Illustrator PS Vector Exercise

Word Visualization

Poem

For this project I chose Billy Collins’ poem “Flames”. This poem reflects Smokey the Bear as the complete opposite of what he really stands for. And in order to elaborate on the poem I chose to create a matchbook as my book. With the theme of it being fire I felt that the visualization of a matchbook is the strongest way to relate to the poem. Also, instead of creating actual pages for the book I wanted to keep the final piece to resemble a matchbook as closely as possible. One way I illustrated it was the drawing of Smokey the Bear, which I changed up his face a by changing his happy face to more of an angry look. That part of the book was I wanted to be the main focus, since the poem is about the character Smokey the Bear.

"Flames" By Billy Collins

Smokey the Bear heads

into the autumn woods

with a red can of gasoline.

His ranger's hat is cocked

at a disturbing angle,

His brown fur gleams

under the high sun

as his paws, the size

of catcher's mitts,

crackle into the distance.

He is sick of dispensing

warnings to the careless,

the half-wit camper,

the dumbbell hiker.

He is going to show them

how a professional does it.

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/flames/

Collaborative Presentation: LIVING COMPUTERS

For our presentation, Michele and I chose the artist Rafael Lozano Hemmer and collaborative artist Laurent Mignonneau and Christa Sommerer. We chose these artists because we felt that they both relate to each other in how the took computers and used them to create art that interacts with the viewer and makes them have human-like actions. We found certain pieces of their works that we felt have similarities with one another. For example how Lozano-Hemmer's Pulse Park, using the interacters heart rate, related with Mignonneau and Sommerer's Interactive Plant Growing, using the interaction of the viewers. Both of these works needed the interaction with the viewers in order to make their pieces come to life. And even though their works are heavily used with computers, both of these artists are still able to keep a natural and organic feel to them.

http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/

http://www.interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent/