Friday, October 31, 2008

VL: Postcard Final

2 comments:

Josh Lambert said...

I think what you have done to the postcard looks like, as far as how you rendered it. The photo of the family in the tree looks old and damaged and the hand with the iPhone doesn't look awkward, but fits in well with the photo. Also, I like how the rounded edges of the postcard are referenced in the iPhone.
hmm.
The juxtaposition of the old camera with the new camera (iPhone) conveys a topic of history and the evolution of technology. Like with what I was saying in my pervious postcard, I was conveying a sense of what the camera means to you and the memories it contains, this new postcard plays along with the same idea. Having the family in the new phone, to me, is showing - how cameras will always capture the past and will be with you no matter the technology.
Actually, I just read you type after writing that^ and I might be complicating it a little. Maybe? I think to simplify what I was trying to say/almost said is - This is a postcard about the the evolution of cameras and this photo is showing the different generations of cameras and how they both do the same thing for us, no matter the generation - which is capturing memories.
The hand is kind of showing off the iPhone, saying "see look, this does the same thing"
Looking at the family portrait on the right, because of how it is almost faded away, I now feel that the postcard is also saying, this old camera is the past and is being replaced with this new camera - not that it is a negative thing.
The family being placed in the tree? I'm guessing it being a family tree and that is referencing your type, because family trees show the different decades. Is the father turned just to fill in the tree with the family and not background trees? I'm thinking it doesn't have any huge meaning behind it? I'm not saying it should, because it shouldn't.

This one was harder than the others, not because you did a bad job, but because I'm pretty tired and my communication skills right now are not well, let alone my thinking.

Ryan Shawgo said...

Yeah your basically on the right track.. Basically I was juxtaposing the idea of the growth of technology as well as the growth of genealogy and the growth of family. And through the grow of the family they capture memories with my object. I was trying to represent genealogy with the family photo in a tree trying to convey "family tree", in which the text supports this idea of growth. The I-phone is supposed to represent new technology and how this huge camera (my object) can be transformed and do 100 different things and be a 1/4 of the size.