The College Clock

For this remix I decided to base the collage on college student’s time spent at the university and what stresses come with being a student in college. I typed in the key word money so I could find a bill to represent the weight of student loans on college students. An AID activist artist named Gran Fury originally made the ten-dollar bill I found on New York Public Library. The purpose of the ten-dollar bill was to rally against profiteering during the year of 1987. The Asiatic Elephant was found on New York Public Library as well and for the key word I typed in animals to represent a college student. The original purpose of the painting was used to illustrate zoologies from Europe in the early 1920’s. The repetition of the clocks represents how time starts slipping away during your college career and begins to disappear after graduation. A company in England named John Player & Son’s- Player’s Cigarettes used the clock drawing in 1877 as cover photos for their cigarette player cards. The next photograph seen in the collage is of a group of Washington State University students at graduation receiving a diploma. The original content of what this video was intending is the same intention I represent in the collage of students graduating. The last photo used in the collage is of 3 women working on computers as their job in 1947. This photo shows that after college the expectation is to go find a job, which is represented in the photograph of women working on computers. How I came up with the remixed collage of these five photos is on a website on the Internet called Collage Maker. There I was able to edit the photos by blending/shading in photos to make them mess together and resizing them to fit the way I want the sequence to go. One thing I changed on my collage after receiving feedback is with having there be multiple clocks travel around my page. The reason I changed to having multiple clocks is to show that time in college is slipping away and soon you will no longer be a student. 

Ella Lajos