chermlive

What a sweet victory. I said it from the start. I'm glad for this programmes big winner. Posted at the time of winning- whooo

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I started out as a volunteer for a Charity that focuses on helping Artist' break into the Artworld by giving them opportunities to work with Coporate banks and School Children. I have done some good work with them and am now at the point of publishing a book with them. So far I have not been paid the full amount an Artist should receive but the work that I produce is of a consistant high standard. Should I continue working for free?

Today I had a meeting and was told that I won't be paid for my time at a meeting unless I was, as she put it 'High-powered', I gave them a quote for my Artists' fee, but think that it is considerably low. Does anyone have any idea about charging Artists fees for books?

After the meeting I went to the bookshop with my Mate. We spent all afternoon there reading and chatting. We were eventually thrown out of the starbucks eating area becuase it looked like we were studying. I had my laptop out becuase she was showing me her holiday photos. Maybe they thought I was running a consultancy off of the canteen area and my clients didn'm mind sitting in the corner of a card stand.

Tonight, I spent most time writing and producing documentation for the Shapla Book I've been working on with this company. I've been putting it off all week and just can not bring myself to edit. I know I must do it and I'm sure I will, but I am being very blaze about the whole situation. I wish there someone would shout at me to make things more apparant.

So its the last week of me assigning myself to this online blogging project. I intend to make the most of my free time to update and upload. I also must look for internships for the little summer buzz thats left. I managed to secure a good couple sheets of my Portfolio in the bag, so I'll be ready and willing to get stepped all over in the next week.

A student from the RCA got in touch with me and said that I could use a wonderful collection of hers for a Fashion Photography shoot before Septemeber. I'll be on the hunt for stunning bods and make-up Artists. If you know anyone in London that does modelling or make-up//styling. Tell them to get in contact with me.

byee, off to catch up with last week

ZZZzzzzzzzz. I was out with the boys last night. And as-per usual they take out much moore energy from me than when I go out with the Gals. I slept more than sleeping beauty herself. I had fun looking back at the crazy pictures I took, I didn't want to see anymore of the world once I got to bed. Shut ones eyes and into bliss-dom.

The journey home was cold, but that stop me observing...I love analysing the type of people that take late buses ( or early should I say), their facial expressions are completely unique to those of the Afternoon bus riders.

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Evening activities started off in Central London, Fulham. I happened to spot a few famous faces, but don't have the Photo-evidence. It was a weird night becuase the bar was full of Sloane street-types, tall, thin, blonde types and the guys all liked they were auditioning for CK underwear exculsive collections. It was a quintessentially posh English evening, but we it was an early night for most of us gals- we were on a one 'Glass of Red' timer.

Eveyone knows Brick lane, every Londoner knows it drips with culture and entertainment. A complete contrast to the uptightness of the Priavte House pub in Fulham. There was trash everywhere, people straddled across the streets, music, Indian resturants, sure signs of urbanism. We hopped a few clubs since everywhere seemed to be closing. As we walked into a club opposite Vibe bar, a man again, appologises to my friend and I for some reason. This happened when I was with the same Gal up in Brighton. We had that impulsive "WTF" look on our faces and headed for the bar.

Afterwards we ended up at bar that had a very bizarre looking underground area with solid posts and bar two located promisingly at the opposite side of the darkness. The music was weird enough to match our weird night as everything just seemed strange and contorted.

I was telephoned out of the blue to be given bad news about an Aunt who had suddenly fallen deaf in one ear. It sounds like a small insult that I would say to someone annoying, but the situation was serious. I was going to dine at one my favorite Private Clubs in London, but the arrangements and Guests were unsure on both sides. In the end I floated along to a private hospital near John Lewis's. Apparently alot of stars go there. it is very minimal on the outside, however still appears formal with all of its regalia.

I knocked on the door that had her surname inbetween two metal slots on a sheet of aluminim. She laid there in the middle of the room, my sister and her Austrailian mate on the otherside of the bed. Soon afterwards I was upstaged by a waiter who entered the room with a trolley and silver platter dish (dinner) on a plate. I was amazed at the service and made a quick comparative study with the service of how my dinner would be presented to me and what I just saw in a minute ago. This was then followed by tea.

As any creative, active would do, I looked on the walls at the mass prints of Fine Art paintings on the wall. The brush strokes calmed me for a while, as the whole evening seemed really weird. The tv was on in the background, and we spoke about bonds and 'Traders' for quite a while. The stories I hear about their rudeness never surprises me. There are all sorts and types aswell. Then on news24 an announcement about the stock crash appeared. 50 billion dollars worth of stock//accounts wiped off the system. I thought that this was the last night I could dream about owning my own house. I think it was planned to tighten the worlds invisible tension span. An invisible belt is being tugged again that prevents people from buying houses the sane way, saving without theft and investing without daily pressure of having to analyse charts.

I read over my findings, so far about Flickr and Digital Photographym to put casually. For the rest of the day I was assigned to hairdressing. Not much to say on the matter, although this did take 14hours to complete.

I want to visit this site in 2008 to do a 'compare'//re-Photograph- to see the before and after. It is an evidence document. A historical artefact shall we call it.

Today was a New Members Cocktail party, which I arrived superiorily late too. The guests looked very unnapproachable and seemed internally angry with me for arriving after the appointed time. But, however I decided to review the world of media and read some magazines that I would never otherwise bother to pick up. I read Fortune, Country houses, An Arts magazine, Creative Mag and Lifestyle mag of some kind. I must say, one did learn alot from the process of picking and reading aswell as reading.

Two noble Gentlemen behind me were talking in Ernest about love and relationships. In deed this sounded more interesting than the CEO of Renault Cars being top of the finiancial agenda on 145 billion a year. Men talking about dating and relationships, far more intriguing. Nothing enlightening came from eavesdropping but I did manage gather one saying "She was a nice Gal, she plays Polo and all that sort of thing", what does that mean? I felt like saying, "Do you like her? are you going to continue seeing her? What does it matter that the Gal plays Polo?

I left late and continued my London Lite Photographic Project taking Photos of London alite. I mainly hit St. Pauls in Central London. My Photos are published on the Flickr.com/photos/chermlive page.

Iconic Photo-journalism from Our very own Steve McCurry. He is referred to in the report.





2 companies called MetaDesign, twas Hartbraking, and slightly confusing




The latter company (USA Meta, redesigned the Adobe Photoshop CS edition)

Covent is always a blast. I had a meeting this morning discussing the finger-picking of book publishing, researching Printers an-all-that. After a very intensive planning session, I went to the British Museum to feed my addiction to back-in-the-day Cameo collections. I collect these as hobby and think any respectable women ought to do the same. I reveiwed the entire collection in all countries. Looked briefly at some early Illustrations of the nth century, kind of a-Photographic Illustration! I couldn't avoid the South American section (since I was hanging out there last year), I had to brush up on Ancient Gods and fertility Doll sculptures, along with various other religious iconography. The bold shape and patterns restored a sense of groundedness in the world of Illustration. becuase alot of the naive Illustration that you find out contemporarily draws close similarity to South American sculptural forms. But this can be seen as a sweeping statement, but in some world or another the point has to be made. I can publish whatever I want, so I am publishing the fact-of-the-matter.

We sat outside the Convent square, pubs reminiscing about the past. My mate was talking about an encounter with The King of Pop, Micheal Jackson and how he picked her up once when she was In Covent as a wee innocent child. She said that is a moment that she'd never forget. At the time she had a flash automatic disposable camera strapped to her neck, but in the heat of the moment didn't use it. She walked away from the image with no photo, however, the moment 'the crunch', the creation of that nostalgic moment was not documented. Only re-visiting the place is now left of that encounter. I can tell that as she talks she begins to remember. She begins to describe intricate details about his voice, emotions she felt, her post-experience feelings. Its a shame she had no visual reference for this snap shot of real-life. Now that would have been a discussion, esp. since what has happened comparatively in the events of both Micheal and my mates life.

I spent another afternoon exploring the wonderful sets of Photographs that the GlocalCommunity has uploaded on a minute-by-minute basis. My finds on Statistic Flickr- uploading level: not much but a sufficient start

2,470 Images uploaded @ 12:45
2,710 Images uploaded @ 12:46
2,435 Images uploaded @ 12:47

and so on... thats 240 Images uploaded in 1-Minute every minute!! pretty amazing.

6,292- photos were tagged wtih FRESCO
and ... 2.6 million photos geo-tagged this month

1. 'EXPLORE' features the most recent photos and tags such as 'OVER THE LAST 24-HRS'//'OVER THE LAST WEEK'. How does it work? another system of Folksonomy, tagging, collaborative-cateorgorisation and lemmatisation- all topics to be identified in the final report. Tags identified as popular: Big Chill, Eastnor(whatever that means), Day 28, elegant classy and Pimlico in the 'OVER THE LAST 24-HRS'. Words such as Aug 07 (obviously), blizzcon, likemind, canal parade and innocent village fate came up in results for 'OVER THE LAST WEEK'. But...the all time popular tags for Flickr. com, the worlds largest Digital Photography image bank were=======

Africa
Birthday
Wedding
Travel
Sunset
Party
Japan
London
Architecture
Camera-phone

Flickr.com allows the author to assign upto 75 tags to each photo, enabling wider search results for specfic images. This hasn't always been the case, but illustrates Flickrs attitude to growth//change and development.

My first contact- well done- Jimgunee, from Burgess. Glad to have you onboard, the project has offically started. The subject matter publically discoursed.

I came across old nostalgic-like images in an album belonging to steve called 'worthing - the steyne 1914-18'. The great thing about Flickr is that authors can use it as a Photo-store and Photo-sharing facility. It allows you to upload whatever images you want and thus creates a platform to evaluate and analyse Photographs, which is something that has never been done before on such a large scale. If you can scan it you can pretty much get it up on Flickr.com. Like I suppose the makers of Mobile phone devices and ginormous co-ops such as Google (reminder of mission : to get knowledge and information on a ration of 1:1 to every human being on earth) if you can type//spell you can access google. You have the same access to information as every single human being on the planet, (Theoretically, if mission statement was fulfilled).



worthing - the steyne 1914-18
Originally uploaded by steve h

Officers of UB-61
Originally uploaded by Dirk Bruin

Sometimes it gets too much
Originally uploaded by frank_bunnik

Somehow, I ended up looking up trends, more specifically monthly trends 2007. Visit London was an interesting bash. And guess what I stumbld across. Photo-sharing is the next big thing. This ties in nicely with my analysis of the Tourist Photographer. Can it be seen as Art?- relating back to Flickr.com of course.

I didn't do much today, in the afternoon. I had a great weekend though and was quite proud of myself that I still managed to get up before 10am. I even had time for a morning jog. I'm going to sod off to the Pub down the road later on for a beer and some sketching. I missed my que to go to the library today, so I'm going to get 'wankered' on Charcoal and paper. Will post up all my amazing sketches of Essex angry mob later on tonight.

Its 3am, and I'm back to post my last series of drawings for the night. I stumbled across a local Athletics club full of young jocks and Athlete types. I watched a Football match instead. I was quite annoyed that the pitch was so huge I could hardly get a good look at the faces, but here's what I came up with. A very pleasant, yet random evening.

It has just occured to me, I need to know whether the title' What has Flickr done to the Photograph', or 'What has Flcikr done to Digital Photography? sound more intuitive to the subject matter, the two are very different things. Maybe I'll solve that at the end. Suggestsions welcome...

A session of trawling through Flickr users, looking at albums infront of a Mac. After Lunch I meet up with my model friend, She's Russian. I found it hillarious that she just has this girl that goes with her everywhere like a chaperone, but actually has nothing to do with the Arts. I love to see non-creative people draw nonetheless, even little doodles. We sit in the park and talk about all sorts of topics. I love guiding conversation, I think it is important that there is always someone aware of that sets the pace and tone to any conversation situation that they find themselves in. Its the only way we get anywhere and emerge from the activity enlightened.
We started talking about Russian's, Vladimir Nabokov's story of 'Lolita'. I refereshed my memeroy of the stroy by re-reading it, in retrospect with all what is going on now in the news about Child Pornography and Peodophilia, it is quite disturbing to know that this is not an issue that will be dusted off with a featehr duster. Like that asbestoss thingy, it is an epidemic and needs to be somehow re-rooted and re-programmed, becuase it is dangerous .Not to sound like a boom THISS IISS DDAANGGERROOOUSS, I warn you BBAADD things will happeorn. But this shouldn't be something that turns into- oh he's a Peodophile type of scenarios- he or she can't help it.

I drew a man sleeping on the bus, a sight that so often fills the 25 route but on the way in//out of town.

I was at Central Saint Martin's library today reading more about Design culture than Photography. Not much to report today, I got there pretty late, my diary will echo that aswell.

The majority of time today was spent cataloguing my Fine Art Paintings, touching up frames etc. I felt that I had neglected the project, so I quickly consulted my camera and took some shots Canon 350d, 35mm lens blurred shots to evoke pure colour. They didn't quite work out in the slick manner that Corey Holms (www.coreyholms.com) Polaroid shots panned out (sorry about the pun), but it was all in the spirit of sticking to my collection a day blog. More interesting things to come up I promise.

I woke up late today again because of yesterdays exhaustive reading about Ethnography, I think its firmly in my cerebral cortex. A good friend called me up today in search of a Male of African descent to Photograph. I thought it weird and yet wonderful that she called me up, but I knew it was becuase she wanted something. I used the opportunity to feed her one my ideas I had for a show on Channel 4- of course about Design. We talked over it for about 2-hours, throwing ideas back and forth. She gave me really good support and ways of getting around it. I wish I knew more people who were in the know, it goes to show (sorry about the ryhming that 'who you know' is important') I wasn't a firm believer in the theory before, but of course it makes sense now. I hate befriending people because of what they can give me, sometimes I don't care if they could change my life just from knowing them, if I don't like them, then I'm afraid I don't really want to be next to you. But of course everybody deserves a try and another important thing is you have to learn ' How to deal with them' so that you don't cause arguments and unneccessary confrontation, which is just miserable for everyone.
I checked out Corey Holmses website (www.coreyholms.com) , cited from Adrian's book on 'How to be a Designer without loosing your soul'. A mommoth read about the real-life DESIGN problems, difficult clients etc. What I loved about the website was his 'Cateogory lists', how he edited everything into Design titles. If I told him this, he'd probably think I was a touch autistic.
But---House Industries, took up most of my time. An amazing website full of great Type solutions. You could even see how your text would look in any of the House styles available on sale.I always get side-tracked on the internet, like life when evrything is connected and part of 'the one' its is hard to travel down one route. (Maybe narrow mindedness is validated in a situation like 'Internet surfing! I ended up at www.designer-profile.de, a German database of online portfolios for Designers was awesome. I found out that there are two MetaDesign studios- very confusing! yet slightly annoyed
The most important thing that was re-confirmed to me today- of which I already know is how serious business is. I am a bit naive as a Designer when it comes to this. This is the real world. How trite and unexciting it is to introduce something fresh to the market. Maybe your clients don't want change, how do you translate those new ideas to the professional staff bodies that work for the company? How much will it cost to train them all up, how much time? I went on abit about this for a while, clearly it really did get to me. A revelation to myself.

Today I spent most of my time trying to fill in bits of my dissertation. The main purpose was to figure Ethnography once and for all. How was I going to integrate this into my writing- Academically. Of course Flickr has had a large inpact on the Digital photograph and most importantly Photography in general, becuase of its definiative format, easy to use systm, it is very easy to want to use it as your main photo-store area.

Paul Baldesare:
1987-1995
Photographed people in transit on the London Underground,( now called TFL. A buzz-word for Terroists, literally!!
and London'd major Bus Station Victoria coach Station. They were taken candidly so not to disturb or influence the subjects to heighten the sense of every day in a way identifiable now and in the future as a ddocumentary record. But of course CCTV has the best of those matters now. Can that be classed as Art?

I'm sort of doing this, only in 5-weeks, It was called "Down the the London tubes" with "Paul". I can't say travelling on thhe tube that anything much had changed. It is almost identical to what you find on a tube today, except more tourists. I mentioned in my diary aswell, that Security measures has changed, more conscious about other pasengers, however I was trying to avoid going into anything political.

Ethnographic Photography is a method of studying and learning about a person or group of people. Typically a study of a small group of People in their own environment. Rather than a small set of variables and a large number of people, wikipedia

Ethnography attempts to get a detailed understanding of hte circumstances of the relatively few people being studied which can be from any race or culture.

Found objects:














There are more found objects in the Image Gallery 'Thursday'

:-( I went to a Charity shop today to have a rummage thru. I wrote out a checque today, perfectly valid, and she called the manager out to and said 'yeah we'll have everything" (referring to information". I thought, charming, not being subtle or anything like that. Even though the same women has served me before and accepted a cheque with a gleeful smile, I don't see what was so different this time around. Maybe because I insisted- we live in a world, "Guilty until proven...what was the rest?? (If anyone can be bothered to sort it out)
:-( I had to arrange a DAY trip to the bank, someone in Bologne thought it was funny or perfectly acceptable to clone my debit card. Stealing from a student, (technically from the poor, especially London Students) After 10 weeks I managed to salvage the cash back. By the time I'd finished talking to a Customer advisor, it was all gone again.
:-) I was commissioned a great new project for a music Vid next month. It will be out on i-Tunes next year 2008 summer time. The Client is GEM- Brainchild (www.myspace.com/brianchild)!
:-(Mother was moaning again today. It didn't occur to me actually HOW much a Mother can moan in any one day. One day I will write a Drama series dedicated to the acts of 'moaning'. "So for the time being I designed a Tee-Shirt using typography to express those annoying moaning moments that caring parents always give you in heaps and bundles. check it out



:-*I was also telephoned by my Private Club Administrator and kindly asked to confirm my address. It dawned on me that I hadn't informed them that I'd changed my new address. She was real nice about it though, what a twat. (Set task to engage memory skills).