Absurd
What is absurd?
Utterly or obviously senseless, illogical, or untrue; contrary to all reason or common sense; laughably foolish or false:
an absurd explanation.
Utterly or obviously senseless, illogical, or untrue; contrary to all reason or common sense; laughably foolish or false:
an absurd explanation.
Activity 1: An absurd photograph
The photograph (by the artist of Deidre Wallace) is of a suitcase that has arms and legs coming out of it, it is quite absurd because it is not something you would see everyday.
We do not see the persons face so it makes me wonder what they look like and how the image was made and why they made this. |
Activity 2: Hide
I found this image on Pinterest and it kind of inspired me to take this idea and create something like this. It looks like the man's head has gone through the wall because we can't see it. It looks absurd because don't know how it was made and it kind of confused me a little and i wanted to try this.
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Plan
My plan for today: I am going to take a set of images trying to make it look like the picture i found on pinterest, I'm going to try make it look like the persons head is gone through a wall with the 'tilt' theme where the person is titled to make it more absurd.
My plan for today: I am going to take a set of images trying to make it look like the picture i found on pinterest, I'm going to try make it look like the persons head is gone through a wall with the 'tilt' theme where the person is titled to make it more absurd.
Hide: set 2
My idea for these images was to use objects to hide someone in a weird and absurd way, I used the polystyrene head to cover his face because i thought it is weird to cover a face with another face.
Signs
My first idea for signs is to write weird things on post it notes and to stick them on places, the point of this to make people confused because the sign doesn't make sense. My second idea that I'm going to try is to make loads of pictures of holes in walls and stick them around the school to confuse people. I think it is very effective to make people think twice at what their looking at because its not something you would see everyday.
This is the first image i made on signs. I used photoshop to make this. firstly i took a picture from google images of a hole in a wall and put it in photoshop. I wanted it to look like a hole has been punched though a wall so you can see through the classroom on the other side. I then went to the other side of the wall and took a picture of the room from the same angle and perspective of the hole. I used photoshop to put the image of the class into the hole and i printed it.
This is what the picture looks like on the wall, i like this because it looks real at first glance and it has the effect to confuse people when they see it. In this image I am walking passed it and the image has been taken so I am blurred and you can see the hole clearly. `The idea is to show how people see and walk past this everyday. |
Image Set 2
For these images I decided to make really odd signs on post it notes and stick them around the school, I think they are a good way to show absurd because the signs doesn't really make sense for example: 'Keep rolling down the stairs' is funny because it is placed on the stairs and no one rolls down stairs, they walk. These signs are meant to make people look at them and think 'What on earth?' because they are absurd and some are the opposite e.g: 'Broken Glass' is stuck on the floor and obviously the floor isn't glass so people will look at it confused.
Evaluation: These pictures didn't work very well because the camera settings weren't correct. The depth of field were different so only one subject was in focus. I need to change the settings on the camera so both subjects are in focus
My Final Idea
I have found a artist on pinterest called Martin De Pasquale, He creates 'impossible pictures' using photoshop, i saw some of his work and i really like them because the photos litter all looks impossible