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Saturday, October 11, 2008

What inspires me!

So I really started thinking about my project this week, and while I was at work I got some ideas from a typography book. The work of David Carson might become a big influence in what I do this year. I never have gotten into typography but always have wanted to so this might be my chance.

My initial idea: I have 3 influences that this project will hopefully grow from-
1. Being my first time to live in a "big" city I really wanted to use this experience to create a project for this year. It will be what I want to call "digital impressionism". I will record my first impressions from around the city with digital photography and notes I take along the way. The city is broken up into many well known neighborhoods (hawthorn/belmont, old town, pearl, sellwood, alberta arts...etc.) I think I will explore these neighborhoods and record all my first impressions...
2. A previous project that I worked on, Possessions, was the first conceptual project I have done. It also was a project where I really pushed myself outside of my comfort zone. Im not one to approach strangers and ask them questions but I made myself do this in this project Possessions, it resulted in something unpredictable and very interesting. These unique results I got were so uncontrolled and unpredictable I have decided to include outside influences into my project this year. I am thinking of making the digital photographs (maybe i will draw on them edit them add text to them balh blah blah..) into postcards. the postcards have postage on them and pre addressed to maybe a PO box I get. I will leave these post cards around this city in shops and such for people to add their impressions to and send back to me.
3. My last influence is David Carson and his influence will help me design the postcards into something interesting.



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