"Thank you very much for being one of the 34,298 people to date who have made this second iteration of #phonar such a success. We’ve had a whale of a time ourselves and learnt a great deal along the way from your feedback, which will go towards #phonar2012 (the Olympic Phonar).

Meanwhile our attending class of students will be working on their degree exit-projects, some of which will be the work begun alongside yours here, others will do something entirely new and we hope you’ll drop by to see how it shapes up. Don’t forget to keep us and the rest of the #phonar community in touch with how your projects evolve too. We’ll continue to use the phonar hashtag on twitter which is one way for us to keep in touch, another is to drop by our next Open class which starts in January and is called Picturing the Body (#picbod). Yet another way is to come by the Photo Book Club or even better organise an old fashioned analogue meet-up yourself with plenty of tea and booklets.

So until we tweet again, thank you for a great 2011 , it was emotional and our very best wishes for a 2012 of Olympic proportions."

- Jonathan and Matt.

Creative Workshop 5 - Transformative Storytelling



Using only found personal images (ie images from family albums, online galleries [that you have permission to use] and local library archives, not published in magazines) research and construct a photo-artefact that weaves a narrative linking the archive population (a story of the people depicted within your chosen set of images).

Development : Build and include a soundscape relevant to your story. Include personal stories from the subjects depicted.

Creative Workshop 4 - Spoken Narrative
Task 4 - Spoken Narrative by Dan Macarandang

Record a personal story to share with the group. You should speak your story in person and it’s telling should last approx. 2-3 minutes (no more). You should especially consider your choice of story/subject, your audience and your verbal delivery – in terms of your script, language, pace and intonation. No accompanying soundscape. No pictures. Just a story.

Creative Workshop 3 - Unphotographable Phiction


Working alone, you should choose one of Michael David Murphy’s “Unphotographable” posts and create a multimedia narrative. You should use your own images, new or from your archive and you should create an accompanying soundscape.

Credits
Sounds: ERH, Tiger Sounds, Vein Samba, JPPI Stu
Music: Frozen Silence
Story: Michael David Murphy

Since I have the difficulty of looking for an illustration of a blue bird, instead I used a bird named blue-crowned conure.

Illustrated Bluebird Falling From a Tree
This is a picture I did not take of an illustration of a bluebird on a page torn from a child's textbook, nor is this a picture of the illustration as it fell from the low branches of a tree, where it had been trapped like trash beside a plastic bag, and when the page was blown from the tree, it fell to the ground slowly, the illustration facing me like a reminder of a bluebird, and when it landed at my feet, the illustration spun a bit in the wind, as if the bird knew it wasn't meant for this, and would try everything it could to flap up off that page.


Creative Workshop 2 - Alienated Senses

Bonifacio High Street, Philippines around 10pm, Oct 26, 2011. Stores are almost closed and nearly people from coffee shops, bars and restaurants are present.

Working in pairs if possible name yourselves “Eyes” and “Ears”. Ears is equipped with sound recording equipment (Your phone will be more than adequate!) and blindfolded. Eyes will lead Ears on a guided journey through a range of different environments. Ears will dictate the pace of the journey and say when they want to stop and make dedicated “sound-mark” recordings.

If you have to work alone then perhaps consider choosing an environment in which you can remain motionless with your eyes closed for several minutes. As you do so your sense of hearing will improve and you will begin to focus in on sounds that previously you’d of missed. Now search out these sounds with your recorder and build up a soundscape of them.

For the photography aspect investigate the same environment as a photographer, responding solely to what you see.

At the end of the journey Eyes repeats the route (wearing ear-defenders/plugs) responding to the visual stimuli.

You should end up with a landscape story and a soundscape story. This content should then be uploaded for everyone to share and mash-up. In next week’s session we’ll be combining soundscapes with image-based journeys and layering them with other people’s to make new artefacts. You must license this content as CC BY-SA or CC-BY to enable us to do all of this.

Take time to load up your content with as much information as possible such as the time, location, weather, your mood etc , all of this is information that can be dispensed with if not needed but has the potential to add value if included.

Soundscape Story
Alienated Sensory Mashup - Phonar Task2 by Dan Macarandang


Landscape Story
Flickr photos