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The
project has a very positive image, and is immediately linked
to art, architecture,
housing and will use digital photography, web site images and
illustrative street photographs/markers to present the art
and architecture
that we do not normally see - it is above eye - level - we
have to “look - up”. Moreover, it raises the profile
of the City, Liverpool, above the “litter strewn street” images
of popular culture to a higher level of art, culture, heritage
and history linked to buildings and architecture.
Mark Craven:
It’s everyday when we walk around, we look around but never
up, it’s there, the Heritage Architecture is there but
we don’t
seem to look.
The Look Up Liverpool Project is giving people an opportunity
to realise what Heritage Architecture is around in Liverpool
and that we do have heritage. I feel this project is an exploration
project that allows us to look at the city at a different angle
an unusual angle. I feel that this project is giving me an
exciting in look into the city, one that you would never see
unless you
really look up, I feel that we are missing out on a lot here
that really needs to be noticed. I am enjoying every second
of this project, it does
make us look like tourists but it is showing an example in
good city taste instead of just going to the local Museum or
Art Gallery
because many people are afraid of art in the open and are only
brave when it is enclosed in a place such as a museum. Overall,
I feel Look-Up Liverpool is a new experience especially for
me but other people as well, it shows us standing for what
we believe
in and being individual in our thoughts in Art, the most basic
things in life have more artist value in Life, especially for
Vincent
Van Gogh.
David
Powell:
I enjoyed this first initial stage of the project and found
the freedom of being able to wander around with a camera
just taking
snaps of buildings/interesting sites. It was a good way to
discover new places I hadn’t looked
at closely before.As I wandered around I realised that there
were so many different and unusual buildings and interesting
designs and features, that you could spend just several hours
exploring just on street at a time, so maybe next time this approach
might
be more useful, but also the “Roam & Explore” approach
is good as you discover things by chance and treat it with
a more experimental way,
similar to the way tourists might see the city for the 1st
time. I loved the look of some of the building in Victoria
St, very
gothic and reminded me in a way of a New York City style. I
wondered if
this was the builders/design plan or just an impression I got.
I feel today was just scratching the surface and was interested
in the way each of us looked at the same buildings but from
different angles and this made it look/feel more of a personal
perspective.
Peter Jackson :
I noticed that wherever I pointed the camera people would look
and people would look at you strangely. I heard some kids calling
us tourists. I shouted back at them ‘who you calling tourists?’ They
stopped laughing which I thought was funny. When you go out shopping
in town you’re only looking on
one level, so when you looked above the shops, there is some
fantastic architecture. I thought it was great looking at the
beauty of the buildings rather than the modern shops. With the
pictures we should play “where is it?”-
guessing where the picture is.
(first comments after taking initial photographs at the beginning
of the project )
Images and views from the inner city areas will be photographed,
put onto CD and edited using IT Software and the sites
listed with a brief history of the image and the site. For example:do
you know
where the third Liver Bird is, or the statue of The River
Mersey,
or where Night and Day are shown, or where and what is
The Golden Dome, where can children see The Mighty Ninja Turtles,
Donatello,
Raphael and Michaelangelo. The project will look at, identify
and photograph different styles of buildings, art, housing
and street
architecture. The young people will be encouraged to walk
around
Liverpool City Centre with digital cameras, look - up at
buildings, facades, friezes, frontispieces, reliefs and sites
of interest
and photographing the objects they see, with street names
and locations,
access roads, streets and overviews.
The final presentation of the project will take place in August
2007 at St. George's Hall.
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