Here are some examples of how the ‘webmerges’ have progressed as I record every day’s news for the first 100 days of Obama’s presidency. The original image from last month had about 60-70 images overlaid at equal opacity and without any adjustments to color or saturation. With these new ones, the number of merged images are the same, but I’ve started to play around with the opacity and saturation much more to bring forward images and headlines more effectively. All of the screenshots are from the dozens of sites and blogs that I visit on a daily basis, even the right wing sites like Drudge and World Net Daily (keeping friends close; enemies closer). That certainly offers an interesting visual and textual juxtaposition to material from more progressive sites that fall in line with many of my political and ethical leanings.
This intentional manipulation may be effective from a political and social view, but I am just now starting to focus on really working the formal and aesthetic quality of the overall image. I am increasingly working with image/text patterns along with color balance.
*Please note that the color may be a bit too saturated because it needed to be set that way for printing on the archival paper*
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