Excite

This is the Art section of the Otago Polytechnic Excite 2009 catalogue which has just came out onto the polytech website. It includes one of my 'Iconic Thumbnails' of Cape Rienga, the tip of New Zealand. Far North yeeeeah!

Icons I have done so far...

Grand Canyon

I've been compiling images of famous places around the world, and when I came across the Grand Canyon this happened:

It turned into a big landscape scene with all these different things happening. I upped the opacity on some of the layers to bring certain parts to attention. Quite like the effect this gives as a big panoramic landscape which is totally altered and not true at all.

And heres one of the Great Wall of China

Different approaches

Heres two versions of the Washington DC monument. The top image is done using the same techniques that I've been using in past iconic thumbnail works.

This new one at beneath I have taken a slightly different approach. I have chosen one image which has a good average size of the subject (in this case it is the monument) and each image I place on top of it I re-size tomatch the size of the original subject. This means the actual thumbnail images all change their original size but the subject turns into the same size.

I have also upped the opacity in some of the layers to bring some of the important parts out. I quite like how it has worked with this particular image but I'm not sure if it would work so well with some of the others.

Disecting my work...........in AVI video

Im beginning to really delve into how my work is made up and experiment with one image - The hole in the rock - and try everything I possibly can to define how my final images will be made up. I have started with a clip of how I mave been working, you get a sense of the building up of the layers and how it all comes together to form the final image.

I like how on this video it is displayed at pretty much the same size as an actual thumbnail on google, all detail is the same and you canget a feel of the subject I am working with which is made to be viewed on a screen anyway.

It would be cool to make a series of these and display them on screen in a similar format.

Another interesting way of making a video like this would be to make the layering seem infinite, keep on going for a long time or loop, this would further inhance my ideas of the infinite access to online experiences.

when I get round to it.