I’ve really been strug­gling for ideas for this first project that’s a com­pos­ite image of “an imag­i­nary event, place, per­son, thing, etc.” My orig­i­nal pro­posal was to do some­thing with album art maybe scat­tered across a desk, but now that really doesn’t sound too inter­est­ing. I also had an idea of hav­ing some­one walk down a hall that’s cov­ered with album cov­ers sort of like the iTunes screen­saver on mac.

Then just a minute ago I reread the ‘imag­i­nary’ part and thought about a ‘Thugz Man­sion’ com­pos­ite based on 2Pac’s line:

Tell the homies I’m in heaven and they ain’t got hoods
Seen a show with Mar­vin Gaye last night, it had me shook
Drip­pin pep­per­mint Schnapps, with Jackie Wil­son, and Sam Cooke
Then some lady named Bil­lie Hol­i­day
Sang sit­tin there kickin it with Mal­colm, ’til the day came

Maybe I’ll make a com­pos­ite of those artists’ faces or album cov­ers in a way you might think ‘Thugz Man­sion’ like the 2Pac Res­ur­rec­tion album cover.

Tomor­row in lab I’ll have to nar­row it down to one of these ideas. I’m still unsure how I’m going to spend 12hrs a week work­ing in Pho­to­shop on one image like the guide said to, espe­cially when the images are just 800 x 600 most times.

Although I’m sure this vio­lates some sort of copy­right law, I was plan­ning on using album art ripped from Last.fm and my iTunes library with tools like Gijsco’s Last.fm Desk­top Gen­er­a­tor. If I plan on going with some­thing with a lit­tle more set­ting like a real desk­top or hall­way, I’ll prob­a­bly look through free stock photo sites.

I’m a lit­tle ner­vous about how this first project is going to turn out. I’m not much of an artist and already hav­ing a cre­ative block so hope­fully every­one else in the class won’t show me up too badly.