Revived and Remade deals with referencing the past. Since everything already has been done why not just go with the flow and work with this concept?<\/p>\n
Wondering around Vancouver I wondered to myself “What can I revive? What can I do or work with?”. After reading an article on Cindy Sherman in the New York Times I became a bit intimidated to be honest. I have no special make up ability and recreating photos like that would be just not my strength. As I walked down to the down town area along some board walk by the bay I noticed a giant whale made out of three\u00a0dimensional\u00a0cubes but made to look pixelated. I really liked this Orca sculpture for some reason. Not because it was just an orca but it was some how…. very nostalgic. I guess being a 90s kid, I remember the days of pogs, Barney,\u00a0Sesame\u00a0Street, and the beginning of computers taking real effect in not just businesses but in everyday family homes! The first personal computer I ever even touched was actually a very bulky old Apple personal computer. I played on it whenever I had the free time watching informational videos and games or animated books about\u00a0dinosaurs, safety, and used a program like Paint to draw doodles.<\/p>\n
If anyone is a 90s kid, they will remember that things just didn’t look at all like they do now. Just the other day I was looking \u00a0at my friend’s Nitendo 3D game console. Geez. I feel old! I only ever played with PS 1 and a game boy… The FIRST old bulky grey one where the graphics were indeed pixelated. Everything growing up for me was Pixelated. Strangely enough, though seeing so many images of pixelated objects and characters I had no idea how to make a pixelated image. Since everything is in blocks I thought making round objects to be impossible and just never gave it another thought of trying.<\/p>\n
But then I saw the orca sculpture<\/a> and these images of a New York based artist who deals with Urban space<\/a>s (click to see images).<\/p>\n That’s where my 90s kid inside me spoke up and I decided to run with it! These images that I have here aren’t just funny or random images with pixelated objects in them but they are referencing different things like places in the world, childhood events and even movies. See if you can guess them and figure them out!<\/p>\n Have fun 90s kids!<\/p>\n