- There are currently three (possibly 4 or even 5 elements to the work). An epublication, a proposed printed publication (see issues below), a 2.5 minutes film, and I have also created a webpage.
Webspage: See draft screenshot – I have had some feeback and once of the questions was “What is its point at this stage in your process/submission?” Answer – it helps me to start thinking about how I will promote the work – how will I describe it? But I was also interested in a website by Camille Lévêque – Orpheus Standing Alone (which has since beent taken down) -see another somewhat disruptive website here which I’ve not had time to look at yet. I’ve had some feedback and will be revisiting. The point of the project is that it exists on and offline responding to each medium differently. Another issue was how best to present the epublication… and perhaps a website is the best option. So, that’s where this idea comes from. For now, I can’t even get the epublication to embed on the page for some reason so it’s something I will need to spend some time on this week.
2. Epublication – that is ready, apart from the issue mentioned above – but for assessment I can send the Adobe link if necessay.
3. Printed publication – this is a real problem – the guys who orginally quoted are not returning my emails. I initally asked quite some time ago for some costs for some ideas I had. See here: https://sjflevel3.photo.blog/2020/05/20/bow-a5-print-queries/ It was, as I had envisaged too expensive for me at this time – Covid made things even worse. But I also wasn’t sure about certain things. I have sent some inquires out to other printers explaining my needs – if I wasn’t bothered about the gatefold I could just get any old printer to do it and that is something to think about in terms of what materials are available to us nowadays – and the material is digital printing, cheap, democratic, simple. Which is what all my work centres around – the rejection of heirachy, the rejection of a class based value system (which art engages in with alacrity) So I think I need to seriously consider the Newpaper Club’s offering which means getting rid of all those extras I saw in the Situationist mag like gatefolds and other stuff (which I’d already moved away from). So I’m going to see what the other printers come back with and then seriously look at this https://www.newspaperclub.com/choose/mini/digital which may well solve a whole host of issues I have been having. And I’ll end up with 20 copies of the BOW edition which might be quite nice too rather than one very expensive proof – and then make decisions about extra aspects in SYP.
4. The film – I think this is something to tuck away and will be there if I decide to exhibit this work in SYP as well as or onstead of working on a publication. (See previous post for comments on this).
5. Oh yes, I need to get on with the writing bit ASAP – but I know what I want to do, it’s just doing it – recall these (something along these lines and maybe illegibility isn’t such an issue tin that case … I’ve been wrestling with type or handwriting. My instinct says handwriting but goodness, I have a dreadful illegiable style! ) https://sjflevel3.photo.blog/2020/06/13/bow-a5-graph-paper/ But the point of this writing is to describe the process thorugh a conversation with the AI and weave in mention of blood/flesh/feelings etc – I just need to do it, regardless.
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I’m sorry you’re not having much success with the printers at the moment – wonder what happened. the Newspaper Club min digital looks very interesting though,
Camille Lévêque’s work is fascinating and brought up lots of ideas for me. How on earth does she manage to turn my cursor into a pair of eyes?
Why does tidy handwriting matter?
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I don’t blame the printers (although a bit weird and rude to simply ignore me!) as it’s fiddley and for no real money. But in fact, listening in on SYP chat, it seems to me the Newspaper club option will be best anyway as it gives me something to send out to people when doing some of the SYP assignments – and more time to think about the best way forward, publication or exhibition. It will also change inevitably lead to changes in some design decisions I made highlighting the intra-active nature of creating, which will serve me well. All in all, the journey feels ok if it pauses with that particular option for now. I didn’t like those eyes! Bloody annoying – but yes I like the issues addressed and the fun way it is done.
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I agree it’s a good option with several possibilities for distribution.
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Well done for interpreting some of the more bizarre auto-corrections (now edited) in my reply. The other thing I meant to say was how this highlights one of the disadvantages of the OCA route (which has many positives too and was the only one open to me when I started) – When I did the pic london thing, I was really amazed by the printing facilities others had (current students and alumni) access to via more mainstream bricks and mortar universities. (That and the kudos they all exhibited, having been associated with big names).
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That’s interesting; I don’t think I noticed the auto-corrections so must have read as you intended.
Really good point about the resources aspect – could be something to pursue with OCA. The kudos is a different aspect, although I do think that reflected glory soon gets found out Thinking positively, I’ve noticed that more and more Level 3 students are submitting to different competitions and I was so thrilled when Elizabeth Woodier won the AOP gold recently, with other OCA students shortlisted too
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You’re right. That was brilliant for Elizabeth – and I agree, this latest graduating cohort have done super well in the industry.
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