Action painting

Edvard Munch -- The Scream, I think that this is the painting that I want to do. I thought about doing a street artist, like Bansky, but I'll leave that for Jordan to cover and do this. I want to make his eyes and mouth grow more, and obviously I'll add a scream for the sound, but I want to make him grow to then all of a sudden shrink and it all go quiet, then his mouth close, eyes close and he likes slivers off the screen because he has a very unnatural looking curve to his body so I think he should look like a snake as he disappears leaving just the bakcground of the picture

My W☼rld Flag

What I like most about this piece?
My favourite part about my flag is the heart.. I tried a few different ways of adding the peace symbol until I finally found a way that it looks nice. I like the heart, the colour, the world in it -- just all of it in general. I also really like the grey with the pink, very nice. Something else i like is the compostion, nothing centered and the heart to the left .
What I like least about this piece?
I'm not sure about the background colours, I'm not sure if I want them darker, or lighter or what. I just feel like its off a bit. Something else that I do not like all that much is the shadows on the middle star. It is too dark i think, just a little different than the other two when I think that for a flag, they chould all be the same. But I didn't notice that until I uploaded it.
Why does this represent a flag for all nations?
The blue is to represent water and the green is to represent land, this is because we all need these things so it is something common amoung us all. The world in the heart obivuousl is to show all the  nations, and the heart is so to show the love that we all feel, no matter who you are you love someone. I put the peace sign aroudn the world to show all the effort put towards gaining world peace. And lastly, the stars are to represent the dreams of everyone, the wishes everyone makes at least once in there lives.. I didn't want to put a 'dream cloud' I thought that it would look rather silly.

One World Flag

Things we all need/things we all share:
Food
Water
Love/Care
Shelter/Land

Flags have few colours, 2-3 of them. Everything looks clean cut and nice, they are in general very simplistic.
I am right now drawing a blank.
Hmm...
I do not want hands. They all have hands.
Maybe a heart, surrounded by water to show we all can love one another, and the water can show survival.
Then with a peace sign in the heart, or maybe a globe.
I think I could offset the heart and make a line between land and water. But with the idea of land and water i could use a tree and the leaves could be hearts.

Culture Jammer - Taylor Torture

 What aspect of your cultural jam do you find most successful and why?




It's amazing how things can be twisted..

I love the little blurb I changed that is mocking the company... I took the base from there advertisement and twisted it around to make fun of them. Also, I like seeing Taylor Swift all distorted and odd, it is not every day I am behind making a celebrity look funny and kinda disgusting, so I really enjoy that and thinks she looks very much like a guinea pig/bunny cross over. Now I really think my bunny is successful because, though that isn't that bunnies actual eye, it is the eye of an animal tested animal so it really is a reality. I really enjoyed this project, I liked having the opportunity to make fun of something for a marks.

What aspect of your culture jam do you find least successful and why?

I think I could have found some way to make Taylor animal like, but I was also looking for her to still look human. Also, a better name for the project. The message could come across more clear than it does being called"naturesense", but I didn't want to keep it "natureluxe", and I was struggling to come up with something else.

If you could do this project again, what changes would you make to improve it? 

If I could do this project again something that I would change to improve it would to find the actual font, so it's a perfect match. I also think I should have done a bit more research than what I had done, and take the time to find the exact products that they test on animals and use those, I wanted to use the Taylor Swift line which is why I chose this line of products when this could be a line they do not actually test on animals... or who knows maybe all there products are. Maybe I'll check someday.

Culture Jammer - Covergirl

So, I did some research and found that Covergirl still does some animal testing. So I thought I would find a way to use this and manipulate pictures and ads. I want to exaggerate the make up and make them look really silly, maybe change them to look like animals.. But i don't want to over do this, I want it to be maybe a simple nose.. Not a whole face.
They have a new line of "Natureluxe" make up, and it's represented by Taylor Swift, I want to use this line of make up, having such a young idol as the "victim" will make it more relatable than like Eva Longoria or Drew Barrymore or someone like that.
Covergirl's slogan is "Easy, Breezy, Beautiful, Covergirl", Maybe I could change it to "Easy, Breezy, Animal Testing".. Or something along those lines. I'll have to think about that or maybe just use that. I think it's kinda clever.

Culture Jammers

1.  What company does the advertisement represent/subvert?

This doesn't represent a specific company, but just people in general and how we all conform to technology and trends.

2.  What kind of product(s) is being advertised? 

Technology, live tv addiction, music etc.

3.  What imagery is used in the advertisement to subvert?

they use cute little icons and toxic symbols to represent different aspects.

4.  What message (text, copy) is used in the advertisement? 

The text in this piece tells us that we all are living in a toxic and addictive environment.

5.  How are the elements and principles of design used to convey a message?

They use bright stereotypical things, which is suitable for the subject, they don't have anything directly centered.

6.  Who is the target audience of the advertisement?

This ad actually targets not just one specific group, but everyone in our culture. Anyone who watches tv, is on tv, listens to music - so pretty much everyone.

7.  Does the ad jam convey a clear and successful message?

Yes, this one is actually rely specific and does not actually have much to make you think you look and now.

8.  How could the ad jam be improved?

this one could probably be improved by making some point that makes the viewer think - you look you know exactly every little piece of information that you are suppose to get from this.

1.  What company does the advertisement represent/subvert?

McDonalds

2.  What kind of product(s) is being advertised? 

Fast food

3.  What imagery is used in the advertisement to subvert?

They use the McDonalds logo and manipulate it

4.  What message (text, copy) is used in the advertisement? 

It actually took me a bit to understand this one, but I realized that it represents the "Golden gate", saying if you are to eat a lot of fast food you will find your way to the light all the faster.

5.  How are the elements and principles of design used to convey a message?

This image is just manipulated, it a simple manipulation with a big message

6.  Who is the target audience of the advertisement?

Fast food consumers - so most of the Americas

7.  Does the ad jam convey a clear and successful message?

Clear - no, not at first. but in the end once you get it - yes.

8.  How could the ad jam be improved?

I think maybe adding a shining light, though then this would draw away from the typical Mcdonalds logo design, it could make a more clear message -- finding your way to the light at the golden gates.

1.  What company does the advertisement represent/subvert?

McDonald/Fast food again

2.  What kind of product(s) is being advertised? 

Fast food

3.  What imagery is used in the advertisement to subvert?

I love the imagery here! The heart rate machine showing McDonalds golden arches.. SO clever.

4.  What message (text, copy) is used in the advertisement? 

"Big Mac Attack" -- A heart attack brought on by a Big Mac. McDonalds raising heart problem risks.

5.  How are the elements and principles of design used to convey a message?

No centered images, good colour and the eyes flow where they need to be.

6.  Who is the target audience of the advertisement?

All fast food consumers... Specifically McDonalds consumers.

7.  Does the ad jam convey a clear and successful message?

Very clear.

8.  How could the ad jam be improved?

I'm not sur ethis one could be, I love this one the way it is.

1.  What company does the advertisement represent/subvert?

Calvin Klein

2.  What kind of product(s) is being advertised? 

Perfumes

3.  What imagery is used in the advertisement to subvert?

Since Calvin Klein usually uses sweaty skinny models, they have a women leaning over a toilet as though she is puking... Striving to be the women in the real ads.

4.  What message (text, copy) is used in the advertisement? 

Obsession, For women.. They actually have a perfume called this.. And its links so well together

5.  How are the elements and principles of design used to convey a message?

Soft colours, and not centered.

6.  Who is the target audience of the advertisement?

Women

7.  Does the ad jam convey a clear and successful message?

I believe it does, we all at some point become envious of the bodies in ads and clothes or looks...

8.  How could the ad jam be improved?

I do not really have an idea of how this one could.. maybe her leaning forward more or showing a tear on her cheek to show its not a happy good thing to be bulimic or anorexic.

3D work

What I like about this is...
I love the apple worm piece, it just in general looks awesome and even without glasses it looks cool. It pops out so well. I didn't even mean to take pictures for the assignment, I just liked the worm being attached to the apple.. It's amazing how you can get your best work by accident.
As for the Jordan one, though it looks to over exaggerated without glasses with the glasses I was so surprised as to how it actually worked which is why I posted. I was pretty amazed at in the end. I think it looks good.
What I don't like about this...
It does bother me a bit with the worms tail.. But how would i get a worm to hold still, especially when we disturbed it? But that's the only thing I don't like about it.
In the second one, I don't really like the school.. It just looks weird, i think i should have cropped it out or something just so it doesn't fuzz so much. I aligned the camera, maybe had I done something else it would have done that.
This is art because...
It is photography, we took time and put the skills we know in photography to work. Also, we had to compose the pictures in photoshop and think about what we wanted to pop and what should be set back, to make the 3D most effective.