Chez Deep; it's a queer family with a manifesto...

So I went to see an amazing performance by Colin Self last night, and found this collaborative project on his website today...

Chez Deep is a project utilizing a queer family as a site for raising attentiveness to body and consciousness. Initially a drag collective of five gender-variant transhumans, Chez Deep has transformed into a family creating ceremonial evocations, grievances, and celebrations of post-human living through collaged audio and spoken narratives... [see link above for full manifesto]

something to check out post upload, or in the meanwhile. If you can: turn the volume up, especially the bass.

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My Turn!

Hey RO and LA!

Thanks heaps for the work on the mag cover collage. Looking so nice, and I am personally stoked to see FOMO back in all hxr glory!

I made some text changes and responses. I tried to get some colour balance back with the pink and purple (I really liked the kind of all-over colour of the original poster, because it makes the whole thing flatter), this also allowed me to reduce the mag covers that will need to be created by one!

The rotated brush is now in the top left, and I have done a little bit of 'cass' damage control without loosing little snippets of the great colours in the work.

I also added a barcode and let the title of THEIR wander off the page.

Maybe the whole image could shift down a bit, and the "Available anywhere" could go back to the top?

Some Newz 

This is the text I used for the section on the left:

SPOONERISMS!

PARANOID CAMP!

TOOTHLESS MOUTHS!

CONFESSIONAL MODES!

RECOOPERATION  OF FORMER IDENTITY?

LOST ARCHIVE POSITIVISM? 

ONLINE IS THE NEW DROP IN!

With Triangle:

Without Triangle:

Playing around with the balance and focus, purple red yellow green black. One thing I notice in this image is the absence of gradient. I am resisting the urge to make the Available everywhere banner purple red yellow green black. Hmn. I really like the new centre piece! 

more space?

Liz, Really like the colour fades and the yellow Leading Lxdy Saught text, which really clarifies the focus of the central image. 

Just for comparison's sake, and not strictly a proposed image, something to tease out the kind of call-out we're doing. This one's a little, um, ecstatic... (in some contexts, in others border-line rom-com?)

On the whole, I like the conceptual relation of the clothes pile to the search for the Leading Lxdy, it's like they sent their dirty laundry to do their stunt work.... it is a little on the disembodied side, though... which I like, though also am interested in the incoherent self embodied... maybe by that I just mean pleasure... the lipstick is in this vein, though does it mean we're advertising for a lipstick 'type'. Too binary? That doesn't sit well with an open casting call...  however, I do like a bit of rom-com sex appeal in relation to the mag cover vibe...

These are my final discussion points I think, otherwise I'm thinking we go with the clothes pile as of the most recent iteration.

MS new version:

An attempt to simplify more! And do do a little Man Alone modernist painting F+ historical grading. 

Brushing up on an obsession, going subliminal

Yup, that's the shaving brush - again! 

Brushing something...

Working with Liz's excellent Mag no. 3. I added the top 'Available Everywhere Depending Where You Are' back in from Liz's Mag cover options 1&2. I added the squished (new and improved) shaving brush as a kind of 'celebrity portrait stand-in and added the slightly transparent heart-hands over top - adding to the dimensionality of the top image from Liz's original that's slightly excerpted with shadow. I also included the text from Liz's Mag covers 1 & 2 - so the 'Lost Archive/Positivism/Online is the new drop in!' list and inserted it behind Liz's original front layer. 

I am a bit worried that the Rita Angus Trust (?) getting copyright worried on us about the Cass image, so I decided to put in a section of waterfall from the same image in the Red Cross window instead, just as an option. From there, this happened....

A waterfall as watermark has sublimated the mag cover collage cacophony - too silenced?

Return to form? Or partial form?

Cover UP!

New version with more room to read (before and during part-coherency):

before

during

...remembered the heart of the project, search for Leading Lxdy of multiple dimensions <3

This is a pretty amusing process, meta meaning text combo... A super quick draft for communication with the morning time zone

Urgent LA

Hey Liz,

When you are back from class, can you try to find a better quality or location for the first image in the paravant:

It's too pixley for me to find using Google images!

And, also, for the google map, for the life of me, I cannot get North Projects to appear the way it does in yours. Would you be able to add a link to the map search that will reveal both the Physics Room and North Projects? Then Clare can take a screenshot on her HUGE screen.

Classified readability

Sister image_TEST

Literal inverse, with readable text_Personals

I haven't figured out how to reverse engineer the image properly so this is just a mock up to see what we think of the literal inversion scenario as mocked up in Marnie's post of our final selection (image below). What do you think?

Mock-ups with readable text together...

A touch of gradient overlay...

Something a little roll-ier...

Starting to get a handle on how to create the newspaper shape - obviously doesn't look as flash-bang as Clare's (always in awe of the Noonan touch) - I am not sure how to create the additional touches of shadow or backing shading so am posting my hack version so that we can to get a sense of the scale /positioning of text that might work - I quite like this level of readability - what do you think?

Note: Also, the current 'classified' files that Clare kindly shared in dropbox have 'Opportunities' at the top of both columns instead of 'Personals' except the psd file, which has Personals (left column) and Opportunities (right column) . I like the idea of having Opportunities prominent on Rain bro image, and Personals (with the left-most text) prominent on the sister image. Thoughts?

I'm on the map (job)

3rd final draft with transparency added:

2nd final draft, thanks RO xx: here, more "coming soon" legibility:

love this pre-vis! I saw someone on Saturday who was at the If + Trust performance and she was sporting a single lavender glitter under her left eye. Three + weeks later!

OK: who can supply me with an original classifieds/opportunities file? 

And RO can you supply a layered file for the love love love text with purple transparency?

Roadmovie_watermark_options

a couple of super quick watermark options: 

with hands almost big enough to grasp the paper, or

a more watermarked scale version with our acronym included

I can vary the percentage of transparency if desired [insert critique of capitalism joke].

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Clare, we talked about making the personals text more legible by including one column per Roadmovie poster. Does anyone else feel this is needed? 

+ is it possible for you time wise CN? Or, if needed, do we distribute this task too? 

Waring_Time new version

I like the way this image is not too busy with details, it gives a bit of variation to the series...

I've put the digital clock in with two local time zones (9:30... sound familiar?) flipped and reversed 

and have laid the sundial on the floor and attempted a perspective approximate Roysdon ode with perspective ignoring play button 

comment me!

newnew version with different sundial perspective...

+ out now: without sundial image frame...

+ without sundial!

my perspective is still non-rational

I'll find something to copy if anyone wants to see a 3d CGI type version,

but first off, with or without the sundial base: figurative or abstracted?

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so, figurative it is, thanks MS, agree.

Introducing sundialpinktriangleplaybutton (sunny)

I made a weird GIF to show you a small change in ParT's...

LaceFace is now tilted forward....

psd layered file in the dropbox: AtCS_WM_Part's_she_she.psd

New Physics Room Stairwell Poster

Cropped (with some sneaky extra pattern images):

In response:

Liz feedback: 

ie make the pride into one of the background images (rooly like the small cap awkwarddesign)

and insert 'between' between somewhere. Also I accidentally kept paintbucketing the background with white creating this flood of pixellation that has effected the middle postcard the most, I quite like how it jaggedies its edges and makes it appear as if its emerging from digitalia, another possible option :)

New version:

And with Pride and Venue additions (I am a really bad graphic designer! And not even in a good way. Sigh):