Signalnoise

The Network: We are Your News

The Network: We are Your News by James White

Here is a new piece entitled The Network: We are your News, dedicated to the few who govern what information reaches the many.

I would like to pull some points from Wikipedia regarding the ways in which stations are able to continually broadcast. Economically, networks rely on in-kind donations of time and skills by volunteers (common with community broadcasters), direct government payments or operation of public broadcasters, indirect government payments, such as radio and television licenses, grants from foundations or business entities, selling advertising or sponsorships and public subscription or membership.

With so many people and organizations governing the information broadcast to the millions, they are your news.

Inspiration for this piece comes from the In the News intro from the 1970s.

Posted

in

by

James

Tags:

Comments

24 responses to “The Network: We are Your News”

  1. MATT Avatar
    MATT

    wow,this one sucks big time…are you sick again?better stay in bed than do some crap like this

  2. starlight86 Avatar
    starlight86

    awesome!

  3. Jonny Avatar
    Jonny

    Hey Matt, go somewhere else if you don’t like this type of stuff. No one asked to hear that rude and arrogant comment.

  4. Joseph Avatar
    Joseph

    That’s messed up, Matt. Get a grip, dude.

    James, good stuff – both the art and the social commentary. Thanks for opening up with us!

  5. Luís Avatar
    Luís

    I liked very fantastic!

  6. Simon Page Avatar
    Simon Page

    It’s not one of James’ best bits of work but it is far from crap Matt! – and who can deny that font (personally couple of things I would change like I think it would look better with a dark blue background but that’s just nit picking).

    Good work James.

  7. Shelby White Avatar
    Shelby White

    Love the flares =)

  8. Brandon Fletcher Avatar
    Brandon Fletcher

    Hey James, in both my Graphic and Film work, I’m basically obsessed with authentic/analog looking lens flares, I’m curious as to where you get yours? Do you take pictures yourself? Or did you find them stock? or what? Greatly appreciated, I dig this.

    b

  9. smac Avatar
    smac

    awesome as always!

  10. Brent Avatar
    Brent

    yeah, I wouldn’t call this crap.

    Network is one of my favorite movies of all time, A must see for the movie buff.
    http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2295108096/tt0074958

  11. Daniel Avatar
    Daniel

    I like this work. I don’t always look at how complexed an artpiece is. Sometimes…well, most of the time, a simple artpiece is ‘greater’ than an ugly complexed advanced technical piece. I like this one. It’s just ‘great’!

  12. Wayne Avatar
    Wayne

    Ahh, I like it. that font is fantastic. Can’t seem to find it online. The only thing that sticks out to me that I can’t ignore is that little corner artifact floating in the lower region above the type to the right. I can’t tell if its supposed to be there or not. Which makes me always wonder back to it.

  13. Eric Avatar
    Eric

    Typeface looks like it could be Bookman Complete:

    http://www.veer.com/products/typedetail.aspx?image=JBT0000085#specimen

    Lookin’ good!

  14. loremipsum Avatar
    loremipsum

    Hi James , really cool work as always ,congrats

    I have one question tough , is that the default photoshop “world wide web” symbol from the custom shapes menu ?

    Erik thanks for the link , i was wondering for a while what that font was :)

    Matt , your comment is funny , rude but still funny :)

  15. james Avatar
    james

    Brandon, I typically search out natural lighting effects on the web then edit the photos to fit my needs. I have tried many times to create my own flares and lighting in Photoshop, but they consistently look synthetic. I search for things like headlights, eclipse, sunsets, street lamps, etc.

    Brent, good call. I’ve been meaning to watch Network for a long time. I think it’s time to rent :)

    Wayne, Eric is right. I use a mix of Bookman Regular and Bookman Swash in a lot of my pieces. I’m addicted to it’s presentability.

    Loremipsum, the globe in my piece was created by hand in Illustrator.

  16. Joseph Avatar
    Joseph

    Great idea for searching for stuff like headlights and street lamps. Makes more sense than just searching for “lense flares”.

  17. loremipsum Avatar
    loremipsum

    Hi James, sorry i didn’t mean to offend you
    I was just curios , it’s really similar to the default one and that’s why i asked

  18. Andy Avatar
    Andy

    heh, really weird lorem ipsum , the 2 symbols are really similar
    cool work james !

  19. jasper Avatar
    jasper

    i agree, this sucks!

  20. chad engle Avatar
    chad engle

    James looks good! What font is that I am totally diggin it! Looks amazing!

  21. james Avatar
    james

    Thanks Chad, the font is Bookman Swash. It’s a really fun typeface to work with, which is why I’ve been using it for everything lately :)

  22. Michael Scherrer Avatar
    Michael Scherrer

    holy fucking edgefest

  23. james Avatar
    james

    Michael, Edgefest? What do you mean?

  24. selling art online Avatar
    selling art online

    Nice Article. Well said.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *