CURRENT EVENTS POSTS – DRAWING/IMAGING

Outrage Follows Twitter Joke About the President’s Young Son

To me, the initial image was slightly boring. It was just a picture of someone getting out of a car, apparently one of the Kennedy’s. I wanted to pull solely from the image and the title to create my rendition of the article, so I drew a young, white boy crying with the Twitter logo hovering his head like a halo. The young boy sports the same color hair as his father; which suggests that the positioning of the logo isn’t a coincidence in pertinence to the President’s reputation.

 

Hidden Nuclear Site Reborn as Tourist Draw

This picture was dark and ominous – to me, it looked like a spaceship or some kind of vessel that would be out in space, so I began to create my own Universe on the page. The image and the headline are far more interesting than the article, though. There are also a few people in the image, and the viewpoint that the photo is taken from is pretty cool too, adding to the ominous effect of the entire picture.

 

With Many Schools Thriving Nearby, Those in Harlem Are Left to Fail

The headline and the image were pretty telling about the article. It’s obvious that schools in less-wealthy areas aren’t well kept and barely get any care at all. The schools in these communities are targets of the School-to-Prison Pipeline, a Systemic form of oppression specific to communities of Color (especially brown and black). In pertinence to this topic, I drew a school bus and one of the buses used to transport convicts to and from prisons.

 

This image was of some type of laboratory, which immediately for some reason inflicted thoughts of the process the meat we eat undertakes before reaching our plates. I ended up drawing these weird images of a bull and a ram, two animals close in nature but different in anatomy. My sign (Aries) is also represented by the Ram, while the Bull is representative if the Taurus Zodiac Sign.

The image was dark and creepy looking, but the perspective it was taken from reminds me of drawings I was made to do in my architectural design course. They were perspective drawings, and you had to do them from a certain viewpoint and make them pretty realistic.

 

This image was of the old Penn Station Departure Board, which was taken down in late January. I often think about the fact that most New York City Train Stations are actually really old and need work done, or as my Sustainable Systems teacher told me they were greatly affected by Hurricane Sandy and are damaged beyond repair. The fact that something so significant in the culture of New York and the Subway could just be torn down so easily is weird; I’m honestly surprised no one decided to protest it. The image I drew over the two pictures is representative of NYC Subway Culture and the different types of people who inhabit it.

 

Trump in Meeting, Urges Automakers to Build Factories in United States

Truthfully, our current President is probably about to start some wars that we never even saw coming. I tried to deny it but it is completely true. In this image, he’s at the head of the table, running his mouth as he usually does but probably not even really saying anything. It’s so crazy to me how a man can speak so much and really not even say a word.

 

Civil Rights Group Rebukes Trump Justice Department Over Delay on Two Cases

The picture and the caption to me went perfectly with the images I created, because that’s what the article seemed to represent. The picture, being in black and white, seems more serious in nature and is of some man named Jeff Sessions; apparently the attorney general nominee who people don’t like. The caption seems to fit the picture, if you just think about it: a picture of an old white man in the government with a headline about Civil Rights.