Heart-Shaped Box: January 2015

25/01/2015

Dark Room: Littlest Things

As you know, I completed my first photo project 'Watch Your Step' last year and I posted it on 365project platform (where you can still see it if you haven't!). That is how I feel in love with 365 and decided to continue using it.

The new project is titled 'Littlest Things'. It doesn't have a theme (I'm becoming a "regular" 365 user) but it has a title coz I still gave myself some guidelines to follow. I like everything organized X-)
It's about trying to find something special about every single day through 2015. It can be something visually interesting, unusual things/events, positive feelings/reactions... Anything worth recording forever.

Every day has to be good, at least for a moment. That's how you make the whole year unforgettable.

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Some examples (older photos, not part of the project). Light, reflection, icy rose, fog and blue spill.

All by me.

January is almost completed and I'm very satisfied how the project inspires me to look for motives and to photograph more in general. The link is in the left column!

xxx

22/01/2015

Gallery: Substances Close Up

Prepare yourself to be amazed! Sarah Schönfeld took photographs of drugs, neurotransmitters and other liquid substances relevant to our mood or behavior. She squeezed drops of various liquid chemical substances onto negative film which have already been exposed, and then subjected the results of the chemical reactions to the normal photographic process.

In 'Vorerst Psychadelic Garden 1' she used ink for drawing. She also cut the photography to install it in the space.

"The results of this encounter can be interpreted as a grammar of different perspectives playing with and reflecting on the idea of paradise, garden and longing for the „other life“." (www.sarahschoenfeld.de)

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In 'All you can feel' she used mostly drug mixtures.

"Since the 1950s, we in the western world have increasingly come to understand our most intimate desires and experiences, as the products of a so-called “chemical self”. We are able to explain moods, angers, and diseases both physiological and psychological through an imbalance of substances in the body." (www.sarahschoenfeld.de)

CAFFEINE / OPIUM

LSD / VALIUM

MDMA / HEROIN

Isn't this like a whole new fantasy world? Other planets or something?

SPEED AND MEPHEDRONE / KETAMINE

COCAINE / CRYSTAL METH

GHB AND GBL / METHYLONE

DOPAMIN / ESTROGEN

The rest of her work: www.sarahschoenfeld.de

xxx

17/01/2015

Dark Room: Girl Power

I made a set of female portraits. Kinda in a "girl power" mood right now.

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Sara Peixoto www.flickr.com/photos/amberbird/


Vanessa Sofia Correira Rosa www.flickr.com/photos/vanessascrosa/

Girls don't have to be rough to be strong. Their power is also in their sensitivity, gentleness and fragility. Tears can unlock the doors of many hearts.

Marianna Rothen
www.mariannarothen.com/domesticated-woman/

Leanne Surfleet
www.flickr.com/photos/leannesurfleet/

xxx

14/01/2015

Runway: Girl Crush II

Here's the second part of my ode to Keira Knightley. Her red carpet looks.

This first set I forgot to post previously. These are more "interview looks" as I like to call them. Effortessly elegant.

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Moving on to her glam looks, when she looks like an oriental princess. The first dress from the second set is my fav!

I like her designer dresses, when she looks like a piece of art. Striking.

She can be cute like a little girl. Or a provocative teenager. (They are cute too.)

Oh to have at least ten dresses from her wardrobe... And since we have similar body structure, they would probably fit me! (I'll take her hair as well!)

xxx