Paneled Dissonance

Photography 3

more images showing how the world looks in my head

The Riot

Underground magazines, youth culture, newsletters, fanzines, underground comix etc are some of my greatest inspirations. i love the rebelliousness of something done by the young who deliberately showed the finger to the mainstream.

as part of our typography course, my friend Santy and i designed our own newspaper The Riot which focuses on the underground film, music and design circles in india. fictional articles of course. logos, layouts and photographs done by the two of us.

Blitzkrieg

Blitzkrieg is a chennai based theatre company. the logo and the posters for their play "Sound of Silence" renamed as "ED Wood".

dark, film noir-ish concept showing the man's scars, his struggles, and his state of mind which is still a mystery.

Noise

When there can exist an extreme in music as a whole which is (often cited as the definition itself) the soul lifting, ear pleasing, soothing kind of music, then there must exist an extreme on the other opposite end too right?

Noise is probably the other extreme of music and is probably the final destination before maybe a revival happens. think about it, as we progress in the complexity of music through listening, we get more accustomed to say, more complex sounds, structures or arrangements or just atonality which may denote something complex for us to have understood when we were young.

its like light and day. like life and death. anything that is born also dies. birth is one extreme and death is the opposite. life is the journey from here to there. so maybe, music as such is traveling from here to there. the ultimate end might be absolute atonal dissonance. even pop music has come to embracing this phenomenon of noise: from Punk rock to the more experimental post punk and avant garde groups to pioneering no wave movement which led to the noise rock and noise pop sub genres with bands such as Public Image Ltd, Sonic Youth, Jesus and the Mary Chain spearheading the movement. now there is a mixed bag called alternative rock which sometimes uses those past influences here and there. bands like Einsturzende Neubauten, Throbbing Gristle and others who embody industrial create such brilliant soundscapes of dissonance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iva_Y9W3hJ0

Photography

Photography

Thing is, with photography, i know very well that i'm not a photographer. i'm a designer. i try to photograph something that i already have in my head. something like using it as a tool to tell a story rather than taking a picture and then tell one. Many stereotypes can be seen in modern photography especially in india. an isolated contrasting form in space, certain facial expressions of people and dependence on photoshop. on the other hand, instead of looking at softwares as a bad thing, imagine this: its like redesigning your own design to make it express a certain feeling better. sort of like dark room experiments that were prevalent in the past. plus i love to experiment with the machine. there are a million possibilities with a modern camera.

Dream

illustration i did a year ago. i cant look back at my work a year back at all nowadays but this was one of the conceptually strong ones. heh heh heh one year in a good design college can do wonders. or the opposite actually.

Experimental Photography.

The camera is yet another tool to express yourself. most people forget that. a tool to be used, exploited and explored to realise what you have in mind. these are some experiments i did with my camera. colour correction is all that the computer aided me in.

its interesting what beautiful forms can be seen as reflections. distortion is truly beautiful.

i am...

yeah thats what i look like.