Results tagged “writing”

I'd like to welcome Bryan Larrick to Daily Exhaust. I owe him for catching many of my typos and grammar errors over the years on this site.

In addition to being a gifted front-end developer, he writes on a variety of topics on his site, Missile Test (he's got a penchant for shitty movies). He's also a pretty awesome photographer.

He scores extra points for the fact that shoots with analogue film on a Holga, a Minolta SR-T and a Mamiya.

I've started a new project and output of this project will be showcased on new website - Tangled Web of Vice. Simply put - I've superimposed quotes from Mad Men episodes on top of screen grabs from the scene I've pulled the quote from.

Making these quote-graphics wasn't my original goal. It started out as an exercise to improve my penmanship after reading this depressing article in the New York Times. So I decided to practice my writing skills in my moleskin notebook, but I needed something to write. I wasn't interested in starting a diary or journal (that's what this site is for, sort of) and since the new season of Mad Men won't start until 2012, I decided to start watching all my DVD sets and write down lines I like:

Once I had dozens of these quotes written down (and I started to feel a little better about my penmanship) I started reading them over and realized they would make great little graphic pieces:

Something about the simplicity really appealed to me.

From here, I thought I'd see what adding a screen grab from the show would do it:

The words had impact on their own, but adding a screen grab behind them gave the piece emotion and context. I also crop the images individually - they're not all dropped in at full frame. The crop amps of the level of impact and emotion.

I've started arbitrarily with Season 2 of Mad Men, and I'm going to continue to create these in no particular order. It will be my daily graphics exercise.

Enjoy.

Frank Chimero is changing his focus from image-making to writing for his book:

A hammer has two ends: one to drive the nail, another to remove it. One can not use both ends at the same time. I believe the relationship between images and text is much like this, especially for those of us who make both. Writing and image-making intermingle and sometimes negate one another in the name of progress. For those that I know that seriously pursue both, the relationship between the word-work and the image-work is tidal. I will always make images, but for now I need to use the other end of my hammer, because there is a thorn that needs to be pried out of my side and a story that needs to be told that doesn't leave much room for images.