The Community

A way overdued update! I am currently in Jakarta and here is a new photo experiment I’m working on.

I had recently stumbled upon a large stash of old family photographs; pages filled with my parent’s youth in the 70s, mini-me growing up in the 80s, a whole shoebox of negatives and Polaroids! It is really surreal discovering how the colour-aged photographs come to life after being scanned and I had imagined all sorts of stories for those captured moments.

For now, this project is more of an experiment in progress exploring glitch and generative photography. Merging analog and digital, fiction and non-fiction.

Please check the Instagram tag #projectmay2012 #fatsther and here on flickr. There will be about 2-4 new images each day for the whole month of May.

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Hannah Collard

New photos taken for Chadwick’s Modelling Agency, for the Face of Perth Fashion Week 2012, Hannah Collard.

The last time I shot Hannah was in Broome 2011, when she first signed.

This shoot was shot by Jordan Shields, with Hair and Makeup by Rachael Sasche who is a star, and Creative Direction & Styling by Nicole Norelli. We chose iconic Perth and Freo backgrounds for our editorial. Works a treat. We will be in the studio next week for a bunch of pretty ladies portraits. Call 0448 735 338 for enquirers. Stay tuned to Community Records yo!

To check out more photos from the shoot click here: http://www.nicolenorelli.com.au/fashion/

I would like to start this first post with a manhug to all of the community members and organiser-folk that have created such a warm and cozy environment in which to grow, share and raise a small family. Special thanks to Ash for opening the community gates and to Mathas for lending me his sugar. So much sugar.

The pure enjoyment in the act of creating  is the motivation behind the bulk of my general activities. I prefer writing lyrics to performing on stage, prefer producing beats than recording songs, and I prefer drawing ideas rather than designing graphics.  I hover on the line between art and design. Not skilled enough to be a fully blown artist, and not OCD enough to be a fully blown designer.

2012 is a big year for me in in respect to all of the previously mentioned activities. The first official Stoop album is underway and much of the production is tackled by myself. My partnership – Treehouse Collective, is churning along and keeping me up late at night with a bucket load of projects underway.

Current projects include identity design for S.A hip hop group – Ill Equipt, local electronic up and comers – Command Q, and the hip hop swiss army kniff – RichoKidd. Poster design for a Poets and Painters night in Melb. A t-shirt collabo for Twenty3 inspired by a WA exclusive hipster-bogan type human. On top of the fun stuff are some corporate pieces that have to be done in order to pay of a ridiculously large IOU to the commonwealth bank of australia. (Lowercaps out of disrespect).

Im hoping to have some visual updates on these projects in the next few weeks.

Till then, much love.

Matt

After what seems like an eternity, I am in the final year of my art degree and will finish late October! Last semester, I worked on an installation using honey and the hexagon form found in bee-hives. A movie of a honey pour performance was projected  a hexagonal 3D screen. You can check out some photos here. This semester I’m also focusing on installation and incorporating projected images, performance and representational sculpture. Hopefully, I’ll also get a chance to work with YLEM on soundscapes too. More to come.

Just got back from  Europe and managed to check out the  Venice Biennale for the first time, which is a massive International arts festival held every 2 years since 1895. It’s an amazing showcase of some of the best contemporary art the world has to offer, which you often don’t get a chance to see in little ol’ Perth.

With so many great artworks its hard to pick favourites, but I thought I’d share some photos here of standout pieces.

Nathaniel Mellors, Hippy dialect, UK

Animatronic talking heads linked by long hair, in a sprawling video installation of absurd soap-opera ‘Ourhouse’ about language & culture.