My Final Poster Project
When we were assigned the final poster project, I got some beer and did a huge brainstorm / braindump with a my friend Cory Foster. Over the next couple of hours we came up with a ton of ideas, many of which I thought were pretty cool. I sketched out my top ten ideas.
On my way to school one glorious Tuesday, I was sitting on the bus, continuing to come up with ideas for this assignment. I couldn’t believe it. It was like my brain was a fountain and the ideas were.. I don’t know if this is working…. anyway you get it. Long story short, I felt like the world’s biggest friggen genius ever invented. That’s it, I thought, this is my time to shine. I’m gonna be the president of the world.
Within blocks of the school, whilst daydreaming about becoming president of the world, I thought of the old saying “don’t be second banana” and also the Woody Allen movie Bananas, wherein a clip from Battleship Potempkin was featured. WORLDS COLLIDED. As the bus rolled up to the school, I made one last doodle. It was a banana.
Teacher Jill liked the banana. I say Teacher Jill because that’s what I call her.
I was like ugh is she kidding?!?!?! She must be like one of those idiot savant rainmen people who can see stuff that other people can’t (that’s not an insult, it means I think she’s smart. Follow along, dumbass)! That’s by far the dumbest idea of the lot…. and now looking back at my sketches I began to question the intellectual integrity of any of these ideas. A banana? What does that even mean? But the client gets what the client wants, right? A week later, I had so many different manifestations of banana posters I thought I was gonna actually GO bananas. Wah wahhhh.
Anyway.
The night before the posters were due, I was still stuck. I was going cross-eyed, and getting frustrated so I pulled out my notes from my original beer brainstorm for inspiration. I decided that doing a variety of fast and convenient foods would make more sense to the 48 hour film fest, because that’s all you’ll have time to eat. I also did a fruit series. Here is the result of all my hard work:
Just kidding, sort of. Here are a few of my “finished” products.
