New Files added

For several projects: Subversive add, intellectual montage, website revamp, and more.

Intellectual Montage version 3

A few things really annoyed me at the time of creation., so I went back and fixed them.

Watch on YouTube

The old video is still linked below.

(Update Premiere Project File)

AVT 307 - Final Project

Burning Man Semester Reflection
A combination work of all my classes Fall 2011.

Final Project

Burning Man Art Tour 2011

This has been floating around in my head.

Website Make-Over

A Day in the Life of the President (as Seen Through the Internet)


(UPDATE: Added Master.png file for the graphics. Open in Fireworks for best results)

Subversive Ad

This is the subversive ad assignment version 2.

Occupying and attempting to take over Iraq would have been a "bad idea" and "quagmire," Cheney said in a C-SPAN interview on April 15, 1994.

C-SPAN Interview

What changes a few short years later? 

Was Iraq more of a threat in 2003 than in 1994?

I feel new business interests were partially to blame.

He could use all his influence and Zombie Sith Lord power to help new companies!

(UPDATE: New File Added! Illustrator File - Cheney.ai)

Hyperlink Narrative

The illusion that it's your choice.

Hyperlink Narrative Project

Stop Motion, Go

This assignment was Stop-Motion. No story was required. The only requirement was we transformed one object into another. Minimum 20 seconds(ish) and 15 frames per second (fps) or better.

I feel this project was successful even though the first sequence is less than 15 fps, the second half is 24 fps. I also wasn't aware it needed to go along with my audio mash-up, so I adapted music as it went along in editing.

I have a green-screen colored fabric and I had not used it before so I added that element into the filming. I followed Oliver Stones creative lead in trying to use a more psychological background on two of the backgrounds, one for story telling element, and one background was to sell the location.

I had also never done any mic recording, so I tried that too for this project. I had actually made a full character-based sound track, 7 characters, and decided it wasn't doing the story any favors. So that is when I matched it to a single track that I squished to fit the story in a rhythmic story-telling fashion. I left in only sound effects and left in 2 voice tracks.

Enjoy!

(UPDATE: Premiere Project File)

Assignment AVT 280: Audio Mash-up

My first thought was to mash something you might not expect together. Initially Mos Def and Metallica came to mind but I was having issues getting rid of sound that wasn't Mos Def's Voice. I don't know enough about it to knock it out easily. I fell back to two tracks I had that were instrumental and acapella.

That is the first track, Eminem's vocals from "Without Me" and the music from Xzibit's "X". It was working but was still messy. Em's singing style is really slick and his songs are often complex (Thanks Dre). Xzibit's track in comparison was easier to work with for what I knew at the time.

Audio Mash-up #1

The second track grew from my desire to do something with more meaning. If I was going to spending time on it, why not make it something interesting to me. I was having a hard time cutting Martin Luther King Jr's speech. I got the speech from 17 minutes edited down to 4 minutes, including taking out his normal speaking cadence to truncate length. and seem more like a rap song.

Audio Mash-up #2 (Martin Luther King Jr)

Assignment AVT 280: Kushlov Effect

This is the Kushelov effect in action. It is not as good as it could be because the face is excited about exciting things (too obvious) and there wasn't as much varied backgrounds as possible. I learned that people can and will fill in the gaps with their mind based solely on what they see and its own context. This can be a powerful tool to create story and convey emotion.

Video Here

Assignment AVT 280: Intellectual Montage

(For this video please see above (December 13th post) version 2 or Click Here for Version 3)

This video is about the continued war in Iraq. The loses, confusion, and cost have been greater than we would have imagined. May our brothers and sisters come home safely.

Assignment AVT 280: Prinicples of New Media

Principles of New Media:

Numerical Representation
{(3, 5), (0, -4), (2, -3)} (Vector Triangle)

Modularity
I am leading the creation of an artwork that was designed to be modular. This was a critical element for what it would have to go through. I knew, while designing it, it would have to be build, taken apart, rebuilt, and then moved again. There are only main 4 building-pieces in the work, repeated.

It comes apart into 30 pieces or, with less work, 9 pieces for movement. Give its size of 15 feet (4.8m) tall, 22 feet (6.7m), and 30 feet (9.1m) deep. There is also a wall around the piece, made up of the same 3 pieces, repeated. The wall is 128 feet (39m) long and 10 feet tall (3m).

Automation
Luckily the computer does all sorts of otherwise hard things in a matter of seconds. Like in Photoshop! Yay Photoshop.

Variability
Customizable from data sources, creating multiple UI from the same data, scalability.

Transcoding
0010 0101 0100 0110 0010 0001 0111 1001 0010 0101 0000 0101

Assignment AVT 280: Digital Montage

I created two as I was playing with different ideas and images.

"Manifest Destiny D'uex"

Israel has occupied Palestinian lands since 1967 and, while at the time they kept the lands as a buffer to violence, they began building houses for Israel's citizens on this occupied territory. Under the United Nations policies, these settlements considered illegal. The Israeli government calls these locations a "Natural Expansions;" however, the Palestinians feel differently and the continuation of this practice cause tension that break down peace talks between the neighbors.Undeterred by protests by Palestinians and some Israelis, Israel keeps building new settlements which causes more fighting, more blood shed, and destroys the stability of these societies. A fools bargain.

"Peace Is Necessary"

This was created as a graphic message using a particularly graphic image around the circle. Peace is not only needed and favorable, but it is necessary. There has been enough death and instability in the region for this hundred and the next hundred years. War is is unsustainable and a non-peaceful solution will become increasingly complicated as other countries and the United Nations are forced to get involved.

Hello, World. This is your Captain speaking. We'll be arriving at 36,000 feet eventually, but it there is a lot of crap out there and the ride isn't always going to be smooth. Keep your chin up and move forward.