Sometimes an idea hits you and you can't help but try to do something with it. This is how it happened.
So - a couple of days ago I was surfing on the Internet haven't nothing else to do. It is mildly frustrating but otherwise unmemorable. I was going through my subscriptions - looking for something interesting, probably something to write about it. And there was just nothing of note.
Disappointed, i went to my favorite MP3 blogs feed and started clicking around at random, hoping to stumble upon something unexpected. It didn't happened, so i was rolling the mouse wheel until the end of the feed. And down there - there was something i was aware of but never really thought of it this way before.
It was Peter Saville's a poster based on the front cover art for Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures" album. The one with an image of radio waves from CP-1919 pulsar, the signal from little green men.
Here it is:
For some unknown reason, I was looking at it as if i haven't it before. I was mystified by it and I knew i needed to do something with it or it will never go away and i'll be stuck with forever.
And so i did what any sane man with a nondescript creative urge would do - messed with it.
Before starting, I reverted the color scheme of the original image. Then made a copy of an image, wiped it clean and used it as a pinboard canvas. Then i've used a capture tool that grabbed the lines and started composing my own piece out of Unknown Pleasures cover.
Due to compression artifacts and image resolution - i couldn't grab the entire lines. The tool was capturing them in a very erratic and disjointed manner - a little of this and a little bit of that. At first I wanted to do an asemic writing thing but soon it became apparent that this thing was perfect for the fake abstract pencil sketch of some landscape.
Here's the result:
This is an example of how to make something new out of something old and well-known. The only thing you need is go for it.
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