200 pills/day

That's how many pills the man takes that is convinced human capacity will be exceeded by computers. That way he can live long enough to put his brain in a machine to become immortal. Super, right?

I can't get the robot brains out of my brain, so I have chosen my direction and will begin my research with the article, "The Medium is the Message." http://www.commarts.com/acve.aspx?service=ca&c=RBHsBasIuScs257pMlH8jGp7c77YJV%2fdpkx5%2buyrakM%3d&ul=en 
I have seen Exit Through the Gift Shop but will flip it on again while working on more of this for a refresher. Great movie so it couldn't hurt.

I had to include this photo. I'm definitely a fan of his, but you have to admit - he gets a little ridiculous with the hair flip and pursing lips. So LA. So cheese. Much love Shepard, sorry to hate.

Moving on, 

-Appropriation is the perfect way to change people's perception of something familiar

-There's no profit in pasting up thousands of posters and selling 100-200 max.

-Shepard makes very critical choices when deciding which images to appropriate in order to strengthen his concepts.

-In Shepard's book, Supply & Demand, he gives detailed descriptions of his process of choosing these images and appropriating the. I need this book.

-To wrap up, here are a few extra images from the article to reference. Some by Shepard, and some by pop artists.

 

 

 

and so it begins

I'm on the fence on this project because I've always wanted to do an Indie Rock poster, but there was a Times Magazine article recently that really upset me that makes me want to create a street works poster in response to it. Here's a link to ink:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2033076-1,00.html
In short - it's about computer intelligence exceeding human intelligence. In the actual article he discusses the possibility to put our brains in machines so we can be immortal. And this leads to one phrase sticking out in my mind:
ROBOT BRAINS.

I woke up from a horrid dream this morning to the robot brains idea - totally unrelated dream but for some reason this popped into my head. And even a visual of the insides of a human with a screen printed 3 dimensional outline of a robot all randomly came into my head. This never happens. It makes me think I should explore the potential of this idea and leave the band poster behind but for the sake of attachment, here are a few indie rock posters from postercabaret.com that make my heart race.