finally, the finished product.

I ended up making 3 TED talks because as I was sitting in the library trying to do this, I realized that I had so many different ideas of ways I wanted this to end up that I became severely overwhelmed. For the final product, what I ended up doing was looking through the albums that I have in my iTunes and finding artists that (in my eyes) have a pattern they've followed for the concept of their album covers. I used John Mayer, The Fray, Spice Girls, *NSYNC, and Lady GaGa. Hopefully this makes sense!

TED talk description

Lauren Nitting breaks down album art through the eyes of the avid listener. She will look at patterns in album covers and go into how certain albums convey certain messages. Nitting does her best to give completely unbiased opinions of certain artists while providing quotes concerning what the artists might have been going for with their album covers. Finally, Nitting will close with examples of a few of her favorite covers, giving insight into what kind of emotions they can evoke within the listener.

REVISION TO MY TED TALK.

I've been trying to figure out how playing specific clips of music videos would work without having to stand in front of everyone and go through youtube multiple times. Since I can't think of any way that would work, I decided to modify my TED talk and instead of music videos, I'm going to use album covers instead. I plan on showing the evolution of album covers from maybe the 90s up until now, kind of like a path of the music I've been listening to since I was younger. And/or I'm going to go kind of follow a few artists and show how they've evolved with their album covers as they continue to release new studio albums. Sooo yeah! That's the new plan!

TED talk idea.

Technology and Images
Entertainment and Images
Design and images

Wellllll the entertainment aspect of TED talks is what jumps out at me the most. More specifically the music part of the entertainment industry. Sooo, if all goes as planned and I can sort through the hundreds of thousands of them, I'm going to do my TED talk on seeing through mediums in music videos. I have a few in mind that would be great examples, but I want to think of some more. The one that immediately comes to mind is "Bigger Than My Body" by John Mayer. And I guess you'll just have to wait until the talk to find out why!

Good idea? Bad idea? Somewhere in between?