Now that I’ve taken inspiration from various sources, I plan to go out and begin taking pictures for a photoblog, to show the people of London and the city they live in.
The blog will be called “People of London”.
Another from “Humans of New York”.
"Humans of New York" - Photography, documents inhabitants of New York
Because people are so different from one another, there’s almost unlimited potential content for a project about people of a certain city/area/occupation etc. Each project seems worth viewing.
"Every Person in New York" - one person draws 2-minute portraits of NYC inhabitants
- Allows people to contact him for street portraits, as well as spontaneously drawing people while in the city
- Interesting, creative, also reflects people of city in an unusual way. Blog of drawings instead of (or as well as) photographs?
World’s Fair, New York City, 1964 from the portfolio Women are Beautiful
Photo by March Photographer of the Month Garry Winogrand, property of the Estate of Garry Winogrand
Garry Winogrand: Street, city photography. Captures nature of city’s inhabitants.
Breakfast on the tube (we’ve all considered it). Submitted by blinddeadmcjones.
People On The Tube: City journalism, anti hype? people-based. Original content and accepts submissions.
"Shit London" - City journalism, anti-hype, image-based.
NOTES on ideas:
networked
social
interactive
immediate
(WRITING? - distinctive voice)
personal
screen-based
created using a content management system
- street fashion?
- photography of london landscape?
- “People of London”
rhythm of updating - every day? 2 days? consistency
- professional: FRUiTS Magazine, Humans Of New York
different perspective from traditional media
personal nature / voice
writing becomes conversatonal, informal, open-ended, responsive, potentially a two-way thing, ongoing discussion?
- Brevity
- Adaptibility
- Scannability
- Interactivity
- Community
Depth - You can go deeper into a story than print would allow
Can link to other ideas, material, people
Style, voice, perspective are key.
- Ongoing investigations and quests - especially those who get involved in the discussion
- Challenge pieces - involve personal perspective and updates, how you feel, within a context that addresses an issue, problem or idea, journalistic
- Personal/quirky/alternative content that wouldn’t find a home in more traditional media
- Liveblogging
- Very short pd. of time - very focused on a particular story?
- http://everypersoninnewyork.blogspot.co.uk/
- http://caseyneistat.com/#83a/youtube
- Content strategy - what kind of posts will you do?
- Social strategy - how will you network with other people, use Twitter etc
- Blogging Platform - Tumblr, Template:????????????? (explain reason why)
- Design, navigation, usability of your blog
- Set terms of my challenge - End point? How much content needed? How many updates?
- Deadline: May 9th
People on the Tube
-submissions
Says something about London, undermine hype, anti-olympics
Garry Winogrand
-take people off-guard
TAVUCHI
Japanese street fashion magazine: FRUiTS
documents unusual people, street fashion. Brief description of subject including name, age, current obsession, and if they made their clothes/where they bought them if not.
Notes on ideas for App
First idea: Google maps integrated with photography? Find a place on map, & website or application comes up with photographs from that area from different times? Information on photographs?
Informed something similar exists
Still like the idea of gathering and organising photographs for retrieval
App?
“Instagram” & “Hipstamatic” seem to be the most popular apps, at least within my age group
work within my age group, know the (demographic??) well
Instagram and Hipstamatic lack a link to professional photographers, photographs. Could be useful to aspiring photographers
App that uses Google search function to
use a photograph the user creates with the app
searches it in database of professional photographs
retrieves professional photographs with information on them and the photographer
useful for informing amateur photographers of professionals and inspiring them to improve upon their work
most useful for readers of Amateur Photographer magazine - launchpad to find app users, will grow from there.
database of photographs can largely come from Time magazine
& now defunct Life magazine
increase interest in this magazine through app
