May 6, 2017
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I thought we might work on monitors that looked like this, but in my opinion this is too tethered to the ‘real’. Yes, the (bad) isometric and the neon green gives it that ‘unreal’ feel. It does not work, it merely represents. Which in this context, is probably okay.
The first sentence “I thought we might” isn’t the same as “we do”. Which is what this is about really. Finding stuff that ‘we’ can *DO*, that actually works. And I think that’s largely unseen.
So it’s nice to speculate and illustrate, however it’d be nicer to illustrate what’s actually happening, or what’s already happened.
So in that light, this illustration of a monitor is just a practice illustration for more illustrations that might actually depict what’s going on.
HYPERREAL FINAL IMAGE & EDITING
A promotional image for a Cuban Interdimensional Travel Agency!
I did a lot of different edits for this brief and learned how to do tons of new stuff in photoshop and it was a toss up between this image and the robots.
The robots worked great but I was struggling to find the right environment, and I’ve been working on a series of abstract images (the spheres) so decided to incorporate this into the image.
The landscape is a photograph of Irvine beach and this made me think of postcards, so it was a short step from that to imagining what a postcard might look like if sent by Ernest Hemingway on an all-inclusive interdimensional package holiday to the end of time. The brief was hyperreal.
Everything is a photograph. The spheres were made from photographs I’ve made of light shone through Murano glass vases onto a white surface. These were converted into 3d object in PS and glows and shadows added to the landscape. More interestingly is the land mass which is also made of light however I’ve created a 3d extrusion built from a depth map of the image and this created an amazing textured landscape essentially built from light. I added a wee twirl filter to the clouds, and I wanted to work on creating neon text so that suited the postcard feel. The figure waving from the end of time is Ernest Hemingway, or a photograph of a statue of him.
Preliminary documentation of "Through the Vanishing Point" by David Rokeby and Lewis Kaye.
mershak - hyperreal
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