Cloud of Unknowing

You'll have to pardon the watermark, but I'd feel better knowing that the clean version of this image wasn't on the internet.

Another addition to the Plastic Beach series I started in March, using the song "Cloud of Unknowing" by Gorillaz. I haven't completely forgotten about it, it's just been difficult to make the images I want with the skills I have, so it's been finding compromises.

I saw Gorillaz live in concert the other month and during the show I got to see a lot of visualizations for the different songs they played. Luckily for me, there was a lot of their new stuff during the show and that helped me figure out what I could do for the songs. Cloud of Unknowing has been a favorite on the new album, Bobby Womack's vocals really capture a melancholy that's just absolutely perfect for the sound with slow strings ensemble.

The visualizations at the concert was WW2 footage, planes crashing and falling into the sea. It was powerful stuff and helped me figure out how to finish this particular image which I have made with samples of photos I have taken of the sky from here in the US to some taken this summer during my trip to Japan.

You can see the visuals here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S02Sb_KnndQ

I do have a few shots from the concert, although to be honest many of them aren't worth noting. Blurry color a good picture does not make. I'll have to post the few good ones up later. With this piece done, that leaves the total remaining to 8. Not only under 10, but even too. Hoping to finish this series up before we reach the one year anniversary of starting it.