Working on my next project; a propaganda poster. My initial concept was that of a commentary on consumerism vs. recycling. My intent was to contrast a positive action (recycling) in contrast to consumerism in a big box store (such as Costco).  As I developed the concept I realized that a narrative statement (words in a short sentence) would be needed to tie the message of the poster to the message.

At that point I realized I am doing projects in two other classes this semester centered on Veterans and remembrance. So now /i am focused on Poppies and remembrance. We'll see where that goes.

Found something on Facebook; an image of a t-shirt. But I used to see this message as graffiti on bathroom stalls, blast walls, on grenades themselves even. Now it has reached the mainstream.

If propaganda is intended to influence people; this is an example isn't it?

Thursday 8 Oct 2015

Finished my presentation on a new age artist; CDR Dr Robert Ballard. Interesting subject using technology to further science.

Exercise #2

An experiment; no further work. Time to work on new media artist presentation. My first assessment is to focus on Remotely Piloted Vehicles and the images they take of things unseen. So am going to focus on Dr. Robert Ballard

What I started with were my initials, then progresses to colors and finally distorting the characters. As seen I did find the rectangle tool. If we do a project I would like to take a photo of "Thelma & Louise" and go from there.

I picked my initials because primarily I know them. I have used them frequently because they indicate my acknowledgement of completion of a function such as reviewing a document. To this day I still remember initialing off on Rules of Engagement down range.