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.