The Last Days With my Father

I don't know what to say really about this! You need to read it really. Its much too personal from the photographers point of view for me to make a comment on it.

have a look at Phillip Toledano's last days with his Father

national geographic contest 2009

The breakdown is up for some striking individual images from around the world, some not so striking, but even if you cant be arsed to vote for one, you could at least have a look couldn't you?

HERE

Dirty Car Art

An interesting look at human interaction with surrounding objects, I don't know how I would react if i seen a man painting with water on the back window of my car.

Have a look HERE

Current Listening Vol. 3

I have neglected this stream of posts even though its still at the beginning. Anyway this weeks spotlight shines on LGLP, a band from the Tee-side area of the northeast of England. Mixing industrial techno with electronic metal (with a whole load of other madness in-between). Definitely worth a listen, you can get all 3 EP's HERE at the blog FOR FREE, so what are you waiting for!

Get it in ya!

inside of emptyness

A few images from a current project I am working on which will take quite a while to complete. The two images shown here are only a portion of the project (notice lack of narrative) but I thought they might look good up here and maybe give people something to think about.

The project spawned from a lyric I wrote for a new song, like most lyrics and ideas I cannot remember the moment when it appeared in my mind.

"You will end up with nothing,

If you do not commit to starting,

with something you know nothing

about."

Although I am aware that the lyric although the initial catalyst for this project, I am in the process of deciding wether or not it sits well with the images. Anyway here are the first few from this project anyway, with more to follow at a later date.

All photographs and text copyright Andrew Clarke 2009

feeling moist?

Well if you live in Carlisle then you will certainly be aware of the height of the two main rivers in the city. The Caldew and what has become the 'epic' River Eden. I went out for a look last night about midnight to see what everyone was flipping out about and was quite shocked myself. In the three year I've been here I haven't seen the Eden as high as it is, and I have been living really close to it all this time.

A few photo's I took while out with my compact, enjoy and if you live in a potentially flooding area I guess you may start praying or doing a sun dance or something.

Current Listening Vol. 2

The new, eagerly anticipated album from Modest Mouse. Seems to have left the previous 'We were dead before the ship even sank' clean and well formed sound behind and moved back a few paces into what they used to do so well.

Its fresh, psychadelic and elemental a great album to wake up to!

Southam at Tullie House!

Jem Southams current touring exhibition 'Clouds Descending' is coming to Tullie House in Carlisle, what a privilege.

To get your invite for the evening preview, have a look here

Lets get wrecked and start a faith

become a minister, marry your dog, build a statue out of bricks and wool to worship. whatever takes your fancy, you can legitimise it here and become a religious leader.

ridiculous!

Panzer Division

Imagine the Shock

Merlot Sir?

City Of Culture 2013

Well, last nights display of public organisation and entertainment was impressive, on a completely different level compared to last years display.

The theme was love, although burning a heart shaped castle? someone in the planning obviously isn't aware of symbols of representation. Aside from this slight humour, it was a good night by all and it was good to see that people actually live here. In the three years I have lived in Carlisle I have never seen so many people walking around the cathedral quarter.

Good stuff!

Wet as ****

Just got back from walking the southern section of the Carlisle Bypass. I seen lots of photo's that I had planned on taking but the weather was so shit. Constant torrential rain, there were 3 breaks in the rain, each I waited for under a tree predicting the cloud breaks.

6 miles

3 photos

legs = soaked

back cold + sore

nice walk though I guess.

Il post the images when they come back from the Dev.

Current Listening Vol. 1

I'm going to start posting some of the music I am listening to at the moment, usually the albums I stick on when doing work, or just chilling out.
This weeks topic for discussion is a band called Ataxia (which means from ancient Greek ' Lack of Order'
With solid drumming, rolling hypnotic bass lines with rigid but sometimes flowing guitar pieces, tied together with structural lyrical content they are a band any lover of music should get into their system.

Ode to David Smith

I am working on a presentation that revolves around my inspirations and favorite artists, I came across this which I haven't read in a long time, it is just as refreshing as the first time I read it.

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I would like to make sculpture that would rise from
water and tower in the air–
that carried conviction and vision that had not
existed before
that rose from a natural pool of clear water
to sandy shores with rocks and plants
that men could view as natural without reverence or awe
but to whom such things were natural because they were
statements of peaceful pursuit–and joined in the
phenomenon of life
Emerging from unpolluted water at which men could bathe
and animals drink–that
harboured fish and clams and all things natural to it
I don’t want to repeat the accepted fact,
moralize or praise the past or sell a product
I want sculpture to show the wonder of man, that flowing water,
rocks, clouds, vegetation, have for the man in peace who
glories in existence
this sculpture will not be the mystical abode
of power of wealth of religion
Its existence will be its statement
It will not be a scorned ornament on a money changer’s temple
or a house of fear
It will not be a tower of elevators and plumbing with every
room rented, deductions, taxes, allowing for depreciation
amortization yielding a percentage in dividends
It will say that in peace we have time
that a man has vision, has been fed, has worked
it will not incite greed or war
That hands and minds and tools and material made a symbol
to the elevation of vision
It will not be a pyramid to hide a royal corpse from pillage
It has no roof to be supported by burdened maidens
It has no bells to beat the heads of sinners
or clap the traps of hypocrites, no benediction
falls from its lights, no fears from its shadow
this vision cannot be of a single mind– a single concept,
it is a small tooth in the gear of man,
it was the wish incision in a cave,
the devotion of a stone hewer at Memphis
the hope of a Congo hunter
It may be a sculpture to hold in the hand
that will not seek to outdo by bulky grandeur
which to each man, one at a time, offers a marvel of
close communion, a symbol which answers to the holder’s vision,
correlates the forms of woman and nature, stimulates the
recall sense of pleasurable emotion, that momentarily
rewards for the battle of being

Phototelegraphy

A gallery of phototelegraphy. Before the internet, the electric telegraph system spanned the globe. The telegraph was developed to such a pitch that — by 1901 — it could be used to send photographs.

And another

From the same one

Time for a photo

From a current project