Catherine Day’s Chemical: Explained
Fashion photographer Catherine Day talks about her “Chemical” series, where she explores and expresses the effects that various antidepressants have had on her using artistic makeup. It’s a lovely, evocative series and is is made all the more beautiful by the simplicity of its execution.
Morecambe Standard Time (Taken with instagram)
Had some time in a studio today. Did this (amongst other things).
Model: Louise Exley; Makeup: Helen Scott
I drove through the streets of East Lancashire today; through the old mill-town where I grew up, through the places that sprang up around the cotton industry and were left creaking and swaying as it passed on into memory. You couldn’t call them pretty: the narrow streets with the terraces whose doors open onto the pavement; the old mills and factories, still soot-blackened from years of toil; the blasted heath of moorland that overlooks the towns, covered with scrubby grass, barbed wire and the memory of a thousand hastily-eaten midnight hamburgers.
But try as I might, as I drove through those towns, I couldn’t deny it: East Lancs is in my blood; for some reason it still warms my heart, even when all I can see is sorrow and hardship.
Visual Pushups
Funny thing, getting back in the creative saddle. I’ve not been out and shot - just shot, with no real aims other than to shoot what I see if I think it’s worth shooting - for over six months; the last time was back when I was doing my 100 day countdown project.
It turns out that being creative is the same as doing any kind of workout. Whether you’re using your brain or your brawn, the first few times you do your workout after a long layoff you’ll find that your muscles are stiff and unresponsive. Afterwards, you’ll be sore. Eventually you’ll get used to it and you’ll be able to push yourself further and harder.
And that’s what I’m doing on this blog; what Jay Maisel calls “visual pushups.” Why? Because if I don’t, I’m going to stagnate, and being creative will get harder and harder. Even if all I’m producing every day is rubbish, my hope is that every day it’ll get a little less bad.
(via gatekeeper)
Work in the far distance again. I love this view of London, this feeling, this atmosphere.
I’ll grant you, this would solve the “no front-facing camera” issue.
Image by Ron Cassel, found via BoingBoing.
From Oddly Specific
The Great Alone
Slideshow of photos from the Terra Nova and Imperial Transantarctic expeditions of the early 20th century.
Beautiful and haunting and achingly desolate.
Via Oddly Specific.
