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FAIL BETTER, our exhibition exploring the beautiful, heroic and instructive side of failure, closes on Sunday 27th April. Take yourself on a virtual tour of the exhibition with these shots, then come and pay us a visit to get the full story from inspirational contributors like Sonia O'Sullivan, James Dyson, Robert Winston, Mark Pollock and Ranulph Fiennes – in their own words.
i originally thought id finished my images until i got them printed on matt photo paper, the reason i used it was to have a professional finish but the end result looked cheap and amateurish. the problem being the images i had where strong. there was work and process there but i worked them to much.from looking at the prints it seemed like a bad idea to have them so as just photographs of an image. this is the reason i decided to work back into them by hand going back to the collage roots of the project. the direction and evolution to this point has been a learning curb as i thought id be doing a different type of work. im happy with where it went and what ideas have formed from the work.
These insulators had two jobs. One job was to support and separate the electrical conductors. The other job was to protect the power pole from woodpeckers by intermittently yelling things like, "Quit that!", "How would you like it if I poked you with a pointed object?", and "Isn't that your mother calling you?" Obviously, the insulators failed miserably to accomplish their second task.
Redding, California 2015
Contest Theme: Create an ad that fails.
Those stuffy Americans will talk about jock itch and erectile dysfunction on commercials, but they wouldn't show this partially clad man! What's up with that?
Apparently, decomposing leaves take enough nitrogen out of the soil that you really shouldn't try to grow greens on them until it's fully decomposed.
Walked into work the long way round this morning, with hopes of a couple of sunrise silhouettes. This was the best of the half dozen shots I took. There's just not enough brightness in the sky to really plunge the buildings into darkness.
A little levity thanks to the IBM Rational Software Development Platform. Apparently, pressing Enter inside a CSS comment doesn't work, and Shift+Enter fails. The best part is the very helpful reason for the error. :-)