COP 2015
ideas/notes
Demonization of marine life in
movies/film….?
Whale in
Pinocchio?
Jaws movie poster
Drug culture
Living in a world
where the correct information is held back from us, and drugs that could be
helping our health/mental health are still globally illegal only because the
government wants to “save face” because of their crap decisions made decades
ago (1960’s hippies, “say no to drugs” act and LSD ban. What would happen if
drugs were legalised?
Link this to
art/illustration somehow??? Art, creativity and psychadelics?
https://vimeo.com/141665601
Street Art/Graffiti culture
Defacing private
property vs freedom of speech, expression and creativity
Is urban graffiti
a force for good or evil?
5 pointz?
The effect of
street art/graffiti culture on society?
growing trend of guerilla artists creating
non-permanent "digital graffiti" via digital projections and using
the facades of building as a surface for projecting political statements and
art installations.
Links:
Quotes:
that graffiti is always the enemy because it is
easy to erase unlike poverty, failing schools, etc.
I think
graffiti is about making a disruptive statement in a counter-cultural manner
(really like that term). Billboards happen through a "proper" social
process, so I think they're more about an established form of visual communication,
like Randh points out.
But In many
ways graffiti culture has infiltrated our everyday lives. Graffiti has played a
role in things like motion graphics and communications design. Walk into any
big name advertising agency and you will meet people who have a street culture
background. The creative class has basically digested spraypaint graffiti.
I'm willing to
bet that Frac's examples are gang graffiti, or the shenanigans of a few
underclass middle schoolers. Bear in mind though, that good things still emerge
from the bottom. One day those troublemakers might be doing graphics for Fox
news billboards, or study psychiatry in an attempt to understand their
childhood behavior (any stats on this?)
Documentaries:
“Bomb It” marc
ecko?
Meet 2011 TED Prize Winner: JR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5MEC5MPjvg
Books:
http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Calligraphy-Beyond-Markus-Mai/dp/3899550625