I should have known that you'd pick up on all the 'twisted' ones...LOL This was a fun project for me: the larger format allowed more room for visual story telling, and subsequently, for more subtext of a darker bent
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Re: Thank You!quiet_lightFebruary 7 2006, 15:13:06 UTC
Yep, that's me, twisted! Ha!
"The Eye" is probably my fave out of all of this and I think that it is not only the subject matter, but the flow too. It's simple and clean cut and I love it. My artsy fingers can also appreciate the time it took to cut out every one of those birds, so my hat is off to you m'dear.
"Missing Children" ... the contrast of the color with the creepy men is just great and really sets the tone for the whole piece. And then the car! How many little children have been disappeared into the backseat of that car?! Oh my.
Anyways, gotta dash, I'm late to start the day (as usual). xoxo
Let me pick my jaw up off the floor and compose myself first.
OK.
Two words.
Fucking. Brilliant.
About a hundred thousand years ago, some friends and I owned a gallery, and so I can say with some authority that I have seen two tons of absolute crap that people have purported to be "art".
Thank. You. (!)lucky13xxxFebruary 7 2006, 04:26:18 UTC
Wow. What an endorsement. After your journal silence, this is a mouthful! **Thank you times a gajillion.** Kind words go a long way in my world. You know, it would be so odd to have a Book Show... *reverie*
You think this is good, wait til you see HIS shit! the guy's a total savant. go here (http://scrappyboy.blogspot.com/) for now to get a good, solid fix. i'll work on the scanning of his album for moi....
oh, and p.s. i found out where you got your clown from, then completely forgot. dammit, and i was soooo excited when i saw it... :(
p.p.s just think, now that my work here is done, i can.... *plots*
WOW. Taken as a whole, this is an incredibly powerful commentary. I've got to spend more time with this than I have right now, and then I'll be able to give you some real feedback.
How to Pick up a Sailor: a nice segue to Frigging in the Rigging, although it really should be a prelude. F in the R has a great composition, with all those erect symbols.
I also like the use of the chewing gum wrappers in Glamor Duo. It's good to see something commonplace become glamorous by repetition and association.
I see that others liked Missing Children, but it doensn't work as well for me--a little too busy, perhaps, or not enough interaction between the layers.
What really impressed me was the way all the pages come together around the theme, exploring the lighter and darker sides of it.
Thank You!!lucky13xxxFebruary 14 2006, 17:32:42 UTC
As always, I love your critique for it's honesty and the time and consideration you have invested. xo
I love an erect symbol. *snicker*
The gum wrappers were a lark; I thought they looked a bit like paper lanterns and they fit the color scheme.
Missing Children was hard to put together: I totally agree, it is rather busy. It was my hope that the backing of repetetive, b+w "missing" schoolboys-in-ties and the poppy, color illustrations would break into layers. I think that by adding the two scenes on the left, I missed the K.I.S.S. mark a bit and it came out muddled.
The book started relatively lightly, then towards the end, these darker themes popped up. In retrospect, it's interesting to see my physical manifestations of visual ideal change over the period of two years. As life corresponds to art, it says a bit about my settled/vanilla-ish life two years ago in contrast to the "move back home". Perhaps this is a renewed rebellion of sorts??
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Retablo a Guadalupe
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How to Pick Up a Sailor
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"The Eye" is probably my fave out of all of this and I think that it is not only the subject matter, but the flow too. It's simple and clean cut and I love it. My artsy fingers can also appreciate the time it took to cut out every one of those birds, so my hat is off to you m'dear.
"Missing Children" ... the contrast of the color with the creepy men is just great and really sets the tone for the whole piece. And then the car! How many little children have been disappeared into the backseat of that car?! Oh my.
Anyways, gotta dash, I'm late to start the day (as usual). xoxo
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Let me pick my jaw up off the floor and compose myself first.
OK.
Two words.
Fucking. Brilliant.
About a hundred thousand years ago, some friends and I owned a gallery, and so I can say with some authority that I have seen two tons of absolute crap that people have purported to be "art".
None of this is crap.
This is art.
and on that note - MUST SEE SCRAPPYBOY'S WORK.
MUST.
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You think this is good, wait til you see HIS shit! the guy's a total savant. go here (http://scrappyboy.blogspot.com/) for now to get a good, solid fix. i'll work on the scanning of his album for moi....
oh, and p.s. i found out where you got your clown from, then completely forgot. dammit, and i was soooo excited when i saw it... :(
p.p.s just think, now that my work here is done, i can.... *plots*
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How to Pick up a Sailor: a nice segue to Frigging in the Rigging, although it really should be a prelude. F in the R has a great composition, with all those erect symbols.
I also like the use of the chewing gum wrappers in Glamor Duo. It's good to see something commonplace become glamorous by repetition and association.
I see that others liked Missing Children, but it doensn't work as well for me--a little too busy, perhaps, or not enough interaction between the layers.
What really impressed me was the way all the pages come together around the theme, exploring the lighter and darker sides of it.
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I love an erect symbol. *snicker*
The gum wrappers were a lark; I thought they looked a bit like paper lanterns and they fit the color scheme.
Missing Children was hard to put together: I totally agree, it is rather busy. It was my hope that the backing of repetetive, b+w "missing" schoolboys-in-ties and the poppy, color illustrations would break into layers. I think that by adding the two scenes on the left, I missed the K.I.S.S. mark a bit and it came out muddled.
The book started relatively lightly, then towards the end, these darker themes popped up. In retrospect, it's interesting to see my physical manifestations of visual ideal change over the period of two years. As life corresponds to art, it says a bit about my settled/vanilla-ish life two years ago in contrast to the "move back home". Perhaps this is a renewed rebellion of sorts??
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