Image Manipulation Remix

The idea behind my remix project began when i came accross the images against animal testing. These images looked like typical makeup advertising at first glance but there was one thing changed in the images. The beautiful girls had a skin defect on their faces, which was juxtaposed cleverly and subtlely and forced you to take a second look to understand the new subverted message within the image. I then decided i would take my own photos of portraits. I went to the Bill Robinson library and in the childrens section found a book with magnified pictures of what was living on our bodies. I then in Adobe Photoshop used many tools to juxtapose the portraits with the magnified skin diseases, and these are the images i came up with as a result in printmaking.

Image 3

Image 2

Image one

Jason Munn

Manipulated images

"Whats living on our bodies"

Photos manipulated

Remix - Gathering images

Photoshop

I opened these advertisments in Adobe Photoshop then used tools such as the:
lasso tool, Magic wand, eraser, eyedroper, text box and fonts, opacity, the crop tool and more to digitally manipulate the image, only subtlely changing a few small aspects and using the L'Oreal Slogan "Because your worth it" as an added effect to draw attention to the subverted message - They can sell you anything.

My Remixed advertisment

Original L'Oreal Make up advertisment

REMIX CONCEPT PLAN

When browsing for images on the internet, I came accross these images of beautiful women in what appears at first glance to be a usual advertisment for some kind of make-up product, but takin a second look shows that the images have already been remixed and had a subverted message in the image. Everything in an advertisment is done for a reason from the layot, colour and combination of image and text. We live in a consumer driven society which is overloaded with advertisment and marketting. The images is sucessful because the designer of these images is using this familiarity of a usual add that grabs peoples brief attention but by changing one thing on the image the message is completely turned upside down and subverted. Once the viewer realises the real idea behind the subverted message their idea of the work is completely changed. For something to gain full attention it needs to be visually appealing and new, new things are interesting and interesting things are remembered.
For this remix project i will take some images of peoples portraits and juxtopose the images with other images such as skin diseases, placing the two things that are usually never placed together in the one image.

Artist Model images from the net