Every person has many layers that make up who they are. Which layers of ourselves we choose to show others, and how we portray them is a choice that we all make. In this self-portrait, I have chosen to portray certain traits to the viewer, and in particular I have chosen ones that I believe make up one of the major aspects of my life, which is the artistic portion. Artist, designer, open minded, free thinker, and clever are a few of the terms and traits that I would consider to be pieces of myself that are important in keeping myself creative, and my thoughts engaged in the artistic process. Although I am made up of many layers, it made sense to me to make a self-portrait out of these particular terms because it is this layer of myself that I feel is shown to most people.
Then I have also been rethinking my 3rd project -
I think I may want to take on the stop motion beast again, now that I have done two previous projects with it.
I have a few ideas floating around -
One idea I was thinking about could entail using gummy bears (or some other sort of recognizable candy figure). I was thinking maybe they could group up into teams out from the bag and then try to escape the fate of being eaten. Along the way though they will face challenges to escape such as, some may melt in a frying pan, some may fall into a sink full of water...or maybe float down a drain, some could get stepped on, and then maybe one group could escape the house. I was thinking if I did this, I might do a small written narration as it goes, probably on a dry erase board (or maybe some other way) - also in stop motion.
Another idea I was thinking about for stop motion, would be to take a poem (probably one by Robert Frost since that is one of my all time favorite poets) - that is public domain - and do a collage style stop motion, making up the typography of the poem. Then to go along with that, I could use clippings from various places (magazines, newspapers etc) to create imagery that the poem is talking about.
I saw this and liked the collage-type style it had.
Of course, this idea of doing stop motion with typography wouldn't have to just pertain to a poem, I could also choose a general concept, theory, philosophy or something like that and illustrate it through stop motion.
I would love to say I would like to take on a super ambitious stop motion and do one with the camera mounted from directly above the subjects....I found this guy's blog talking about how he rigged a mount up for it without buying super expensive equipment, but I haven't looked into it really any further than that - but I love the stop motions that are from directly above.
http://blog.iso50.com/15588/how-to-shoot-stop-motion-from-above/
If I could pull off a stop motion from above some concepts I'd probably think about using would be dreams, or the belief that your right part of your brain is your 'creative' portion of the brain, and the left is the more analytical/strategic portion.
This one is pretty amazing
And then I also am thinking of more possibilities for the Header of my portfolio site, or business cards - Not thinking I'll keep the CMYK circles, because I feel like that might imply that I only do Print design, and although print is actually what I do prefer, I wouldn't want to label myself as ONLY working in print design.
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