A Rock's Journey (Assignment IV)

This is just one of my art-boards, I couldn't figure out how to post a PDF to the blog. This basically sums up my other ones though. My goal for each board was to show earth's position relative to the sun, I considered doing some text or adding something else to to the frames, but I though it would be cooler with less. I want it to make people think for a second before they realize what it is. I also wanted to express something vast and complicated in a very remedial, deceptively simple manner.

Televised New York (Assignment III)

In this picture, I took many of the shows that take place in New York and set them away from the city as to map it out. My stipulations on which shows made it were that they had to be made after 1980 and had a run of five years or longer.
Eventually if I ever come back to this project I would like to make in more conclusive by having more shows and from all decades.

Old News Critique-- Ernie and his Amphicar

The picture that stood out most to me at the old news show was Ernie and his Amphibicar. The picture has a certain quality to it. It shows a man who has a then groundbreaking piece of technology that is rather useless in everyday life, but he was simply having a good time using it. Although the picture was just originally intended to be a news piece, it has transcended that into being an presentation of a simpler time, when people were amused by a vehicle that could go on land and water. Seeing all the pictures in this exhibit made me think of how I'll see the pictures from today's news in twenty-five of thirty years. I think the whole exhibit is important for people to see. It shows that we are all living in what will someday be history. I especially got something from the exhibit because I often wish I was able to live in the past, but the exhibit made me realize that some day I'll be able to look back over my whole life and see how all the things have changed.

Assignment 3 work in progress

I decided to just include television hows from new york for my project. The main problem I had with doing a larger scale map was that the map size was hard to balance with the sizes of the logos. With this map I can have more specific criteria for what goes into the piece.

Assignment III proposal

For assignment three I plan on doing a map of the US and somehow showing the geographic location of different TV shows. I haven't decided how I'm going to do it yet. I think what I may do is use the title of the shows and some how write them on to the show's location. I'm not sure what the criterion for the shows are going to be. I would like to use all shows, but that's a strenuous task for the time I have, so I may do something like every show from a certain era.

Visual Complexity

This visualization graph is made by deconstructing pop songs. Each graph is one song and the graph is composed of significant lines. Each line shows two thinks: the direction of the line is the pitch of the designated note and the the length of the line is the volume of the note. The graph itself is kind of  critique on popular music. It's about how many of the most popular songs were crafted by adults to statistically appeal to teenagers. It shows the music industry as a factory and not a creative source.

Market Place (Assignment II)

I constructed this picture by assembling several photos from the web in Photo Shop. I used several after affects to give the image more visual starkness. The image isn't supposed to be condemning of corporations but of the people who are blinded by them. To me the image is a critique on how impersonally modern people provide for themselves.

In this picture I was trying to capture the what it means to gather goods and disconnect between developed and developing nations. I'm not necessarily trying to criticize the means people use or say what is right and wrong, I mainly just wanted to juxtapose these two things in an extreme, ironic way.  I did the darkening of the sky as a sort of last minute thing. The meaning of it is open to interpretation. I suppose it could represent the duality of mankind. I tried to transcend the topic of class warfare as much as possible, I hope this isn't interpreted in that way. I really just wanted to make it about the extreme difference of cultures and how neither is right or wrong but both still exist.

Market Place