Not All Who Wander Are Lost

After my three minute presentation yesterday I discussed my idea of going on an "adventure" inspired by Miyamoto's journeys as a young boy. I think I'll treat it as a documentation process of my adventure, so filming, taking photographs, drawing and noting conversations I hear or have with people. I'm excited as I have no idea what will happen and it leaves me open to new experiences.
Tomorrow I'm taking a trip to Brighton for the day. I'm also going to purchase this book.

Stephen Shore

Stephen Shore is an American photographer, at the age of fourteen he contacted MoMA's director of photography asking them if he could come and show them his work. And so his career began and by the age of seventeen he was already a huge part of New Yorks conceptual and pop art scenes and he ended up crossing paths with Andy Warhol. Despite his successes he had never experienced much of the world and so in 1972 he set out with a friend to Amarillo, Texas. Later that year he went off again alone with the desire to capture and communicate exactly what he had seen. He wanted to explore the country as an everyday tourist so he used a 35mm colour film and a camera that is now deemed as a "point and shoot" camera. He titled the project "American Surfaces" to emphasise the superficial nature of the things he captured, he relentlessly photographed almost every meal he ate, every person he met, every waiter or waitress that served him, every bed he slept in, every toilet he used and streets he drove through.

Brighton Moleskin

I've decided to keep a moleskin for my adventures so heres a few sketches from Brighton.

How To Be An Explorer Of...Brighton

I purchased the "How To Be An Explorer Of The World" when I arrived in Brighton, by this time it had started snowing and to be perfectly honest it was almost too inhumanly cold to use a camera with my bare hands so unfortunately I didn't use the book on this journey. How ever I did take my lomographic camera La Sardina which is this first time I've taken it out, so i'm very excited to get the photographs back. But so that I have some in time to show I also used my Iphone and SLR.