Photo Montage

Doing an image making project for something else but it should feed quite well into this, i want the cover of the give away pack to look something like this.

More Net Research

Got a pretty interesting takeout box from sainsburys so i filmed taking it apart and photographed the flat net for research.

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Palindromes

As the letters will be covered both sides one side will be backwards so i came up with the idea of using a palindrome relating to the song

palindrome |ˈpalinˌdrōm|

noun

a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backward as forward, e.g., madam or nurses run.

so that which ever art work is preferred they can be displayed in that way.

i have found two so far that seem to fit the weird nature of the songs

"GOD SAW I WAS DOG"

&

"LIVE EVIL"

will look for more

Managed to find more material.

So as it turns out the mercy seat artwork is going to be a big photo montage so i've found some more really great weird twisted artwork to use in the montage.

Weird Black and White Shots, Click here

From Her To Eternity

So far most of the project as centred around the artwork of 'The Mercy Seat', so I thought it was time to start thinking about the artwork for the other track.

My idea is to create a big typographic image using the lyrics. The song is basically about sort of obsessive love. So i thought it would lend its self well to maybe a ransom note style type treatment. I dont really like the cut out and stick letters but abit of letraset might look pretty cool.

I havent decided whether this is going to be hand drawn, computer based or a mixture of both.

Anyway here's the lyrics to give you a slight idea of the feel of the piece....

Ah wanna tell ya 'bout a girl
You kno, she lives in Apt. 29
Why... that's the one right up top a mine
Ah start to cry, Ah start to cry
O ah hear her walkin
Walkin barefoot cross the floor-boards
All thru this lonesome night
And ah hear her crying too.
Hot-tears come splashin on down
Leaking thru the cracks,
Down upon my face, ah catch'em in my mouth!
Walk'n'cry Walk'n'cry-y!!!
From her to eternity!
From her to eternity!
From her to eternity!
Ah read her diary on her sheets
Scrutinizin every lil piece of dirt
Tore out a page'n'stufft it inside my shirt
Fled outa the window,
And shinning it down the vine
Outa her night-mare, and back into mine
Mine! O Mine!
From her to eternity!

From her to eternity!
From her to eternity!
Cry! Cry! CRY!
She's wearing them bloo-stockens, ah bet!
and standin like this with my ear to the ceiling
Listen ah kno it must sound absurd
but ah can hear the most melancholy sound
ah ever heard!
Walk'n'cry! Kneel'n'cry-y!
From her to eternity!
From her to eternity!
O tell me why? Why? Why?
Why the ceiling still shakes?
Why the fixtures turn to serpants snakes?
This desire to possess her is a wound
and its naggin at me like a shrew
but, ah kno, that to possess her
Is, therefore, not to desire her.
O o o then ya kno, that lil girl would just have to go!
Go! Go-o-o! From her to eternity!

As you can see it already is sort of set out to emphasise particular sections

Mary Kelly / Aubrey Beardsley

Visited the Whitworth Gallery yesterday, there was an exhibition of Mary Kellys work alot of her work was in the same vain as some of the stuff i've been looking at. I wasn't allowed to take photos but i'll try and find some and add them later.

There was also so Aubrey Beardsley work there which was excellent.

Aubrey Beardsley (Top)

Mary Kelly (Bottom)

Un chien Andalou

I've also been watching some old old movies to get some more inspiration as well.

Un Chien Andalou was a short surrealist by Salvador Dali and Luis Brunel. Its full of weird scene that are pretty apt for this project.

Watch the full film here

Gunter Brus

Some of the work i've been looking at reminded me of Gunter Brus, who was an austrian painter, graphic and performance artist. He was part of the Viennese Actionist movement.

His work is pretty weird but i thought it would be good to draw influence from. I thinks probably exploring the whole movement abit more awell.

Printing

Had an idea of printing onto some different paper to get different effects. Found some creepy pictures of engravings and other bits, printed them onto graph paper and on layout paper.

The graph paper came out really cool.

Experimenting

Been playing around with different sketch books, pens and pencils. Writing on to masking tape as well. Getting some good results.

3D Letter Full Mock Up

After my first attempt at making the nets for the letters i found that they were slightly to weak, so i will have to use thicker card. I will also have to experiment with which panels i can leave out, as some of the nets cant all be made in one piece. I want them to be as simple as possible to construct. I have also changed the type face from Gotham Bold to Gotham Ultra, this gives me a slightly bigger canvas to work with and also structurally the forms should be more solid.

I mocked it up in illustrator to make sure. I have also found that some of the rounded letters will have to be slightly altered so that they have a flat surface to stand on.

Lyric Annotation

I have been through the lyrics to mercy seat and annotated bits and pieces mostly picking out key phrases, and looking up the bible references

Some Existing Material

For this project i bought a pack of 25 post cards from the Nick Cave website, which consist of some rare photos, but also scans of lyric not books, and some bits of artwork. Going to use some of the effects used to make the artwork to cover the letters.

I think the artwork will probably be a mix of hand written parts of the lyrics some photos crudely printed and taped, and some verses from the bible and maybe capter references. Also may include some scrawled doodles.

Inspiring Idea

Paper mache 3D Alphabet letters

Paper mache 3D Alphabet letters 17.5cm high 5.5cm deep - Letter S: Lainesworld.co.uk

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