Screaming in Metal Music

I always find Metal music a way to express and release anger, and one of the reason is that most vocal singing in metal music involves the crazy screaming. Thus I decided to put screaming mouths in my photo project.

The Middle Finger : 凸

The middle finger is considered as the cursing hand sign, a way to express anger. It is one of the easiest and direct way to express angry emotions. The hand sign referenced from penis. A song from Hong Kong hip hop group raps about it. This song in my opinion is rap metal, which makes

Making of Green Day – Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Leo sent me this behind-the-scenes video of a Green Day music video for referencing. The distortion and ruined effects in the music video was actually because the director used film camera to make the video. He scratched and destroyed the film with sharp objects like pencils, and a burning cigarette. It is a very rock

Reference: A Clockwork Orange

I was watching YouTube today and I found this analysis on A Clockwork Orange very useful for my project. So I decided to watch it to to find reference. It was directed by Stanley Kubrick. The movie is very violent and has many disturbing and violent images. At the start of the film it is

Works by Annegret Soltau

https://www.annegret-soltau.de/cycle/n-y-faces/ this artwork was done without computer software, and the artist uses real threads to stitch images together. I think this style makes the art look raw, brutal and scary. it is useful for my topic, to show angry emotions.

Rule of Thirds

Amirshahi, Seyed Ali & Hayn-Leichsenring, Gregor & Denzler, Joachim & Redies, Christoph. (2014). Evaluating the Rule of Thirds in Photographs and Paintings. Art & Perception. 10.1163/22134913-00002024. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259620557_Evaluating_the_Rule_of_Thirds_in_Photographs_and_Paintings “The rule of thirds (ROT) is one of the best-known composition rules used in painting and photography. According to this rule, the focus point of an image should

Metallica: visual references

I always think that heavy metal especially thrash metal has huge connection to angry emotions. Fast tempo, aggression music and speedy guitar shredding always hype me up and make me aggressive and violent (only in my mind). Thus the metal bands has many useful visual references for the anger topic.

I googled “anger photography”

I googled “anger photography” to find photo projects that are similar to mine for reference. almost all anger photos are faces or body parts that shows an angry expression. It shows that photos of facial expressions are an effective and popular way to depict human emotion. Therefore, I wanted to discover other methods to show