Saturday 2 March 2024

Overhauling "Awkward Thoughts" piece

Content warning: contains grown-up words that everyone actually knows but they have to pretend they don't so they look like good professional and respectable members of society 

Remember this:

Nope... Me neither... Well barely... I was working on it before I stopped to do a bunch of other things... But I decided to dig it out. I sort of HATE it, and I'm weirdly drawn to it at the same time. It's a terrible image, and yet it harbours something very interesting and difficult in it's depths...

I did solve one problem in an interesting way - the faceless people were not quite expressive enough to show that the one crashing into the one who's stopped, has indeed crashed into him, and isn't taking advantage of his distraction to fuck him up the arse... I used my face from the iPhone scan, and attached it, as a way give them expressions, but also add some further creepiness. Also if people still think he looks like he's arse fucking, well at least my face is all over it...

However, I spent a bunch of time messing about with the other problem - the idea was the tunnel is cracked, and a butterfly has got in, and the butterfly and the man are both illuminated by 'god rays' through the crack. Having played about I, was really unhappy because firstly the god rays looked shite, and secondly, it looked way too much like religion. That's not good news for me, or for religion. So... I'm going to have to overhaul it big time.

I'm trying to heed all the amazing advise and not lead with my head, but rather lead with concepts but let instinct and logic play - instinct says "given them all bird's heads" and logic says "cool, sure that could symbolise...". I like the idea of both curating and creating - expanding and interpreting... Tathos can play, Tomgos gets to chip in, steer, expand, and see some love.

So... I think I want to move it outside, I think I want to use the fact it's 3d to let me mess about with the best camera angle. I think the butterfly should be attracted to budlia. I think the budlia and the butterfly are there because of something terrible - a body - initially I thought a crashed vehicle had exposed them, but that' feels weird and distracting, then Tathos said "put a literal corpse in, have the budlia grow out of it" and Tomgos said "yeah, because you are the guy looking at the butterfly, and it's there because Carolyn had to die for you to see it" and then it all went a bit quiet, and Tathos muttered something about knocking off and getting a drink.

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