What is ‘Creative Photography’? Seems obvious. Its when you hold a camera a certain way, maybe diagonal, to make things seem a bit ‘kooky’ or ‘strange’, innit? Or when you fiddle with shutter speeds to creative a blurring effect on a passing car, perhaps? Nope. That’s not quite right, in my book. In fact, its […]
…Or scraping the barrel? [“Untitled_Kiosk”. 2007. Part of an irregular series of unseen shots and unuseable images from Cracktown v1.0’s cutting room floor]
Well, ‘addicted’ is a bit extreme, but I have certainly fallen into a firm habit of listening to 10 minutes of static on my iPod before sleep every night. Having always had an extremely keen interest in avant garde electronic music / aural experiments / sonic terrorism / brainwave annihilation or whatever pretentious term you […]
November 5th. Something… happened… See here; BarringtonArts.comIf you haven’t done so already, add yourself to Phil’s mailing list for more information and up-to-date news by dropping him an email; cracktown08@yahoo.com
Would you like to get involved in an interesting and fun high-profile local art project? Would you like to be paid £8.00 per hour to stand around all day? Have an individual piece of work given to you for your portfolio? And have yourself featured in future local and national gallery exhibitions? Welly well well, […]
crack-town.blogspot.com All portrait photography – Phil BarringtonAll other images and creative blog elements – Phil BarringtonAll original audio tracks and music – The ICB Project‘Gimp01’ photoshoot camera operator – Jon Parry Senior Scythe – D.S.Leon ‘Evens’ Blackwell – Robin GrantPolly Blank – J.J. FoleyCalum Sk8er – Joshua Gooderson“Unknown Origin” – Dale Teller Wren Cracktown Soundtrack […]
Cracktown v1.0 and all related elements Copyright © 2008 Phillip Eke. (p) 2008 Phillip Eke. All images and elements from and/or related to www.crack-town.blogspot.com Copyright © 2008 Phillip Eke. (p) 2008 Phillip Eke. All images and elements from and/or related to www.abandonallhopenow.blogspot.com Copyright © 2007 Phillip Eke. (p) 2007 Phillip Eke. All rights reserved. Any […]
I wasn’t going to give any kind of summary at all, but there are a couple of points I think I should mention before we begin. ‘Cracktown’, as a project, is on a basic level a weblog – set 4 years in the future in a town somewhat removed from Kings Lynn, Norfolk – this […]
“Untitled”. November 2007. All My Christmases – forevermore full of ghosts and eternal absences. God-damn it.pb.
Q & A Conducted with Phil Barrington by the ‘Abused Meat Wipe’ website team. November 2007. q) Well, first of all, please tell us a little about yourself.a) My name is Phil Barrington, from East Anglia, England. I am a thirtysomething observer and note-taker who creates images that reflect my own world-view and feelings in […]