Sharpie, Tria Pantone Pen, Charcoal and acrylic on Glossy Photo Paper. ~34" x 34"
My studio currently looks out into a parking lot. The parking lot itself has a large billboard that rotates at odd intervals. The current one looks like this:
OK - I'm not that dense of a person - perhaps I was sick. But I look at the sign - at the 8+ foot letters (B RSPBL) and attempted to make sense of them.
"BE RESPIBLE"
Right.
My associate, of course, figured it out right away, "Be ResPONSIBLE, it says".
OK. I got the idea, but I didn't get the follow through. Maybe it's a well-known (this - this, "BBRVTN") digital txt-SMS-internet... "thing" that I wasn't privy to.
What makes this even more funnier, is that the helpful URL, below the main text is made up of five letters, that totally blows the initial pun out of the water.
I think I forgot all about the billboard, got better and finished the above drawing last night
This morning, I noticed the billboard again and - curses! There was probably the initial inspiration to my little pun.
Or not. I was also listening to MSTRCRFT, after looking at stuff from Death From Above and CSS. Let's make love, baby.
Condensing may in fact be a form of obfuscation. Doing away with what seems to be uneeded elements to you may make your message harder to understand for others. Another term similar to condensing is, Simplification. Most drawings are simplifications of the original subject. Using pen and cross hatch lines is a simplification of difficult and complex shadows.
Simplification done well can make the underlying idea easier to understand. Simplification done poorly can hide the underlying idea and make things harder to understand.
