Two things’ came to my mind when I heard about this project, the first was obviously Dane Cook's jokes about super powers which I thought about including a link to but decided against that [so watch at your own risk], the other obviously was Andy Warhol. I don't know what it is about super powers and comic strips that immediately make me think of him, I think it's because every time I look at comics I can see the little dots of color used to make each image and if that doesn't scream Warhol I don't know what does, other than someone actually screaming “WARHOL.”
I then decided to take the obvious route and go with neither of the first two images I thought of, there was a brief idea of a PTS'ing super power [PTS = Pretend to Sleep...It's what you do at bars to get people you don't want to talk to, to go away] I then decided that it would be hard to portray that in an image. I then began thinking about situations I find myself in that I secretly wish I had an escape route for, and I realized these situations are all normally the same event just different places and different faces....
The Moral of this rambling is that, if I could have a super power I would hope that I could be invisible. You know, so that if a guy comes up to hit on me at the bar and the first thing he asks me is "do you want to dance?" I can just turn myself invisible and I won't have to fumble for an excuse/the truth which is I really don't like to dance, and I'm not sure why I'm even at the "club" in the first place. And I have no intention of getting to know this so called stranger because my plan is to order food and end up safely in my own bed at the end of the night.
The question is then, what does this say about me? Am I afraid of talking to guys? Check. Really Awkward? Check. Does the ‘situation’ give me nightmares? Double Check.
And this is where the “why did you do what you did…” question becomes really hard to answer…maybe I picked the conga line because as fun as they are, I think when you are watching them, they just look so awkward that you don’t want to stand and watch, so you jump in. I just wanted this to be a fun photo, I’m not sure I’m taking any stands about social norms, or how I feel pressured to go to places I don’t find all that interesting because that’s what all my friends are doing.
If I were a completely unbiased third party opinion and I was asked to critique this work I would laugh at it, not because it is funny, but because it doesn’t even look realistic. The lights from the disco are flat behind the people in the image and the cropping around the party goers kind of sucks. Also all 3 images are of varying qualities, the “situation” appears to be the main subject when he shouldn’t be because the gorgeous blonde fading in the background should stick out more than everyone else, because it should be obvious that she is fading…and not that this is a photo of the situation with a fading girl in the background behind him, with a conga line behind her. I’m not happy with anything because I know tomorrow in class everyone else’s things will be way cooler than mine and I’m the one who started the class saying I liked graphic design. I take it back after all these assignments…because my grandpa Photoshop’s better images on our Christmas cards.
And that is my completely disorganized but completely accurate statement about my thought process during this assignment. I also learned my hair looks flat when I go out. Score for me.
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