My inspiration for my Final project

War...GOOD GOD!

So war is our next assignment. I'm going scouting today to find a field or hopefully some dirt mounts to piece together an epic food fight. I want to take a WW2 perpective on it with dirt mounds but if thats not possibly WW1 trenches would be awesome. Pump in some fog for dramatic effect. I'm thinking about how in South Park they redid "Saving Private Ryan" and they changed all the guns to walkie talkies which was satirizing Speilberg's ET where they got rid of all guns and replaced them with walkie talkies in the theatrical re-release. Its this type of idea I want to run with. No guns just food. I also am planing on having someone video tape the whole experience. This will not be just a photoshoot but more like a theatrical recreation of a never fough epic battle.

Critique

Well, I had had some high expectations for critique on Tuesday. I have been experiementing with creating new landscapes through photoshop, but I didn't really receive any creative feedback on that or much of anything. Apparently Barbies are clique but its better than nothing. The 2 paintings/photos that gained the most attention were ones that I wasn't even that excited about. It was a straight shot nothing complicated. I put a lot of work into the Dali photo and all I got for feed back was its dark. That is not helpful at all. My proudest photo from this critique was the Dali photo since I was able to manipulate the pixels enough so that it looked like something Dali would produce. Even Fadi thought it was brilliant, but apparently the class was unimpressed. There were some good photos during critique but I think that this theme was too easy. You didn't really have the think of positioning because it was already predeterminded in the painting. Most of the class didn't try to put their own spin on it it was more of just recreating the painting and getting it over with. Other artists that have approached recreating paintings questioned the motives of the artists or what the painting was trying to say. This project would have been more successful if it had not been about recreating paintings but reading between the lines of the painting and manipulating those means that we work so hard to learn about in art history.