NEW MEDIA: Cartoonization
Thinking about changes this morning. Fat and funerals–but that I’ll post on Spinning. Here I do still refer to Spinning because of a picture I put into the sidebar there. It looks like this:
It’s of me, and I stuck it in as the banner for one day only just to scare people. That was before I brought it into Photoshop and made it look like it does above and restuck it into the sidebar after coming up with a new logo banner.
But what it makes me think about is the cartoonization of man. I’ve posted here before about the TV commercials that use animation clearly based on reality format. It’s a world where we’re doing all we can to dehumanize humanity. Easier, faster means of communication such as cellphones, text messaging, e-mails, and yes, weblogs. We’re putting more and more barriers between skins. Applebee’s (restaurant) commercials now have a talking apple but it tells a human to drop the text messaging and get together in real life with his friends over a meal. Does the apple foresee an even more open yet barren of touch existence?
I am me, and yet I am a cartoon. This sheds so much more light on the graphic novel as an art form. It also relates to an essay called Transitioning that I did back in New Media class.
It’s a different world out there. And ‘in here’ grows more solitary and secured.
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