Thursday, March 31, 2011

Action spread (second draft)

For my routine spread I wrote a 'recipe' for taking action in life. "First and foremost you need yourself. Like making cupcakes taking action may seem difficult at first but in the end it’s not THAT difficult. Remind yourself; do you really want to sit on that scruffy couch and watch your dreams being lived on by invented television personalities? Is that two hour drive to your boring workplace really worth spending time and money on? Would you rather spend time on making cupcakes for living? Perhaps it is, perhaps it’s not. Now to succeed in this recipe you need to know towards what you want to take action to. Start small, you don’t get it perfect the first time (or if you did, congratulations and I am extremely jealous). A mind set of success is vital and the key ingredient. Combined with a positive attitude you can ensure that you won’t quit. Quitting is not part of anything good in life (except smoking). Once you have the goal, make a plan, and follow it, do it! Be careful with procrastination, nothing but silly things are achieved with procrastination. Don’t fear action, you don’t need to sit on that couch and drive two hours every day for the rest of your life. If you don’t really want to of course. I am not the all knowing, I’m just writing a f*****g recipe."

and made a collage out of various photographs;


Which I then adapted together with some flowery-details I drew. One problem is that the newspaper will have a margin of 3cm in the middle so I have to change the position of the collage so it won't cut in the middle. The idea behind this action spread was that people are most often too scared and lazy to do the things they really want to in life and the text gives the factors one need in order to take action in life, i.e. stop procrastinating and start with a small plan and actually do it. The imagery shows various attitudes, sex,drugs n rocknroll, if punkrock lifestyle has been once dream - take action towards it (also, taking action to looking different, not following the trends because everyone else is) then there's a cigarette ashtray and coffee which are part of some peoples everyday habits; taking action to change these habits and so forth.

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