Life At moore

Psychological thriller vs. Hardcore Punk

2011-03-31T08:26:00.000-07:00

Although on the surface these two genres are on completely different ends of the spectrum, plenty of connections can be made if you use your imagination.

That’s exactly what I did, as I have said before images are what make a story happen whether they are mental or visual or little bit of both. I remembered as a child looking through the eye spy books when you would have to find different objects and I thought of how I could put my own twist on it.

I love having to figure something out, a challenge within reading. My idea is to make a journal. (Diary of a Hardcore Killer…my idea for a name) within this journal I want to collage shows from pictures with small clues who could have been killed and how they could have been killed and on the back of the page I will have a hidden compartment explaining the specifics of the story behind the pictures. I will also include some writings from the mysterious killer along with a note that explains that anyone who finds this book has to alone figure out one page of the journal or their fate will be the next page.

……Its different, kind of like a dark comic or zine, below I started to set it up for you guys! Enjoy

…Imagine your standing in a dingy dark venue speakers blaring fists flying in the air. You’re hanging out with your best friends or “Bros” or even “Dudes” when suddenly something doesn’t feel right in the air…there’s the dark feeling of hate brewing. Fights are normal but you knew that there was something deeper, murder was at hand! But who could it be you see the same people every weekend in the same spot, is it someone new or has someone who has been there unexpectedly snapped.

…Even more frightening, what if the went

Home every night and recalled his hate in

A small normal looking journal

Yet the dark secrets within

Are not for the faint hearted.

What may get to you the most is the fact that

Only the slightest clues are given

You have to figure out these dark secrets

Alone.

When you find the book, you mind figure out

The secrets, or you may be the next page.

It’s the book of a Hardcore Killer.

Hardcore Books, Read em,' love em'

2011-03-17T08:13:00.000-07:00

In my journey to get to the bottom of Hardcore Punk as a genre of course I did some reading to really get a more in depth look at what others feel this genre means. These are some of the books that I have looked at so far!

Straight Edge: Clean-Living Youth, Hardcore Punk, And Social Change by Ross Haenfler

This book goes in depth about the straight edge part of the hardcore scene. Straight edge simply means you don’t drink, you don’t do drugs, you don’t smoke, and you don’t have promiscuous relations with people, you basically live the cleanest life style…but this movement is also where the violence started among the hardcore scene. It was simply a group of people trying to make their mark and they truly did but not in the best way, they have shown extreme violence especially at shows towards those who do not live the same lifestyle as them, this is how it originally was but in present day straight edge has defiantly strayed away from what it used to be.

Hardcore California: A history of Punk and new wave by Peter Belsito

This book looks at hardcore music in the bigger picture, it talks about all of the elements of a hardcore scene or “Family” and how it started and where it originally came from, this book I have read multiple times and I still find it very interesting.

Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine ’79-’83 by Tesco Vee

This zine was a lot of fun to look at because it was like looking at pictures from when I was younger and went to shows, it was a great throwback. It was also so awesome to read about the old bands that I did not personally get to experience.

Out Of Vogue: Hardcore Punk Live Shots by Patrick baclet

The pictures in this book are epic and like in my earlier blog… Pictures rule the world and show you a deeper meaning.

…These books were all very interesting and helped me learn more on this subject that I already thought that I knew a lot about which made it really interesting and it defiantly cleared some of the cloudiness of getting to the real meaning of this genre.

Pstchological thriller, as seen by the mind

2011-03-02T14:35:00.001-08:00

Psychological Thriller…thrilling the minds eye

2011-03-02T14:34:00.000-08:00

What do you see when you think of these words together, what is the image that comes into your mind?

Dark Hallways

Hospital Rooms

Rainy Nights

Knifes

Weapons

Black Masks

…And so on

With a Genre like Psychological Thriller many images of distress and terror should come to your mind, you think of mind bending situations that leave you guessing in shock. But the images can go two ways, personally I think of Crime, then the other thing I think of is Murder. I think of murder because when I think of physiological thrillers I think serial killers and the mind games that they play on their victims and the gruesome ways that the serial killers of the past have killed their victims…

Enough words lets look at some pictures!

(Next Post)

A good hardcore book to relax to...and some explination

2011-02-24T08:31:00.000-08:00

Since I have been studying Hardcore Punk as a Genre, I thought I knew a lot but it seems that as always there is still more to learn!

I decided to do some reading up when I remembered hearing about a book from a friend called…

American Hardcore

A Tribal History by Steven Blush

...it was also turned into a movie for the Sundance Film festival

As I read the book and read about the lifestyle that I had been living which had grown off the original hardcore punk days in the early ‘80s, and the 80’s seemed like a good time, even though I had plenty of my own fun.

..Anyway I still was blown away by actually reading about the originating of this genre. The book coveres ameriucan hardcore punk bands between the years of 1981-1986 and talks about how they formed the genre to exactly what they wanted to be.

What they wanted…. They wanted this genre to scare those with a faint heart and collect those who feel brushed off by regular society because they feel different or dress differently. This genre was where every 16 year old kid could run and hide when they got picked on, and they would be picked up by others who feel exactly the same way they do… a cast away.

At this point to me hardcore punk as a genre, this is of course based off research that ive done which has kind of moved my mind to a different place then when I started this…..but on to the definition:

HARDCORE PUNK: A mind blowing adventure through violence, chaos, swinging fist, flying spit, and rage against the average everyday society. You have no idea what you will be hit with.

Hardcore Punk, the image collection

2011-02-24T08:13:00.001-08:00

These are some bands and just some pictures of what I see when I think of Hardcore Punk as a genre itself

Hardcore Punk…The Image of a genre

2011-02-24T08:04:00.000-08:00

When you think of a genre, in my opinion, you sh0uld be able to have a picture pop into your head that visually explains what you think a genre is. When you think of the genre hardcore Punk im sure plenty of interesting thought pictures come into your head… things like

Fighting

Brutality

Fists flying in the air

People screaming along with the music

blood, sweat, spit, absolutely no tears...unless you want to get laughed at that is...

tattoos, peircings

those crazy holes in kids ears

........this could go on forever!

All good clean fun though right?

Of course if it!

Pictures to me explain more than word, but a picture can also give many different meanings to one thing. Especially for a dull subject like a genre its always good to add something to make it exciting like a picture! In the next blog after this one I want to explain Hardcore Punk as a genre in some truly hardcore pictures.

Hardcore Punk, great genre or menace to society

2011-02-10T08:07:00.000-08:00

Since a young age i have surounded myself with music, i was introduced in punk rock or hardcore music at the age of thirteen and still at the age of 21 i still love the scene and the atmosphere of this genre, even though many people look down towards " The weird looking kids with big holes in their ears, peircings and covered in those aweful tattos". Thats only because no one understands the true meaning of a family formed by those who are interested in this music. I can go on and on with this subject because of how passionate it makes me, but lets get to the point! I want to specifically look at Hardcore Punk music which is a sub genre of punk music ! There are many books and shows that go into specific musical artists and their lives or more so what a crazy mess their life is. Band such as the Ramones, The Sex Pistols and The Clash made the path for punk rock music. Thats when Hardcore Punk came in with a new aspect of self respect and respect for your friends, Thats where these two genres have a difference Hardcore punk brought the concept of Straightedge to the drugged up drunk punk scene. The band D.O.A which is a Canada based band released their first album called Hardcore 81' which gave the music a name.

Deffinition: is an underground music genre that originated in the late 1970s, following the mainstream success of Punk Rock.Hardcore is generally faster, thicker, and heavier than earlier punk rock. The origin of the term hardcore punk is uncertain.

This genre spread, fast. Places like New York, New Jersey, Boston and California

This underground genre has taken kids off the street and turned them in to good people in society, but that gets thrown off when people judge the tattoos right off the bat, but who would you rather help you in a time of need the crackhead on the corner or the tattooed person who doesnt drink or do drugs?

The look is simply to make a statement that says im here and im different than the rest of you.

This genre of music has been dragged through the mud simply because the intensity of the music, the violence ( or what looks like violence),the crazy looks from people when they see someone tattooed from head to toes, but i know from experience and the experiences of my friends, you brush it off, it doesnt matter what people think of us, we are better off and have closer bonds than most.

These are the bands that explain with their sound what Hardcore Punk Music is:
Wasted Youth
Suicidal Tendancies
Slap Shot
Blood for Blood
Dr. Know
Misfits
Earthcrisis
H2O
Madball
Sick of it All
...and again i could go on and on but those are some the bands that paved the way for the kids today.

Hardcore Punk Books:

Ross Haenfler- Straight Edge
Stacy Thompson- Punk Productions

Roger Sabin- Punk Rock

George Gimarc- Post Punk Diary

Psycological Thrillers...a look at the genre itself

2011-02-10T07:41:00.000-08:00

Books have a way of reaching out and grabbing you, Especially with a genre called Psychological thrillers.
Definition:Characters are no longer reliant on physical strength to overcome their brutish enemies (which is often the case in typical action-thrillers), but rather are reliant on their mental resources, whether it be by battling wits with a formidable opponent or by battling for equilibrium in the character's own mind. The suspense created by psychological thrillers often comes from two or more characters preying upon one another's minds, either by playing deceptive games with the other or by merely trying to demolish the other's mental state.

Then I Pulled the two words apart to get another meaning of this genre.
Psychological- This word alone concentrates on what is related directly to the mind along with the process of how the mind works, This usually a mental battle rather than a natural physical fight,Also psychological books concentrate on trying to make the reader understand exactly what happend to the character and why they have a war raging in their mind.
Thriller- This is usually plot over character, their is usual physical contact among characters, and concentrates on the physical action of the character.

Then when you mix these two genres some of the elements slightly change to really create a psychological thriller that will really grab its readers and make them read at the edge of their seat all the way to the end because they need to know what happend's at the end of the book.

Here are some examples of some Psychological Thrillers!:

Stephen King ( The main man of this genre..in my opinion at least)- Carrie, Thinner, Desperation
Orson Scott Card- Ender's Game
Dennis Lehane- Shutter Island
Thomas Harris- Hannibal

I know when i read a book i want to be excited and i generally want to be intrugued within the first ten pages of the book or i get bored quick and lose interest in the book at all, but everytime i have picked up a psychological thriller i think about the book even when i am not reading and thats why this is such an interesting genre, it makes you think of it without it in front of your face and it truely does reach deep into your mental thinking.

Zine Cover Page!

2008-11-21T05:32:00.000-08:00

2008-10-31T07:10:00.000-07:00

This is my collage and i think it really shows the mystery of what is behind the walls of eastern state penitentiary.It shows that you look down a cell block and you don't know what to expect.It draws your eye back and you are looking into almost a different world

ESP article with live trace image

2008-10-24T07:38:00.000-07:00

I read an article about some of the history of eastern state penitentiary. In the article it talks about how the prison ran for over 100 years and now it is starting to crumble. In the article it also named some of its famous inmates such as the well known Al Capone whoes cell is still decorated. The prison is located in fairmount philadelphia. It also talks about how at one time it was the most expensive building in America and now it sits and crumbles. The article was by Mike Walsh

scanned image

2008-10-22T08:06:00.000-07:00

The first one is my originial picture that i drew in my sketch book

The second one is the same picture in illistrator using the pen tool

logos!

2008-10-16T07:45:00.001-07:00

LAST PHOTOSHOP PROJECT!

2008-09-26T07:44:00.000-07:00

This is the image i used from the web on eastern state penitentiary

Then the original picture that i used to create the new picture that i took myself.

Then for the image that i fooled around with i made it look kind of creepy like indeed the penitentiary is creepy so i gave it that certain look that gives you the eerie feeling.

2008-09-26T06:15:00.000-07:00

this is my link to the tullips

original-refined-remasterd

2008-09-22T17:57:00.001-07:00

1)This is my image before i did anything with it. I used the gargoils as my figures , the wall with the vine on it as my foreground and everything else is the backround!

2) in the second image i was able to refine it a bit by lowering the brightness and the contrast.

3) this one i played around with and used the selective tool to pick different areas to do different things with! I did this because my topic is the eatsern state penitentiary and with its stone and sad look you can do alot with it so this proves that you are able to make something not so cheerful look alot better than it did and make it more interesting than someone would think when they look at the ESP in person.

Changed backrounds

2008-09-17T21:36:00.000-07:00

I took two of the pictures i had taken at the ESP and mixed them up! then i added alittle bit more with the second picture

Pictures from ESP!

2008-09-08T17:08:00.000-07:00

these are some of the pictures that i took at the ESP that i put into photoshop to make them interesting. Like i said it is a beautiful place to play with.

Topic

2008-09-08T17:05:00.000-07:00

My topic is going to be about the eastern state penitentiary.

This is one of the many beautiful sites that we are able to see while at moore.

I find that run down things are the most beautiful.

And i love the fact that while im here i have the opportunity to use it to paint or photograph

and just to enjoy. It is my favorite building in Philadelphia

10 events of the week!

2008-09-05T07:52:00.000-07:00

some of my everyday life at moore!

Life at moore

2008-08-29T07:17:00.000-07:00

Life at moore so far has been such an experience. I fell like I have experienced so much in so little time. I'v always had a hard time with being shy when I first meet people. Yet, i have already made a good group of friends that I know i may have for the rest of my life. I think that as classes start it will just make my experience grow more. I will be able to be doing what i love to do from day to day and learning knew things and having my mind opened to different things. I hope the rest of the year goes how things are going now.