Final Project Thoughts

Subtlety and surrealism are the keys for this project. Basically, I want to create a weird, surreal picture of a strange world doing even stranger things. My imagery is going to be analogously derived. This project is going to be a direct allusion to our society in a hopefully non obvious and non angsty way. Now I need to make a storyboard, and figure out all of my aesthetic decisions.

10.24.07 Project

This project was really helpful for me because it refined my direction for the class and gave me a lot of interesting are to conduct some further research.
I based my idea for this project the essay "Body ritual among the Nacirema." This essasy describes american traditions of hygene from a purely anthropolicical viewpoint. It focouses on magic and a general sense of absurdity that surrounds a lot of our rituals of our body.
I chose to work in more a direction that is more consumer oriented for this project. Secondly, I was wanting to work on transition points between compositions, because I feel that I am weak in that aspect.
This project seeks to point out how many of the promiment activities of our culture can be reduced to symbols, and when the become these symbols there meaning is condensed and instantly clear. I rendered these symbols with the word "magic" repeated continously. On each symbol is also a label that simply states "i believe in magic"

This project made me realize that I am really interested in the customs, rituals, and symbols that surround us, how they are formed, and what they say about us a society. In fact, I feel that all of my projects this far can fit under this concept.

So Ive been absent, but in case if you missed it........

Text Project (Now With Video)

I chose to use text from poet/musician/visual artist adam drucker. Basically, he writes these strange, stream of consciousnesses poems that use a lot of really abstract metaphors. A lot of his subject matter is about how weird our society is, and while his work tends to portray the negative aspects of our society, he also manages to touch on some nice things too.

It too me a while to get a handle of the path text tool, but i got it figured out. Mostly, I just really tried to interpret his text with my text and emphasize line and phrases that I thought were important.

Machine Post

I really wanted to experiment with repetition in this piece. I am more pleased with the second scene than the first. All in all, I think that this project could make a good starting point for another, more fully developed, piece.

The basic idea behind this piece is that our society is oversaturated with medication. The pills move intricately from hand to hand showing how hyped these medications have become. The smiley recepticale catches the pills, and beings to glow, but he can only take so much. After a while the smiley looses his shine and becomes grey. After this point, no matter how many pills are stuffed into the faces, they can not smile anymore.