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Futuristic Creative Art Project

A recent quick project I had for my art class in school. I had taken a picture of a building in downtown provo not too long ago. 

I've always loved the new building since they put it up last year with its straight lines and symmetric shape. So when a project on two vanishing points came up, I used the picture as a reference and let my imagination run with it.

I quickly gravitated towards a more futuristic look and made the building gigantic instead of just a few floors tall. I started seeing it as a futuristic metropolis where the wealthy go to escape the damaging pollutions of the city life. It continues past the page hundreds of levels tall able to fit hundreds of thousands of residents at a time. It's got an indoor pool and waterfall display, green houses, huge court yards, and a modern statue/ entry way to welcome the guests in. 

Why all the detail? I've always loved going into detail with my art, that's where the fun comes into play.

After finishing the pencil sketch I wanted to see even more detail and how far I could take it, so I scanned it and dropped some paint on it with photoshop! Just after an hour or so of time and the building comes alive with color and it really starts to make sense.

Random details:

- Included some birds in the distance to create the scale needed for the building

- The two vanishing points were closer together then normal which allowed a more dramatic perspective.

I wanted to share this project and hopefully more so that I could share my creative side and hopefully inspire yours! I want to put some more time into this painting and really show the pollution in the sky and a city in the distance, we'll see if I have time!

Go out, draw something, build something, create something! The sky is the limit with creativity!

10 Interesting Facts About Creativity

I've spent some time studying and collecting different facts about creativity over the years. I wanted to share with you my favorite facts! These things are statistically true as much as they are personally true for myself.

I've also found a new love for Infographics. Infographics are basically essay's filled with data, only written by visuals. So if you like this one let me know so I can continue to make them and share more!

Let me know if you have any good ideas for the next infographic!

My Wife's Bobby Pins: Alien Prevention Pins

My wife LOVES her bobby pins; I don't know why, they seem replaceable... At first, whenever I cleaned the house, I tended to throw half of them away and put the rest back. Maybe if she notices she has less she won't leave them out... at random places... everywhere! I've got like twenty of these things in my vacuum! 

She must hide her bobby pin source because I never see a bobby pin grouping larger then 4 or 5!

Then it dawned on me... What if my wife was subconsciously preparing us for an alien attack, like the movie signs. Not leaving water though, but bobby pins!

What if the Alien snuck into my home and I had to do some quick thinking!?

Bobby pins! ...Pin away Matt, pin away....

You win wife, the bobby pins stay.

Wife: saving my life in so many ways!

Movie Trailers: Creative Music

On this page ill be sharing the random creativity i've spotted on the web. Feel free to comment and send me a link so I can share what you find, it can be so inspiring. 

                                                                                                                                                                 

I've always been a GIANT fan of movie trailers. It's amazing how much you can pack in a couple minutes. The best part of these trailers, without fail, is the music that has been selected or created for it. 

Watch this trailer of Edge of Tomorrow, the music makes all the difference.

The music for the Edge of Tomorrow trailer was created by the artist Fieldwork and is called "This is Not the End". The song was majorly adapted for the trailer. 

This movie, Watchmen, wasn't the greatest movie. However, anybody that watched the trailer was immediately sucked into the apocalyptic world that the movie takes place in. It still remains one of the best movie trailers mostly because of the song!

The music in this trailer is "The Beginning is the End is the Beginning" by Smashing Pumpkins. It was not adapted for the trailer, which makes it even more eery how perfectly it fits the trailer and movie theme.