A Low-down On What's Happening with my Projects

I just wanted to write a short paragraph on what's happening with my projects right now, for my Radio Documentary on the Marshall Tractors I am still currently trying to get people to interview, I have already sent an email to a new contact at the Gainsborough Museum, I sent an email yesterday, I am still waiting. As for the volunteers at the Lincolnshire Life Museum I have just contacted him (again I just got a email today about who I can talk to, the man is named Derek and he says he is more than happy to have a chat with me, I am just waiting to see what time and day fits him best, i am hoping to meet him next Monday during the 4 hour break. Now as for the Digital Media project, I still want to work around history and culture so I kinda want to work around Newark Castle and take photographs of the Castle grounds and record some audio along with. How I am seeing this is that I want a series of photos to show and audio with the photos, so a two in one. Newark Castle isn't much of a Castle any more but it does look interesting. I plan on doing this Wednesday afternoon of this week. 

Videos and Photos from my solo trip to Lincolnshire Life

The main tractor i shall be working on Marshall 1983

Marshall Tractor 1950

Some other tractors in the museum which i found interesting

Also this video was playing, i would of recorded more but there was a group of school children creating loads of noise

Day 6 & 7 Of Cress

Apologies for not updating yesterday, but here is yesterday's update and today's update on the cress, Yesterday the cress was a darker shade of green and almost looks fully grown! Again sorry about there being no speech in the first vlog video.

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Day 7- There wasn't much change and i think the cress has just finished growing and is now ready to be picked, but the colour in the cress is a lot more glossy and healthy, or should i say more of a pure green in the leaves. The vlog video has a bit of speech, sadly it's a bit faded, still there wasn't much to say about it apart from that the cress is ready to be picked.

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and that's that, now that i have finished the life of cress i need to figure out what i want to do with the footage, yes i did say i would like to make a time lap video, but i am wondering how i am going to do it, i don't have the most greatest editing software, but if it looks good, it'll be great!

Day 5 Of Cress

I feel that we're almost coming to an end of the growth of the cress, today there was a huge amount of greenery and only in time the cress will be ready to eat, again i am guessing till Tuesday it will be ready, so here are today's photos and video, today's video has me speaking again. Also sorry that the pictures seem a bit dark, we where getting a spot or rain down here.

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Day 4 Of Cress

And this evening we have the first sign of pure greenery! Sorry about the late post and the speechless video i had some family matters to attend to this afternoon, So as you can see more progress has been made, maybe by Monday or Tuesday the cress will be fully grown.

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Day 3 Of Cress

Went to check on the cress again today  but at a later time (I slept in) There was some extreme progress with the cress this afternoon, small green shoots have appeared! Again with the collected videos and photos I plan on making a final video of the cress growing all at once, like a time lapped video but a little different. So here is the updates in photos and a short video, Sorry if my voice in the video a bit quiet I was half asleep.

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Day 2 Of Cress

Today I checked on the growth of my cress and changed has started, the cress has just started to sprout out and the seeds look a little bit bigger and more light brown.

I took this image from my digital camera so we could get a better look at what's happening, also i have recorded another video describing what's happening.

Hopefully by tomorrow we should see some green shoots or something looking like green shoots. 

Thoughts On Ted Lectures and The First Day Of Cress

During today's workshop we viewed three to four short lectures from the website called TED. From what i can remember there was a interesting lecture about putting friends in a jar, I can't remember how he has done it but he may of used a projector to make it seem like they are stuck inside the jars and i am sure he has told his friends to do a few actions. Also another thing i would like to talk about is a project by Noah Kalina he is a photographer but the project he has done which caught my attention was his self portraits, Noah took photos of himself everyday for the last twelve years. This is the project in question.

I thought that this was pretty amazing, sticking to a project for almost twelve years, i would like to do something like this but there might be a high chance of me missing a day for some reason. Though also it is interesting to see someone change slowly before your eyes and see how they grew/turned into that particular person. Which leads me on to the next project i would like to talk about, just today as a group we have been told to document cress, viewing it everyday and see what and how it changes, I would like to present to you Day 1.

As i made my way back home from Homebase in Newark, which i might add i had an adventure trying to find a single packet of cress seeds. I don't really have much to report on at the minute since they are only just been planted this afternoon but as you can see they are sitting in damp cotton wool and somewhat slowly growing. I have also taken a 34 second video of the seeds, i plan on adding all of the videos at the end and add it with music.

Thoughts On Waltz with Bashir

The Documentary "Waltz With Bashir" was created by a Israeli writer and director, Ari Folman. It is a animated film based around Folman on his search to recover his lost memories from the 1982 Lebanon War. In the mother language of the film goes by "Vals Im Bashir" ( ואלס עם באשיר ). The film was released in 2008 and earning the sum of $11,125,849. The whole film is in Hebrew but English, German, French and many other subtitles where included. "Dispite the popularity of the film, it was officially banned in Lebanon" (Wikipedia) The trailer is accompanied by PIL & Johnny Rotten - This Is Not A Love Song

As for my thoughts on the Documentary film itself, i personally thought the animation was beyond amazing! I really do admire the artwork, though it was quite interesting to finally view a Documentary that isn't in English for a change it was a really nice change. Though i never really understood the nudity scenes, mainly the woman climbing into the boat, I really had no idea what was happening or what she meant to be. I found it quite interesting is that we learn about what happens behind the news stories on the television, we learn about things we never knew about the Lebanon war. However the whole war and terror did really terrify me, I didn't see it as a cartoon, I didn't see it as a film, I saw it as real life and it really hit me from the moment it all started. I have amazing and wonderful friends in Israel and seeing them become soldiers really does make me worry. This was a striking yet magnificent film.


~ Film Posters

~ A interview with Ari Folman from Black Tree Media