Week 5 Photographs

Week 5 Update

Everyone has worked hard on getting their designs and ideas sorted out for mid-project exhibition, the work will be on display in the school library. There will also be opportunities for other students to get involved as well as participating in the 'Pimp My...' competition. This is a project by two of the students to involve the school in 'pimping' the cleaners cart, a calculator and rubbish bin, the win gets an ipod and the chance to pimp the three objects.

Week 4 Photographs

Week 4

Work continues and students are getting their ideas sorted out for the exhibition next week. The intention of the exhibition is to show staff and the rest of the students what we have been doing and to give everyone the opportunity to have some input into the project. Some of the groups are ready to start getting their work onto walls and others continue to develop their projects. After the exhibition we hope to have permission to start on getting those who are ready started on their work in their chosen site.

Graffiti Boys

Week Three Photographs

Week Three

End of week three and we are starting to get ideas sorted out ready for the mid-project exhibition. The light graffiti photographs where down with the students who stay in the hostel during the week. The Graffiti Boys have started practicing with spray cans and when we can get permission and some more spray cans, we can let them loose on some of the big empty walls around school. I will post some of the other projects photographs next week.

Even More Task Photographs From The First Two Weeks

More Task Photographs From The First Two Weeks

Task Photographs From The First Two Weeks

Mr Whippy Trip Photos

Mr Whippy Trip Photos

Mr Whippy Trip

By a stroke of luck I saw a request for a car or van, that the owners would be happy to have painted by The TMD Crew. I had a picture of the old school van, which the students call Mr Whippy, I sent it in and it was chosen.

The whole event was to promote the opening of Alterego, a documentary on graffiti art at the Academy Cinema in Auckland. 15 students where taken down in the bus, watched it being painted, talk to the artists and see the film.

It was a great night and opportunity to see first hand how the artists worked was really useful, so the students could see the dedication and skill that went into the painting.

Colour Task

ABC Task

Stage One

The first stage of the project has been completed with the three classes (60 students) taking over 2000 photographs. These were taken as part of a series of tasks set to look at their school environment in a number of different ways. Each class where given a task, for example, take one photograph for each letter of the alphabet. The only rule being that it each photograph was from a different site. This was so they didn't stay in the car park and take all the letters from the number plates. But I needn't of worried as all the groups rose to the challenge, and this was true of all the groups, for all of the tasks.

The only problem was processing all the photographs and getting them sorted into folders. But as most lessons were not back to back, it allowed me time to sort them out ready for the next class to use the cameras.

I have posted some examples of the photographs from the different tasks to give an idea of the range respones that the students came up with.