1984

My project deals with digital photography, its manipulation and the implications of this in our lives, so why I´m posting movie´s extracts?

Well…firstly because this is a research phase and finding (inter) relations and conections in different medium is a good exercise. Secondly because movies are also images like photographs though in movemt. Another point to consider is the movies I´m posting here relate (somehow) with the idea of a “build” reality and the power of media. In conclusion, you may not agree they have some connections to the topic of use of manipulated photos on media, it´s an opinion…But in my point of view they certanly do…and of course there´s a link to wonderland!!

1984 – a dystopia novel written in 1949 by George Orwell. The thematic goes round surveillance, freedom of though /think and feel. The society is commanded by the Big Brother.

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Alice´s transformations of size are related to eat or drink something. So i found interesting to bring it out to our time, posting related stuff about eating and drinking, in a media/advertisement context. Although my main focus in on photography, here i take the freedom to post all media types, as this intent to be an inspirational source to a visual work. Hope you also enjoy it and if you have contributions to share, please be my guest!!First is a video parody of Dove Campaign for Real Beauty which, in my option, reflects the (fast) food consumerism and eating habits of the modern society. Keeping on the food chain, an extrac of “Super Size Me”(2004), a documentary film direct by Morgan Spurlock.

And last but not least…. some photoshop tricks… Eat me. Drink me. Photoshop me…

A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale

- queer-looking party.

“`I am older than you, and must know better´; and this Alice would not allow without knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said.”

“(…) that the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-Race.”

“`Why´, said the Dodo, `the best way to explain it is to do it.´”

- prizes, prizes.

- judge, jury.

“Ah, my dear´Let this be a lesson to you never to lose your temper.´”

The Pool of Tears

“`Curioser and curioser´cried Alice.”

“Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get through was more hopeless than ever: she sat down and began to cry again”

- a large pool

- the white rabbit splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kids gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other.

“Dear, dear! How queer everything is today! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I´ve changed in the night?”

- multiplication table

- geography

- poky little house

- no toys to play with

“Who am i then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I´ll come up: if not, I´ll stay down here till I´m somebody else.”

- mouse

- cat

- family

- dog

- birds and animals

- a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet and several other curious creatures.