This is a very uneventful post. However, it will be marked with blatant honesty. I am rather discouraged about everything creative I am working on, including this project. I'm psyched about all of my concepts and the visuals are in my mind but I'm plugging away with nothing to show for it. Not to mention I have a jam packed Friday which allows for no progress tomorrow.
Therefore, I will be taking a personal day of letting my frustration go to focus on work, and then I shall hopefully be in a better place for production over the weekend. Blah. Sleep sleep. For the record, this is the earliest I've gone to bed since I can remember. White. Flag.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
photomontage
first of all, this guy's stuff makes my heart race http://www.robjoe.com/
second of all, my dear sonja sent me all sorts of fun inspiration links for the photomontage direction. It could be softer, but it could also be creepy and eerie so I'm working with that in mind. Here are a few things that I grabbed through inspiration. enjoy.
second of all, my dear sonja sent me all sorts of fun inspiration links for the photomontage direction. It could be softer, but it could also be creepy and eerie so I'm working with that in mind. Here are a few things that I grabbed through inspiration. enjoy.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
direction
"But Kurzweil would spend much of the rest of his career working out what his demonstration meant. Creating a work of art is one of those activities we reserve for humans and humans only. It's an act of self-expression; you're not supposed to be able to do it if you don't have a self. To see creativity, the exclusive domain of humans, usurped by a computer built by a 17-year-old is to watch a line blur that cannot be unblurred, the line between organic intelligence and artificial intelligence."
-This is the direction. To communicate in my image an actual combination of organic and artificial intelligence as one.
So it's now time to make it real:
-This is the direction. To communicate in my image an actual combination of organic and artificial intelligence as one.
So it's now time to make it real:
Monday, March 28, 2011
to add or not to add? that is my question
I found the entire article on Ray Kurzweil. Here it is....
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138,00.html
As I usually do, I'll be going over the original article for a critical assessment of how on target my illustrations are before tomorrow morning. More work has been done on manipulating the illustration and color application. I have one version that I'm pretty happy with at this point, but I'll do a few more versions this evening to compare across the board for which solution is working best.
***The questions that arose today were type - do I need it, and what could it be? That's why I figured a critical review of the article would be helpful in choosing to add type or not. At first thought, I wanted to bring Ray's name into it, but that might not be as helpful in addressing what is making me angry. I'm sure he's not the only one who enjoys this concept that he is introducing, so it would make it more of a personal attack to address him individually rather than doing something satirical about the concept of putting our brains in robot bodies to become immortal. I think addressing the concept could be more impacting.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138,00.html
As I usually do, I'll be going over the original article for a critical assessment of how on target my illustrations are before tomorrow morning. More work has been done on manipulating the illustration and color application. I have one version that I'm pretty happy with at this point, but I'll do a few more versions this evening to compare across the board for which solution is working best.
***The questions that arose today were type - do I need it, and what could it be? That's why I figured a critical review of the article would be helpful in choosing to add type or not. At first thought, I wanted to bring Ray's name into it, but that might not be as helpful in addressing what is making me angry. I'm sure he's not the only one who enjoys this concept that he is introducing, so it would make it more of a personal attack to address him individually rather than doing something satirical about the concept of putting our brains in robot bodies to become immortal. I think addressing the concept could be more impacting.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
progress
I've switched to putting my sketches on the computer in an illustrator file. That way I can use it as a reference when applying the drawing fluid on the screen. I turned down the opacity on the robot layer over the brains for now just for the see through effect but I'll be dropping it in photoshop and playing with the overlays more before printing. That way I have a better idea of color combinations.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Waco Day
Not exactly in one place for a convenient blogpost. But here are some on the road photos. Some sketches of the combo robot and brain, a rock under a railroad track that looked like a brain, and a painting on a wall with awesome color application. I've decided to do a drawing fluid process to wear I'm creating the image by hand when it comes down to it. About to start some more sketches while listening to a show at common grounds.
And before we left FW, I put one of Shepards' stickers at the gas pump next to the 24 hr surveillance photo. Perfection.
And before we left FW, I put one of Shepards' stickers at the gas pump next to the 24 hr surveillance photo. Perfection.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
IT'S HUGE!
Today, I got a giant screen to print the poster with. I am so so so so pumped!!! It is large and beautiful. It probably won't be able to bleed to the edge on a 24x36 dimension poster, but I have a lot of inspiration that has backgrounds with hints of texture and rough edges that don't bleed so I would be totally cool with making it work.
And I've discovered from beginning my sketches that starring at brains makes me somewhat sick. Also, the perspective of my current bot my need to be altered to work with the brain imagery that communicates well. More to come later, but I won't be able to get to it until later - DSVC! Finally.
And I've discovered from beginning my sketches that starring at brains makes me somewhat sick. Also, the perspective of my current bot my need to be altered to work with the brain imagery that communicates well. More to come later, but I won't be able to get to it until later - DSVC! Finally.
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