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Please "Like" my Summer Shot,  as I hope to get noticed and win myself a new SLR Camera!

 The Photo was taken at Revolution Bar in Aberdeen and is part of Revolutions Summer Competion!

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Matt

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Study China Program

Nanjing at night

Shocked does not describe how I feel at the moment.... I cant believe it but I have been chosen to go and study in China in April for 3 weeks.!!

I was awarded a place out of 2000 applicants so rather honoured to be given a spot.
I have been awarded a place in Nanjing where I will be given a chance to form a long-lasting relationship with

China, during my trip I will also be learning the language with over 40 hours of Mandarin lessons, the trip will also be packed with exciting and interesting activities. It is designed to give you a realistic experience of what life is like in China and to enable you to meet Chinese people. Previous programmes have included amongst other things: - Tai Chi, calligraphy and kite making classes, weekends away in Shanghai in a mountain village, work experience on an archaeological dig, Beijing Opera, amazing acrobatics shows and tea house/museum visits.

Nanjing  南京 Jiangsu Province

Nanjing University

Jiangsu is one of China’s most economically vibrant

provinces, benefiting from significant foreign

investments such as Suzhou Industrial Park. Nanjing, as

the capital of Jiangsu province, is situated in the lower

Yangtze River.  Together with Shanghai and 14 other

cities, it forms the Yangtze River Delta Economic Zone.

It is one of China's most important historic cities along

with Beijing and Xian and was the capital of the

Republic of China till 1949.  Nanjing has also been a

national hub of education, research, transportation and

tourism throughout history. The population is over five

million.  The city still has the best kept city wall built by

the first emperor of Ming dynasty in 14th century

Nanjing High-street.

I'm so pleased that my application for the program has been such as success, and I can already imagine the influence this trip of a lifetime will impact my work and viewpoint on life.

Nanjing with its population of 5 million roughly the same as the population of Scotland will no doubt be a complete culture shock to me, however in my work I intend to focus on the way in which the East culture can perhaps be mixed with that of the west.

Excited and utterly nervous at the same time...Just imagine the photos and textiles resarch I will gather.

Movement.

I have been interested in movement recently and have been putting some thought into ways movement can be expressed...one way I particularly like is long exposure.

Sometimes I felt as though long exposure never really showed the full extent of the motion so I decided to emphasise this by using flour to leave a track.

This is a few of the flour motion photos I took. :)

This one below is one of me blowing the flour..I really liked the contrast of colours and distortion of this image by my face not being visible.

Textiles & Surface Design Year Two

I've just started back at Grays School of Art, Robert Gordon University.

I'm currently starting my second year and SOO excited to get back into the swing of things after having a busy summer working.

Received an A for my Summer Project so pretty chuffed - I have included some photos of the work that I produced for this below

We are using this Summer Project as the basis for the next projects, I'm currently developing these drawings into a motif which I am arranging into various types of printing methods (various patterns of sorts) Below is the image I am planning on using...in some sort of form.

I've also began a Daily Drawing Sketchbook which I have to maintain until mid December...suppose this can go along with my Daily photograph! You can still follow my Daily Photo which is on its 130th Day so far....to View todays and previous  Click Here

New House....

Sorry for not updating my Blog much at the moment, as I just recently moved to a new house and haven't got round to setting up broadband :( bad times I know..

..Away to Paris next weekend however so look out for my Paris photography and textiles research as we visit various Fashion houses and Premier Vision Textiles Exhibition researching the new materials for our next collection.

Vintage Photography.

Myself and CARi have been extremely busy after returning from our holidays, between getting lots of orders for various shops to sell the Collars and Snoods SEEN HERE and Finishing our deluxe range of luxurious winter Collars and Snoods (Coming Soon!) its been hard to find a minute.

However this is some vintage photography I have taken of CARi and her new purchases from the US. You can see more of my Fashion Photography on the Fashion Site www.whatcariwears.tumblr.com

Visit From The Sergeant....

Fashion Project

For this weeks fashion project I had to explore an Identity. I chose Sergeant James Hutchison of Old Aberdeen which i discovered in an antique 200 year old book, the book which I recently bought was owned by the Sergeant in 1812 and i thought it would be appropriate and interesting to explore his identity in a fashion and stylistic sense.

I discovered much about the Sergent such as where he lived (his house still exists) and some information about his family such as having eight children under the age of twelve, from the eighteen forty one census. I decided to use this identity and book as inspiration for a professional photo shoot I did for a magazine interview (3rd image below)

Magazine Interview Article