I made this collage for a friend Pady Cakes. I started by juxtaposing the top and bottom pictures, a real life version of the lower comic. In it’s entirety, the piece is about women, identity, and the complications of being a female hero. There are many images but they make real-life acts acts of greatness [...]
As a digital native, I like to use my inherited powers to ask big questions about the virtual age. I love to play with images and ideas, study politics, and have a strong taste in music. Most of all, I often reflect on how new aesthetics are still valuable in a time of real financial [...]
I started a slideshow on Flickr from random photos that I could use in a collage for a punk show with a band that uses lots of words to describe their music: Muslim, Pakistani, Bollywood are a couple. The slideshow turned into a project about identity but really, this was a last desperate attempt to [...]
Today I changed the name of this blog. “Here’s the Deal” was actually a place holder until I figured out whether or not blogging was worthwhile. The amount of time I spent on the Internet this past year has been unreal but necessary to launch another blog and online community for a new media project [...]
I was going to call this collage Western Romance (after the old timey movie in the background) but the tags on flickr were ordered as they are in the title of the post. I decided to go with it.
Here’s the deal: This is my first time celebrating Earth Day, so I’m going to do it my own way, by recycling old magazines into something beautiful and new: a collage. Here’s an appetizer of sorts.