Lets Gif It: Art by Dax Norman

Posted on July 4, 2014 by paulcullenphotography

Very distinctive with shades of Yellow Submarine!

Could it be that GIF is the latest vehicle for art? As we scroll down tumblr posts or hunting on Pinterest, hungry for the next visual fix, GIFs offer a hit that fit in perfectly with the short attention span of modern culture. ‘The Last Surrealist’ AKA American artist, Dax Norman presents a psychedelic trip you can’t refuse.

As a painter and animator, Norman has combined his understanding of both mediums to conceive distorted, brightly coloured variations of famous art and artists into GIFs, morphing and shifting into creatures of another realm. His repetitive loops put you in a trance as the rapid details inject your mind until you’re mesmerised into submission.

By combining his wacky graphics with sampled sounds and glitchy speech, Norman also produces lengthier animations. These strange and wacky inventions are not to go unnoticed and exemplify further the bizarre world of Norman.

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Stock Photography.

Posted on July 4, 2014 by paulcullenphotography

I have just passed Quality Control for Alamy and can now post stock photography. I’ll have to start to produce some more now – I have got lots of ideas ( and quite a few photos in my archives that might sell!). Here are the photos that I sent for QC; they are an indication of some the sort of markets that I’ll be targeting, but not all. They are a start:-

$Ilfracombe Harbour.$

Competition Entry.

Posted on July 4, 2014 by paulcullenphotography

I was invited to enter a competition recently through the Society of International Nature and Wildlife Photographers (SINWP). Here is my entry – it looks like I am up against stiff competition – All Entries

As seen in Attenborough Nature Reserve.

Portraits.

Posted on June 27, 2014 by paulcullenphotography

I have lot of photographs in storage and occasionally I will look at them and I get inspiration to do something different with them in an effort to expand my Photoshop skills. The following photographs were created on such an occasion. This is my friend Emma. She invited me to take photographs of her and her lovely family over a year ago. Recently, I revisited those photographs and these are some of the results:-

I changed the colour balance and added some diffuse glow.

All comments welcome; I am trying to create photographs that people will like and I am pleased with these, but I would really like to know if I was barking up the wrong tree.

Safe House Aerial performance -NNF 14

Posted on May 25, 2014 by paulcullenphotography

What a fine end to the Norfolk and Norwich Festival. Safe House, an aerial performance about the importance of home and family stability marked the end of the festival with a dazzling aerial display. I was fortunate to witness their final rehearsal on Friday 23rd of May, courtesy of WEX Photographic through their “Low light workshop”. I was one of twelve contest winners who had the exclusive opportunity to photograph the artistes going through their routine one last time before the big night. The workshop was lead by internationally renowned fashion and music photographer Paul Bayfield (The Timesniper). He was ably assisted by Ben, Emma and Josh from WEX. Big thanks go to Paul Bayfield, Ben, Emma and Josh and all from WEX, and to the performers from the production “Safe House” who allowed us to photograph them.

The workshop and subsequent live performance took place on St. James’ Court, just behind the Puppet Theatre on Whitefriars, Norwich.

Here are some of my photographs taken at the event:-

The finale to the Norfolk and Norwich Festival 2014 was a performance of Safe House.

The Safe House production was performed by Metro-Boulot-Dodo which means live to work, although in French this can be taken several ways ( nothing but work, or work, work, work, or perhaps live to work – like you enjoy your work)