Sunday, May 25, 2008

The blurring of two realities- in pre production


LOCATION IMAGE - Bar Palacio one is Buenos Aires magical spaces. A place a photographer can call home. To remember the origins of photography in the digitalised age.



Images of two actors selected for this production currently in pre production.

Fernando Lobos, 26, Argentinian.

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Stingray production (storey board design)

The idea behind this production, is to develope a storey through 8 or 9 fashion images. A series which brings whole collection to life. Faustino Lopez's collection for winter 2008 is based on the stingray. All the collection is in black.

Character traits of the Stingray: sexy, slick, seductive, strong,, elegant, sharp, graceful, beautiful, deadly, bird of the ocean.

Through a series of eight photographc images, a storey of three alien stingray like women land on this planet, to collect three Argentinian men to take back to there planet for cloning.
This three women are here for a mission and that is capture three men. Armed with spear gun like weapons.



This are faustino s fashion and graphic designed images. He worked 10 years as the owner and director of his own graphic design business.



LOCATION STOREY BOARD


PROPS: stingray car, guitar and various spearguns. The speargun can be hired on the daily basis from a diving shop in Caballito.


IMAGE by IMAGE storey board



HAIR DESIGN SKETCHES


Tranvestite exhibition


Palermo woods is a park filled with hundreds of Buenos Aires locals running, walking, cycling, roller blading by day. One night I cycled around the lake in the centre of Palermo woods, in amazement. This road was lined with transvestites, competing to gain the attention of the men in cars passing by. On POP fm radio, a local palermo radio station anouncer stated that, "3000 men pass by everynight". Cars go round and round as if lost in a supermarket maze. In search tranvestite which simulates a fantasy, a desire in the moment. Like products in a department store, each Transvestite tries to out do the other in appearance.

I am very interested the fact that many hetersexual men don t identify them selves as gay, but have sex with tranvestites. Transvestites subconsciously try to look like the sort of women they find most attractive and therefore wish to emulate there appearance. Perhaps that is why transvestites adopt slutty looks, an echo of the paradoxical hetersexual desire to date sluts, but eventually marry a virgin.

The director of Pink Flamingos and Hairstray, commented on the subject, "I know that dragg queens and transsexuals are always chased by men who seem to identify as being straight. Most transvestites I know in America have told me that straight men want transvestites to fuck them up the ass".

Perhaps consumerism is teaching people how to daydream about commodites, about other sexual bodies, fantasis, to daydream. Through make up, fashion and of course one can change there appearance. This become a simalaca, an illusion of something else. Perhap due to this illusion hetersexual men believe they are with a women. An illusion of something they desire, dream about.

My image has placed the transexual as a art piece, an object of desire.

You can look, Desire, fantasis, but don t touch unless you have a black American Express credit card

LOCATION SKETCH in Recoleta gardens


Technical sketch of the structural set up for the gallery fense and mirror stage rised off the ground

Technical and location image - this is a post Photoshop image after the four four coffee jars used to left the mirror off the ground have been removed in photoshop.
PRODUCTION IMAGE