DISTORT

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Triptych Idea

For my triptych, I wanted to create three panels that showed things that interest me. All the panels would have a similar design method, being compiled out of different pictures from stock photos and photos I found using Google Image Search, along with various effects applied in Photoshop, to create scenes. Music is the first panel, and it has one of my favorite bands on the television, a number of amplifiers, a guitar similar to the one I own, and a british flag representing my love for British rock music. This all eclipses a scene in the background which is a photograph of a MUSE concert. The words all over the picture are all choruses from my favorite songs.

The second panel will be a sort of adventure/fantasy scene set on the water. The picture places the viewer inside an old, run-down ship, missing many of its windows, and the viewer is peering out at a scene unfolding in the distance before the sunset. Two armadas converge for a battle. I love the water, so this touches on that, and also touches on my interest in both video games and movies that involve a sort of adventurous plot.

The third panel is about text and loud color. I love text. Ever since I first got Photoshop 7 the year it came out, I’ve loved making banners and signature pictures for forums and making logos and such, and an important element of all of these is text. I often see others’ works on forums, and the first thing I notice is whether the text works or not. So many times have I seen a decent picture ruined by poorly placed and/or ugly text. People use generic fonts and basic and kitschy effects like glow and bevel. It’s just something I’m particular about. Recently I’ve become more interested in color than I used to be. I used to work generally in monochrome or two-toned color schemes, but now I’ve expanded to all kinds of colors. I decided to use loud colors in this panel to demonstrate my embracing of colors I once avoided.

Triptych Part I

Night Music

Night Music

At one the wind rose,
And with it the noise
Of the black poplars.

Long since had the living
By a thin twine
Been led into their dreams
Where lanterns shine
Under a still veil
Of falling streams;
Long since had the dead
Become untroubled
In the light soil.
There were no mouths
To drink of the wind,
Nor any eyes
To sharpen on the stars'
Wide heaven-holding,
Only the sound
Long sibilant-muscled trees
Were lifting up, the black poplars.

And in their blazing solitude
The stars sang in their sockets through
the night:
`Blow bright, blow bright
The coal of this unquickened world.'

Philip Larkin


For my book, I want to create a small photo album to relate to the reflective nature of the poem. Each page will have a Polaroid photograph with a couple of lines written in the white space underneath.

Link to poem: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/night-music/