In the end I have taken about a dozen videos over a few years and this is the first edition of my walks! My plan is to actually make more and maybe involve more people in the process, to have a record of places where my feet as well as my friend’s have been.

I am particularly happy with this video because of what it represents to me and the memories that it brings about. Hope you can enjoy it, too! xx

One must be lying.

The results are all in black and white, plus since I cannot stop myself from using photoshop whenever I can, in colour are some manipulations of the images. Hope you like them as much as I do. x (click here or any of the photos to view them bigger on flickr):

The process is extremely simple: you have the light sensitive paper on a flat surface and work with red light (which won’t affect the paper). You then lay objects on top of the paper and turn on a white light above the composition for just a few seconds. This gets the areas hit by the light turn black / dark grey, whilst the areas that were in shadow will remain white, thus creating a black and white image of the outline of the objects.

Just in case you are trying to find out how to make a photogram and you have done the step above but still cannot see anything on the paper..In order to see your result you will need to keep working with the red safe light and ‘fix’ the image onto the paper with the right chemicals. Since I don’t know what chemicals are used to develop the photos, maybe you can try this link, which might help if you are trying to do it at home. Please do share links to your photograms if you have made some, I’d love to see what other people are doing. ^_^

Above, is my design process explained in a pdf.. click on “view full screen” on the thumbnail to see it properly, or if you would rather download it, you are welcome to do so here.

And here are my three designs :)

As part of my course, I will shortly be designing a CD cover for the song ‘If I had a boat‘ by Tom Rush. The song is a country song about this guy that would go out in the Ocean if he had a boat.. and if he had a pony he would ride the pony out in the ocean on his boat.

It will be fun to make this :)

For the time being I have put together a bit of images on BlueGrass and Country music for inspiration, which you can see below. ^_^

The song itself is quite funny and light hearted and leaves you wondering about how the horse feels about being ridden out in the ocean on a boat. It will be interesting to have the three characters (the horse, the rider and the boat) in the CD cover, expressing their relationshoip with each other through their facial expressions… positions.. colours..

For the characters I started building up another moodboard: