hardluckhotel.co.uk » sandwell http://hardluckhotel.co.uk home of keith bloomfield Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:09:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Street Signs Project http://hardluckhotel.co.uk/2010/04/street-signs-project/ http://hardluckhotel.co.uk/2010/04/street-signs-project/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:26:14 +0000 Hardluck Hotel http://hardluckhotel.co.uk/?p=442 I was looking for a new project to do over the spring and I decided that I would take photographs of all the street signs I passed. The idea is to stop, take one shot from the best possible position with my iPhone and then process with apps.

These are the results – and I’ll adding more to the series as I pass more signs.

All photographs were taken on a iPhone 3GS (3 megapixel) camera, Helga and Lolo filter enhancements made with the camerabag application.

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“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” – he won the bet.

Stardust was created to accompany a six word story I wrote for the ‘Six Word Stories from Local People’ project run by Multistory, in collaboration with SMITH magazine and The Public. The project invited residents of the six towns in Sandwell to tell their own story in six words.

The illustration started as a hand drawn image with all the colour and star effects added in Photoshop.

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The final illustration appeared in a publication to celebrate the year of communities which contained over 100 stories and illustrations, and was featured in an exhibition at the Public Building, West Bromwich.

‘Six’ was inspired by the six word memoirs project run by SMITH Magazine in America. SMITH Magazine have also produced a hardback book of six word stories titled “One Life, Six Words, What’s Yours? “. The book is available online from Amazon.

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