Captains Log, Stardate... uhh....

I picked the word monotony. Lets go ahead and give the definition for no apparent reason. “wearisome uniformity or lack of variety, as in occupation or scenery.”. That is what monotony is As you can see I presented you with a picture of the wall above my desk in my room. Well, it is pretty boring, my wall is a very light gray color. That is all that I stare at when I get bored of doing my homework. That blank wall above my monitor.

I realize that we have two projects to present, but mine just ended up blending together. Sometimes I don’t know where certain projects start and others end. So I just said what the hell and ran with it. For some reason I wanted to take the people who I was researching and impose their faces on my wall. Well, I don’t think I have time to actually do something like this, nor would I think it would last long as these people are pretty ugly. So I decided to load up my good friend Photoshop.

I found pictures of my book report people: D.R. Hofstadter, J.W. Dunne, Celia Green, and Car G. Jung. All of these people are from pages 67 of this big book we were told to buy. They deal with dreams and different sorts of dreams. I somehow came to the conclusion this related to my monotony, mainly because of this line: “An expert reckons that people who use their visual imagination during the day – artists, designers, architects, photographers, film director and the like – rarely have spectacular mind-blowing Technicolor dreams. These, paradoxically, tend to be bestowed on those whose daily work is more predictably routine.” I figure most of the dreams I have been having lately are really bland and they never have color, just shape.

Well after imposing these faces on a picture of my wall, I thought it just wasn’t what I was looking for. The pictures were all different sizes and some were “expanded” to fit and were pixilated. (This also relates to what we talked about last week up on the roof, so I guess this is three projects in one.) After fiddling with the location I took out my tablet and decided I would trace the facial features and outlines of these characters. Then I removed the actual pictures and it was still not quite correct. I thought about relaying a color wheel behind them to give them color. But with four characters and only three colors in a RGB chart it just wasn’t working. But then I thought what if I just used a CMYK chart? It is four colors and also a color wheel. So using the four primary colors from CMYK I loosely colored them in with an overlay blend and I found my picture.

This is the completion of my work, with I think nice colors and dealing with my chosen people and their image.