Taylor Robb-‐McCord Remix Response March 18, 2013 The First Exercise project gave me an opportunity to re-‐examine how I had previously interpreted my songs, and re-‐create my partner’s images. In my Seeing Sound project, I did literal interpretations of the songs in my layouts. I used combinations of images that demonstrated, what I believe to be, straightforward cohesion between the song titles and the created spreads. In the remix portion of the assignment, I went through my spreads and picked out aspects of the spreads where I saw familiarities, and created two spreads, which embodied the overall feelings and ideas in my original project spreads. I combined images from different spreads into one (ex: the face silhouette with the map in the sunglasses). On the last page I took the poem that I created from the song titles, and reformatted it to look like a written journal entry, and then created overlapping layers of the text to give the impression of jumbled ideas and the scribbling of words in a journal. In part 2 of the remix project, I selected a single image from my partners project. I chose the image of a woman with elaborate tattoos seeming to prepare to shave her head. What drew me to this image was the detailing and colors in the tattoo, and her “unconventional” appearance. I am guessing that she is looking into a mirror as she prepares to shave her head and from that I chose my two main aspects for the remix: her tattoos (the colors and patterns) and the mirror. I mirrored the images across the page with two images overlapping in the center. I wanted to create a sense of symmetry within the spread, but still create a feeling of disunity (which I did through the overlapping of the center images). I enhanced the colors to draw attention to the details of the image. On the front page, I used the outline of her tattoo. Over the tattoo, I placed the word “be.” in a very simple font. Ultimately I
wanted this spread to embody the woman’s idea and appearance of individuality and acceptance of her appearance and “unconventional” tattoos and piercings. I found this remix project to be helpful in forcing me to re-‐examine what I had already created, and making myself determine what I found to be important in the spreads and recreating it into a new combination of images and spreads. Remixing my partners was slightly harder because I did not know the background story behind the woman in the photograph. Because of this I felt slightly distant from the subject, and in a way, felt uncomfortable making my own assumptions and editing her images into what I decided. But, in the end I think that my spread emphasizes the eye-‐catching and slightly dramatic feeling that was previously presence in the original spread.