Teenage Dream

Ode to the teenage dream! Life as a teenager, hate when living it, miss it when its gone. Just been watching a movie every night, selected from one of my favourite movie eras the late 80's and early 90's where some of the best teenage angst movies were made! God didn't they have damn good music and movies back then - yes they did and I just had to spend some time living in that place for an evening...or three. 

The two movies I happen to have watched so far both have Christian Slater in - a dark and murderous psychopath (very alluring) in the film Heathers with a classic Winona Ryder and her angry monocle diary writing. Then I moved onto Pump Up The Volume with the lovely Christian playing a teenage pirate radio host called Hard Harry, talks about sex, suicide, school and the troubles of being a teenager in a world that doesn't give a crap - strong message about free speech which makes it an amazing movie. And in case you were wondering I was born in the 90's, although I don't understand the whole 'I was a 90's kid' thing, its like who cares? just appreciate that at that time they had great things happening, music, movies, rediscovery of youth! 

Okay so if you are reading this then watch these movies and go back to the time when being a teenager was actually the coolest time in your whole life, that and the clothing back then was awesome (and apparently breaking the law was the thing to do). Bring back the 90's!

Heathers (1988)

Pump Up The Volume (1990)

TALK HARD! SO BE IT!

“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?” 

“This is the way the world ends; not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.” 

“The world is quiet here.” 

Foreword Photographic Print Auction

So our first fundraising event, the photographic print auction, raised £3,093!! The funds are going towards our participation in the Free Range Show at the Truman Brewery in London next June. 

You can read more about the success of the auction here:

http://www.plymouthart.ac.uk/latest/news/photography-students-celebrate-success-of-print-auction/

Raffle prizes

Signed Print of Bjork by Phil Nicholls

Me with my clipboard!

Doing a little speech as hostess of the evening

Follow our progress here:

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Email: forewordpca@live.com

“There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she can't even let herself think about because that's when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it's always raining a slow and endless drizzle.

You will hear that she has left the country, that there was a gift she wanted you to have, but it is lost before it reaches you. Late one night the telephone will sign, and a voice that might be hers will say something that you cannot interpret before the connection crackles and is broken.

Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again. 

Whenever it rains you will think of her. ” 

                                           “The sky is full of dreams, but you don't know how to fly.” 

Sarah Packer's photostream

Sarah Packer's photostream on Flickr.

New instax photos

Foreword is a collective of talented undergraduate photography students from the BA Hon(s) degree programme at the Plymouth College of Art. In June 2014 our studies will culminate in the exhibition of our work at the prestigious Free Range event in London, where photographic students from around the country have the opportunity to showcase their work. As a collective we have been tasked with raising money to fund this event and have a fundraising target of £6000. We hope that you will be able to support us in our endeavour.

Our first fundraising event is our Photographic Print Auction, as a year group we were each assigned a role, I was the one who made the catalogue displaying all the lots with images and info, I am also the hostess for the evening. Please see the link below for the catalogue:

http://issuu.com/sarahpacker/docs/print_auction_catalogue_ebook

You can follow our progress as we near our London show via:

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“At night I dream that you and I are two plants

that grew together, roots entwined,

and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth,

since we are made of earth and rain.” 

                                                    “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.” 

My latest project is looking at self documentation and intimate photography and its output and display on the internet and looking at how we share imagery with others. I've been looking at polaroids, instax, 35mm and various other photographic mediums. My latest experimentation has been with my Nokia Asha 300 which has a built in 5MP camera, so not as fancy as an iphone, but I'm working with what I have and I'm not just going to buy an iphone purely for the photographic capabilities. I am also not too great at touch screen typing and am trying to master it on my boyfriend's iphone although I usually just speak to that Siri thing to type it for me!
But anyways, here are the pictures I have taken so far - I seem to be taking them at night, not a conscious decision at first but I think I see more interesting lighting at night and I do most of my walking from place to place in the dark.

IMAGES: All rights reserved © 2013 Sarah Packer. Do not use without the artist's permission.