Over winter break I'm going to try to move all class related blog entries over to my other site, http://www.Leap-of-Faith.com, which I've owned for several years. I will be re-focusing this site back on it's original purpose, which is an custom art related site with sales of unique artwork of my own as well as others. I appreciate all who have visited this site, from campus and elsewhere, and ask that you continue to visit here, as well as my other site to view class work. Cheers, and hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a prosperous new year to come!

Ok, of the techniques for propaganda posters, I've chosen to research the "direct order" technique. Each poster below illustrates either historical (2) or modern (2) propaganda posters using the "direct order" style.

Did you know we currently owe China over $8,000,000,000.00? To put that into perspective, lets say some generous individual wanted to pay that debt for us, and they would donate everything they earned. So this person works 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, and earns $35 per hour. It would take him 114,285.71 years (with no interest) to pay off the debt. Or, if every American citizen (a bit over 308,091,000 counting from newborn to deathbed) were to help pay it off, we'd each have to chip in $26... Actually that don't sound too bad, to get our country out of debt... What are the politicians doing? Of course they are just sending us deeper into debt, spending money willy-nilly. As Americans, we need to take responsibility for our country, and take control back. Get the politicians, corporations and special interest groups out of positions of power and manipulation, and get people who care about this country into office. I'm all for allowing immigrants into our great nation, but they've got to play by the rules, and one of those is speaking English, and another is paying the fees required. My wife and I've jumped through those hoops, as has my brother and his previous wife. It's not cheap to become a US citizen, but if you want to live here that bad, then pay the price. I'm tired of supporting those who enter illegally... Since when did "press one for Spanish" take priority over our un-official tongue of English? Anyway, enough rambling. Come the next election, we need to show the politicians who's really in charge, the citizens (while we still can). One other note on China, if you think our debt isn't troubling enough, they have over one billion (1,000,000,000) more citizens than we do, roughly 4.25 times more people. And they aren't being taught "pro-American" sentiments. Just something to think about.

This is a short intro to my "The Hunting of the Snark" flash for Advanced Multimedia.  Need to compress the audio, as it's a file hog.

Alice in Wonderland - by Jotto

Ok, guess this one goes without saying, but JibJab is one of the most recognized comedy animation sites, so only right to include it in my flash reserach.  See the embedded sample as example.

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Hope you enjoyed it.

This is the original band poster, and after class critique what follows is the final band poster that will be posted somewhere on campus and I'll shoot a photo to record the posting.

The primary comments on the original design were that the strokes and the gradients on the building were too conflicting with the flat, boarderless design of the plane. I tend to agree that the final version does look more unified now than the original. What do you think?

After reviewing the various movements that we have to pick from, I've settled on the Art Deco movement, specifically the Ukrainian-French artist Adolphe Mouron Cassandre. Below you will find 3 posters the exemplify his personal style during the Art Deco movement. Cassandre was also responsible for designing the Yves saint Laurent logo.

I'll be updating these with the relevant title and date if/when I locate them.

We've been assigned the task of picking a written work (phone book or tax laws, anyone?) and then developing a non-linear flash project. In regards to the text we’ve chosen to use for the project we are to answer the following:

1) You have chosen a text in explore in a new form, a new type of media.
2) What interests you about this text in particular?
3) What interests you about this text in particular in relationship to its potential
as a new media form, in relationship to its potential as a Flash file?
4) What are some initial thoughts, or early ideas on how you plan to realize this story
in Flash?

I’ve chosen to base my work on The Hunting of the Snark, by Lewis Carroll and published in 1874. The full text may be read at this link: Carroll’s Snark.

One of the things that drew me to this work was reading Jabberwocky, also by Carroll. I had originally thought of doing the project on Jabberwocky, but decided it wasn’t long enough, nor did it depict enough raw visual imagery for my project, thus I moved on to The Hunting of the Snark.

In addition to needing a longer source material, I also like the abstract, non-sense wording mixed with a strong rhythmical / rhyming style.

As far as using this as source material to translate into a new media form, I think the contrast, even irony, of using something written 135 years ago to base a cutting edge media project on is just a great idea.

As far as my initial direction in which to go, I’ll be embedding key lines from the work within the flash project as visual and audible anchors.

As the original was written in eight fits, I will possibly structure the flash around 8 key components or objects within the overall structure.

This will be an abstract project with associational content between the different elements, both visually and audibly.

Palais de glace, Champs Elysees
1893
Jules Cheret





Design for a Wall Decoration
1897
Charles Rennie Mackintosh





Time Magazine Cover
1970
Milton Glaser





Concert Poster
1967
Rick Griffin





Venus
1915
Koloman Moser





Concert Poster
1966
Wes Wilson