your postcards:

On blank canvases 5.5 by 3.5 inches, 300 pixels/inch, create:

  1. Six postcards from places you want to visit one day- imagine the postcards that you will send back home to a friend or family member. If you are not sure of places you would like to visit, try exploring at lonelyplanet.com. Other planets, and/or make-believe places are good possibilities as well. (Extra credit- write what you imagine you will want to tell them of your journey). File naming convention: "firstname_card1", "firstname_card2", etc. Once your .psd is finished, use the "Save for Web" dialogue to save as 30-quality jpegs that will be turned in as email attachments. Email them as attachments to these addresses: jesus.ruvalcaba@gmail.com and artorporn@yahoo.com .

  2. A postcard from the place you live now.  Before doing this, answer the following questions and turn in your written answers:
  • If somebody just is passing through the place where I live, what would she see?

  • What important or meaningful things don't show themselves to a casual visitor?

  • What would a visitor to my town see at first that may give him a mistaken impression? What might this incorrect impression be?

  • If I was showing my town to a somebody who had never been there before, what things would I show her, and why?
your camera:
Use the camera furnished to you to capture images of the place where you live. These will be used for this postcard project, as well as a Virtual Mural project that you will be doing.
For the postcard images, think of the questions you have asked above- think of capturing images that show how things look to you, rather than to a city government official or someone trying to promote your town commercially.
For the Virtual Mural project, collect images of building or structures in you town that you would like to see enhanced with artwork. Whether anyone would be allowed to paint a genuine mural on the structures you choose does not matter- it's your turn to Paint Your Town!
culture jamming with postcards:
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