Guest Directed Self Portrait 8 directed by TheIvoryTowerCrumbles.
“Pick a word, any word. It can be your favorite word or the name of an old lover or a country you’ve left behind. It can be a four-letter word. It’s your word. Write it on your body with marker or lipstick, breathe on the mirror and draw it in the steam, or make it with block letters you happen to have laying around the house. It doesn’t matter how you create your word, it just has to be in the picture.”
My word is “creature”.
2. They catch the eye.
There’s nothing like a moving image in a sea of search results to make people look twice. (We’re living in an attention economy, people).
3. You can provide a nice teaser to your Vimeo page.
Like worms for fish.
4. No-one will ask you to explain the sub-text.
Which is especially good if it is not in your best interest to tell people what exactly that is.
5. People rarely click and watch a video on Tumblr.
With a GIF, TOO LATE!! They already watched it.
6. It’s down with the kids.
Kids love GIFs, GIFs love kids.
7. You can do self portraits and no-one has to look at your ugly face.
I’ve been participating in the Guest Directed Self Portrait project initiated by Molly Peck. I think I am only recognisable in 1 of my 7 submissions so far made.
8. You can try stuff out and get quick feedback.
Nothing says something works by a tsunami of reblogs.
9. You learn the virtue of brevity.
There’s nothing worse than a time waster.
10. You can recycle old work.
Remember that crappy piece of work you did years ago that you’re too ashamed to show anyone? GIF the good bit, bin the rest.
Directed by MortalCompass
You will flip a coin.
“Heads” – Inside
“Tails” – Outside
Heads
Inside Prompt:
Take one photo right before going to bed and one right after waking up through one evening of sleep. Post both in a set or place side by side in a single image with Photoshop/Gimp etc and post that.If you have a tripod, I would prefer that you use it. That way, each shot is from an identical angle and shows the change in your bed area over one evening of rest. If not, then an attempt should be made to have it show your space in more or less the same position as the night before.
I seem to have broken a few rules. But I do not have a tripod, and never just take “one photo”, so there we are.
(see other GDSP7 submissions here.)
As directed by withoutpretense.
“i would like you to choose a song that is important to you. find the emotion it stirs up in you and run with it. show me how you listen to it, show me what it makes you feel, show me what it makes you want to do.”
My song is You Can’t Quit Me Baby by Queens of the Stone Age.
It’s a love song.
(T)
see also:
Paul Greer 