Some good graphics

letters and shadows

letters and ink (sepia)

washing off the letters, nice thinking!

'fxxx proper typograpgy it is bullshit' (...well, i'm only neutral)

simple & effective masking

cool 3D

Research: Female image in photography

These photographs (found on the internet) are all quite sensual in various ways, expressing more about emotions than just the figure/portrait, in terms of the female identity. Below,I gave every one of them a narrative from my own perception.

• 'the heart on the rail track'
  emotions expressed: lost, confused, heartbroken...

• 'dancing with herself',
  expression of the 'self', embracing a 'new life'
  
  
• 'the game of choices'
  no matter what you choose, it turns out to be a game; even if it is a game, you have to make a choice... over and over again. (specifically about choices the female has to make?)

• 'the broken tape'
  why is the memory so painful? why getting rid of it is even worse?
  vulnerablity of femininity

• this one feels different from the above ones,
  like...a hybrid state of femininity? one is the expression of femininity, the other is a de-construction of femininity,at least seems to be so for me.
  

• a girl in white dress, sitting one the spiral staircase, with bare feet, and in sorrow.
  White hints the notion of 'purism', which is some times an interpretation of femininity. and bare feet? especially with the presence of her shoes. Her posture suggests a state of vulnerablity.

• 'the grasp'
  the desperate wanting hand, to grasp, yet perhaps getting nothing.
  seems she doesn't want me (the viewer), what she wants? makes people wonder. and the constrast of focus and blur works very well in this photograph. there is no emphasis on the individual identity other than the female identity.

• a girl with daisy
  the only portrait which sees the face clearly, however, somehow is also the weakest in the expression of emotions. Her eyes tells most of the story, where there is confusion, but also hope and aspiration.

Concept Articulation

As an attempt to articulate the ideas, yet perhaps still in bits and pieces...

Theme: Identity
-a virtual identity which solidifies and fades away from time to time by going through the site
Subject Matter: Female portraits (or transformative of that, or expanded...)
Visual ideas: the confusion of identities via the visual confrontation of female portraits Random portraits found online, yet (surprisingly or not) each pair shares common characters ...if this is to be used well, that 'confusion' and obsession will be achieved visually.

Narrative: (if to have a story line?) a solo journey of that 'someone', speaking in simple words (text & soundtrack), or answering the everlasting question: Who are you? who are you? who are you...... This is a quick PS combined image...to give an idea of the 'searching for identity'...which can be animated with simple Flash (in this case, it is no longer portraits)

or something like this... (stupid?)

Structure: preferably 'organic', or at least appear to be organic, in terms of the juxtaposition of different pages.
For example:

Wk 05 Class exercise & Other websites

Class exercise:
Before...

After...

Some examples of webpages:

http://www.cpeople.ru/

‘Creative People’-homepage

'Fudge'
http://madebyfudge.com/#2

Feature a Photoshop desktop background for whole website