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Made this today for a laugh. I'm currently taking screenwriting and directing courses for the summer, so I'm not sure when I'll be posting that work, but I will of course. Oh I did this other silly thing too...

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Beer ad

I did this for my photo/design class today.. The whole process I'll admit was a little rushed, but the end result is basically a good start to a new product design. Each week, I come up with a concept, get shut down, work on it, and hopefully do something better for the next week. I went for this retro style ad and humor, but I think I'm going to work on a modern design for the next week. I definitely will be keeping the name.

wireframe design

Made this for a symposium class today. I like the idea of creating small little worlds in your own home. The ability to control everything easily because of the scale is pretty awesome. Inspiration came from Limbo, Beetlejuice, and Esao Andrews. Also, I'll put up the completed set of my abduction series tomorrow. Just a little more to do. woot woot!

Abduction.

Sorry it's been a hot minute since I posted. Life travels far faster than anything else created. I've told you before that I'm doing this abduction series with photography as well as that short video (in the process of reediting!), but I haven't posted much. I had this freshman year end critique and I was told that I should show more of a narrative in the pieces that I'm doing. So I went to work the past few days and began reshooting my idea- Also I thought it would be interesting to read my artist statement I wrote for this project to see it's not just a sci-fi geek thing. Although it is totally is like a 75% sci-fi geek thing, it does have some weight behind it. I've included the first three in the series. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did making them. Also, I designed my biznaz card that I'm getting printed- mui stoked. I'll put after the abduction pics. 

ABDUCTION.

            I don’t have much faith in humanity. In fact, I don’t really like being a human very much at all. It’s kind of embarrassing. We are supposed to be the most intellegent species on earth but we can’t live in peace with one another. Full-grown adults fight over territory and hold grudges like it’s still the Stone Age. There’s no wonder why beings from other worlds haven’t contacted us yet. We are emotionally weak beings. We simply aren’t ready as a culture to handle such a phenomenon. I believe we would retaliate out of fear and attack that which we don’t understand instead of trying to study and learn from another culture. This act of hostility exsits now, even without the presence of extraterrestrials.

            This project represents hope in that there are other more intellgent lifeforms out in the universe. It also represents the wonder, curiosity, and mystery behind that which what we do not understand, we disreguard. In this alternate reality I have created, alien lifeforms come to peak in on us from time to time to see how our culture is developing, and see if we are ready to except such an otherworldly yet possible future. Of course we’re not ready yet, however the fact that they are still investigating gives our species the hope that in time- we will come to a tranquil world peace, embracing all forms of life and culture.

           

-David A. Reeves

March 2011

Note: A great deal of inspiration for this project came from Athur C. Clarke’s introduction to his 1968 masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey. I wanted to share with you that which opened my eyes so brightly toward the future.

“ Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, roughly a hundred billion human beings have walked the planet Earth.

Now this is an interesting number, for by a curious coincidence there are approximately a hundred billion stars in our local universe, the Milky Way. So for every man who has ever lived, in this Universe there shines a star.

 But every one of those stars is a sun, often far more brilliant and glorious than the small, nearby star we call the Sun. And many--perhaps most--of those alien suns have planets circling them. So almost certainly there is enough land in the sky to give every member of the human species, back to the first ape-man, his own private, world-sized heaven--or hell.

How many of those potential heavens and hells are now inhabited, and by what manner of creatures, we have no way of guessing; the very nearest is a million times farther away than Mars or Venus, those still remote goals of the next generation. But the barriers of distance are crumbling; one day we shall meet our equals, or our masters, among the stars.

Men have been slow to face this prospect; some still hope that it may never become reality. Increasing numbers, however are asking; 'Why have such meetings not occurred already, since we ourselves are about to venture into space?'

Why not, indeed? Here is one possible answer to that very reasonable question. But please remember: this is only a work of fiction.

The truth, as always, will be far stranger. ”

                                                                                                                   

 

 

colognay

Made this today for my photo/design class. ba da dum tisss

Abduction!

This is a digital that I used as a light test for a series I'm doing on alien abductions/humanity. I'm in the process of making c-prints but I will post them as soon as I scan them. They are a little different in terms of color scheme but I liked this one- thought it was creepy so I wanted to share.

walls

One piece I'm working on, Walls, for class.

self portrait

This is a self portrait I did today... or more accurately, a reflection of where I currently am in my life. Thats a homage to my parents in the lower right hand corner. I love that photo.

Magazine spread

I did this magazine spread as a piece for my graphic design/photo class. We just had to do a 'mask' theme for a shoot then edit it, but after I saw the finished piece I got the image of it as a center spread in some magazine. Basically in my crazy world- this guy is a super villain, but always gets confused for a hero when shit starts going down and civilians ask for help... and he's sick of that. So this is like his tell-all-e-true story nonsense to set the record straight.

This just in...

I'm doing this project on mass media and how bogus most of it all is. I don't like tv at all, and especially dislike pop culture television. I've noticed people pride themselves on being pathetic, or that they are willing to let someone else decide the future of their own marital status. Life isn't a game show, you control the outcome. I'm making fun of the news here cause there's always some smug asshole telling you, "A million people died in a plane crash today... anyways, in other more important news, Lady Gaga and her latest single..." It's depressing that someone's entire life saga is built up to a three second tv plug. This is an image I made to put on a tv and pose in front of. I'm shooting this all on film for class, so those shots will come within the next two weeks. Also, I'm doing this because I thought it'd be fun to straight up just do some doppelganger pieces.

All older posters

These are all movie posters I've done the past four months, in chronological order of creation. The first Totally Deadly poster I did just as a joke really. I found "Steel Tongs", the movie poster credit font, on a website and I just wanted to see what my name looked like in a Hollywood type setting. After that I got more involved with manipulating images, and looking closer to detail. I love how these posters came out because I feel like life is movie sometimes, an epic series of events. But more so, this is just my basic sense of humor I wanted to share with you.

snow day

since I was trapped indoors by the shitty weather today, I decided to mess around with a photo I took of my friend Kat and her model a few weeks ago.

faux poster REEEEMIIIIXXXXX

My buddy and fellow artist, Morgan, gave me some new idea's to try out with the same poster and I wanted to share the end result.

faux movie poster

I like doing these because the poster leaves the imagination open to draw it's own conclusions to the movie that will never be made, and all you get is a title and a single image. I always wonder how some movie posters can be completely vague (i.e. The Tourist) where it leaves no actual desire to see the film- failing its only purpose. Well, if they can do it, I sure as hell can. Does anybody actually have this job where they just design movie posters all the time? Well, let them know I exist if you run into them.