Brainstorm Blog #4

(Written after the completion of my webventure)

Because of the time constraints on this last project, the overlap from the last project that took me so long to finish, and the impending finals turbulence, I knew I had to generate a basis for this project and run with it. I'm unsure how exactly it happened, but I knew early on that I just wanted it to be a mysterious, funny, and confusingly fermented escape from a messy hoarder's car. It ties into my interest in depictions of waste and modernity lost within the modern waste of the internet, and how aesthetics emerge from this era of the internet we find ourselves in - whether from surveying the surrounding waste, tracking how it became this way, how things used to look online before we were so aware of it, and how we cheekily deal with it now in the turbo brainront era. Basically I knew I wanted it to have an aesthetic drawn from the texture of the internet, scavanging it, and the (loud gulp) postmodern (?) internet aesthetic boiling up in art, music, and scrolling places online. I love making my work from carefully sourced pictures rather than original digital drawings, and knew I'd be having some quality web drudging jaunts while making this. The first image I selected, which was for the wix lab and carried over to this project, was the amazing gnome (who is actually made of cake). From there, I knew I wanted to make it POV using a notorious camera roll favorite of mine, a picture of my friend's legs taken when he fell asleep drunk in the middle of a football field. I can't wait to get his reaction when he see's it's eternalized in my classwork.