Remix

This Image I composed of 3 seperate images. One is myself dressed up as a Captain Cook figure and one is a photo of Mount cook and the other is a photo of a maori dude I found on google image search. I checked for copyright but found nothing so I went ahead anyway.

After cutting and pasting the three layers I made them black and white, Changed the contrast and brightness then used the variations tool to give them an old feel by adding a touch of red and lots of yellow.

I must admit this isn't really what we were supposed to do because we were supposed to use each learning session on the Adobe programs to build an image or movie from the combined elements from each session. I treated each class as an exercise in their own right and wasn't really happy with my outcome so I deleted them. As a result my image is solely a photoshop image.

I quite like it as it is supposed to be a parody of the first contact tensions between Maori and Pakeha early in New Zealand history. I was going to add text "A tense moment as Aoraki is renamed Mount Cook" but in the end I felt it didn't fit in aesthetically( fonts seemed to 'fonty'.) Back in the 90's Mount Cook was supposed to be re-renamed Aoraki during the Kai Tahu settlement but on a trip though twizel way I noticed the road signs are taking a bi-cultural stance on this issue. They refer to the mountain, and village nearby, as Aoraki/Mount Cook. So that is the conceptual element of this project; Drawing attention to the rediculous situation that our forefaters and mothers have left us in now. Much the same rediculousness happens with the national anthem being in English and Maori But I wont get started on that!!

Blogging this semester

As you can tell I have done stuff all blogging this semester. First of all I diddn't realise we had to but then when I found out we still had to I threw a minor paddy and refused to do it. A bit silly I know but my reasons are slightly valid. I wanted to put as much time as I could into sculpture as I really enjoy it and have been gagging for some time to get into it because its the major reason I came to this School. 2nd of all if you read my first post you will see that I am quite opposed to blogging because in my opinion its a collection of namby pamby, touchy feely opinions on everything by mostly unqualified voices. I have seen good blogs but it is a hard slog trying to find them and I usually come across good blogs by accident. Ironically here I am blogging, blurting my guts out for all to see but would you reaaly want to be reading this unless you had to!!!

Maniac story boards

These are the story bords our group used to record our video. They are pretty quick drawings but helped formulate what we were going to record.