In my graduating year at high school in my art class we had to have a theme and I chose U2 songs.. I did a couple that turned out pretty well, and some that didn't..
I was going to do "love like a screaming flower dying every hour" from So Cruel, but it didn't get past sketch stage, though I think it could be really cool.
I did WTSHNN as a person in darkness at one side of the page reaching his hand through into a bright light on the other side with shards of glass spraying out.
Running to stand still was a big pair of marker eyes with very abstract seven towers in the background and then I tried to do a version of the junkie-bono from when they do it live on the zootv tour, except as a girl... i was never happy with the figure, but the rest was pretty cool.
mothers of the disappeared was black soldiers taking a young ghostly looking man away into the night forest, that one worked pretty well.
I tried to do bad, but it sucked, and I won't discuss it here
I think that song has huge potential though, but it's tricky... I think the key would be to somehow show a lot of turmoil in an unchanging person or non-descript entity
I tried to do Please sorta based on the video.. with a surreal black and white street that got more distorted as it went on (streets capsizing, spilling over down the drain), with people lying dead along the street and the silhouettes of two men with briefcases walking up the street (you could only feel your own pain). I was going to do the girl with the sign that said "please" hanging roudn her neck, but it didn't quite work out. The only colour in the painting was blood on the street and an Irish flag in the background, though the girl probly would have been in colour. It was a potentially good idea (I thought), but it didn't turn out as well as I would have liked.
The best one was Bullet the Blue Sky, which was a silhouette of a fighter jet in front of a scene of mayhem and destruction and the sky in the background had a hint of an american flag, but the stars were crooked and falling down. I wish i had a pic i could post of it... my class voted it best individual work of the show
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So that's some ideas... I've had some other ones and there's a lot of songs that I thought would be really cool to do... A Sort of Homecoming, for instance (though I wrote a story based on that song in the end), Stay, Zooropa, Walk To The Water, Wake Up Dead Man. I just tried to take the tone of the song and some of the lyrics and combine it into something, sometimes with better results than others.
There's a lot there, and much of it is abstract enough to do with it what you like, I recommend listening to the songs and just letting your imagination run wild.
Good luck!
skeek all good, but I love your initial sketch, the movement in it.
