Inspiring MeKtropolis: Lomography

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Inspiring MeKtropolis Lomography

• Susan Jones

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MeKtropolis

• Weve seen where the Sprytes live, what about the
  MeKs?
• Main MeK city
• Industrial
• By the sea
• What does it look like?
• Gathering inspiration

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Lomography

• Photography technique developed as a response to
  over arty and stylistic photographic approaches
• Name and initial approach based on a small
  Russian camera
• Multiple frames of same photo
• Flexible, quick, unstructured photography
• Nearly lost, but rediscovered by a group of
  students
• Now very popular approach to photography

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Doing Lomography

• Meant to be fun
• Freedom - photo anything you want, anytime,
  anywhere
• Aims to capture everyday experience
• Personal and free form of photography
• Ideally suited to the digital age

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The Golden Rules of Lomo

• Take your camera everywhere you go.
• Use it anytime - day and night.
• Lomography is not an interference with your life
  but a part of it.
• Get as close as possible to the objects of you
  lomographic desire
• Don't think!
• Be fast!
• You don't have to know beforehand what is on your
  film, nor afterwards You will figure it out
  eventually!
• Try the shot from the hip, or from the ground
• Ignore the rules!

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Lomo Examples
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Lomo used in design
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Inspiring your designs

• Your aim
• To find inspiration to help you design
  MeKtropolis
• In small groups
• Quick brainstorm about what MeKtropolis might be
  like
• Take the camera
• Design Walkabout
• Photo anything and everything you see that might
  be useful

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Design Walkabout

• Use your camera to gain some ideas

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Printing the Photos
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Using the photos

• Creating a landscape / cityscape
• What do you want to keep?
• What do you want to discard
• Creating a background
• Use the photos
• Annotate the designs
• Create drawings to be modelled

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Whilst were waiting for the photos to print

• Designing the MeKs