i wanted to show aspect of the Chrysler building being built and new york. so i showed an image of the finished building over the skyline and the iconic 1920 builder
Thursday 19 January 2012
image 5: radio and music!
to show the concept of how radio brought people together through music and dance i created this image. i placed the radio on top of the piano with the two people listening. and the women in the background dancing
image 4: Dutch gangster
from my research i found that Dutch would bootleg booze during the prohibition by smuggling it in truck. i found a 1920s truck and placed it on the city background
i also included the imagery of booze being poured away to show to concept of the prohibition
i used an image of dutch being portrayed as by an actor in a film as it showed much more action and the convention of him being a gangster with a gun.
IMAGE 3: new york women and fashion
i used the background of the city at night to show how women would stay out all night dancing instead of staying at home being reserved.
wonme & fashion image development
http://ephemeralnewyork.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/fifthave22ndstreet1975.jpg
these are possible images i could use for my theme based on the women of the 20s and their personality and their fashion.
image 2: prohibiton
i used izzy as the foreground as he was a very famous prohibition officer. i liked how he has a drink in his hand as it shows how the concept had a hint of hypocritical.
the background is also cut out so it doesn't detract the attention is izzy.
prohibition image development
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Izzy_Einstein_and_Moe_Smith.jpg
these are a series of images i could use for my prohibition image. i want to focus on the authority behind the prohibition and what was done such as pouring alcohol down drains.
Wednesday 18 January 2012
image 1: jazz
- i used louis armstrong as the main image in the forground as he was famous jazz singer during the 20s
- behind him i used another image of the jazz band. the dark cut out help make the layer simple which doesn't detract as much attention from the main image
- the background if the cutout image of the speak easy to help establish a setting.
Jazz development images
the first image i shall create is based on the theme of jazz
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/media/large/f/c/1/4fff3972a8c062426fef4e2f57992.jpg
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/media/large/f/c/1/4fff3972a8c062426fef4e2f57992.jpg
using filter>artistic>cutout on photoshop i was able to edit this image to take out detail to make a more effective background. by doing this it will help keep focus on my main image in the forground
radio
http://www.angelfire.com/co/pscst/radio.html
Once radio signals could be transmtted and received with improved clarity around 1920, the idea of public radio began to take hold in America. The first public radio broadcasting station opened in Pittsburgh, 1922. It was an instant success; listeners would sit around the radio listening to everything that was broadcasted. As a result many more radio stations popped up during the 20s, some even over night.
http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/radio-show.htm
Arguably the first massive media, radio became instrumental in providing information and entertainment in homes across the United States after the World War I. Radio programming grew in popularity through the Depression because it was virtually free and tied listeners around the nation into national events, local news, music and entertainment programs without requiring they spend money on going out. What's now considered the age of golden radio -- the 1920s through the end of the 1950s -- spawned a spate of entertainment shows and genres that still resonate in other mediums today.
http://www.vintageperiods.com/
Once radio signals could be transmtted and received with improved clarity around 1920, the idea of public radio began to take hold in America. The first public radio broadcasting station opened in Pittsburgh, 1922. It was an instant success; listeners would sit around the radio listening to everything that was broadcasted. As a result many more radio stations popped up during the 20s, some even over night.
http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/radio-show.htm
Arguably the first massive media, radio became instrumental in providing information and entertainment in homes across the United States after the World War I. Radio programming grew in popularity through the Depression because it was virtually free and tied listeners around the nation into national events, local news, music and entertainment programs without requiring they spend money on going out. What's now considered the age of golden radio -- the 1920s through the end of the 1950s -- spawned a spate of entertainment shows and genres that still resonate in other mediums today.
http://www.vintageperiods.com/
the jazz singer - cinema culture
http://www.filmsite.org/jazz.html
- In 1926, Warners' risky investment of a half million dollars with Western Electric in the Vitaphone sound system brought profits of $3.5 million at the box-office with this landmark talkie
- esponsible for transforming Warners into Hollywood's hottest film factory
- The commercialization of sound-on-film, and the transformation of the industry from silent films to talkies became a reality with the success of this film.
- Although it was not the first Vitaphone (sound-on-disk) feature, it was the first feature-length Hollywood "talkie" film in which spoken dialogue was used as part of the dramatic action
jazz
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/1920s_America.htm
The most famous jazzmen were Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller and Benny Goodman
The 1920’s made Hollywood.
The decade saw the first "talkie" - "The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson
The most famous jazzmen were Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller and Benny Goodman
The 1920’s made Hollywood.
The decade saw the first "talkie" - "The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Wwhe9Hx_w&feature=related <--fats waller
Dutch Schultz - Gangster
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USACschultz.htm
- After the Volstead Act was passed in 1919, Dutch Schultz established himself as a bootlegge
- he owned several illegal breweries and speakeasies and was one of the most important criminal figures in the Bronx
- involved in gang warfare
- mayor of New York, was determined to have Schultz removed from his city
- , Thomas Dewey, to investigate Schultz's business interests
- Schultz heard the news, he began making plans to have Dewey assassinated
- worried other gang leaders as they knew that this would only increase La Guardia's determination to wipe out New York gangsterism.
- Louis Lepke Buchalter, one of New York's main gang leaders, paid Charlie Workman and Emmanuel Weiss to kill Schultz. On 23rd October, 1935,
- Dutch Schultz, a.k.a. The Dutchman,
- In the early 1920s, during prohibition, Shultz drove alcohol trucks for the first modern gangster,Arnold Rothstein (the man who it is said fixed the 1919 World Series), and became acquainted with up and coming gangsters such as Charles Lucky Luciano , Meyer Lansky and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, who were just making their way up the criminal food chain.
- 1920s, Shultz began his own bootlegging business and became a supplier of speakeasies throughout New York.
- The speakeasies were forced to buy alcohol from the ruthless and brutal Schultz. But, Schultz dealt with his competitors even more harshl
- liquor turf battle with an unlucky man named John Rock who dared to stand up to Shultz. As a result, Rock was kidnapped and hung by his thumbs on a meat hook by Shultz and his companions who smeared his eyes with Gonorrhea infected gauze causing him to go blind.
roaring 20 images
http://hseuspics.wikispaces.com/Roaring+Twenties this website provided a nice range of images to do with roaring 20s and gave me further ideas for what to use in my themes
dumping alcohol down the sewers during prohibition
Dutch Schultz was a gangster of the 1920's and 1930's who was best known for his bootlegging operations in and around New York City (JT)
Jazz became part of American culture in the 1920s BM
speakeasy
pouring away more alcohol
fashion!
http://fashionbloglife.com/1920sfashion/
- 1920s fashion for women now incorporated shorter styles with pleats, slits and gathers allowing for more freedom and motion.
- A popular women’s outfit of the time became a straight-lined chemise matched to a close-fitting cloche hat
- 1920s fashion broke all the rules by raising hemlines to just below the knee, exposing the legs (something that had not been seen for centuries). Corsets and bustles of previous eras were replaced with camisoles, bloomers or a chemise.
- 1920s fashion brought change and women began flattening their busts and removing their corsets creating a less shapely look which became known as “Garçonne” which was French for “boyish”.
A fashionable flapper had short sleek hair, a shorter than average shapeless shift dress, a chest as flat as a board, wore make up and applied it in public, smoked with a long cigarette holder, exposed her limbs and epitomised the spirit of a reckless rebel who danced the nights away in the Jazz Age.
Between 1920 and 1924 skirts remained calf length with fluctuations of an inch or two according to garment style. Skirts were actually still rather long, but were designed to confuse.
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