Visual Culture Paper

Music and Art relate to each other a lot when you think about what you need for either one. Inspiration, time, creativity, composition are just a few elements you need for both. Music is art in the sense that it can inspire others, it can reflect the artist's or the viewers thoughts and opinion, it provokes emotion, similar creative process, and either can use words, or a lack of words, for a strong message.

Jordan Buckley is an artist and musician from West Seneca, New York. The band he's in is named Every Time I Die, and he plays guitar but also does all of their album art, he makes clothing designs, draws on shoes, makes prints for tour, draws banners and other materials for other bands, and drawings for personal use ad sale as well.

one pair of the many vans he has drawn on...

a t shirt design for ferret music.

Every Time I Die's newest tour print.

guitar he drew on to give away...

Those are just a few examples of his latest work. I love the incorporation of music and his personal style. I'd like to incorporate music as a theme in my work because it is often my inspiration. Music evokes emotion just like art does, I just get inspired by music easier. Relating to music is easier, in my opinion, because you can read and interpret the artist's thoughts easier then to look at a drawing and know what the artist was thinking or feeling.

For Every Time I Die's latest record, Jordan drew a piece for each song after reading the lyrics his brother, singer Keith Buckley, wrote. Some of the drawings are easy to figure out where the inspiration came from, such as...

"can't run anymore tour"

...this horse is a drawing in the book that comes in their new CD. A lot of the images he drew for the latest album are in a video they made that I'm going to post. These drawings are animated in the video but are actual drawings he did before they put them on the computer for this video.

"Wanderlust"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aKIpMl3Xh8