Connor Finnegan
Well its Friday, and my last guest post, so here’s a light piece that’s right up my alley by film student Connor Finnegan (IADT National Film School). Its simple, cute and obviously made with a lot of love!
Guest Post
Keith Loutit
What have you got planned this week?
I doubt I’ll pick up a camera. This is my first week off in months, so I’m going to settle into some important football watching. It’s winter in Sydney so perfect for couch time. I’m enjoying being with the family (my daughter is 1… and I’m catching up on time lost). I ripped the petrol cap off my car the other day so I’d better get that fixed too.
What do your parents think you do?
Up until recently I would have answered “Whatever it was I was doing 2 years ago”… but now I create pictures and film my work is easy to understand. They have been to my exhibitions, and seen my work online so like most people they have a better idea of what I do that how I do it.
Who do you look like?
When I was younger I like to think I looked like Ronan Keating… now I’m a cross between a slightly overweight Keifer Sutherland & Brad Pitt (the one with the beard).
What’s your favourite sense?
Echolocation. Unfortunately I don’t have it so I use a torch instead.
Tell us something people don’t know about you…
I break cameras – I’ve taken 2 million photographs over the past few years shooting time-lapse, most of which will, and should never be seen. This sounds like a lot, but its not that bad when you consider how I shoot (multiple cameras fired remotely).
I was also Lance’s stunt double on the Australia television series Neighbours. Really dangerous stuff… I took a ‘hit from the team’ roller blading a line of shopping trolleys into a parked car. This was my first experience with film and television.
Did your education count?
I think so, Business / Marketing is important even for us creative types. I wish I paid more attention though…
What word can’t you spell?
My spell check is set to ‘American English’ so I don’t know what I can spell anymore… While writing this, the spell check informed me that I can’t spell ‘Neighbors’.
Tell us a good fact
The French team were eliminated from the 2010 World Cup during the group stages.
What’s Next?
By strange coincidence, my list of things to do & see before I die matches perfectly with the shot list for my Small Worlds project. Next up is a USA road trip, then I’m back to Europe for a mix of personal & commercial work.
What’s your ‘Plan B’?
To do ‘Plan A’ better.
Guest Posted Articles
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Burton Holmes: Travelogues
Long before the Internet and television brought the world to our door, audiences filled venues such as Carnegie Hall to learn of the world through the stories and photographs of Burton Holmes. Known as the greatest traveller of his time, Holmes is said to have travelled over a million miles. The frankness and honesty of his images reflect the luxury he had, presenting the world to audiences for the first time.
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Andreas Gursky: Oceans
Known for his grand landscapes revealing incredible detail, Gursky prints combine large format photography with digital manipulation to tame vast and otherwise impossibly complex subjects. Gursky’s new work Oceans faithfully recreates the topography of the ocean floor, but manipulates the distances between continents to create stunning compositions from a familiar subject, the world map.
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Terri Weifenbach: Lana
I was so taken by Terri’s Weifenbach’s Lana that I visited the township in Northern Italy in 2006 to see for myself how she captured its beauty. Her fairytale subjects that are heavily defocussed create an other worldly feel that is often attempted and rarely realized without digital manipulation.
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Lori Nix
Forget tilt shift. Long an inspiration of mine, Lori Nix’s painstakingly created, and beautifully photographed models provide a benchmark of what a a world made of toys should look like, and blur ‘the line between truth and illusion’.