Self - Portrait

The self - portrait is a great assignment because of its openness and the inherent desire to do well on a presentation of self. My mental draft had several phases. Initially I was going to do a grotesque/awesome long slow motion take of me naked dancing with a ridiculous prosthetic wing wang. This represents sarcasm, bombast, fun, and expressionism. I wish I did that. I was going to be butt naked with boots and goggles and fingerless gloves on a smokey field. However, my original idea of a meat filled magnum condom was bunk and I didn't have time to drive to south carolina for smoke bombs and the immense quantity of other projects really boxed me in so I was working with facebook pictures to create something. I was working a lot in photoshop trying to make an animation almost since i have almost 800 facebook pictures. I somehow did not anticipate how much time this would take. Not only did it take a lot of time to cut out the pictures and arrange them but I had a lot of trouble sequencing them the way I wanted to. This was the second botched idea, even more of a loss because it was a massive waste of precious time. I did use a little bit of the effort in my final though. My finished self portrait is a sort of understated comment on myself and the working process perhaps, I've commented enough about it I think in the self evaluation. It didn't have the same technical length of effort as other projects, but I think it has an aesthetic, it is cohesive, and I would include it on my reel because it is different from anything I've really seen before whether in this case it is percieved negatively or positively.