Wednesday, October 19, 2011

My little man's contuning journey


Today I continued experimenting with the wire, man shape ,transformers and other electrical bits.


Another piece I did went horrifically wrong and burnt to next to nothing. But what was left was interesting and I am looking at building on it to take photos. 



Tuesday, October 18, 2011

shake it up.



I asked a friend to critic my blog, so glad I did, they highlighted a few of my photos were bleary as well as giving tips on improvements.


Now looking back at my work, I can see that a lot, particularly in photography of my own work is dam blurry.


My only reason I can see how this is happening is my shakes due to lithium,

Hand tremors happen at the most peculiar times.    Like walking to the living room with a coffee, try to screw a screw down, or any other time when attention to detail is needed. So after a day fiddling with wire, paper, plaster etc, my hands do start the nasty tremors. I have looked into how I can reduce them. Reduced Caffeine intake is meant to help. But I rarely drink coffee and soft drinks tend to be caffeine free like root beer.  



Usually, I have used the shakes to my advantage, when drawing etc., as it can produce some interesting effects, but alas not so much with my camera. 


So I have decided to take in my tripod, mines a little big to be taking back and forth, so I will leave in my studio.  Hopefully it will help with the blur...

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Speaking of lithium, the last week I have felt A1, more level than I have been in a long time… well 2yrs to be honest.

Monday, October 17, 2011

continuing tranformation of little man tate

as you can see, not a great attempt for the 15mins spent making               

Today I reluctantly carried on with the little man theme. 







This time I draw out my little man, and nailed in headless nails around the outline.
















 With various types of wire, I looped around the nails, I did this various times and styles.





One particular style I like was one which involved my looping round the body 4 or 5 times.


 









Once I removed the wire it left interesting effect.





As you can see I solder small straight transforms to various loops an angles..





Personel thought one looked like alien DNA, And the other a swarm of bees flight paths