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Exquisite Corpse

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Illustrated Shakespeare

Hate Crimes have been on my mind all month. This month marked the 11th anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death, more headlines about a hate crime that was caught on video, and finally that passage of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Hate Crimes Act. In the background is a copy of the Bill of Rights. This is a reminder of the concepts advanced by John Locke who advanced the notion that each individual is free and equal in nature. Locked also argued that the will of the majority must preserve the rights of the minority. These seem to be lost concepts when it comes to rights for LBGT peoples. In the middle ground is a cacophony of headlines about hate crimes or other evidence of oppression of gay people. In the foreground is a young man with a blackened eye who was the victim of a hate crime. The message in the piece is "This Above All: To Thine Own Self Be True." No matter who you are or what you believe, I encourage the Biblical admonition, "whenever possible, live peaceably among men."

So I was stuck trying to come up with a subject for my poster. I was riding with my friend Scott to put some miles on his new scooter. After a while, we stopped at Lola for tapas. He suggested that we start a motorcycle gang. Of course, I was up for that. He then said that we would need a recruitment poster. Ah ha! That was it. Later, my partner came up with the tag line, "we ride scooters." I added the bitches.

Quentin, Harvey, Jesus and the boys.....

Stonewall

Chapter 1 Response

The advent of digital technologies has transformed art and artists across the spectrum. Use of these technologies has created new opportunities for artistic expression. In fact, in many cases it is difficult to determine if digital manipulation has occurred, and if so to what extent. Chapter one explores the use of digital imaging and the digital production of art.

While the chapter walks the reader through several applications of digital art, it was interesting to understand the complexity of digital montage; particularly in the way it transforms familiar images into new and fresh ideas. This is even truer in the realm of advertising. The ability to juxtapose images creates opportunities to create meaning by shifting contexts or challenging the viewer to develop a new relationship about what they are seeing. In each instance, the artists invite the viewer to step into a new world and ingest anew the subtext of each image.

This is a flyer that I created for an upcoming program that we are hosting at work. The image is from the web, and the text is..... text. The document is created in Microsoft Word.