Organic V.s Mechanic!

These are the final pages for my magazine or even e-mag.

On reflection, I think this should be the front and back end of a published essay or piece of research. I think I could even use the imagery to appeal to children.

As I have stated before, I think the Morph concept sums up organic culture so well - it is a very easily adjustable version of the same thing! It is possible to make an infinite variety of the same character and give them different personalities! They are not even gendered (although the bald head tends to lean towards masculinity...)

If I did this project again, I would recreate it as a leaflet, with more emphasis on the message. I would do this through some visual manipulation, rather than just stock photography, making the piece not solely rely on the words, which is why it seems half-cut.

Maybe a much more expressive juxtapose of organic vs mechanic using more political/social imagery that people can at least relate to!

Comrade Morph....

Originally to be a film...

My Project was originally going to be a film, interviewing people about their lifestyles, identities, culture, likes, dislikes and editing them together to form this moving collage of individual option.

I was then going to link in the footage from the Morph exhibition as the visual metaphor that combines (quite amusingly) both ORGANIC and MECHANIC societies together seamlessly.

On the one hand, Morph is generally exactly the same; genderless, with two arms, two legs, a face and no hair. Combine this concept with changing colour, size and accessories and you have the basis for a capitalist society as each Morph has its own different concepts and attributes that make it stand out!!

The Piece I ended up doing is written but more as an observers overview using the visual aid of the Morphs to simplify the concept. There could be some more detail and maybe even interviews with the Morphs but I haven't added them.

Tony Hart's Memorial

Photos from the Tony Hart memorial exhibition at the Tate Modern (lasted 5 hours!!!)

I wanted to include these as they show the spontinaity of some of the London events that happen all the time (usually via Facebook!). This event demonstrated a collection of individual opinions and tributes to a great man - Tony Hart.

This competition was about creating the best tribute to Tony and was also televised. The woman in the photo is his daughter and next to her is the winner.

Using spray paint to cheat...

Here is some more recent work I have compiled:

We were given a project that let us explore one of three topics...

1. Urban Myths/ Legends
2. Vive le difference! (This was celebrating or abhorring the difference between cultures and everything in them) or
3. Fashion victims

I chose to describe the differences between different society mechanisms.
Namely the attributes to a modern, capitalist, consumer society like ours in the present day, against the much more closed communist style societies from the past.

To help me do this I needed a representation of each society...
As luck would have it, the relatives of well known (but now deceased) TV artist Tony Hart were staging a facebook event outside the Tate Modern.

The purpose of this event was a competition for who could create the most 'heart-felt' MORPH as commemoration to this former legend.
(MORPH is this animated, genderless human representation, who featured with Hart on the TV show.)

Even the BBC turned up to film this event!
I decided to use this opportunity to stage my project!

The pictures above are of My Morph. I wanted to visually display the concept of my project and I thought the essence of 'The Terminator' would be awesome. It even explains how the two cultural concepts are connected until one is destroyed.

It also suggests that the mechanic culture is the 'under/exo-skeleton' of the organic culture. It takes the repression of one to allow the other to flourish! It also suggests logic and structure as well as a merciless machine. (Industry, 'the system', social structure... whatever you want to call it).