http://www.dollseye.com/cgi-bin/mt/ 2008-04-19T21:41:04+00:00 http://www.dollseye.com/cgi-bin/mt/archives/2008/04/holy_rsin_gods.html hello again ^^ I seem to be posting a lot but I think this is probably the last for a bit. Allegory & Satire dollseye 2008-04-19T21:41:04+00:00 http://www.dollseye.com/cgi-bin/mt/archives/2008/04/the_r_word.html Allegory & Satire dollseye 2008-04-18T19:31:51+00:00 http://www.dollseye.com/cgi-bin/mt/archives/2008/04/finger_puppets_1.html A completely mismatched bunch of misfits... dolls dollseye 2008-04-15T21:04:51+00:00 http://www.dollseye.com/cgi-bin/mt/archives/2008/03/chloe_1.html One day no doubt she'll have a name change....I don't have any imaginings in my brain right now for thinking of names....and there's something I quite like about the name chloe... Thanks to the people who've left comments in my diary, I appreciate them very much. credits: thanks to Karin for painting Chloe's face and thanks to Mary for the backdrop painting. dolls dollseye 2008-03-09T14:45:05+00:00 http://www.dollseye.com/cgi-bin/mt/archives/2008/02/marys_backdrops_1.html Some boy doll photos, featuring Lovely House Shin Roo Robin and a few group photos...following a delivery of Mary Madewell's backdrop paintings...more to come soon.... dolls dollseye 2008-02-06T20:56:18+00:00 http://www.dollseye.com/cgi-bin/mt/archives/2008/01/for_annette_3.html Here's Jarod. He was made by Annette of Blackstitch Art Studio. dolls dollseye 2008-01-12T20:20:20+00:00 http://www.dollseye.com/cgi-bin/mt/archives/2007/12/pinhole_photogr.html I think doing experimental photography is fun. I've been using Photoshop for 12 years now and I really do believe that there are some processes that can't be replicated digitally. Pinhole photography is definitely one of them. I did some street photography yesterday with a pinhole camera and the sun was out a little bit. Four minute exposures yesterday. These two photos I did this afternoon. It was very overcast and grey today. One hour exposures. Wow. These are much softer than yesterday's pictures too. But I think they're quite interesting? I changed the photos in the gallery just now. Some were taken in the summer of this year, some are more recent. There are quite a few of Moll Cutpurse and Timothy Leary, one of Eudaemon and a couple of Cardinal Sin and a horse..and a window.. Here's the link - http://www.dollseye.com I've got 2 photos of Poppé here in the diary. The first one was taken in summer this year (the little robin was a baby then) and the second one was taken yesterday. I'm 90% certain that this is the same robin, it's grown up now. There's a colour version of the summer photo among the newly updated gallery photos. There are a few dolls I take out but by some strange coincidence the robin always appears when I'm out with Poppé.... XD As this is the last entry for 2007, I want to wish everyone a happy new year and thanks for reading my diary through 2007 ^_^ dolls dollseye 2007-12-30T22:43:03+00:00 http://www.dollseye.com/cgi-bin/mt/archives/2007/12/jyukoupris_aroa_1.html Wishing everyone a very happy and enjoyable festive holiday season, whatever you're doing. dolls dollseye 2007-12-23T15:36:01+00:00 http://www.dollseye.com/cgi-bin/mt/archives/2007/11/random_collecti_1.html One day I'll have time to make some new work and I can't put into words how much I'm looking forward to doing that. While some of my friends on the internet are getting into some dead serious shit with dolls who look like real people, my dolls seem to be becoming more and more doll-like at the same time as becoming increasingly dysfunctional. As I wait for the time to come when my working life changes and I can return to working on my own stuff again sometime in 2008, sometimes I find a half hour here and there to make images. I didn't want November to come and go without putting anything into the diary so here are a few things. The images with the pig came partly from the memory of a recurring nightmare I had as a young child of pigs being slaughtered in the basement of an art gallery. But they also came from a story in my mind about a sculpture which came to life while it was being carved. Some people might remember that I used to make pictures of dolls doing pig-riding quite a lot and there's something about that in these as well. There are others in the series which need to be edited and no doubt this pig will be ridden by others in the future! 4 moody pictures of Estella... and one of the Cardinal accompanied by a small stuffed rabbit... As always, please click them all to see the large versions ^_^ dolls dollseye 2007-11-30T21:51:43+00:00 http://www.dollseye.com/cgi-bin/mt/archives/2007/10/the_priest_and.html It's been weeks since I picked up the dolls and took some photos and that's made me feel quite sad. So yesterday I found some time and we all went outside for a while to the place where I like taking pictures because there's lots of grass and it makes a change from our own back yard. I've been wanting to see the priest in a skirt for ages! Next I want to see Priest and Pascal in some skirts with the Strangedolls and to call them 'widows and orphans'.. If you're interested in seeing more pictures of the priest with 2 of his bloody children on the freshly updated gallery page, please click this link - http://www.dollseye.com If you can still see Moll at the top of the page on the site, please reload the page because I've only just changed the pictures ^_^ dolls dollseye 2007-10-22T11:46:51+00:00 http://www.dollseye.com/cgi-bin/mt/archives/2007/09/dolls_trains.html Some photos of Edgy Touchwood and Moll Cutpurse watching and waiting in the late summer sunshine for the bright green trains on the central line. I've made a series of photos of Edgy and Moll at the station, there are these 2 here in the diary and I've changed the gallery page on the dollseye site and put the rest there. Please go there if you'd like to see more of them ^_^ http://www.dollseye.com dolls dollseye 2007-09-29T15:36:00+00:00 http://www.dollseye.com/cgi-bin/mt/archives/2007/08/the_day_the_clo.html No image manipulation took place in this photo ^^ I'd taken several pictures of Moll on the fence before I noticed the small white fluffy thing! I've redesigned the background image and the links buttons at dollseye.com. I know the last few entries in this diary have been all about Moll, it seems always to be her who comes out on trips. I used a recent photo of Nat for the new site design though, I took her out as well that day. I thought I'd try something different for the 'gallery' page on the site. Instead of being a collection of mostly unrelated images I'm going to try using the gallery sometimes for a themed series of images and sometimes a selection from a whole shoot. I hope you like the new site design - http://www.dollseye.com I haven't updated the links page for quite a while. If there's anyone out there who'd like to exchange links with me please let me know. You're welcome to leave a link to your site in the comments here. dolls dollseye 2007-08-20T11:30:01+00:00 http://www.dollseye.com/cgi-bin/mt/archives/2007/08/dora_the_explor.html moving image dollseye 2007-08-17T23:11:41+00:00 http://www.dollseye.com/cgi-bin/mt/archives/2007/08/molls_on_hols.html dolls dollseye 2007-08-13T11:54:22+00:00 http://www.dollseye.com/cgi-bin/mt/archives/2007/08/eudaemons_zebra.html I made these images because I wanted to find out more about photographing Eudaemon and as I was doing them I was aware that I was thinking about Svankmajer's Alice (especially the drawer in the dresser) and also Greenaway's 'Zed & Two Noughts' which is another one of my favourite movies. The whole reason for getting the zebra was to remind me of that film. The zebra for me generally symbolises all the opposites, black and white, life and death, beginning and end. It's always fun playing with reflections, mirrors are such good props for creating some meaning. So is the eye, of course, which Eudaemon is still holding. She's wearing the red one in these which she was holding before, she changed it round and now she's holding one of the blue eyes that she was wearing in the previous pictures. I should think things would look very different if they were perceived through a red eye immediately after looking through a blue one. The images mean quite a lot to me, I mean narratively, but I don't want to be a picture bore so I'll just leave it there and hope they're open to different interpretations for different people. Allegory & Satire dollseye 2007-08-08T23:42:02+00:00