Media Remix - Connect

Athleta Ad, ERB1C1239T, pp. 32.

Connect - Remix

The original Athleta Ad shows a woman dressed for a walk. The woman is walking alone on a vast field of line painted asphalt. Under the woman in large letters is the word, connect. To me this image did not convey a feeling of connection, without the word I would not associate the idea. I asked myself, what is the message in this image? What is she connected to?

In the remix, I wanted to connect the woman to nature. She remains alone but the background promotes connection to nature. The word connect is no longer necessary because there is an implied connection in the images. In the creation of the remix, I layered two different mountain landscapes over one another then added the image of the woman as the last layer.

Stephanie Thornton

Oh What Sun! | Remix - Nadege Tessono

Bloomingdale Catalogue | 2018, Nov. P. 35

The print ad is using this white building backdrop as an example of what winter is like, cold and uninviting. The typography says "oh what Sun" in color using icons to inspire vacation, fun, shopping for summer items to enjoy what the sun brings during holidays. 

I took that concept and remixed it to capture the global experience of the sun and the multiuse of the sun outside of just vacations, beaches and swimwear. The sun is used for energy, cultivating life, physically and spiritually, it's for a celebration of people or used for rituals in different cultures. 

Nadege Tessono

Planet or Plastic?

The original piece was raising awareness about recycling, depicting an ocean wherein there is a plastic bag that also looks like an iceberg. I decided to stay with the original theme of the piece and expand on it. I decided to pit left against right, planet against plastic. The left side is dedicated to all things natural: the forest, skies, trees, and wildlife. The right side is filled with commercialized plastic products that use materials that can be harmful to the environment, many of which will likely find themselves in our oceans one day. The edges of the remix also hold significance. I trimmed the edges of the left side so that the images are confined to the page, just like our forests are being trimmed back into smaller and smaller areas. On the other hand, the right side of the page is flowing off the edges of the paper, just like our plastic waste keeps overflowing and growing to fill our oceans and planet. Lastly, I left the original image in the center, drawing the most attention to the plastic bag/iceberg image that draws the entire piece together.

National Geographic Traveler

Aug/Sep 2018

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Dassi Lipnick

"Leaf" in London

Image Remix from Tianfeng Gu
"Leaf" in London

This original illustration draw my attention to connect environmental art and citizen's daily life.
What I remixed is filling the blank space of the original image with green, vibrant leaves to create a sense of nature. I used paper, fabrics, and leather to illustrate texture. "London", as it shows on the original image, has always informed me an impression of rain. I love rain so much and personally rain is a gift of nature for me to escape from emotion cloud. So I create a red umbrella in the middle with gold little rains. And, the small cat face and puppy paw is connecting with my love of offering better environmental and habitation for creatures other than human in a city life. I wish there could a dynamic flow connecting people with not only the environment we live in, but the bigger range of planet.

Original image: National Geographic Traveler, August/September 2018, page 104

A Touch of Gold

Crate & Barrel Catalogue

Thanksgiving 2018, page 60 

A Touch of Gold

Sarah Peninger, 2019

For this remix project, I took an advertisement from a Crate & Barrel Catalogue featuring an assortment of gold-rimmed wine glasses. I found the original to be bleak and dull, not truly showing off the wine glasses themselves. 

I entitled my remix “A Tough of Gold” because of the text purposefully left as well as the feeling I now get with the remix. I added foliage to the background surrounding emphasizing the glasses giving them a natural setting. This not only brightens up the images but gives better emphasis to the product shown. I added floral arrangements to the foreground to continue the natural feeling that the background provides. I feel that these additions add the right natural elements to the advertisement, instead of having this manufactured space for this product to exist in.

Northern Exposure

Annie Harrington

My image remix was inspired by the text on the front of the page. It says, "embark on the ultimate unplugged adventure to Labrador's remote Torngat Mountains National Park, which lives up to its lnuktitut name as a 'place of spirits,'" (Story and Photographs by Anne Farrar). This quote is ironic to me because as the barren landscape leads you to believe there is minimal human life here in this valley in Canada and yet multiple business have found a way to make money by bringing tours of hikers through the park. By doing these tours for groups of visitors they are required to make camps and take resources from the park which leaves a human footprint on the land however minuscule. I symbolized this intrusion by making the "s" in "Exposure" ad dollar sign because the businesses are making profit off mother nature's beauty. Additionally, many parks similar to this are actually very polluted by acid rain, that's the yellow crumpled tissue paper. The word "exposure", can be seen as the exposure from humans that slowly ruins national parks and turns them into tourist traps. The clouds of words hanging above the valley symbolize the human voices which have the power to destroy these beautiful locations with out even knowing it.

National Geographic Traveler, Anne Farrar, August/September 2018, page 94

A Walk in the Park

The image I started with was an Athleta ad. A model dressed in athletic gear, including shiny silver sneakers was walking in a park with her hands in her jacket pockets. The site, Superkiln Park in Copenhagen, was clearly chosen for the dramatic lines painted on the pavement. From the camera’s perspective there is nothing natural about this walk in the park. No trees. No sky. It is gray and drab and any sign of nature or fresh air has been sucked right out of the atmosphere.

Fast forward to my transformation and you will see the same model is now in a what a park is supposed to be: full of life and fresh crisp air. The model has transformed. Her smile hasn't changed yet she looks happier. She is now stretching her arms out wide, embracing the moment. She is in nature. She moves and stretches. She is alive.


Athleta ad, ERB1C1239T P.46

Kristen Naffah