Materials
I employed all manner of media when putting this project together especially in Part II: Concept Remake which I chose to spread out and break up through multiple pages that can/are supposed to be read out of order.
I counted the fragments (1-16, one page has 4 frags.) as follows (just as a guide):
1) HomeFront, 2) Emblem Fire, 3) The Long Life Search (with 4 image fragments), 4) Rougest Path, 5) Dusty, 6) Energy (linked), 7) Heart (video), 8 ) Heavy, 9) Dialogue, 10) The Truth, 11) That helps, 12) Labored Breaths
Scholarly Sources: Quotes, Stats, and Facts
The quotes on ‘The Long Life Search’ are from Howard Thurman (first few photos) and Albert Einstein (last photo, which is also a link).
The italicized facts and stats in the multi-page Concept Remake are from the articles
Careers & College by Jonathan Whitbourne; March 2002
as well as,
U.S. college drop-put rate sparks concern; Associated Press, 2005
Photographs
There are many pictures in the work that I obtained from the web using Google Image searches, and then manipulated in Photoshop or Pixlr. Those include the clay path, the nutmeg, the peppermint, and the brain photo collage (Picnik used here).
The composite photographs in ‘The Long Life Search’ were all photographed by my sister, Dana. She is a very talented photographer (though I’d never say that to her face). The city photos are aerial and skyline blurs of the Chicago cityscape and the last photo was shot in New Symyrna Beach, FL while we were on vacation.
Video and Music
The music found on the Emblem Fire and The Long Life Search pages is from:
Kings Of Leon, and the songs, respectively, are
Manhattan, Only By the Night
Frontier City, Only By the Night
The song is the Concept Remake page, The Truth, is Homecoming by Kanye West featuring Chris Martin of Coldplay. It is on West’s 2007 album, Graduation.
The video clips in the Concept Remake page links are from Garden State which was directed by Zach Braff and stars he, Natalie Portman, and Peter Sarsgaard.
