First group exhibition

Guess what?? My year at university had an exhibition last night. We were given just under three weeks to create work for it (when you usually plan for months) and we got into groups to produce a piece of performance art per group. The day before our exhibition, one of the head lecturers came to my group and said we couldn't use the gallery for what we were doing... and we couldn't do it in the foyer because that was taken up by the other group's works and so we had to move up onto Parnell Rise (an upper class road in Auckland known for cafes and antique shops... quite beautiful). Well, this proved to be the best thing for our group because I was going between the gallery and Parnell Rise and from 6:00p.m. - 9:30p.m. we had a constant flow of at least 50 people taking part in our piece. After 9:30p.m. that went down to roughly 25 people, then at 10:30p.m. we still had like 10... and I went down to the gallery and each time there were a maximum of 3 people viewing the work there, INCLUDING the lecturer's work, and one was the dean of our university (who doesn't count because she's obliged to go and see it haha. She didn't see ours... Bitch). We ended up getting over 200 people seeing our work, and they got 20 if that. SHAME ON YOUR FACE LECTURERS!

We set up in a park on Parnell Rise, and a couple of us baked like 200 muffins and 300 cookies and 4 big pizzas cut into like 100 pieces and offered people one piece of food if they'd draw us something. We ferried the drawings we had down to the gallery and put them up outside every hour, and we ended up with 50-100 drawings left over to put up because we ran out of room on both sides of the outside window and doors. They put up roughly 300 and we used over a ream of paper, so that's an indication of how many people took part. It was great - we got so many different kinds of people doing it... all the kids loved it and their parents got into it. It was interesting to see how people reacted to being confronted with it, and everyone was very honest... I mean, why steal when they're free anyway and all you have to do to get one is have fun drawing? This one kid... she was like 6 or 7... she drew this picture that said 'Help save Christchurch' on it in red and black (Christchurch/Canterbury colours). It was so cute! I was like how did you even KNOW to do that???

Anyway, not good photos but here are some photos of my first group exhibition:

Our poster for the exhibition. My photo is the top middle one.

Instructions of what to do and some of the muffins that Suhee and her friends made.

Linda laying out the drawings we had between trips to the gallery.

Taken at 8:30p.m. of some of our participants.

At the gallery with all of the pictures (minus 50-100 for lack of space) displayed on the windows.

Retro Much?

We shot polaroids today. It was my first time shooting Polaroids. I was never allowed an I-Zone as a kid.

Best (if you can call it that. Sorry about the scan quality):

We had to get into pairs for this.

One Hour Photos

I haven't been doing any photos in my spare time as of late, because I'm now back at university as you might have gathered. At the moment, we're meant to do 20 photos (i.e. 20 products of 20 separate photo shoots) that take roughly an hour each to complete... but here's the catch; we have one week to complete it.
Anyway, here's my best of the 13 that I have so far:

It's Been a While... Again.

I'm still not in the mood to be writing too much. I've had two shoots in the past two days. One went well. The other, went less than perfectly. Here are my best-ofs (one of each model from the first shoot).

Deliah shoot 1

Tamsin shoot 1

Tamsin shoot 2

I'll be having another shoot this coming Saturday, and possibly a couple of gigs but not sure.

It's Been a While...

Sorry for the lag; been a tad depressed lately. I can't really be bothered to write much, so I'll just post my best images from the past two shoots:

iPhone Ringtone Issues

After reading the tutorial from here I noticed that some of you have had the same issue as me where iTunes (in this case, I'm using 10 as I assume most of you are) doesn't display the option to create an AAC version of a track, and therefore doesn't allow you to create your custom ringtones.

After a little fiddling around, I have figured out why, and I will step you through how to change this.

Here's the short version:
Edit > Preferences > Import Settings... > Import Using: (drop-down menu) > AAC Encoder > OK > OK > Right-click > Create AAC Version

Here's a more detailed walkthrough with images. Things are labelled in green to make things easier to locate. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge the images.

Step One:

Initially, this is all that is displayed when you right-click.
BAD.

Step Two:

Click Edit > Preferences

Step Three:

Once that appears, click 'Import Settings...'

Step Four:

When that comes up, click the drop-down menu labelled 'Import Using:'
As you can see, mine is/was set to MP3 encoder.
You need to change it to 'AAC Encoder'.

Step Five:

Click OK.

Step Six:

Click OK.

Step Seven:

'Create MP3 Version' (or WAV Version, AIFF Version or Apple
Lossless Version depending on what you had it set to) should
now read 'Create AAC Version'

This now means that anything you import of a CD will be imported as an AAC, so if you're not keen for that, you'll need to remember to change the Import Settings back to MP3 before importing a CD, and back to AAC when creating a ringtone. I think this also applies for converting files like Windows Media Audio files (wma) etc. as well.

I think iTunes 10's default import setting is 'MP3 Encoder' for most, if not all people, whereas I think (not sure) that any version prior to 10 has it's default set to 'AAC Encoder', which would explain why a) so many people have had issues, and b) why I've never had this problem before - all my other ringtones were done in earlier versions of iTunes (I haven't made one for ages).

Now everything in that tutorial from where it says: " Now click “OK” and then right click on the song again, and select “Create AAC version” to create a new version of the song with the 30 second interval you specified." should make more sense.

Another Late Night, and More to Come

This has been my fifth late night this week with another to come tonight.

Last night was my friend Amy's (of Hard Iron Entertainment) gig, Dancing Till Death at Dawn featuring Dead Teach the Living, Resporn, In Dread Response, Fykan and Subspecies (who I missed while being unwelcomely chatted up by someone outside, dammit).

Anyway, here's your fix:

Anthony from Resporn