This assignment caught my eye for many reasons. I love photography in general and I really liked the idea of being able to turn some form of art into another new form of art that could incorporate different mediums of art. Over this past year Train’s “Drops of Jupiter” album turned 20. I remember growing up listening to this song on the radio and I actually even got to see them preform in concert.
I wanted to take the album and turn it into something literal. I wanted to take a photo of rain drops and turn the droplets into tiny Jupiter.
I started out by finding an image of rain drops that I could set as the background for my image. Once I found one I liked, I started looking for images of Jupiter. I know I didn’t want a super realistic photo of the planet, I wanted to have a more cartoon like image. I found one that had a dark background so I cut the background out in order to get it by itself. When I finally got it on its own, I started placing it on the drops. I didn’t have a specific idea of how many drops I wanted to show that were regular or how many I wanted as the planet. So I just started throwing some planets on the background until I was happy with my final product!
I wanted to leave some rain droplets visible as well because I thought it would give the image another layer to it. Its called drops of Jupiter and so my interpretation would have some real rain drops mixed in with some Jupiter drops. Our theme from ds106 is The Joy of Painting. Although we aren’t necessarily painting while we do our work in the class I believe the point is you can find joy within art. While making this I actually was having fun and was enjoying my time. I was also proud to be able to practice some of my digital skills as well. It is really nice to see myself making progress especially since I was buggin about how limited my digital skills were. I really loved the idea of taking something from one artist and the imagery they have created through lyrics and turning it into visual art. It was a really fun assignment that got me into a creative zone, I highly recommend.
