Ophelia.

Photoshoot with the beaut Rosalind based on the painting of Ophelia by John Everett Millais.

Re-Dress

I was recently part in a fashion film, 'Re-Dress', which was a collaboration with the 3rd year design students of Heriot Watt and Paxton House stately home. The film was shot by Tim London and was the most embarrassing thing i've ever done, I had a constant smirk on my face which receieved many a telling off! The garments were made based on each student's personal impression of Paxton. There were gowns with stiff collars, lace skirts and intricate prints. My personal favourite was a body suit with knitted sleeves and extensive detailing on the front.
I was a bit dubious about the whole thing, seeing as I had to pretend to slap a girl, lie with my legs spread on a bed and pretend to play croquet but it's actually really really cool! A bit of a Tarantino vibe with a retro 60s etiquette backing track. The exhibition of the student's work is currently on at Paxton House in the Borders until the 31st May, and again from the 6th-31st August. I'm still to see the look book which will be an epic cringe all over agian but the clothes and beautiful and totally worth a look.



Unfortunately it's an 'unlisted' video so here's the link honeyboos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyIelBug3Co

And here's the poster with the beautiful Siam Colvine

London A-Z

For our Typography class we were asked to create a visual A-Z of London, this could be anything from lettering to a recurring idea or image within the city. I chose to do mine on lights, a city is nothing without the lights and is a global theme in any capital. New York would be nothing without Times Square and its skyline and the same applies to London, from the tacky luminous lights in the windows to the well lit courtyards of Covent Garden. I did them all on my film camera - riskaay - but majority came out well. It also applies to my actual Typography work on Anna Wintour but I won't go into that because it's deep.

 Here's a taster.

This made me constantly hum in my head 'All of the Lights' by Kanye West & Rihanna, Enjoy.

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!

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.