Digital Persona

Name: Lyosha (Russian name) 

Meaning: One who helps people

Primary media used (YouTube, twitter, IG, FB, SC)

Mission statement : i am here to put an end to all your habits…. the bad ones. 

Height: 5 ft

Skinny guy with a thick voice, who hates technology. 

Hates people with bad behavior, specially people who don't have any civic sense. and if he sees two people sitting with each other but busy in their phones, he will take away your phone and break it. 

People can send him their questions about peers who are way too involved in technology and he will give the most stupidest and politically incorrect solutions. 

For eg: 

Guy with a mission of improving the world and making a change in people’s lives. He is a normal guy but as soon as he sees an act of littering or someone using their phone while walking. He gets angry. 

GIF Experiment

The Mystery of the Word Fuck!

THE WORD FUCK from BK on Vimeo.

Ugly Funny

We as human beings have evolved as species but the evolution of our minds is yet to happen, specially when it comes to coexisting. Time after time we have failed ourselves as human beings as we fought each other over issues which eventually didn't profit any of us. Sometimes its called the war of civilizations, religions or war of two different forms of governments. We have gone on war and its the human race that suffers in the end. War can bring peace but sometimes we have a huge price to pay for it. The echoes of sufferings and wounds are sometimes so loud that they haunt not only the present generation but the generations to come too. 

From Japan, to Vietnam or the Middle East, the images and thoughts of war will never remind not only the people of those regions but the rest of us too that we probably are the only species on the planet who kills the other for political reasons.

The idea of the project is to add satire and humor to the images of the famous political leader of past and present who in one way or the other brought war upon us and were responsible for the suffering and have some sort of contribution to the war history.

I have used images of leaders like Hitler, Churchill, Trump etc and have added words like Pizza, War, Deadpool to add a flavor of satire to it. Since its the first but at the same time, i want to leave it to the people to take out whatever meaning they want from it. I am still not sure about how it will turn out to be, i was to keep it open source and let others (anyone who visits the link) be able to add images and words. 

The initial idea was to make it artistic using CSS only. I wanted to have a box on eyes of the subject and with words written inside the box. So basically using CSS to do what we do on Photoshop. As i explore more the CSS, i find out different ways of doing it. May be if i adjust the source images in a way that all of the images have the same placement of the subject eyes and then lock the box and text at a certain point. 

The whole idea of it is to use CSS as a form of protest and expression about history and comment on it. 

The Unsung Beauty

Beauty Is Not In The Eye Of The Beholder

Beauty Is Not In The Eye Of The Beholder from BK on Vimeo.

Paintings have become a piece of mass produced information as the original paintings have lost their value because of the invention of the printing press. The replicas are now available easily and because of this only a few people would actually go and see the original painting. Painting are merely not just subjective, a lot of times the meaning of the painting or the piece of art can be changed by adding music, words or captions to it. and often it is interpreted according to experiences of the viewer. a person coming from a rural background might see it in a different way as compared to someone who is from the city. It is beyond a person or an individual in it. It talks a lot about the person in detail without the word. Sometimes you don't need words to talk about the person in the painting, the posture, attire, facial expression or light inside the painting can tell you a lot about the subject. Before mainstream media, it was the painting that were the form of advertising. The artist were commissioned by the monarchy or the rich to paint them or to paint for them. People would get themselves painted to give an impression about themselves or leave a statement for the society. Goddesses seen in the early paintings were painted as the perfect human beings just like how we see the image of the perfect woman being portrayed by the media again and again, giving us this delusion of not being perfect or being a misfit and always striving to be something that we are not. Same was the case for Gods or kings, they were always shown with exaggerated fitness of their bodies and as someone that everyone should aspire to be. Now advertising is replaced or had already replaced that form of propaganda. Now we are constantly told by the media to dress up in a certain way or to look a certain way in order to get accepted in the society. First false needs are created that eventually come out as a commodity. After the commodity, their obsession is created in the society which is termed as fetishism. What is a commodity? A Commodity is something that satisfies the human need. In the context of culture, culture eventually becomes Culture Industry where the cultural products are lose their originality. And they then merely become a product that people use to get accepted in the society. Lets look at this way, culture in the beginning is the representation of people of a particular area and its mere concern is providing identity to a group. But it evolves to become an industry that merely becomes a source to earn capital. People then become obsessed with the cultural products and their value in the society is measured by money not by what need they fulfill.