May 2011

10th: Finally got going with taking some test shots with Trinny. Exposure times are looking to be more or less the same for her as with my previous cameras. Images though are looking like they will be much smaller than I had anticipated. The one below has a diametre of about 30mm.

Had some good news from Tam today with regards to the Leonard Coehen altar piece project. She recorded Hallelujah for me today. Going to go and pick it up on Thursday on the way to the Intoto opening. If the live performance I heard her give was anything to go, this recording should be amazing. Thanks Tam

19th: Work is slowly progressing for the Lenoard Coehen altar piece. To be honest though I think that Trinny might be a bit of a dud. Admitedly its early days and she could do with some tweeking. Right now the photos that I am taking with her are lacking the wow factor of the photos that Helga produces. Some of the detailing is nice, but nice is never good enough. They need something else.

I picked up Tams recording of Hallelujah last week and it sounds awesome.

There was an opening at Intoto last week. An exhibition of portraits. I had two works on show. One was hung below a Diane Victor piece which was cool. My other piece The Fight - part A was reserved. The potential buyers just want to see if it works in their home. Lets hope so.

24th: Progress report; I didn't like the photos Trinny was producing for the Leonard Cohen altar piece project, so I have decided to, with the aid of photoshop, cut and paste the images into something that I want. Its not finished yet, I have a very old slow computer that I am forcing to work its arse off to get this to work, but I should be ready on time.

News from Intoto is not good. The option on The Fight - part A wasn't taken. Bastard's, don't they understand that their thousands of rands could have fed a kind of poor, not really starving but shit they could really do with the money artist living in the suburbs of Pretoria. On the upside there is buyer for another piece, They are just proving to be a little ellusive at the moment. You like it? just pay the cash and be done with it.

One last not for the day, apparently I am going to be getting a mention in House and Leisure (South Africa) as part of a story covering Intoto.

 31st: The last week has been a bit of a pain in the arse. Boh of my dark room safe lights died. My new one because I bumped the poxy lamp and then the other because it was old I guess. Had to finish unloading, loading, unloading Helga in the dark; and then of course there were the photographs to process. It looks like I managed to fumble my way round succesfully as the pics came out ok. I also avoided head butting Helga which I did last week. She wasn't happy about this and I was fuming as not five minutes earlier I had managed to violently connect my forehead with a roll of paper. At the time of the second incident I was busy reminding myself to be careful.

The image above is a detail shot of a set up I did of some Jacob Zuma posters. The whole photograph looks like a series of police mug shots of the president. Although this was not by design I suppose some would say that this result was quite apt. So anyway I now have a rather expensive non funtioning light bulb that I just can't face throwing away as it was so bloody expensive. I guess they cost about 25 times the price of a regular one.