Projected Identities (unfinished so far)

Scanned Emotions

This piece was for the scanned emotions project, and for it I had my face with gray and black background and a ton of editing and effects and trimming. Basically it's my face with an overload of gray and black and somewhat blackish light brown into it. The only unique thing about it is the plant design with low opacity in the middle of the face part.

The picture has no pattern, being a portrait and singular subject/object, and there is the face to be contrasted against the darker background. It has the emphasis on the face of the subject, and has asymmetrical balance, yet again because the leaf pattern, and  the background. There is unity in it, it is not terrible to look at as a whole, and the other elements seem to work together.

The picture means that I am writing this at 3:38am and cannot even think about what I am supposed to be filling in here.

I felt like this picture was very successful in portraying the emotion that I was given to represent, apathy, because of how disconnected this picture feels. The gray and black were colors chosen to best represent it and help out he unity considering the emotion given. I personally think it looks better than average compared to the rest of my sorry works.

Environmental Scan (unfinished so far)

Ad Redesign

This piece is for the ad redesign project, which was to find an ad and recreate it to send a different message than it was intended to. This ad is from Mcdonalds and shows an employee who looks utterly drained and pretty much a windup-toy. As in there is a wind-up in his back, and he has a heart that is apparently bleeding out of his chest, and a suitcase filled with Mcdonalds related papers.

There is no pattern, singular subject for this piece, and no contrast because nothing really sticks out, most colors are the same or closely related. The man might be emphasized and of asymmetrical balance, but that doesn't exactly count for much, considering most of my projects are like that. The picture conveys some unity, it is alright to enjoy with your eyes so I would consider it to have unity.

This piece means or represents the tired and broken down employee that Mcdonalds has working for them, because you know minimum wage. There are two messages hidden in this image, the first is that Mcdonalds is an evil corporation that wants you to drink it's coffee so you can work harder for it. The second is that I am slowly losing my sanity writing all of this (50ish paragraphs done in one sitting).

I feel like this image is successful in showing the evils of the Mcdonalds corporation or at least their criminally bad coffee skills. I think it has a decent amount of unity, but it just looks too bland, not enough going on to justify calling it a true redesign. The picture could have done with more changes to the actual ad, like color or text, or changing any core part of the original structure.

Shrine

Childhood Memory

This piece was supposed to be for the childhood memory project that we did about something that reminds about your childhood. In this picture we have a swingset, a kiddie ride, a kid holding a balloon, a pigeon in the sky, and a shovel, a paper airplane, and Thomas the train engine. These were all things I remember were around when I was a kid but maybe not for everyone or in the right places.

There isn't any pattern in this picture, and I don't think anything is actually being contrasted either, and it also appears nothing is emphasized. There is asymmetrical balance like almost every other project I've done, because nothing in this picture lines up with the other side. Unity doesn't exactly work in this piece, everything seems a little bit too scattered out and nothing makes good sense.

The piece means that I am really tired because this is pretty late at night and it's my nth cup of hot stuffs. I think the message in this picture is that to remember the old days is always something you should do once in awhile. It is a healthy thing for people to do (relive their childhoods), sometimes people never get to do that, if you have time, try it once in a while, it certainly isn't like you can relive it presently.

I thought that this picture was moderately successful, it got the message across about the childhood memories subject, but failed in other things. By that I mean  it looks pretty damn bland, and should have had other effects or things added to it to change stuff up. I would say it gets a moderate rating for art, but hell your opinion is more important than mine to be honest.

Dream Scene

This piece is for the dream scene project, where you had to create a picture that represented some kind of dream or something related to that basically. So what I did was get a picture of a place in the presidio, then get a picture of a sign nearby that road. Then I got a bird and put it on the sign, cut both out and put in, put myself in it, and put in the sky from a different picture into it.

This piece has no pattern, but it does have contrast, the sky differs in color widely from the color of the land below it. There isn't anything being emphasized particularly in this picture, because there are two different objects that are around the same height on each side of the picture. I think there is unity in this picture because it just sticks together, and because being of a dream it can be allowed to look strange.

This piece means that during a dream, at one point it involved being in Presidio park and having a bird on a sign. It also means the sky was bleakly bright, and clung to the horizon for some reason, and despite that the sign the bird was on had a shadow of something on it. So from this, you should be able to conclude at this point, I don't think there is a hidden message or something in it.

I felt that this one was successful, it represented the dream sequence well in one image, and had enough surreal value it's dream title can not be doubted. Honestly, this picture actually made me stay up to make sure the light in the sky was trimmed properly. Anyways, it is one of the better pictures I have made in this class, by virtue of actually working and not slacking off the whole time.