Dodging the camera
My response to the task of ‘dodging the camera’ was to create a gif by taking photos in one area trying to follow one of my friends around as they attempted the dodge the camera or run away from it. I felt that these images worked best when they are presented in a looping gif, rather than seperate image as it shows the movement within the images.
Creating a line with balls
John Baldessari: Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts)
Baldessari is a conceptual artist working in photography, film, video, artists’ books, billboards, and public works. He started as a painter in his early career, Baldessari cremated all of the work he produced between 1953 and 1966 in a ceremony in 1970 to mark his transition from abstract painting to text-based art.
His artists’ book, Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts) (1973). It represents Baldessari’s interest in language and games as structurews following both mandatory and arbitory rules.
My Response to John Baldessari was to go outside a throw up three tennis balls and try and create a straight line. Some of my attempts worked out however, some attempts ended up having the balls in a triangle or only capturing two out of three tennis balls.
Throwing a dodgeball in the air
My Response was to throw a dodgeball in the air and then try to capture it in a photo, some of these attempts worked well however, like the last image sometimes the ball wouldn’t always be clearly in shot.
Coin Toss
“I just got so tired of looking at these faces” – John Baldessari
John Baldessari also made a series of images where he blanked out peoples faces.
In response to this idea we flipped a coin over a copy of an archival photograph and wherever it landed we cut out around it so that at the end of the excerise we had an image with lots of circles cut out of it and a blank piece of paper with the cut outs placed out on it.
