It is definitely a start

Trapped in the claws of a hardcore English Literary course last year, the novelty of writing pretentious essays about relatively irrelevant subject matter soon wore off.  This year, with the commencement of my studies in the relatively unexplored realm of Hypermedia for Language Learning, the assessment is much more practically oriented, with an emphasis on, what feels like, something I have forgotten about, fun.  When I was asked to create a collage for my first assignment, I was rather surprised and flabbergasted, but I knew that I could get used to it.  Seven hours of Photoshop CS4 (all that I have) and look at me!

This little collage, which obviously still lacks the old hand of an experienced graphic designer and "Photoshopper", is the first real contribution to the website called "The Waste Land Philharmonic" which is due for the end of the year.  The website will juxtapose contemporary society with the society in the 1920's while comparing London (the subject of Eliot's poem "The Waste Land") with Cape Town.  The glue that will keep the images/videos/poem/literary pieces on the site together is a composition I am working on currently which provides programme music for Eliot's poem.  The "train swoosh" in the middle of the collage represents the movement from now to then, old to new, London to Cape Town, me to Eliot, and, most importantly, from Poetry to Music.  The moment I can manage to secure a domain for this website, this collage will be the "under construction" sign.  So it is a start...

...all very pretentious but, hey, old habits die hard.