Sunday 27 February 2011

Personnel interest: The 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship at Silverstone.

The British Grand Prix is a race in the calendar of the FIA Formula One World Championship. It is currently held at the Silverstone Circuit near the village of Silverstone in Northamptonshire. The British and Italian Grands Prix are the oldest continuously staged Formula One World Championship Grand Prix.

Originally the British Grand Prix venue was meant to of been held at Donington park. The proposed move to Donington on a long-term contract was announced in July 2008, but a deadline passed for the company redeveloping the circuit to prove it had the £135m funding required. This wasn't the case and the venue was moved to Silverstone.




























Friday Practise one, I was able to get into a grandstand on Copse corner leading onto the mainstraight where I was able to ge some good shots. 
 Karun Chandock in the Hispania on the main straight.
 Kubica and Alguesuari through copse corner
 Kunica through Copse Corner
 Felipe Massa through Copse
Mark Webber entering the pits


Tatsuo Miyajima:

Tatsuo Miyajima Japanese sculptor and installation artist. He finished undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1986 and came to prominence in the late 1980s with installations of digital counters in the form of light-emitting diodes. He made his first counter in 1988 and subsequently retained this form as his basic building block: a large, two-digit red display, it continually counts from 1 to 99, never reaching 100 or registering zero.
Counter Void, 2003
Collection of tv asahi, Tokyo
Directed by Fumihiko Maki
Photo: Kunihiko Katsumata
Courtesy of Shiraishi Contemporary Art Inc

Over the past few years, it has been Miyajima's monumental public art projects around the world that have attracted the most attention. Starting with a public art project for Geneva University, Switzerland in 1997, he has steadily broadened his scope, creating a series of large site-specific works that include Sea of Time '98, for the Art House Project on Naoshima Island, Okayama, Counter Void for the TV Asahi headquarters in Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Time Garden in Izumi City, Osaka, and Transcend Section for the entrance to the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, Korea. While retaining his focus on counters to convey his messages, he utilizes neon lights, liquid crystal and even performance art in addition to LEDs.

Photography: Reaction part 1 typography

                             

                                
This was created in responce to a design brief, which was focused strictly on typography. I wanted to work with light projections, because it was something I had never used before.
The typography was originally hand generated, which was then photocopied and printed onto acetate, this allowed me to project my type onto walls/cielings using an overhead projector. Overall I believe it worked well, however I want to further crop the image so I'm left with just the cieling and the light projection. The contrast between the light projection and the natural light shining through the window is particularly interesting.

Acetate printout projected onto a wall.
 
Photoshoped version. Personally I don't think the image needs any editing, however I've tried to emphasize the contrast between the to different light sources.