post your work and creations

[Who?]

Whitney- The wallet is around 14x24x2.5cm so its probably a bit smaller than Mona's, though I am going to work on the design to make it about the same size with pockets instead of card slots. The leather is a 6oz calf, perfect weight and density for holding the shape but still being flexible enough to fold. Below is a shot of the leather before any treatment.

Mona- Thanks, the color had more depth to it before the treatment but you are correct steam and low heat. It set the creases very well and allows the leather to stretch a little to fit into the from created by the folds.

[lowrey]

just finished this:







2160x700mm, 5mm raw steel L-profile

[DRRRK]

Beautiful. I envy your and Christian's craftsmanship. I bet what you can see in the mirror is even cooler than the mirror itself.

[nictan]

lowrey: may i know what camera you are using? thanks!

[lowrey]

canon 550d

[SHYE_POSER]

Mirror looks fantatstic Lowrey!

NITCAN: 1 woman, 1 V, No persuasion, a million possibilities

[Fade to Black]

Shye I dig your ethos.

are you referring to the girl or the photograph?

this is one of the funniest things I've read on the board this week. Thanks E

[thomcat]

I hope this is not a wrong place to post these:

but recently we (a college photography group) had to deal with the subject "das Böse - (evil, vicious, bad etc.. i realised it doesnt really have a direct translation in english)" in a photographic manner and here is what ive come up with:





a friend of mine commented that i really am taking a "fashion photography" route eventhough i didnt intend to with these photos. I would like to share it here cos, well the people in college talk about an aspect of it (excluding the styling aspect) and maybe some of you might find it interesting.

[Heirloom]

I see a hint of a concept, but I think it can be developed further. I don't know the time frame you had to deal with, but it looks like embryos to something that could grow if you investigate more in what is considered evil, why it is evil, what we feel confronting the evil, fleeing from it, ignoring it, and so on. I don't see an articulated view point or a reflecting, merely some people looking a bit scary, but i have no idea where they're coming from or why they're the way they are in the photos.

Are these the final shots, or were these a few picks from a larger series? I don't see any correspondence inbetween the pictures.

[thomcat]

hey heirloom.

no this is not a series. there is a series that is being displayed but i just randomly picked out a few pics. for example the last pic did not even made it in the series in the end. the intention i have/ had is really quite difficult to articulate here.

the questions you poised were all definitely intended to be confronted by the recipients. but i was intending to be abstract as possible. most ppl who saw the initial pics thought immediately of apocalypse, the hollocaust etc because of the gas mask. im not saying they are not intended but not just. so i didnt want anything concrete at all. most of the other pics are of them (the guy had a gas mask on at all times in the series) in various locations in a sorta detached manner to their environment, which is then detached to the outside world (i framed the series with 2 pics of clouds on either side). but as you can read, im sure it isnt really that easy to visualise..

[MoFiya]

Yeah, but besideds your intention of being as abstract as possible and thus are willing the viewer to infer their own interpretation, you still need to give the whole thing more of a structure... I mean, the pictures are too abstract and, well, normal in way. I personally wouldn't even define them as abstract but rather as unfocused. Abstract, for me, is when something causes emotions (in this particular case your intention might be fear), and I cant really tell why. There is nothing special about these shots, nothing you dont understand. Especially when it comes to unpleasant emotions I feel the best way is is creating a feeling of uncomfortableness in the viewer and he cant even tell why. In your shots, the attribution of (eventually felt) arousal is too obvious.

My 2 cents :)

[shima]

Oh wow, there are so many great things in this thread. I have only looked through the last few pages so far, but I'll keep looking in to it.
Especially liked the table from Bestial, the prints from Shye, the mirror from lowrey and the two first photos from thomcat.

[mesko]

are you referring to the girl or the photograph?

The van, of course!

[sistersuzie]

lowrey, it's awesome







cotton and corn blend

[lowrey]

thanks!

that looks neat, how long does it take to make something like that?