Tag Archive for 'War'

Peace Accessories

jackson published on August 7, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

Hello All,

Jackson here.
I was just sitting, watching “Imagine” and I had a thought:

War and Peace are both products.
The reason that War is always more popular than Peace is that War has better merchandise, cooler accessories.
Peace has no chance until it gets better accessories.

War has guns and tanks and jets and aircraft carriers.

What does Peace have?

Then I thought: Prosperity.

The problem with prosperity, where people are living happily, free from violence and oppression, is that it’s very hard to icon-ify. You put a gun on a shirt and everybody gets it.

Besides the peace symbol, what does Peace have going for it, visually?

I put it to you…

What are Peace’s Accessories visualized?

How do we icon-ify Peace?

It’s tough, truly. War has a lot going for it. But Peace is smarter in the long run.

So we work for Peace.

Lets put our heads together on this one. How do we symbolize prosperity and goodness? How do we symbolize sustainability so that it has the same impact graphically as an AK-47?

What are the objects that to us represent this brave new age we’re just beginning?

The solar array? A wind turbine? The sun? WALL-E?

These all seem way to soft.

This is a very difficult exercise.

Maybe if anyone out there is a graphic designer, or knows one, or is an enthusiastic amateur willing to take a stab (bad choice of words!) at it. Why not email this on to one of those people?

Yay!

Love to All,

Jackson

SFNYC Assignment 2: Update

jackson published on February 20, 2008 in art, build and superforest journal. 1 Comment Tags: , , .

Good Morning All,

Alright, here is me turning in Assignment 2.

This is an image I created called “War and Peace.”

I made it by taking two pictures:


Then, in Photoshop, I combined them and traced over them.
That’s right, I straight up traced.
Do whatever you got to to make your dreams come true, baby.

I was really inspired by the forms of the two hands, and I let them take me on a little journey.

And all of those led up to this:


“War and Peace.”

Create something, or snap a pic of something you’ve already created, and share it with us! Please.

And if you like these images, please use them. In fact, if you’d like the .psd files with the separate layers for each hand, email: superforestnyc@gmail.com, and I’ll send ‘em on over.

Love to all.

Be excellent to each other.

-Jackson

War and Peace

jackson published on February 6, 2008 in art. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

I’m really into this theme. I’ve been playing around with it for a few days now and have a bunch of iterations of it.

Here’s the second one:

You want it? Use it!

Love to all,

Jackson