Another late night, another blog.

Here's my latest non-contribution to the blog world; rollerskatingbooks

I think I have something like 10 blog addresses now, its getting rediculous.

Born Together

This is the first video I've ever made. Pretty cool huh? I'm so proud of me :)

Its a stop motion film created from over 300 photos taken with my Nikon D5000 on an old vintage tripod (that I scored for $5 at an opshop) in 10 or 30 second self-timed intervals.

I then used a free program called JPGVideo to collate the images into a video by dividing the seconds in the song I wanted to use by the amount of images I had (plus some wiggle room for end credits) and then using that number to space the images.

I then dumped that into Windows Movie Maker, which I had never even opened before and was delighted with how easy it was to use - didn't have to use web-help once! Once it was in there I added the audio file and the end credit image which was made by layering text over the final image in photoshop and then saving as a jpg.

Then I exported the whole she-bang and uploaded to Vimeo. :)

If you want to buy the painting, it's not sold at the time of this post - chekkit here.

xx Lauren

In Progress

floral holga, originally uploaded by Osier!.

Just a little snippet of something I'm working on for this challenge.

Yes, yes I know I didnt tell you you where I was going.

I was working on my uni stuff and self-imposed a ban on blogging. Sorry I left you all alone, I should have said goodbye. But to make it up to you I'm gonna show you what I've been up to...


Mind you, its only a smidgeon of what I did, but I'll give you an idea:

I designed an Antiques Boutique that inhabits a laneway on Howard Street, If you've ever been to Andaluze Tapas Bar you know the place.

looking down Howard Street to the river.




Interior showing bookshelf, counter and window display recesses.

And this is a long section, but its kind of hard to understand because I hadnt put in my lineweights yet...

So yeah. I'm back, relaxed and ready for the two upcoming markets;

Made on the Left sneak preview at Darlington Arts Festival

and

Made on the Left November Market on the Saturday.

Wooooo!

xo

Blogland Adventures Volume II

I found this beautiful image on the interwebs the other day... I cant remember which blog, but the picture is on the image sharing site photobucket.

I must do this to some of my photos, I'm sure it would make them automatically look cooler.

xo Lauren

My other Passion

...is studying architecture at uwa in perth, and i've just submitted my favourite work to date, and because i'm so very proud of it, i'm going to show you all, even though it has nothing to do with osier. it's still creativity right?

so yes, this is my album design for my computer based digital design unit. all images are either drawn in AutoCAD and rendered in Illustrator, photographs taken of a laneway near st georges in perth's cbd, or scanned hand drawn text. i'd love to hear your comments if you have the time.

- lauren (p.s. it took me 14 hrs from photography to final print)

click on the images to see them larger and in full detail

front cover as part of a trifold sleeve insert:

trifold sleeve other side:
disk and behind disk (yes, they line up and the rat is hidden until you take out the disk):

and the back cover with fictional song titles and copyright script:

i think it'd be really fun to do this design for a real band... any takers? ;p