This book was created to expand on the idea of gentrification. I wanted to compare and contrast this idea of new versus old through an interactive coloring book. The first part of this project was to go out and explore East Cesar Chavez. Then we were to go out a second time and take many photographs of a given area that was selected on a first come first serve. After gathering our photos we dropped them into box and the next assignment was to go out and explore the area once more only this time to keep in mind what kind of publication we wanted to showcase this given area. The art around East Cesar Chavez really stuck out to me because before this project I had not been around this area in awhile. Being born and raised here in Austin I grew up playing sports and there is a baseball field not too far from East Cesar Chavez and we would from time to time pass through here and as I returned to this area for this project I was really surprised as to how drastically the area and buildings around the area had changed. There seemed to be a lot more businesses and this new wave of a creative class taking over this general area. So I split my book up into two sections which again was this idea of new versus old. I gathered all my images and made sure to photograph a good chunk of business that had been there longer and those businesses who were new to the area and re-drew them using the wacom tablet in illustrator. Although re-creating the images was a long process I was really impressed with the outcome of my book.

This assignment was to create five gifs that represented or revealed some aspect of East Cesar Chavez. We were to go out and take as many photos of a given area or street and with all the photos you were to create gifs that reflected the dynamics of East Austin. This area in Austin is one of the areas that has changed rapidly causing a new wave of people to reside in this area and in which in some cases caused others to flee due to things such as costs driving a lot of people who grew in this area out. 17

This gif was made based on the influence of the culture on E. Cesar Chavez. There was a mural that had the Mexican bingo game, Loteria, painted on the wall and to express the idea of gentrification and the view of the dynamics changing around that area the vines represent this idea of East Austin growing out of what it once use to be. And the use of the eye in the middle of the hand is to emphasis the idea of the view changing overtime.

This gif is also based on the idea of gentrification. Driving around East Cesar Chavez you can tell which houses have been there for awhile and which ones have been altered or remolded with the new wave of people coming into this area. So to emphasis that I used a change in the color of the house to convey the change of the style of houses.

As you wonder around East Cesar Chavez you can see how artistic this area is. Just about every other corner has some kind of art piece on the wall. And in some cases the newer businesses coming into this area have used art to lure customers. And to show the artistic side of East Cesar Chavez I re-created a still poster to have motion.

This gif was created in terms of revealing the use of color and how one subtle change in this area can change the feeling and setting of East Cesar Chavez. The recent and newer businesses have chose to use a pop of color and different artistic tactics such as murals to attract customers. And this specific tactic helps differentiate which business have been there longer. A lot of the older businesses tended to be gated off and ran through houses instead of an actual building.

This gif was created to place a greater emphasis on the idea of gentrification occurring in East Austin. The pictures revealed are of houses being rebuilt or in the process of being remolded. The variation of house colors and styles are rapidly changing in this area and I wanted to convey that through this way of revealing what’s underneath East Cesar Chavez.