I found both parts of the Forbes process to be pretty easy, and actually kind of fun. For the first part, the actual taking of the pictures, I knew right away what I would do. I would walk around my garage and find my abstract pictures in there. Then when i went to take them, I had no trouble at all. There were random cool things all over! Just when I opened my tool box, I found a ton of cool pictures. Like the picture I had of my die grinder, I just opened my drawer and right there was a cool picture. The way the grinding pads look like they kind of shoot out of the grinder just makes the tool look kind of alive. Then I also looked in the autoshop at school for some cool pictures, and came upon this pile of rust by the welder. I thought it looked like some kind of galaxy, with all the rust dust as stars, and the clamps and pieces of metal as planets in the galaxy.
Making the mindbook entry after taking the pictures was really cool too. It was also pretty easy because I knew what I wanted to do right away. I wanted to make it look basicaly like an abstract garage, with my car as the focal point. So I just set up different mechanical looking pictures to create a backround, and slapped my car in the middle. Then for a kind of cool looking addition I put the picture of chains kind of dangling over my car. The challenge in the assignment came in when I found out I had to put a picture of an animal somewhere on the page. I couldn't figure out how i could still get the animal on there, and still get that garage feel, but then I had an idea. I cut out a gorrilla glue add, and put that in a cool spot on the page. The picture was a perfect fit, finally I had my finished mindbook entry, and it looked pretty good.
