Updated work book pages

Some stock photos for my photoshopping. Secretly the egg in the cage eggs poster is free range oooh scandal

amanda the athlete

I have been going to the gym most days for the past three weeks and find it quite an interesting environment. There are the regulars that are ALWAYS there at certain times of the day, doing the same routine on the same machines. There are a few anorexic girls that come in PAIRS like maybe they do it together its quite sad. Then there are the jocks, im stereotyping because i apply a different set of rules to my own perceptions :) sweaty guys with bodies shaped like sofas its so weird. weird. weirD. You notice people are constantly looking around, glancing sideways at the speed reading on your machine or whatever. Its quite competitive this whole looking good/being fit THING

ANYWAY.....
I thought it would be a great place for a performance work or 'happening' whatever you want to call it. It's a place of such strict rules and routines. It sucks. They listen to the edge and read Women's Day as they furiously pedal on stationary bikes. This has nothing whatsoever to do with my current project apart from the whole healthy eating health buzz I'm on I just thought I would write it down so i can work on it in the future :)

1950's advertising

The children are terrifying!!! Thinking of doing my advertisements in this style because i find my own very boring. It takes a long time to do with minimal effect and looks like any other vector illustration. This was the point really but I've decided I want more people to see them and be attracted to them and not just give them a quick glance. Find more creepy adverts at plan59.com

a few photo shooties

To be honest i didn't realize how much work goes into getting all the lighting etc right. Not happy with any of these photos, they were always going to be manipulated and altered but these combined with the shots of the animals together are just impossible to try and make a montage with which is what i had intended to do.
I wanted to make a composition like the snow white picture at the top except with dark lighting and emma and animals all in surreal colours, really dreamy looking BUT im flagging it because it just looks silly

Chicken wing

I've been looking more at battery hens and the treatment of chickens this week after watching a little thing on TV1 about free range hens Vs battery farmed ones.
This Exhibition by Banksy addresses some of the same issues that I have been looking at questioning our ethics and our relationship with animals, factory farming, battery farming, environmental effects etc.
The exhibition opens on the 31st of October, here are a few images...

Snakey looking snaussages

Self-dipping animatronic chicken nuggets
Rabbit filing it's nails. As you do.
A child's dolphin ride caught in fishing nets sits on the pavement outside the exhibition. For more photos and articles go here.

Creative Advertising

I have decided to make some advertisements for my final project, about time i actually started doing something and stopped concepting and researching! I love adverts that use the space around them as a feature of the work, here are some sites and links...
http://www.toxel.com/
http://adshunters.com/

You'll find heaps more great examples on these sites but these are just a couple that caught my attention :)

Here are the originals