Louise Orwin

Pretty ugly is a project by Louise Orwin. There is a trend where girls upload videos to youtube asking if they were pretty or ugly and awaiting their replies. She said there was at least half a million videos and the girls were from 8-13 and she was horrified by some of the comments. So Louise Orwin did the same thing but in wigs and waited to see what replies she would get. Roughly 70% were negative. In her show she explained what the project was whilst rolling on roller skates and at the end she asked some of the audience whether they thought she was pretty or ugly and then skated backstage without speaking to us after but I like how she just went off without speaking. 

I found this the most interesting out of all the other people we have seen as she wasn't just standing there talking and it's about something that is an issue.

Raphael Daden

Raphael Daden is a Nottingham/UK based sculptor working mainly with light. Raphael has been combining different materials with light for over ten years and has been working professionally on commissions within this time.

My favourite piece of work of his is his 'Boxed in' project. He had squares with text hidden in dot forms. These were all in Hull. Like a word search, each line makes up a word or phrase relating to the situation that Hull and the UK are in that moment. The work mentions not to spend so much and looks at the rise and fall of the economy. 

NADIM Chaudry

Amelie

RANKIN - 7 photographs that changed fashion

In January 2009, BBC 4 broadcast Rankin's 1 hour documentary Seven Photographs that Changed Fashion, in which he created his own tributes to the iconic images by Cecil Beaton, Erwin Blumenfeld, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, David Bailey and Guy Bourdin. He interviewed an array of original photographers, models and assistants, and used contemporary models including Heidi Klum, Erin O'Connor, Jade Parfitt, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, his wife Tuuli Shipster, Mollie Gondi, Daphne Guinness and David Gandy.

My favourite part of the documentary was the remake of cecil beatons photograph. I think Rankin re-created that photo best.

David Stickman Higgins

David Higgins was born in Bury, Lancashire. He describes himself as a poet, actor, educator, conceptual artist and a father. He is also a drummer. Involved in creating and delivering a wide range of innovative arts projects since the mid 1980's. His Projects comprise connecting cultures and communities across generations, ages and abilities, in schools, colleges, museums, galleries, country houses and prisons. 

He started locally in Nottingham during 1997 it has since travelled across Europe engaging audiences in a highly thought provoking and educative experience.

Rear Window

Rear Window is a 1954 American suspense thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by John Michael Hayes and based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder". Originally released by Paramount Pictures, the film stars James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter and Raymond Burr. This film is considered one of Alfred Hitchocks best.

These are shots from the film. I love the cluster of brown buildings and the rusty ladders. I love how most of the photo is brown because the buildings take up all the frame and the dark miserable sky makes the photo even better.