Project One

As we discussed our first project, I immediately starting thinking about Google maps, and how you can use the street view button to see images of the route that Google suggests you to use when you search a destination. I wanted to see if I could re- create this view but make it designed to look just like the one I see when I walk to class each day. I began to think about what makes my journey special. I know I always have coffee with me as I walk to class and my Ipod in my ears, since its winter I always wear my grey scarf along with my big black jacket. My next step in this process was to take pictures of my walk and use the camera as my eyes.

After taking pictures as I walked to class on a rainy day, I began to think about how I could take all my images and make it into one cohesive image, that would still let my viewer see and feel like I do as I walk to class. Being that our class starts at 9:30, I am usually walking from home and am in a dizzy daze as I have usually just woke up. My walk is usually rushed, because I am usually running late, and I often feel like my walk goes by rather quickly, and has become so routine that it almost feels automated. This lead me to the idea of making one image that had all the things I actually notice on my walk combined into to just one photograph.

When I got to class and started flipping through the images, I began to think about our class discussion when we talked about the different frames in a movie, and how my changing one slide you could put an idea into the audiences mind. This made me think about the random images I notice throughout my walk and the things that actually stuck with me. This is I how I created my image. I went through the 12 different images I took on my Iphone and pulled out the objects or people that I remembered seeing on my walk. I then used different methods on Photoshop and combined them into one frame that if you look at the image quickly it looks just like a regular image, however if you look at it a little more closely you see that things are exactly as they seem to be.