My “thing” that I do many times a day is use the phone program/software called Snapchat. Snapchat is an instant message social media app that allows you take instant photos and send them to your friends, and then they disappear after maximum of 10 seconds. The constant is me in the same location, the change is the filters representing that I take many different photos to various friends in one short period of time. I combined the new generation of photo taking software to the older generation photo hardware (separate photo camera Polaroid) that prints the photos physically. I liked the idea of how rapidly the technology grows and to combine the two simply is to show that progression. One thing I would add or change if I were to it again or more time, I would fade the photos to black towards the bottom of the poster because the snapchat photos disappear. Although I originally left them because it was again a reminder that older generation photos and camera prints were forever, printed and physical. But I would for sure add more photos to the poster.

For the continuation of the project above we had to create another piece in the inspiration of the cut-up technique. The cut-up technique is a style of simply cutting up work or sentences from books and randomly placing them together to get a sort of collage-mixed project. I took on this project as difficult as possible and re-printed all those images I had before but printed them in black and white. I then placed all those black and white selfies down and brainstormed how to cut them each up to create one big distorted image. I sketched (shown below) various ways to cut the image up, eventually coming to the conclusion of dividing each image into three sections, each section into half, then in those half’s I split them differently (i.e. strips up and down, or horizontally or diagonally).

The image below represents the almost finished product of my cut-up technique (I have one more row to glue and paste). I realized in when cutting the images that if I were to cut them in smaller pieces or more sections per square, it would might not look like too much. I chose this specific number of squares and shapes to distort it enough, crazy enough, but make you realize what has been combined. The intended reaction was to make your head hurt from all the distortions of faces.

These four collages above are the rest of the distorted photos.