(Autoposted from Lady Gaga - Born This Way on visualmashups.posterous.com)
A "pre-release" of my forthcoming photomosaic for Lady Gaga's "Born This Way."
The source image for this mosaic is the first promotional photo Gaga leaked for her latest song - she's all sweeping blonde hair, black leather jacket, and barely covered backside.
Anatomy of Change
Since the video for "Born This Way" has yet to be released, I made this mosaic out of stills from her new "Anatomy of Change" video, featuring imagery inspired by the "Day of the Dead" ("Día de los Muertos"). It's an interesting video, you might want to check it out if you haven't already.
I used still shots from this video for the pre-release version of the "Born This Way" mosaic - the black-and-white video was perfect to recreate the "Born This Way" promotional photo, and the imagery lurking in every corner of the mosaic is haunting and provocative.
Full-Size Version
It's definitely worth taking a look at the full-size version, which you can find here:
Here's a small detail taken from the full-size version:
As one reviewer put it, the result is to make the mosaic "a virtual gallery of memento mori."
Lyrical Text Cloud
Finally, just as I was finishing this mosaic, Lady Gaga pre-released the lyrics to "Born This Way." So, I ran them through a frequency analyzer and created three "lyrical tag clouds" which I blended together and then into the image. Here are the blended lyrical tag clouds before I added them into the final mosaic:
Another reviewer (and the subject of many of my early mosaics), DJ Brandon, quipped that the composition of the image and the lyric cloud constituted "a mashup of the human anatomy married with the human vocabulary." I was delighted with this description.
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2 comments:
Instead of just saying another reviewer- you could mention that the awesome Brandon mentioned it. ;)
Welcome, Brandon! I have now given you proper attribution for that great quote in the blog post itself. Thanks for visiting and commenting!
I was thinking... Wouldn't it be cool if that quote wound up in a comment on Flickr? Just sayin' ;-)
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