...still going

landscape progress thus far

wow, awesome!!!

A project i stumbled upon, redefining the meaning of street art, you should all check it out, it's way more than 'cool' :P

http://www.babelgum.com/html/clip.php?clipId=3014270&utm_campaign=cat_metropolis&utm_medium=cpc_socialmedia&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=crevasse&utm_term=

...landscape??

Ok, so now we're starting this fun, wacky collaboration project, but I don't really want to rely on it for the landscape, so I've finally settled on an idea after listening to everyone else's in class today. It seem like everyone (except one or two people) automatically oriented their landscape to go horizontally given the dimensions. I, having done the same thing initially, want to take a typical landscape and distort it to "think differently". 

I have always been fascinated with the desert scape, and the amount of life that is actually invisible to the casual observer. I want to create my own in Illustrator with a fair number of hidden quirks that you would have to look close to really see, on a small scale (8"x 8" x2 compositions), orient them vertically, and drag their bounding boxes to fit the given dimensions (44" tall). This will distort the image beyond recognition (hopefully), and create a sort of abstract art stemming from the real/concrete found in the real world, on our plane of existence even!

I hope to play off of the typical orientation of a landscape, while creating something that isn't easily recognizable as a landscape at all. I plan to make two of them to work as one composition, either two different images stretched the same way, or the same images stretched in different ways, idk yet :)

quick thoughts on new project

My thoughts as they occurred during class on Monday:

-buildings all made from microscopic/normally small things
-perspective? looking through a magnifying glass? looking up at the small things? makes you feel even smaller
-a city built on the brain - all the things one tend to think about on an average day - all the things the body thinks about with out conscious thought (breathing etc) - curved horizon line - background represents the electric charges running through the brain
- quilted hills - all features are stuffed, sewn together
- higher horizon line is good for creating foreground, lower line means more of the sky shows, better for more things in the air
- two point perspective leaves the viewer stationary with 'one eye'
- endless landscape, use of parallel lines to convey perspective
- if you want depth, consider overlap and scale of objects in landscape
- using "thinnies" from the dark tower series as a rift in space to create a second plane of existence on the same landscape
- use a picture of the top of a head as a ground?

have ideas for wednesday,
ready go!

and again

with the print i made for the infinite print project, just to make Troy happy :P