John Boyd Macdonald
John Boyd Macdonald
Ghosts in the photographs Ghosts in the survivor’s testimony Ghosts in the fading street video Sudden slides and stops in the story The jumps jar Genewein the model bureaucrat Genewein the fotoamator Genewein the Nazi piper, leading a dead dance…
Private Thoughts in Public Places is a short (12 minute) video slideshow (with voices, music and subtitle text) which I prepared as a studio practice project for my studies at the ANU School or Art. It aims to bring into…
Here’s a ramble about the convergence of ‘still’ photography and video: We often seem to define our selves (and if artists, define our artistic practice) by the limits of what we do. Perhaps this helps us to maintain a coherent…
This is a short (3 minute) video that I prepared for my Studio Practice work at the ANU School of Art. In part it was done to develop my skills with Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro and Audition, but it…
80 minutes of our Saturday relaxed morning breakfast ritual compressed down into 2 minutes of frenzied action, with some gentle (Creative Commons-licensed) guitar from Kevin MacLeod. After the “11 days, 33 meals” project, you’re probably thinking I’ve got a fixation…
I really like the ‘photographic discipline’ of doing project work – whether it’s commissioned work or self-assigned. A project obliges you to focus (pun intended) on achieving some pre-defined outcome – rather just firing off images in a sometimes random,…