Final Creative Piece

 I first found the image I wanted to use.

 Then I traced free hand the outline.

 I then selectively cut out the parts i wanted the black to fill when it was sprayed.

I chose to do an Alice in wonderland themed art piece for the Tim Burton film. It it supposed to be more of a marketing artwork for the darker version of alice in wonderland created for the now older fans of the original fairy tale. This piece is done in a street art way to appeal to the teenage audience who would be interested in things like graffiti. It appeals to this audience because they would have grown up watching the original child fairy tale, Alice in Wonderland and now would be interested in the new darker take on Tim Burtons version. The whole idea of the piece was inspired by Bansky's token black and white stencil and text written in red. The colour red of the text represents danger, which would arouse curiosity on the piece! The font is plainly handwritten and "signed" by the director Tim Burton, so onlookers can research the text and signature in order to find out more on the film.

On the down side Im not very happy that the wind was strong, so the text looks hazy. But I guess this could work in my favour to create more of vivid exterior for the film.

Pop influence on graffiti

 This one I found under a bridge in Glenroy where I live on my walk. The colours are beautiful. I actually the the way graffiti was so prominant in the rise of pop culture and colour kind of created this idea of colourful spray work. I also think this tag could have some influence of current fashion trends because alot of bright colours are in fashion right now.

This little girl with the red scarf paste up art I found in 'Centre Place'; a hip laneway in Melbournes CBD. I really liked it, i thought it was gorgeous. I think pop culture has influenced this one in the way that the city has developed a pop hipster hide away type cafe culture in melbourne, where all the hotest places are in lane ways like flinders lane and degraves. The idea of a small innocent girl surrounded by colourful tags and art in a little bustling lane way gives birth to ideas of a child like curiosity and adventure.

Helvetica

The documentary directed by Gary Hustwit on Helvetica was interesting. It was releases on the typographies 50th anniversary. I never once considered the importance of a font, let alone one that in 'perfect'. It was thought to be a safe font in terms of legibility and appearance. Thats why it is so used. It is one of the most popular and most used fonts in the world. The word Helvetica translates to the word Swiss, as the creators didn't deam it appropriate to name the font after the country Switzerland.

Street art: 50 words on Graffiti

This is an artwork done by myself, i have always loved street art and I had a great idea one day. This sewer cap was turned into an eye. Signifying, that the street is alive. It isnt colourful, I used colours of white, black and grey because they best disguise themselves with the walkways and walls. It is a concept of Melbourne that often goes unnoticed and my intention was to make onlookers more aware of 'city life'.

Reflections on film Credit Sequences

EDWOOD

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

SEVEN

007 GOLD FINGER

Oulipo Literary Movement: Anagram names, words and a sentence.

I created a sentence of words instead of a paragraph. 150 words was difficult, i have around 20.