After a week of the wideangle lens and full body shots, I ran like a crazed schoolgirl back to my beloved macro for my 365 series. My eyes weren’t dealing well at the time with the heat, so I decided to make them my focus for the week.
After taking the above shot outside and without flash, I decided to see what I could do with it. The following picture was a bit of an experimental accident and is one of my favourites. It feels like my skin and eyelashes are part of a landscape.
I then started using the macro less and struggling more with my pictures. The next one is altered all to hell, and I like to picture it less as a photo of my eyes, and more as a representation of a moth.
And then another night of taking the pictures late and struggling with low light graininess as a result.
The next day, while waiting on news about a job interview I’d been for during the previous week, I got a call from RMIT saying that it would be a very, very good idea for me to put in an application for the Master of Fine Art program. As soon as possible. After three months waiting for news on my Honours application, this was very, very exciting. And terrifying, as the job interview I’d been for was for a full-time position. I received a call from one of my referees a few hours later, who said that she’d been contacted and was fairly certain I’d get the job.
The next day was my 10 year anniversary with Mr Crumpet. It was all going well until I found that the dogs had partially dug up Henry (…again…) and were fighting over who got to chew his jaw bones. Rather upsetting, to put it lightly. Still, I managed to get my shit together, take my application in and then go and see The Wrestler with the Mister. And this is how I felt when I got home.
Yesterday we took the pups on the 1.5 hour drive to my parents place for Christmas. They ate ham and pork and some other kind of meat. They lounged on green grass in the shade of lovely trees. Tom climbed Compost Mountain and found a cauliflower ‘toy’. We took him to a safe paddock with an old trotting track on it and got him to run until he collapsed under a shady tree. Later on he relaxed on the grass again before getting excited by something and doing zoomies around my mum and dad’s back yard. Today, the pups have slept and slept and slept and slept some more.
I made this video back in 2006 — it was for my Hybrid Media class it’s the first stop-motion/animation type thing I ever did. It’s a little jittery, but I love Henry’s tail wagglings. The music is Dogs in the Park by The Happies, a brilliant band I used to stalk follow on mp3.com back in it’s heyday. Their website doesn’t seem to work anymore, but you can find them on Eden’s Watchtower Records and MySpace. The whole album Meet the Happies, which this track is from, can be downloaded for free from Reverbnation.
(Sorry, it’s a pretty big file and takes a little while to download. If the video is jumpy, that’s why. I’ll see what I can do about replacing it with a smaller file. In the meantime, be patient.)
