Thursday, 24 March 2011

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.

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

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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Tuesday, 22 March 2011

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


Saturday, 19 March 2011

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

Wednesday, 16 March 2011

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)

Tuesday, 8 March 2011

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.