Hello,

I took a few photos and i must go back and take tghem again with a few changes but it has given me a few ideas...

I would like to take another photo similar to this but with some added human elements. Maybe a hand.

I like the idea of maybe doing some long exposure photos for maybe wonder of desire.

This one I thought could represent fear, the idea of someone in your house or not knowing who is doinstairs.

If anybody has any comments or suggestions let me know.

Assorted Imagery

Putting up some photography I've found for the purpose of inspiration and whatnot. These few images are just what I seemed to have latched onto so far.

Nathan Lerner, Kiyoko and curtain, Canada, 1983

Tonje Thilesen, cover photo for Lucrecia Dalt's
"Syzyrgy" 12" EP

Andrés Lázaro

Philip Cheung, The Kurds in Post-Saddam Iraq

Julia Agafonova

Romain Laurent, Burnout

Stine Sampers

I seem to reeeeeeaaally like people facing slightly away from camera. Huh.

What follows is not entirely serious...

Right .. here we go ….


Depression :

iv had this idea from the start …. looked up a few photos and these were the two that i thought showed best my idea …

Thats the kind of theme i want for my depression photos !!

Fear :

I couldn't really find anything online about what i was looking for …. but my idea is something to do with hiding … maybe under the bed or in a corner … but id like to have it in the dark and have the door slightly ajar …

Or maybe a kids bedroom and have a child staring at the wardrobe … ?? something along those lines anyways :)

Wonder :

Im thinking of maybe someone standing in a field at night looking up at the stars …. first I was thinking way too big and have the pyramids in it … but ya were in cork so that won't be happening …. 

Or again with the child thing …. have a child staring at a flower … or out the window at the airport looking at the planes ?? just throwing a few ideas around…

Regret :

Im wondering can this be funny ?? not in a bad way … but like a tattoo disaster or something ? if not il think again !!

Anxiety :

ok …. this might be a bit far fetched … but I'm gonna give it a try … I want to have one person standing in a hall …. with their hands on their heads … looking stressed … like their pulling out their hair …. but then have loads of blurred figures surrounding them ?? like a kind of social anxiety ?? but i want it to show how stressed the guy in the middle is … like the world is caving in on him ?? but its people surrounding him ?? ya thats the idea ?? 

I know this pic is silly but its kind of what I'm going for ….

Right lads …. I'm going to do ….

Fear
Depression
Wonder
Anxiety
Regret


Il post up a few photos I found that I liked there in a min :)

Peace Out !!

Howdy,

These are the words I will be doing I'd say...

• Fear

• Desire

• Lust

• Wonder

• Anxiety

Im not great at visualising what something will look like or be represented visually by reading about it so I have just been looking up short definitions of the words,to get an idea of what they mean and then looking up pictures that have been taken that represent the words and I have seen a few good ones and I have a few ideas of my own that I'd like to try.

What I have got from fear is that it is a vital response to physical or emotional damage and if we didn't feel it we wouldn't know when to protect ourselves from legitimate threats. People have began to feel fear in situations that are far from life-or-death, and thus hang back for no good reason. 

I like the idea of maybe trying to do something with a fight or flight style picture,maybe with double exposers but i'll have to mess around with it first to see if it would look good or just gimmicky.

Desire seems more likely to be used to describe a want rather than a need. I think when it comes to desire I might look towards the more greedy side of desire rather than the kind you’d get when you really want dominos.

Online I found someone who said that greed and desire are more closely related than lust and desire. She also said that desire is the root of all evil…a tad bit dramatic but I like the idea of taking this point of view on the word.

Lust on the other hand seems to be more on the side of love, sex and physical attraction. It’s not sinful but natural. To me

 desire appears to be the more powerful word, on the verge of being dangerous and corruptive. Lust seems more pure and human.

Wonder just makes me think of the innocents of kids and stuff but a definition online described it as a “feeling of amazement and admiration, caused by something beautiful, remarkable, or unfamiliar”. I was think something to do with some nice scenery or something but I haven’t decided anything yet.

One of the words that is used to define anxiety was uneasy. It seems like it should be straightforward but I’m having a hard time think of ideas for this but im not done researching and I will post more about it soon.

Book interactivity

It may be a bit too soon to be discussing how interactive the book is, I think the cinema graphs are more interesting but they may need a bit more forethought when taking your photos which may hinder your creativity. we can discuss it as a group eventually and consider other means of interactivity. for now here is a tutorial on how to make one.

http://youtu.be/TKA4cqv0IjE

Avoiding the obvious.

I immediately feel like Wonder, Regret and Anxiety are hard to create. I also find it difficult to see the difference between Desire and Lust. So suffice it to say I am off to a killer start.
other than these few hiccups I think Fear, Depression and either Desire or Lust are words i will be using in the final piece.
Firstly I researched Fear to get a broader understanding of it apart from what I already know.
most websites I visited considered Fear to be the purest of emotions and vital to survival, since for without Fear, we would not know when to be most cautious, yet also considered it to be something we need overcome.

Depression on the other hand is a emotion I figure we could so without. Most of my research only showed it in a bad light, it is not something one would argue is vital for survival but is actually something responsible for ending lives. most sites described it as an empty and energy-less feeling, stagnant. Others couple it with Fear and Anxiety.

Lust/Desire.
The main focus point on my research for these two was to try make them seem like different words to me. Unfortunately I found a definition for Lust as a great Desire. One such page described Lust as a great psychological force that produces wanting or fulfillment and that this word is used to describe it in such a way that the object doesn't belong to you, such as Lusting for a woman. while Desire is used to show great emotion towards something or someone in a less forceful way, such as Desiring food.

my word choices, some initial thoughts

So here are my choices for the book:

• Fear
• Depression
• Desire
• Regret
• Anxiety

Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy just thinkin' about 'em.

So, some of my thoughts on these, accompanied by a bit of research. Just jotting down some things so I can remember it later, mostly. Slapdash. Tried to keep it short, but ah well.

We'll start with fear. Some key things I want to keep in mind with fear: it's about anticipation. It's not the big crazy scare, but what precedes it. It's also learned (as illustrated by this paper at the US National Library of Medicine http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2555428/ ). It is wholly created within the mind of the one experiencing it. True of all emotions, but I feel like it's especially true of fear. Some touchstones off the top of my head: the creeping dread of the really good Japanese horror movies (Ju-On: The Grudge, that sort of thing); phobias; good old campfire horror stories; urban legends. What I'm basically saying is, the /x board on 4chan, minus the Illuminati and spirit-quests. Also, think Marble Hornets, youtube horror web-series that's wall-to-wall creeping fear. Uses found-footage (YAWN) but in a really good way (YAY).

Depression. Tricky one. Some call it a straight emotion, but it's more correctly seen as a mental illness with associated symptoms. While emotions can be harnessed, without medication, depression just keeps on going. I've heard it described less as "Oh, I'm just sad," and more as a kind of deadness. A lethargy. Part of it is also the dismissal: people often brush it off and say someone should just "get over it"; not that simple, of course.

Desire. Everybody wants something, right? I think that's the angle I'll take. The want of something, without the means to get it. I see a hand reaching towards something shiny. Too cliché? I'll work on it.

Regret. There's a saying, hindsight's 20/20 or something. We all tend to look back, at least I do, and itemise every last thing we've ever done wrong, every opportunity passed-up. I don't know whether to go with the rather literal metaphor of "looking back," or something a little more esoteric. More research required.

Anxiety. It's paralysing, a little like fear. I worry about everything. I get worked up over the smallest thing. Anxiety often shows physical symptoms, like nervous ticks. I know I tend to scratch. My brother bites his nails. Other people do worse things. Anxiety is sort of the reverse of regret, in that it's often tied up in future events: what will they think of me; I hope I pass that test. I like the angle of physical symptoms, nervous ticks. Might explore that.

So those are some initial thoughts. More research forthcoming, not just on these words, but maybe on the more aesthetic side of things as well.