so, back many, many years ago, when i was at uni i was supposed to be studying photography. I was a silly young thing back then... actually not so young but equally silly! I had done me schooling and being in a family that considered it's self quite "arty" went along with the crowd and did "art".
By default i had ended up doing photography... i remember a christmas when there was a big box all wrapped up for me on the piano ( we always had presents on the piano ( (nested brackets... I know... in a blog... is that allowed?) my mum had saved up her pocket money, i kid you not, as a child and had bought a baby grand that in her youth had been very important to her, i think as a young girl and woman her piano teacher was possibly the most important person in her life)) I had dreamed of it being the radio controlled car i lusted for in the way only a young boy who had not discovered girls could lust!
When i opened it, there in the box... was a darkroom kit... I was gutted! I don't think i even took things out of the box! .... my mum in her wisdom ought me the radio controlled car some time later... from a shop in Lewisham, south london when we were on the way to a social workers office but that is a totally different story! So anyway i had a darkroom but no use or even intent to use it... untill a boyfried of my sister got me interested in it... and from that moment on i was hooked... i would spend so long in me little darkroom at home that my mum used to check if i was ok! So it was natural when i found myself doing Art and going to uni to study photography...
...i lasted 2 years... it was a breakup "by mutual consent" lol ... one of the things i used to do that annoyed the staff sooo much was i just didn't worry about the image quality... in fact i used to quite enjoy the rough and ready look of photos when they were all scratched and dusty. I liked the texture and the feel... but for the tutors, they hated it... and frankly it was pretty crappy really, seeing as how i was supposed to be proving myself technically able, so can't blame them really!
So anyway, this leads me to the piccy i posted previously... it's all burry cos of the rain on the lens which i knew at the time but i just wanted to see what it looked like, and i like it! It's blurred and fuzzy... but its kinda like what i felt like there.
I like it
By default i had ended up doing photography... i remember a christmas when there was a big box all wrapped up for me on the piano ( we always had presents on the piano ( (nested brackets... I know... in a blog... is that allowed?) my mum had saved up her pocket money, i kid you not, as a child and had bought a baby grand that in her youth had been very important to her, i think as a young girl and woman her piano teacher was possibly the most important person in her life)) I had dreamed of it being the radio controlled car i lusted for in the way only a young boy who had not discovered girls could lust!
When i opened it, there in the box... was a darkroom kit... I was gutted! I don't think i even took things out of the box! .... my mum in her wisdom ought me the radio controlled car some time later... from a shop in Lewisham, south london when we were on the way to a social workers office but that is a totally different story! So anyway i had a darkroom but no use or even intent to use it... untill a boyfried of my sister got me interested in it... and from that moment on i was hooked... i would spend so long in me little darkroom at home that my mum used to check if i was ok! So it was natural when i found myself doing Art and going to uni to study photography...
...i lasted 2 years... it was a breakup "by mutual consent" lol ... one of the things i used to do that annoyed the staff sooo much was i just didn't worry about the image quality... in fact i used to quite enjoy the rough and ready look of photos when they were all scratched and dusty. I liked the texture and the feel... but for the tutors, they hated it... and frankly it was pretty crappy really, seeing as how i was supposed to be proving myself technically able, so can't blame them really!
So anyway, this leads me to the piccy i posted previously... it's all burry cos of the rain on the lens which i knew at the time but i just wanted to see what it looked like, and i like it! It's blurred and fuzzy... but its kinda like what i felt like there.
I like it