word visualization

- When visualizing the poem I wanted to emphasize mainly the beginning and the end. The images of me by myself at the beginning stand out, and the type being so large at the end draws attention to it.
- At first I wanted the structure to be small and portable, but the type was impossible to read. I like the way it stands or can be folded up, and putting it on tiles gives it a sort of weight it would not have otherwise on foam or paper backing.
- I took images in photoshop, made them black and white, gave each one a different effect, and then blended them together with the smudge tool. After that I put a filter over the entire background layer to make it less saturated, and then put the text on top.
- I used floor tiles that I stuck together with sketch paper in between, and then mod poged the image onto that.
- The typeface I used is called Savoye LET and the title is in Myriad Pro.

word visualization

my concept for this project basically was just to focus on me on the outside and the roles i play or have played in life. it's pretty straight forward and there's not too much to say about it except that i like the way the display turned out however i would have liked it to be larger.

word visualization exercise

my poem will be...

Lack of Gravity
by Bob Childs

Sometimes this world can
Whirl and wheel so fucking fast
I don't know how anything is
Able to stay on the ground
Any day I expect to see busses and buildings
Launch from the earth and spin off into space
Boulders tumble skyward and
Trees uproot flying out of sight
Everything from elephants to salamanders
Scramble for something to hold onto

That's how it felt back then
And there I was with that stupid look on my face
Running in circles
Without a rope
Without a clue
Looking for someone to call out to
Expecting at any second to be
Pitched off into the sun
Just one quick spit into the fire

But just then
A hand grabbed hold and pulled me down
It was you who laid me out and made me warm
You held me close and sang to me
You brushed my forehead with the
Palm of your hand
Without the fear of spinning free
Unaffected by the lack of gravity
As if you were somehow part of this planet
A piece of this puzzle
One cell in a larger organism

Now the world still reels
But I am rooted
The room still spins
But I am seated
And though the wind blows leaves all about me
I am no longer in fear of
Shooting up into the darkness
Again I feel the weight of my form
Planted on the earth
I can see both my feet
Placed beneath me on the ground
I can lay my head back and
Rest upon the soil

So I give you my endless thanks
And my undying love
For all of this
And more.

it just really speaks to me because the author has bipolar disorder and so do i and i know what its like to feel out of control and have someone bring me back down and make everything okay.
for my book i want it to be really small, like pocket sized so as to carry it around in case i feel a crazy mood coming on. i want to fill it with pictures of me and people in my life that helped me through the hard times of my illness. thats all i have for ideas right now.

just kidding!

scratch my last idea for this second project. instead i'll be creating myself as a life-size paper doll, with outfits that are significant to me such as my salisbury cheerleading uniform, my lifeguard uniform, my tcnj hoodie, and maybe one of my prom dresses. i like this idea way better because it's more unique and more about me externally than internally, which is different than most others in the class.

illustrator project #1

Project 2 Idea

For my self portrait project I plan on keeping the composition as random as possible. I want it to look like a page from a notebook covered with doodles, with random objects and polaroids all over like a cluttered desk. This is significant to me because my life right now is all over the place and confused, but at the same time whimsical and fun. I plan on making it look like one big picture but just separating it into three to make it a triptych. I’d like to do several simple photo manipulations to different pictures of me and space them all over the final project. I took pictures over break for this project of me, my best friend, my neice and her mom. Those girls are the light of my life and without them I'd be nothing, they're a part of me and that's why I'm including them in my self-portrait. I might add a few pictures of me with other people and make it like a scrap book but we'll see how it goes... I don't like to plan out my projects fully ahead of time because then it will turn out differently than I expected and I won't be happy with it.