Sharing a special moment with others is one of the few truly magical things you can experience in life. We like to think that the memory of these moments will last forever, that their potency will never diminish. However, we are at the mercy of our bodies and our memories do in fact fade, whether through age, alcohol abuse or an unfortunate illness. For some people letting a memory go isn’t something to be taken lightly. One of these people is ‘Danielle Tice’:

She explains:

The reason I take photographs has always been to help myself remember, but it wasn’t until my mom died in 2007 and I moved to Portland in 2008 that I really began to take photographs to help other people remember as well.

For Danielle the best camera in the world is the one in her hands at that time. There is a purity to, not just her shots, but also her work/life philosophy. She couldn’t care less about having the latest gear, instead she concerns herself with pointing her camera at the action. She didn’t study photography, or indeed any art based course at university. She has, however, been documenting her life through various lenses for the past decade. Originally from Orange County, California you can sympathize with her appetite for capturing still moments when you consider how transitional her life has been.

I’ve lived in 12 houses over the past 3 years, usually with 4 – 8 other people. I’ve shared basements, I’ve used curtains for doors, I’ve slept on couches for weeks at a time. It was in those periods that I feel documenting what was going on became the most valuable; I wanted my friends to see how beautiful and magical our lives were, even as we struggled to afford food for ourselves or our cats.

Danielle Tice has the ability to make me feel like the people in her shots are my dearest friends.

To see her personal website please visit:
http://fordearlife.org/

For the benefit of absolutely everybody Danielle will be contributing to SICKMANSICK regularly.

Cormac

Here are a few visual ideas for an animation I am working on at the moment.

They are some quickly knocked-up collages of old life magazine images and a few other random sources.

We’ve agreed on the look and storyboard for the animation (mix of hand-drawn and collage) which isn’t anything like these images but I thought I would post the ideas anyway.

We have just over a week to complete the piece! Gonna be a hectic week…

Rich.

I was given a brief asking to create six images based on the opening lines of a choice of books.

I am a big fan of Ralph Steadman‘s work and illustrations so I chose the beginning of Hunter S. Thompson’s ‘Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas’…

“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”

Having been involved in Secret Wars at the time I wanted to take that bold, black and white style and try to create a three-dimensional environment.

The sequence depicts a desert scene where reality begins to become distorted with the sky melting, inanimate objects coming to life, oil pumps exploding and general chaos. The viewer looks at his hands to check whether what he sees is real until he falls on his back in disbelief.

Photographs taken by Cormac McGloin.

Rich.