Making real life fake.

Tilt shift photography can make even the most real and memorable journey seem like you were just playing with toys in your bedroom, as this image of the fair ground shows you.

Man sized blocks.

In fact blocks that are only really suited for building Brick City, or is that Block City, or indeed even Blog City. Either way, this project entitled Define Your Own City, or is that Blogging: City Building; well you get the point, we haven't settled on a name yet. I spent my day prototyping one possible idea, a multi-coloured blackboard and just applied some paint this evening. Actual chalk images to follow when the shops are open. (Just realised, anyone actually questioning the size from the title, the grids below the image are 5x5cm)

America images.

Just been sorting through photos from America for that section of the website. Take a look at bgbarker.com/america for all of them. I notice that the site is looking fine in Firefox and safari, but not working at all well in IE and Opera, so apologies if you are using either of those browsers.

The Nyctophobic Bible

I was re-photographing this project for my website earlier, with help from the ineffable Simon Cordery (for those who know him). The concept was of a book created for sufferers of Nyctophobia (fear of the dark) using modern parable as a tool to discuss and explore ideas around darkness and death. Using similar concepts to the bible (a slightly grandiose reference I know!).

Check the progress in the design section of the website: bgbarker.com

Nokia and splashes

We presented our ideas to Kin design today for a possible brief with Nokia. It was a midway presentation with a view to generating an idea good enough to present to Nokia in March. One concept was around the idea of using blocks and micro-blogs to represent the communities created by Friend View (the Nokia software we are promoting). Another was around using ripples created by a splash to show the impact a user can have. In this case on vibration sensitive LEDs. Below is some of the content I generated.

New site coming.

Just a quick note on the new site coming, bgbarker.com. Its also a new email address too ben@bgbarker.com. Its just a place holder page at the moment, but it will hopefully incorporate some photography and design. There's also another place to check out, that should be coming soon, www.studioinsideout.co.uk that i'll host.