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OurWorldMyEye
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PHOTOGRAPHY // OBSERVATIONS // MUSINGS - A blog of images and thoughts from the mind of John House. Posts about Photography, Art, Culture, Life, Politics and everything between!
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WALL BASED SABOTAGE – HEAVY ARTILLERY PAINT BEASTIE BOYS’ MCA GRAFF TRIBUTE

Like many other people who have grown up with the sounds of the Beastie Boys in their ears and used them as an entry point into a biorader appreciation for Hip Hop, I was gutted when I heard MCA (Ada...

22 may 12

LULWORTH COVE – DEAD ANIMALS, DEAD BUCKETS, DEAD NICE!

It seems that I have been to Lulworth Cove an extraordinary number of times in the past few years. Not that going to Lulworth Cove is in itself unusual – but for some reason, I seem to have app...

02 may 12

NEW WORK ON DISPLAY @ THE CLAREMONT OPEN HOUSE, BRIGHTON

CUBE (2012) BRIGHTON FESTIVAL OPEN HOUSE 2012 Well what a week last week was! There was a rather frenzied flurry of activity as I found out, rather last minute, that I had been accepted to show as pa...

30 apr 12

OWME IS THREE – BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS START HERE

Friends, The other day, quite randomly, I noticed the date of my first post on ourworldmyeye.com and it turns out that we are 3! On 12th April 2009 the site went live with its first post (aptly entit...

18 apr 12

HAVE WE EVER SPOKEN ABOUT THE PUNCTUM?

ROLAND BARTHES & CAMERA LUCIDA I am a fan of the writings of Roland Barthes. I guess anyone who has been to art college, has to either enjoy his texts or die a miserable death every time they hav...

27 mar 12

HOW DO YOU REPRESENT ALL OF ART IN ONE PICTURE

I have been designing the poster and other marketing material for an art exhibition which spans the whole art department of a college. Usually the poster is knocked together using a bad photo of a st...

20 mar 12

PIXEL FACE: I LOVE IT WHEN A PLAN DOESN’T COME TOGETHER

PIXEL FACE (2012) WHEN THINGS GO WRONG THINGS GO RIGHT I would like to introduce you to my new friend. I call him Pixel Face. Last week I was ‘commissioned’ to try and touch up and enlar...

12 mar 12

THIS IS STILL LIFE (PATTERNS, PATTERNS EVERYWHERE)

As I have probably alluded to in a few of my recent posts, I am currently finishing up a body of work that has been a sort of ongoing project for the last 3 years. Slightly different from other bodi...

06 mar 12

PHOTO DIARY – WHAT CAUGHT MY EYE IN THE FOREST OF DEAN

BIG TREES, BIG HERITAGE, BIG RIVER Big fan of the Forest, it has trees and old industry and rivers and all manner of excitement lurking within its borders. Big fan of a good forest generally –...

29 feb 12

INSPIRATIONAL IMAGES – MARK LEWIS ‘ALGONQUIN PARK, EARLY MARCH’

FILM NOT PHOTOGRAPHY When I say here inspirational images, I mean it much more literally this time – because the chosen piece is a film rather than a single still photograph. Mark Lewis came to...

31 jan 12

INSPIRATIONAL IMAGES – SUSAN MEISELAS ‘CUESTA DEL PLOMO’

INSPIRATIONAL IMAGES #1 Perhaps a slightly macabre choice of image to choose as inspirational and I am perhaps not normally one to single out documentary war photography as a point of general interes...

24 jan 12

OUR LAMB HAS CONQUERED – LET US FOLLOW HIM!

MY CURIOUS NATURE TOWARDS CHURCHES Whilst I am very far from being religious and very far from holding any sort of faith at all, I am fascinated by religion and churches. I think my lack of understa...

23 jan 12

DEAR JANUARY, IF YOU INSIST TO EXIST – DO IT PROPERLY!

Wet, grey & gloomy January makes my heart sink. Dark to work and dark to home. I happened upon this old photograph yesterday and it’s summery glory made me long for loosing my Long Johns. P...

05 jan 12

THE ABANDONED POWER STATION & THE RE-DISCOVERED MAMIYA C3

THE BEAUTY OF INDUSTRY Part of my core being rebels against the Picturesque. As an aesthetic, I find it false, imprisoning and rather obvious. Instead, my eye is often drawn to that, which some migh...

09 dec 11

EXHIBITION REVIEW: GRAYSON PERRY – THE TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN CRAFTSMAN

PONDER Grayson Perry and The British Museum are two institutions that one would not normally expect to join forces to create a new exhibition. But come together they have and in quite remarkable sty...

18 nov 11

SPORTING TRIALS – BEHIND THE SCENES OF SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY

SPORTS BAGS (2011) BE A SPORT I would imagine that upon reading the title of this post you fall into one of two categories which we shall explore and exploit below. 1) You are a regular reader, glanc...

10 nov 11

ON THE ROAD AGAIN – OURWORLDMYEYE @ ART JUNKY, BRIGHTON, SAT 5th & SUN 6th NOVEMBER

  OURWORLDMYEYE @ ART JUNKY 5th & 6th NOVEMBER 2011 That’s right, I am on the road again, this time to Sunny Brighton for the annual Art Junky fair at the Phoenix Gallery in Brighton...

04 nov 11

A SHORT MEANDERING STROLL THROUGH MY RECORDS (FREE MUSIC MIX!)

Well it has been a while since I last inflicted my music taste and shoddy DJ skills upon you. So, let us rectify that with a brand new music mix for your delection! This one came about because I got ...

21 oct 11

A DAY IN THE BELLY OF THE OVERPOWERING MOTHER

PAGE FROM MY JOURNAL WHERE I WAS RECORDING VISITOR NUMBERS A couple of Saturdays past, I spent the day in the belly of the overbearing mother. Perhaps that is too abstract, rather I spent the day in...

16 oct 11

PHOTOMONTH PHOTOFAIR REPORT – AKA HASTINGS TO LONDON PHOTOFAIR…IT’S NOT SPITTING DISTANCE

Matchbox Gallery Street So as mentioned the other day, last Saturday saw me exhibiting at the 2011 Photomonth Photofair at Spitalfields market, in good old London Town. First of all, I would like to ...

11 oct 11

OURWORLDMYEYE AT: PHOTOMONTH PHOTOFAIR 2011

Photomonth Just to quick note to say I am excited to be participating in the Photomonth Photofair 2011 at Spitalfields Market in London Town this coming Saturday:       Saturday, 8th O...

04 oct 11

GUEST REVIEW IN ARTSELECTOR MAGAZINE

Chloe Brooks - Golden Gates & Floodlit Temples Just a quickie to point you towards a piece of my musings else where on the web-machine. I was asked to write a review of an art work by Chloe Brook...

27 sep 11

PHOTO DIARY – SHOREHAM RIVER WALK (A SURPRISINGLY INSPIRING PLACE)

SHOREHAM BY SEA – ITS NOT ALL BAD! Shoreham by the Sea. Perhaps for many, this does not conjure up the most exciting of images or inspire you to pay it a visit and in fact, it gets quite a bad...

22 sep 11

STOPPED IN MY TRACKS…A SEA OF CHANGE

I WANT TO SEE THE SEA The sea has always appealed to me and whenever I am in its presence I feel grateful and contemplative. Perhaps because it is one of the few features on the planet that truly gi...

15 sep 11

HASTINGS – THE FIRST TANTALISING TASTES OF A NEW TOWN

NEW AREAS OF EXPLORATION So given the new move to new terratories I thought it would be apt to break my visual silence with a couple of images from my first explorations of what Hastings has to offer...

12 sep 11

ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER (moving to Hastings and related excuses)

DON’T LOOK BACK IN ANGER Well hello there strangers. Prior to starting my latest scribble, I was tempted to cast an eye back on when I last posted, but fear got the better of me so I have decid...

06 sep 11

SOMETIMES RANDOM GRAFFITI DAUBINGS ARE FUNNY, SOMETIMES THEY ARE JUST FASCIST

THE MERITS OF GRAFFITI TAGGING Often on my travels through the world I am struck by the lengths people go to in order to add a small but poignant piece of graffiti to a public space. Now, I am not ta...

08 jul 11

SIGNS AND SIGNIFIERS OF BEING BRITISH – WHAT IMAGERY CAN SAY ABOUT OUR CULTURE?

SIGNS OF THE TIMES As regular readers may know, I am rather interested in societies and cultures – particularly how they can be represented visually and then subverted. I find it interesting w...

23 jun 11

AYLESBURY & HEYGATE ESTATES PROJECT (ELEPHANT & CASTLE, LONDON) – INITIAL PHOTOGRAPHS

AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXPLORATION Some months back I was at a party and chatting to my good friend Dave Yates who is embarking on a PHD in Anthropology. We were chatting about his research project and ...

17 jun 11

I WANT YOU BACK – THE BEST MISSING POSTER EVER!

I WANT YOU BACK!!! Just a quick one – was walking down old London Road in sunny Brighton yesterday, when my eye was drawn to a hand drawn poster. It is perhaps the greatest missing item poster ...

08 jun 11

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