Late Night Mix

Because I've been way too self indulgent in recent posts...

Posters by Boris Bućan

Generative drawings by Eno Henze

Because I love 'dem trees...

Tree series by Myou Ho Lee

All images via Convoy Tumblr and butdoesitfloat.com and 

ORIENTAL OBLIVION

I think I've spent over 10 hours on these today... bleughhh. I think they are all finished except 'the arm one' which I think needs the direction of the shadow altered.

Images by Alyssa Anaimugan. Thanks to my model phil :)

Oriental Mysticism

I am still working on these bad boys. There are obvious differences between the lighting and colouring of the figure and background that prevents them from being merged seamlessly. Hopefully with a bit more tweaking they will look better. All images by Alyssa Anaimugan (all the locations were taken in Japan).

Augmented Reality

Taken at Clovelly.

All images by Alyssa Anaimugan.

WIP

In the coming week or two I will be refining these and adding some floating people in them :)

by meeee

HyperReality

By Alyssa Anaimugan

Digitalush

Edits/experiments - visual process. Nothing final.

All images by Alyssa Anaimugan

April IMN

Belated, but not by much. 

1. Lore

A German/Australian film set during and after WWII. I watched this on the plane home from Japan. I don't think the airplane screen did it justice - I might watch it again in a HD. This film was extraordinarly beautiful - shot in lush German countryside. It tells the story of young Lore and her siblings who must trek across Germany to their grandmother's house for refuge. The heavy subject matter, which I would normally find extremely grim, was made vivid by great cinematography and acting from the young Saskia Rosendahl (Lore).  I could feel the Australian drama influence from the honest and heartbreaking depictions of life that I love so much from things like Love My Way and Candy.

2. Jen Mann

Originally thinking these images were the result of Photoshop filters and photography -  I was surprised to find out they are all painted portraits. Love it!

3. Kim Boske

I deliberated in my mind for ages whether I should or should not of bought a book featuring Kim Boske's photography in Harajuku, Tokyo. I ended up going back to the store and buying it. I am really glad - it is so beautiful and exactly the type of photography I love. Weird, weird nature. All photographs in my book are printed in large format on great paper stock!

I returned from Japan a couple of days ago - when I have time to edit, I will post some photos from my travels. Enjoy your weekend :)

Japan!

Kyoto 2007.

I'm leaving on a late night flight to Japan tonight. I can't wait to see the sites, go to some groovy little Japanese bars, shop for the traditional and the extravagant, and get inspired for my last year of Visual Communications at uni :)

Hopefully this trip means some  heavy loaded Japanese posts when I get back, but in the mean time - here is just a random collection of what has been inspiring me recently, nothing profound.

Alan Aldridge

Andreas Sjodin

Gregory Muenzen

Grimes as the modern day Ophelia

Alberto Giacometti

Tokujin Yoshioka for Design Miami (2007) - An installation of 300,000 plastic straws

Images via likeafieldmouse and ben smith tumblr.

The Lush of Suburbia.

Oh you know - just wondering why the HELL I have not discovered this photographer sooner? He is also apparently quite well known. The lighting, scenes of suburbia and deep forest lush is exactly what I like in photography... better late than never.

Some of you may have felt those moments, I know I have. Where you are staring into space, during twilight or under moon light.  Whether it be sitting on the bed, on the front balcony, in the street etc. There is something about these photographs that communicates these immersions. The surrealism of feeling such transcendence in suburbia and the juxtaposition of it all.

Upon reading about him a bit more - these photographs are extremely stylised. The interior ones are on entirely constructed sets with huge staff teams. Perhaps that is why I never feature humans in my own work - there is something very staged when you do that. 

I discovered Gregory Crewdson when reading an interview with Lars Von Trier about Melancholia. The interviewer compares stills from the film to some of Crewdson's photography - and I see the resemblance. However to be perfectly honest - I much MUCH prefer stills from Melancholia, I basically worship that film.

Images from all over google, interview with Von Trier here.