In the meantime, take a look at this: The Status Project. What's it all about? Read on...
Me and my partner Vivienne have been working on this for a couple of months, it started out pretty plain and simple, and now is starting to evolve into something quite special, I can only imagine where it will lead in a few months - bigger and better!
Vivienne has just spent a week agonising over programming this website, plus this project would never have come into fruition had it not been for her spectacular vision when it comes to ideas... then it was left to me to do the artwork and photography. I've noticed even my drawings are starting to progress, I guess I didn't really know where it was going at first so I kept it quite simple, but now as I am getting more into it I see this getting quite elaborate!
We actually made most of these over the past two months - but originally I shot the book on a pain white background....and somehow it wasn't quite right, so we decided to re-shoot using wooden floorboards, and now it's really coming to life!
These are all real status's from mine and Vivienne's friends on Facebook. We pick the funniest and / or downright stupid ones, write them out (oh and by the way that's Viv's writing as my handwriting is, well, horrific...but I am the hand model, ha!), then I illustrate it and we incorporate these little chain face toys - making ridiculous faces out of them that try and represent the emotion of the person who has written the status, and then I photograph it. And it ends up here. There will be loads more to come - so long as our friends keep up with the brilliant statuses!
I hope you enjoy - any feedback is appreciated!
www.thestatusproject.org
