Frans Masereel's The City

[My modified piece]

I feel that even with the minor modifications that I have made the panel takes on an entirely new meaning. Suddenly the crowds are more fearful, the people, instead of being pushed together  by their sheer size, are now being pushed together as they all try to flee. The blasts of steam and exhaust are more threatening and sinister, and on the whole an entirely different image is created. 

[The original]

Directly above is a frame of Frans Masereel's The City, a frame which I took and modified as part of this project. I chose this image because I felt that it lended itself easily to the ideas that I had in mind. Everything in the frame is already in motion, and there is little unity to it. All of the people and cars are headed to their own locations, even if for a moment they share a common direction. With that in mind I wanted to give them a reason to do so, thus the alterations I made to the frame, which is something of an after image, taking place after the action in the panel below, but also something of an alternate panel, taking place at the same time in a different  world, perhaps.

Newspaper Poetry

Same as my last post, you might want to download this and look at it on your own computer because the downloading process messed with the resolution again. I made the poetry piece initially in a two columned system, but when I put it all together it actually worked out well.

I Used to Think but Now I Know

Alright, here is my comic for the "I Used to think but Now I Know" assignment. In order to get a good look at the image, you might want to download the image. The process of uploading to this blog makes my images smaller and messes with the resolution a little bit.

Quarry Art

This piece is a heavy modification of an image I found, and as I was creating this I played around a lot with different filters, resulting in the creation of this:

This wasn't at all the image I was going for, but when I stumbled upon it I found myself intrigued by it. It looks significantly more space-y, like something we might get from Hubble or something.

Good and Bad Visual Data

Good Data

Despite the fact that the picture is a little cut off on the right side, I think that this is a great example of good visual data. the colors are very clear, the information is very precise, and very well made. Te information covers a fair amount of territory, going through many trilogies and representing them in a very nice manner. In summary: It is very clear, and incredibly precise.

Bad Data

In my opinion, this is representative of bad visual data. The coloration of the letter in the circle, the spacing of the letter, and the coloration of the sections all add together to not look nice. Also, the fact that the data is split up into two different sections, what is in the circle itself, and then what the colors of the various sections mean splits attention into two different focuses, each of which contains roughly the say ideas. In one case the same information is expressed three times.

I took a slightly different approach  with this assignment. Instead of a lecture type show, or a mind map based on that format, I chose the first episode of a television show that I am familiar with, something with branching story lines.  I chose elements that I thought were key to the development of the show. Death by violence, prophecy or mysticism, the entrance of the Bebop, Bounties, Drugs, and their use. Each of these images represents of of these ideas, each of which interlocks and weaves together to form the whole of the show.

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