Showing posts with label PM's Goal 5. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PM's Goal 5. Show all posts

Monday, 22 January 2007

How Do I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?



One of my biggest barriers to creativity is myself - or more specifically, my mind! "I'm not good enough", "My work isn't as good as theirs", or the perennial favourite "I can't do it". Tonight I showed my first lot of photos at the photography course I'm doing and got a rousing reception. So what I've found out is that I am good enough, my work is as good as theirs and I can do it pretty damn well actually. Still not stoking on the whole Summer theme I have to do but I think I'm going to be able to come up with something pretty interesting involving some or all of the following themes - drunk women, tools for beautification and normal women enjoying life. There's definitely a thread of feminist thinking running through there but I still need to work out how I'm going to tie it all together...

Wednesday, 10 January 2007

Summer Goddess

I have just started a brilliant course on creativity using photography as the medium. I have to admit my photography skills aren't that great but I figure I'm going to be learning pretty quickly! I have to produce a conceptual piece using the words 'Summer' and 'Goddess'. It would be really easy to do something really literal with this, however I have had to abandon the idea of the photo essay on Miss Whangamata since it's been and gone and was too cold for bikinis anyway. Here are some of the ideas I have been brainstorming so far:
  • a little girl as an emerging goddess
  • women dancing at the Organic Festival - bound to have a Woodstock vibe about it
  • something around Wellington's summer weather which can best be described as "wintery"