Colour Like No Other

Ipod

The Apple Ipod adverts are a good example of getting advertising right, they pitch their adverts perfectly to their target audience. There ads are usually fun, fresh, bright and funky often with an up-to-date catchy song. Ipods are still one of the trendiest gadgets to be had, I think their success is down to their very effective and entertaining ads.

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Harder, better, faster, stronger...

I don't know if you've seen this home made video for the song, harder, better, faster, stronger. Take a look tis very clever...

This is England

Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti's sculptures fascinate me. They look at a different aspect of the human body, his elongated sculptures represent the shadows that our bodies cast. By removing definition such as eyes, ears and nose...allows you to appreciate the sculpture firstly as a whole and then it allows to further look at the more defined markings. I admire his confidence to play around with scale, because the sculptures have large feet you start from the bottom and work your way up, which emphasises the the scale of the piece. He usually either chooses to make his sculpture really tall or very small, there is no in between as this would not attract the viewer I don't think, you are drawn to them because they are unusual and out of proportion.

Richard Billingham

Richard Billingham is another photographer whose work I admire. I am drawn by the roughness and rawness of his photo's, he sums up domesticity perfectly; Everyday people, with everyday lives, in everyday situations but they make a unique and striking pictures. I like the fact that none of his pictures are staged he lets the subjects of his work be natural, he captures the moments of "family life" which would normally be overlooked and ignored.  

Christian Boltanksi

Although I find Boltanski's work visually appealing, I find many of his pieces give off an erie presence which makes me feel slightly uncomfortable if I look at it for too long. His work has been considered a "disturbing archive of our social, cultural, ethnic and personal histories". Many of his pieces are death obsessed, he creates photos that are out of focus and blurred so the faces become more ghost like and emphasise the memories that lie behind these faces. I like his photos that are lit up with bulbs, the pictures become shrine like and celebratory of the lives of the people who feature in them. 

You can see an similarities and influences from Annette Messenger's style and presentation, who is his wife.