We the Sheeple

This past weekend has been pretty crazy for me because I've been trying to work on final projects and finish up assignments. There are only two weeks left until the end of my summer quarter so I've been going a little insane. Its only normal at the end of the quarter to be a little crazy though. Anyhow, this past Friday September 9th was my classes art show. The class is called Art Direction and our entire quarter in this class is spent preparing to put on an art show with our own work at the end of the quarter. It felt so stressful planning all the details for this show all quarter but when the show was finally here on Friday it felt like it was over to quickly. All that planning and it was over in just a few hours.
The first thing we had to figure out was our theme and topics. We had to figure out what we were all going to do our projects on. My project was about technology and two ways we used to communicate before we had technology. I shot two images and created them to be interactive to go along with all the 3-D interactive technology coming out onto the market today. I used my friend Chandra in the first image holding a cup to her ear. Then I attached a real string and cup to the frame. My other image was of Kristi pretending to write a letter and then I attached a real peice of paper to the picture.

















Next we had to figure out where we were going to hold our show. We ended up holding our show in a Gallery called Studio 101 in downtown chicago. The space was really nice and it fit all of our works on the wall comfortably. To have the space for a twelve hour time slot it was in the 1,000 dollar range. Our show was only from 6-10 pm but we needed all the rest of the twelve hour time slot to set up for our show and prepare during the day. If you dont know anything about having a show and renting studio space I can tell you that this price was rather cheap. I was part of the food/fundraising group and the first few weeks of class we sold food at school. After the first few weeks of raising money for our show one of the kids in our class was able to get Geico to sponsor our show. This had never been done in the history of an Art Direction class, we were all pretty shocked. So in the end Geico payed for our entire show as long as we let them have a booth at the show.

The Name/concept of our show was We The Sheeple. "Sheeple (a portmanteau of "sheep" and "people" ) is a term disparagement, in which people are likend to sheep. People unable to think for themselves. Followers. Lemmings. Those with no cognitive abilities of there own".
In our day and age with technology and trends everyone follows each other. We are like a heard of sheep so our show was inspired by that. We made little post cards and give aways to hand out to people at the show that had little sheep on them.