SPECIAL - By popular demand - Snow Dogs 'Sepia Edition' - A photo animation of our dogs playing in the snow, last November this time taking account of the gaps in the stills and re-mastered in 'Sepia'
A collection of still photos taken recently, converted to sepia and then animated in my usual style. Producing an amusing look at today in yesterday mode
Join me as the aircraft begins its take off run at London Gatwick Airport and see some of Surrey and Kent from the air. London, Rivers Thames and Medway, Canterbury,Thames Estuary Kent, Minnis Bay, Margate, Ramsgate, Pegwell and a bit of Sandwich Bay, before crossing the English Channel and into Europe via the Belgian coast.
Ioana creates her paintings with view to the latest trends in contemporary painting, building them in a context where figurative and abstract expressions struggle. On the one hand, there is the temptation of representation, and her works act in response to being aware of and cut up from surrounding reality, to reformulate in accordance to important themes in painting. On the other hand, there is understanding and experimenting of the pictorial vocation of painting, somehow an expression of autonomous becoming that is consistent with the internal logics of the work and independent of the representation conventions. In the beginning was the image, a shape, or a mountain. Then it was the vision, the association of forms, details and directions that suddenly become significant. And you feel you have been here so many times before... I like the way this paint mixes and applies on the canvas and I like the textures and the two adjoining shades. And there is this familiar feeling that somebody is looking at the painting over your shoulder...
A whistle stop Photovideo in Bucharest consisting of 250 still photographs taken on the 14th of August is now before you and animated for your enjoyment. Just a taster, more to come in the near future, so watch this space!
Dr. Peter James aka Boffin1157 was born in the late 1950's in the United Kingdom. He is currently living, working and tutoring in Northern Romania. and is engaged to Dr. Cristina Felea, teacher, translator and daughter of Romanian writer Victor Felea (1923-1993).
Among his numerous qualifications to-date are a degree in Psychology and another in Forensic Psychology, the latter is his speciality.
Dr. Peter James wrote a book covering the topic of self-help entitled A Better Life For You! - Your New Independence Day? (ISBN: 142086811X; 13 9781420868111), published in August 2005 and widely available in a 'Print-to-Order' format as well as electronically.
Boffin1157 is currently engaged in further studies on everyday behaviour and in tutoring privately and as an ancillary advisor for a Romanian University. He is also involved in translation work with/for various persons.
He has a keen interest in photography and has produced a number of photovideos using only stills taken on his Olympus E500 camera, these can be found at various locations on the web by searching 'Googling' etc, his alias 'Boffin1157'.
