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Farran — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:44:20 +0000

NOIR Lingerie

Farran — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:17:34 +0000

I recently did some retouching on a project for my sister. This is her 2009 range of lingerie. Photographed by Willem de Lange.

Stolen photograph

Farran — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:54:52 +0000

Hey Friends,

I made a new picture last night. It’s inspired by a photo of my lovely friend Lauren who hates camera’s in her face. I hope you like it. x

energy saving light bulbs

Farran — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:17:26 +0000

I think it’s high time I usher in a new year of photography, image making, retouch, art (and blogging) with a congratulatory greeting! Im 24 and feeling like life’s just beginning. I love that about new years. I have a huge list of projects and ideas and it feels like I’m already running out of time. I hate that about new years. My thoughts for the new year have been why not live life doing what you love? why not live out what you believe? I reckon its a year to aim high.
So far my career has been overshadowed by this epic sense of urgency that I have so much more inside this head and heart and no way to let it out. Its as frustrating as it is daunting. My struggle is translating passion into something tangible and worth wile. How do you do that? To make it worse, a seemingly debilitating lack of equipment gives me an excuse to procrastinate. Some of my best work was shot using my trusty camera and two energy saving light bulbs….go figure.
So I think it’s fitting to start the year with my biggest word count yet, and with the hope that I can get that thing in my chest a creative outlet…

will keep you posted.
Farrrrrrrrrrrrrrrran

happy holga

Farran — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:52:52 +0000

Beautiful photos! I’m so annoyed at myself for not taking note who took these photographs. I came across them and just hit “save” and dont remember where they came from!

good news for me. I finally got around to buying film for my holga which had begun to collect dust. Happy Holga!

sketch #3

Farran — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:12:53 +0000

listening to Mumford&Sons:Love your ground <3

Latest drawing :)

Put beauty back in art

Farran — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:33:22 +0000

I just watched a really good program on tv about the necessity for beauty and the rise of the ugly, profane and functional. It reminded me of some old academic essays I wrote in my last year at varsity about a similar topic: the loss of morality and art. So I dug it out of a pile of crusty cds and gave it a read. Here is an excerpt

The aftermath in which we now live parades a downward degradation of personal integrity of passed ideologies and philosophies. We live in a world whose ideologies are at war with morality, a world whose values amount to chaotic relativity and a world whose art suffers from the same symptoms. Described broadly as a crisis of our age, in art and in humanity, postmodernism is a metaphorical corpse whose pungent odour has seeped into the crevasses of our entire existence; postmodern art is the corpse of art as postmodern morality is the corpse of morality.

Metaphorical corpse? Woah, I was in the zone! I remember loving this topic but feeling fearful at the thought of humanity on a slippery slope of immorality. I remember feeling a brief loss of hope when researching this topic in preparation for my essay. I suppose its easy to lose focus on hope when you’re immersed in hopelessness. The program I watched attempted to persuade viewers to bring beauty back into their world and credited it as sufficient enough to fill the god-shaped hole created by science. But it failed to outline the simple source of that beauty, the Creator of it all: God.

So, I seem to have rekindled the inspiration I got almost three years ago. I think this is a topic Id like to explore creatively.

I miss writing essays…I’d never thought I’d ever say that!

girl with a gun

Farran — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:37:29 +0000

I’m seriously loving film stills and old photos at the moment. Can’t get enough of these…

Gold Pony, i like!

Farran — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:41:59 +0000

A collection of some black and white photos (and one gold pony!!)

enjoy

Wild Tigers

Farran — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:50:23 +0000

New illustration: Loved drawing this so much. Im busy with another one and will post that soon soon. In other news, I’ve repriced prints in my shop (prices start at £25!!) - so go check that out. Not everything is up so if you have prints in mind (including illustrations) that aren’t listed just send me an email