography, so i went to the pub and dunked stuff in Tennents and got involved in interesting chats with old men.

 

 Martin Parr does a lot of British themes, like Brits abroad and quintessentially British foods. I took inspiration from the British food bit, and thought about what I would class as a stereotypical 'Brit' food. I went to the chippy, Crollas, and a scaffy cafe.

 Nan Goldin worked primarily during the 70s/80s, photographing the glamorous New York underworld. She features subdued lighting and relfections in her work, so i created my own little boudoir and recreated these moods.

 And the final photographer was Richard Billingham, well known for his work 'Ray's a Laugh', where he photographed his family who are not exactly upper class. Our flat's rather scaffy so I just used what was available to me in each room.

Fashun Filum.

End of semester one in the Shiels is looming, which means HAAAAND INS!! Best time of the year, better than Christmas.

Just finished my moving image film, which was meant to be based on a brand in Urban Outfitters. I picked Jeffrey Campbell shoes *jizz* which are beautiful. I have a pair of the skates so I took advantage of this and did a moody film, called Street Scraper, which has turned out to look quite prostitutey - which i HATE within fashion, not everyone has to be a hooker to look sexy and cool. But the whole walking towards a car thing and my model being super hot has turned it into a prossy film, but it works! The shoes look beautiful and I now hate this song, gutted cause it's the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but i'm chuffed so watch and share loveys!

In The Company of Wolves

    I really am a bad blogger, and I'm placing the full blame on the amount of work I have for Univeristy at the moment. Currently, I've just started Still Life photography and am in love with Richard Billingham's work, and i'm nearing the filming stages for my short film, which is based on the shoe brand Jeffrey Campbell.
   Last Wednesday (26th Oct) however I did neglect the world of Gala for a day and volunteered to work at the In the Company of Wolves show at Subclub in Glasgow. Now, I appliedto be a dresser, and despite only dressing myself and awkwardly trying to put clothes on my younger cousins, and I was picked to be one of the dressers! Thank god my model was fully capable of helping with the dressing, I've heard stories of girls having to put SOCKS on their models in the past. I mean really? I can barely put socks on myself gracefully, let alone over someone elses foot, and even then this could lead on to the whole "I don't touch other people's feet" debate.
The show featured some brilliant designers, and many went to Gala themselves! Such as Athif Dean, who allowed me to be covered in his furs for our magazine photoshoot last year. I was also lucky enough to be dressing my model in his black McQueen-esque gown, and Jesus Christ, that thing was probably the same weight as me, my poor model, Julia, probably has a crippled back after wearing it, but it looked absolutely stunning going down the catwalk.
The clothes ranged from wearable, to dramatic to just down right crazy. My favourite collection above all was the horrow movie inspired collection by Bonnie Bling, which featured a hairband with a knife stabbing through it, 'Come Play With Us' knuckle dusters and a hat covered in birds.
The models' make up was fierce as hell too, with dramatic eyes, big hair and studded nails by DIY nails.
Now, the shoes were a different thing altogether. I am a shoe lover, and Dawntroversial's shoes were orgasmic. All hand decorated, the shoes were covered in glitter and cosmic prints. The heels were huge and there were even copy cat JC Litas. Really, Dawntroversial were lucky I didn't run off with ten pairs in my bag.

A lot of pictures, but who doesn't love pictures?

The show featured works by:

Bonnie Bling, Isolated Heros, Isla Scott, LilyLoveLock, Jenivieve Berlin Millinery, MeeMee Couture, Jennie Loof, Linzi Austin, Fair Feathered Friend, ChouChou, Velvet Elvis, Sweetie Danger, Elanor's Riot, Aimee Donofrio, Helena O'Neill & Athif Dean. Check them all out because it was all beautiful.

my pretty, petty thieves.

Apologies for neglect bloggy, but here are photos from our fashion photography course. We had to pick a song lyric, mines was "we are pretty, petty thieves and you're standing in our streets", and it had to be shot with the image of i-D magazine in mind. HERE WE GO! not close to a final 8 but i'm going to print these ones and judge it from there because this is ridiculously  hard to narrow down!!!

cheeers ears m'loves.

romping about.

The sun is shiiiining la la la laa! I don't really know the rest of that song but it seemed appropraite seeing as it's practically the first day it's been sunny and i'm not working yaaay! Thought i'd show off my new romper, from the urban outfitters sale, I feel like Betty Boop in it, but it is literally the hardest thing to do up EVER. I will never get steaming in this, playsuits are hard enough to get out of without adding this weird rope obstacle.  I also went to the sunday car boot sale this weekend and got theee most brilliant things ever,  a retro kodak camera which is probably shit but we'll see, a pig butter dish and a 7up phone, a vintage bag (which is reeking of fags, the smokey joe), all for under a fiver! And who doesn't need a 7up phone? 

 

Here's some stereotypical garden photos of my romper, ENJOY THE SUNSHINE LOVEYS!

 

playsuit : U/O

shoes : vintage

handbag : car boot, vintage

sunglasses : primark

watch : U/O

earrings : mumma's

badges : car boot

camera : car boot kodak 

 

MY BABY, CHLOBO. (chloe)