Exercise 1 - McNally

A lot of the assignment asked questions pertaining to travels and different places we've grown up or been to- so I decided to make my matrix somewhat themed. I was born in New York, live in New York, and my absolute favorite sports team is the New York Rangers. So I decided that it would be important to include all of these things in my visual matrix. I chose to include the NYC skyline image because one I think it is beautiful and two I feel that it is a good anchor for the matrix, it brings it all together. I tried to blend my face in the skyline in the lower right hand corner. In the upper right hand corner (the green blobs) are images of countries I have been to - Ireland and China. The rainbow blur that borders this is actually a pattern that through photoshop I derived from a NYC traffic image - to represent the sound that NYC traffic makes. I wrote "the big apple" in the upper left hand corner to not only emphasize the New York aspect of my matrix but also because my computer is a mac. It's hard to see but I also hid in the city skyline a lego skyscraper among the buildings to show that I prefer legos over transformers.