borderline...

...feels like i'm going to lose my mind. 

i have never had much time for madonna, but after this term, i can say her lyrics have finally meant something to me. after a lack of tutorials this term i have made up for it by three in a week, each with a slightly different tack. all have been interesting and helpful, in their own way, but... i just don't know borders... i know it's whatever you want to make of it, but still, it's just so blaaaaa.

elephant for tutorial

22 steps from piccadilly circus

Ham Yard, WD1

After several false starts I am back to looking at things too closely. This project has started very slowly and I am not sure how much there is to actually discover that isn't in the process of being cleaned up around me, but maybe that wil become part of the story - now that I have finally started something I daren't stop to worry about it.

from the bus

i went for an early morning look at the place where i hope to finally start my project... this was my bus trip home. in the meantime i have been trying to plough my way through some story telling theory books, which sadly turned out to be really dull so i can't even write about anything i learned from them... apart from not getting fooled by a cover or a title next time. i have also been looking at the history of the area of my project on the british history online website which says who owned what right back to the doomsday book, about buildings that were there and why the streets are that shape or have that name. 

it's working again...

from the day-to-day life of albert hastings by kaylynn devenney and albert hastings

...but still trying

as i mentioned in the previous post, i haven't been enjoying my initial project idea everything just seemed a bit flat. but i sort of like the idea of watching through the windows at what's going on, i like the way the windows are like big tvs and the different colours of the lights inside. earlier in the year i would pass a street which had brilliant big night time windows which i really wanted to try and photograph. i had forgotten about it, i will go back there this week. 2 ideas, day and night ones... surely my enthusiasm for things must return soon.

ambroise tezenas has some really beautiful photographs where inside lights from homes and shops bleed out into the night, i'd love to be able to try and do something like that. maybe it wouldn't work for this but it's something to explore.

bit lost

i am looking at other border options. i just haven't liked the photographs i've been taking the past few weeks - but i don't mind the ideas behind these so much ordinary but out of place things, compromise and barricades. still three things not one whole idea... but they feel a bit more interesting to me.