Grid Project Reflection

Below are a series of pictures I took while I was working on my Grid Project.  The grid is 25 x 40, so there are 1000 pixels (or m&ms) that make up the grid.  I decided to try and create Shigeru Miyamoto in my grid.  For those of you who don't know who that is, he is currently the CEO of Nintendo, as well as being the creator of such iconic games as Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, and Star Fox.  So with that explanation out of the way, let me walk you through my process.  I started by buying 8 bags of m&ms (2 easter and 6 regular) and dumped all of the regular m&ms in a large box, where I began to separate them by color (I did basically the same thing with the easter m&ms as well).  After all the colors were separated into different bags, I began to make the outer box of the grid.  From there I made his suit, filled that in, made the outline for his head, filled that in, and then filled the rest of the green background in. Please scroll down to see this process, as well as the finished product!

Below are a series of pictures I took while I was working on my Grid Project.  The grid is 25 x 40, so there are 1000 pixels (or m&ms) that make up the grid.  I decided to try and create Shigeru Miyamoto in my grid.  For those of you who don't know who that is, he is currently the CEO of Nintendo, as well as being the creator of such iconic games as Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, and Star Fox.  So with that explanation out of the way, let me walk you through my process.  I started by buying 8 bags of m&ms (2 easter and 6 regular) and dumped all of the regular m&ms in a large box, where I began to separate them by color (I did basically the same thing with the easter m&ms as well).  After all the colors were separated into different bags, I began to make the outer box of the grid.  From there I made his suit, filled that in, made the outline for his head, filled that in, and then filled the rest of the green background in. Please scroll down to see this process, as well as the finished product!

"Clockwork Orange" Change of Percepetion...

In 1951, the musical film "Singing in the Rain" was released in theatres across America.  The song that was featured in this movie bestowed with the same name as the movie was a beautiful one.  It was about love and hope and happiness.  However, in 1971, a very different movie was released in theatres.  This movie was called "Clockwork Orange," and it couldn't have been more different from "Singing in the Rain."  This movie was deranged, filled with drugs and violence, and love didn't cross the viewers mind once.  Then why did the same song from "Singing in the Rain" appear in this movie as well?  A song about love in a violent, hateful movie where the protagonist is a messed up guy obsessed with "ultra-violence?"  There has to have been some kind of culture shift in these 20 years that made Clockwork Orange possible.  In fact, I believe this is exactly the case.  In the 1950s the American people were still very conservative, so a movie about love and life was pretty much normal for that time.  Then in the 1960s, drugs exploded into the American market, creating a hippie generation.  This generation was all about free love and an easy going lifestyle.  However, with the increase in drug use, it also gave rise to something else.  Open Sin.  Everyone during this time did not care what the consequences of their actions were, they just lived life to the fullest, not thinking twice what was right and wrong.  I'm making this sound like people were being murdered in the street, aren't I?  No, it was nothing that awful. However, people were a lot more open to different things than they might have been a decade before.  This is the generation that opened a path for Clockwork Orange.  This is also what turned a song about love into a song about hate, saturated with malevolence.  

  ...and no, I did not make this (I wish), but I found it on google and thought it was perfect for this post...