6 Collages with 1 National Geographic

Saturday i broke 2 of my records:

• Made 6 collages in one day (in a span of 10h)


• Made this 6 collages with only one magazine: the National Geographic Feb. 2009

So here they are:

Holy Science:


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Drunk Dreaming:


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Tiny Beings:


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Flying Lesson:


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Gilliam meets Larson


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3 2 1


You can download the full size collages (200dpi) on my Flickr (just click on All Sizes on each image page):

• http://flickr.com/photos/iurikothe/sets/72157613290308926/detail/

Or even better, you can make them yourself:

Just buy the National Geographic Feb. 2009 (in any bookstore) and use Scissors & Glue.

My Music Library

FINALLY!!!!

After years & years of gathering songs and transfering from one HD to the other, today i have finally tagged ALL my songs!!

Status:

• 13242 songs = 51.9 days = 99.23GB


• 36 Genres, 1234 Artists, 1805 Albums

My biggest problem was creating/inventing the Genres tag, as you can see in the screenshot of my iTunes (that i hate, but i'm stuck on it in my mac):


To read them, see the original size here.

Now my next duty is to listen & rate them ALL! including updating my Last.fm profile. So keep an eye there (now i'm checking my Ethnic genres out)...

First two 2009 collages

Here are my first two collages i did on Jan 18th 2009:



and:

Tagging Music

So i've spend the entire saturday fixing the ID3v2 Tags of my MP3. I couldn't finish all (the 50GBs) of my 'YET_TO_TAG' folder. But i managed to do half, on the easiest, of course. (Using ID3-Tagit for Windows).

Today i tried to run into the big problems: Classical and Electronic (DJ Remixes).

And there is no ONE way to tag a song, no formal rule...

So after checking out some forums, i liked the idea of Kerensky97 on this post:

when it comes to:
Classical music I use the composer as the artist.
Pop music the performer as the artist.
And DJ remixes is a gray area but usually the DJ as artist.

Hopefully i'll remember this and 'fix' all my music...

Next part of my winter will be images with their IPTC Tags...

Bebum Collage

ac_Bebum, originally uploaded by iurikothe. Made on 081023, size: 22.5x14.5 cm.

On my last post i was struggling because i couldn't see any relationship between the images i had (newest National Geographics).

So today, there i go again trying to use only the November 2008 edition of the Nat.Geo. but the collage was getting very very cliche: using monkey and chimps and making a 'human's destroy nature' collage, which i got really tired of doing. I want something new...

So while trying to make a collage these two images where together on the side, the drunk mexican and the primate (yes, i like primates). So i played a little with both and there we had a nice connection.

enjoy...

Enferrujado

Always when i stay for some weeks (or even months) without making (or trying to make) a collage, the first hours (or days) are REALLY frustrating...

I just can't see any connections between the images...

Its ruff, feeling that you might have lost all your creativity and won't ever be able to make an artwork again.

Well, let me get back to my magazines, hopefully the first idea will still come today...

Winter is almost arriving here in seattle, and today i got a scanner working, so i'll probably try to get back to my smaller (<A4) collages...

Hope so...

My first and second collages made in USA

As you all know, keeping yourself organized is still a pain. I made two collages in Seattle in this 3 months that i was there (now i'm in Brazil, but monday i'm back there). And after finishing comes the pain of documenting them: taking photo (at least i stopped scanning them), tagging, adding to my collages excel with sizes and sources, editing on photoshop, uploading to flickr, and finally posting them on this blog...

Enough sad, here they are (click on the images to see them bigger in flickr - click All Sizes above the image there):


"FIRE WATER DOG"
Size: 28x36 cm.
Date: 080808.
Source: Nat Geos US: 0808, 0807, 0505

And:


"PATH"
Size: 48x68.5 cm.
Date: 080901.
Source: Nat Geos US: 0305, 0807, 0208, 0402, 0601, 0401, 0405.

Hopefully i'll show you some more collages in the upcoming seattle rainy winter months : )