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500px.com/emanuelladeruiter
Let me know if you have an account there and I'll add you as a friend.
As I said in my last journal, I will be only uploading my photography to 500px.com.

For sometime I have felt like I needed a change. Quite a lot of the work I have on here I am rather embarrassed about, I had thought many times about creating a new account but it seems rather pointless. I also think that I have out grown my username, lol. I'm not obsessed with mythology anymore. A fresh start is needed.

I found out about 500px.com a few days ago and I really like it; the simple layout works a lot better for displaying photography. I will probably check back here occasionally to see what everyone is doing, I have talked to so many talented people because of deviantart and don't want to loose that just yet.

If any of you are on 500px.com already let me know and I will add you as a friend.

My account is: 500px.com/emanuelladeruiter

I have also finally brought a DSLR camera. I decided to go with the Nikon D5100. I can't wait till it arrives, I have been waiting a long time to get one.

I came across this today and thought it was interesting...

"It is naked, mysterious, commonplace. It haunts our work, our love and our fantasies. We read a face as we read a clock: to orient ourselves, to see what we are right now, right here, to place ourselves, and everyone else in the nervous entanglements of our own society."
-      Ben Maddow, 1977

I would love to get completely lost in a book right now, you know, one of those stories that you feel completely immersed in and forget all about reality for a while. I mightn't return. But no, I have far too much work to do to even think about reading for "fun".

So, for my fine arts degree, and in preparation for next year, I'm meant to be beginning to define my 'practise' as an artist. Being able to pinpoint and explain the types of ideas I'm interested in and the aesthetic sensibility or style that I think my work has. Before I was asked to, I hadn't really considered my work in this way. I was surprised by how sure I was about certain things and by the direction that I could see myself going in the future (as in the kind of ideas I knew I wanted to focus on). I also realised that most of the work I have uploaded on here I wouldn't include or even consider as part of my 'practise'. Most of it, to be honest, seems kind boring, just taking photos for the sake of taking photos really. Even the work (of which I can only see three series at the most) that I feel could be part of my sense of 'practise' are only starting points, as works in progress.  Anyway my point is, I need to start being more focused; actually making work that I think has some value with a larger focus on conceptual ideas.

In my spare time (HA!) lately I have been making a sort of 'inspiration' wall with photocopies of work by artists that I think are amazing. I'm hoping to cover all of the walls of room eventually, it's starting to look cool in an obsessive kind of way. I might take a photo to show you later. I suddenly felt the need to get all the images I had collected over the past year (which I had neatly organised into research files) and glue tac them to the walls. I hardly ever looked at them and thought this way I should get more use out of all the money I had used up on photocopying images from books in the finearts library...which is an awesome place by the way.