P2 Final: Charlie Parker

My two experiences of the exhibit and the print piece are meant to be seen in a way which music is seen, poetically not as realistic. Many of the images have different colors than the original black and white or have quotes or phrases that describe his life at the time. The first part of the exhibit shows early life and Kansas City and then through out it walks through his Be Bop phase in New York all the way until his death. At the end it's the total combination of all his experiences influencing his music in a way that is original to him. The no dancing sign is to indicate how Be Bop changed jazz from a dancing music to just sitting and listening music. I chose the words "chromatic" and "addiction" for the outside, because be bop was a huge part of his life and chromatic describes the way this music was unique. I used the word "addiction" to reflect how drugs had a big impact on his life, but even more so he was addicted to creating music. I used the same blue from the Charlie Parker head statue on the outside doors to make the connection that this ties into Charlie Parker without having it say it but still have the orange on the sides to tie the inside and outside together. I also wanted to honor the time, but not make the pieces feel like they came out of the 1930s, so I included old pictures and a typewriter typeface but kept the colors mellow. I would attribute this to calming, which also ties back to the Be Bop as a listening music and not a dancing music.

Pre-Final model

 So here on some rough images and modeling (pre-final) of the exhibit. It may be hard to see all of the images so below are the tabloids I used on the laser printer to mock up this pre-final model.

FEMA

 Outline and grid rough notes.

 cardboard sign representing the poverty in NOLA that added to the disaster, could also represent rubble from the houses that were destroyed from the hurricane.

 Empty water jug representing the water and food the survivors were promised and never got. (First and second versions)

fold out map representing people's journey evacuating NOLA.

 These are the sketches for my annotation part two. As you can see I had many ideas about how to convey guerrilla marketing. The first sketch represents someone almost drowning and asks whats the big deal? The second sketch plays off how authority figures would go around after the hurricane and mark the doors and business to tell them information. The third is a vending machine that display the percentage of food that never came that was promised to the victims from FEMA. The fourth is showing how when you're walking down the hallway how it looks like the walls are the levee and it's breaking as water spills into the hallway. The fifth would be a building type of mural that shows people hanging on for their life as they almost drown. They try to hang onto the air conditioning units on the side of the building. The sixth is a school bus that would have an ad on the side covering the children making it look like there's no one in the bus, representing how the children couldn't go back to school for a significant amount of time after because of the lack of leadership. The seventh plays off how when a toilet flushes it looks like a hurricane and the top of the toilet seat looks like a grave post. The eighth is a paper towel holder in the bathroom. It had different colors of paper so it looks like when you're pulling out the paper that you're helping Louisiana come back from the awful flooding and relates back to the Louisiana shape on the original poster.  There's a call to action on the bottom. The ninth would be a local swimming pool near by where the bottom would have a scene from New Orleans, and it would look like it's underwater.

Research on Hurricane Katrina and Fema

Haylee Hedge – Failure to Execute Minimal Assistance

The issue that my assigned poster addresses is Hurricane Katrina and FEMA. FEMA stands for failure to execute minimum assistance. This is regarding the lack of assistance the government provided to help the victims associated with the hurricane.  In the first place, the Bush administration failed to upgrade the levee system. It also failed to send an emergency crew to victims and didn’t help with resources to restore their lives. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said, “I don’t know whether it’s the governor’s problem,” he said. “I don’t know whether it’s the president’s problem. But somebody needs to get their ass on a plane and sit down, the two of them, and figure this out.” New Orleans is one of the poorest cities in the U.S. with a 23.2 percent poverty rate. The median income was about $28k. 35 percent of the cities African American’s don’t own a car and Louisiana’s economics ranked 48^th.  Its social welfare is one of the weakest in the country for the weakest and elderly. The Bush administration knew before it even happened that 100,000 NO citizens couldn’t escape on their own and the plan for evacuation was only 10 percent done. Their economics goals were essentially to “starve the beast,” which means to lower taxes a significant amount, and in turn the government wouldn’t­­ be able to function. The republicans in congress at the time felt funds for the Katrina victims – around $100 billion – should come from budgets cuts not tax increases. Also the National Weather Service correctly predicted the force of the storm, but the top officials in the Bush administration didn’t bring the matter to attention. In regards to resources according to The New York Times, “FEMA had planned to have 360,000 ready-to-eat meals delivered to the city and 15 trucks of water in advance of the storm. But only 40,000 meals and five trucks of water had arrived.” Six months after the storm, FEMA had provided only 3,000 of the 21,000 trailers requested by New Orleans residents to use as temporary shelter while they rebuild. After two months around 20,000 students, most from New Orleans, still weren’t in school. However, because of these issues, there is greater attention on class and race, and hopefully this doesn’t happen again in the future. 

http://nhi.org/online/issues/145/politicaldisaster.html

Type 2: Mar. 3

I developed a booklet that complemented the exhibit, but definitely wasn't the same. It doesn't have the same pictures for the most part but gives a broad overview of what the larger exhibit is all about from his biography.