We saw Chris R today and explained our ideas to him and where we were up to. He liked our ideas - the dust, the book, etc - but he pointed out that these ideas were not gelling together in their present state.
He showed us the Radiohead album Amnesiac which was also has book style package (in its special edition form). It is a hardback and inside there was library stamp card - very old school. From there we looked at the other pages that were mainly image based; a collection of collages merging drawing and photography and it was all quite contempory especially compared with the books cover and the library stamp system. We talked about how this was appropriate for the band Radiohead and they are an experimental band, merging many genres, styles, instruments, etc.
We were creating an older style of book to suit the Blue Roses but I also thought it would be a good idea to combine old and new. At this point, after hearing Chris' feedback and input we were all a little lost, frustrated and fed-up as we had spent along time making images, creating styles, etc and we couldn't really put it all together. Plus, we knew we also had another photography session in the afternoon and we needed to decide exactly what we were doing.
Chris gave us great ideas and themes to explore like 'lost' objects, things that once belonged to someone and had a purpose but were now forgotten about.
After further discussion we decided that perhaps we should completely simplify our book: have a hard cover with dust jacket, the pages that follow will be mainly text based featuring the band's lyrics and in the center spread we'd have a picture of a 'dust scene'. The center pages would be our only imagery and we thought this would be an interesting constrast and would work with our lost/found theme as the reader would almost 'find' the image hidden in the middle of the book.
Another idea I had was that in our photograph we should show that something has been removed with a clean-spot in the dust and the missing object would be the actual CD that the person is seeing the image in (if that makes sense). I thought although not 'geneous' it would get an 'ahhh' from people who discovered it and it also shows that the CD has also come from this forgotten place. This would be further emphasised by the 'dusty' dust jacket.
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