We've been to see an exhibition at the Photographer's Gallery in Soho.  One of the photographers in the exhibition we saw was called Anna Fox. We loved this one of her photographs and wondered if she changed the CURVES!

We did a workshop with Madeline on using photoshop. It was good fun.  I played with the CURVES tool and experimented with putting in and taking away different amouns of Red Green and Blue from my pictures.  I'm going to upload the pictures here so you can see how differnt the photographs look when you change the levels of these coloirs.  In one of hte pictures, Alicia, we were able to make the wooded deck look much richer and more wood-like. In the original photo it was .....

I've been looking at film and video made by kids to get some ideas.  I love this project made here in East London by kids from a Pupil Referral unit. I think i've seen it before, or bits of it...It's called Beneath the Hood and it was made by Eelyn's production company!!

 

 

 

 

 

We wne tto see Alicein Wonderland in 3-D.  When you look at how it is filmed, and how the characters are made up and dressed, its easy to imaging the people who made the film having been to the portrait gallery: Look at these images - a bit similar?   We thought it was a great movie and it was fun to see how much like the portraits the characters looked!!   .....

I first heard about this play - MIdsummer's Night Dream - when i was 8 or maybe 9. I was reading the book Ballet Shoes and the three girls in the story were cast in different roles in the play.  I remember one of the girls, Petrova - the worst dancer and the one who HATED acting - had the easiest part. Puck.  But she kept forgetting the few lines she had.  What i remember most was the fairies got to fly through the theatre on wire ropes.  I wonder will they fairies .....

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I brought in a photo of my granny and grandad.  They were at a dance at university.  They were very young, probably only 19 or 20.  They are in their 60s now. And it is a black and white photograph in a wooden frame.  Granny is wearing a satin dress. My grandad has glasses on and no beard.  he has a beard now and grey hair. My mum loves this picture. 

It was really good! I especially liked the Hip Hop. Me and my friend rhea screamed and clapped so loudly !!!!!!!  This is a picture of the Hip Hip group - they are called Phase T.

I thought this was an interesting interview with the writer of Nation - I found it on Youtube...

 

I Loved the costumes, the dancing, puppets, the music and the sets - that was all just GREAT!!  And our SEATS!!! Fantastic.  I'm not so sure about the story though - it was interesting, but a bit heavy handed in its messaged maybe?

Mim and I missed going with the group to the National Portait and National Galleries: Mim was not well. We went together the next day instead. Not quite the same, but we did have a good time.  Mim loved this photo. She wouldn't say too  much about why she did, but she did say it was something about how the woman was looking past us (she was a bit taken aback by the way a few of the subjects seems to follow h .....