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Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Tai Chi & Manikin
Alright, so this is my final video piece for my college career. Basically I made what you see here as an opportunity to further my editing skills for a demo DVD to use when applying for jobs in the future.
So, thats about that. Watch it.
- Tai Chi - This is an exploration into the concepts of Tai Chi where you are attempting to use the form to find a sense of peace and generally push away all of the world's distractions. The heart beat is what I thought would be Tai Chi's natural music as the swirling/wooshing sounds are the sound of the Earth (that being that the Earth emits frequencies that we cannot hear, the recording is actually a recording of outer space). Everything else is the sound of the world around you which you are attempting to tune out. Another thing with this video is the fact that everything is blurry until the end where things are clearer. Again, this is to represent a change from distraction by the modern world to a state of calm.
- Manikin - So this whole thing is really just a cheesy little narrative that I made to attempt the voice over thing as well as to establish more areas of development in editing. There really wasn't much of a concept here except for "little guy in big world" so don't go trying to find some meaning here as its pretty blatant.
So, thats about that. Watch it.
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Saturday, April 22, 2006
Love/Stink
Using a quaint tool called "Say What" I was able to animate the animate without mouths using some Diesel Sweeties sytle speech bubbles.
In light of speech bubbles, I think there is a great deal of possiblities for their application into other things than comics. Speech bubble telephones (I can't find the website right now, its a cellphone that is in the shape of a speech bubble that displays the name of the caller on the bubble area, if anyone can find it, send it to me)? Speech bubble public art?
Certainly there could be more uses for speech bubbles.
In any case, I wanted to capitallze on the fact that my foot says something that I typically say as Mollie's foot says something she typically says.
Thats all.
Monday, April 17, 2006
Please draw your attention to the sidebar
I have a new toy on ye ol' damn blog. Its my saved items on Google Reader. Its very fancy and should be read like you paid for my site to exist.
Go ahead and read it. Or don't, I can drop you like I dropped my Third Eye Blind cd. ¶ 4/17/2006 09:33:00 AM 0 comments
Go ahead and read it. Or don't, I can drop you like I dropped my Third Eye Blind cd. ¶ 4/17/2006 09:33:00 AM 0 comments
Friday, April 14, 2006
Xfire
After the weeks that arduously drew on and on trying to complete a music video for my Comm 383 class I have finally finished a long awaited project that has taken far too long to finish.
I had blamed my partner and I blamed myself for allowing him to step out of the responsibility of editing and shooting the damn thing. Now I don't feel so strange about this project. It is done and it is as good as it is going to get. Yet, I still watch it and notice that there are things that are still wrong and could use tweaking but I figure the internet is not home to perfection. If you do notice things working or appearing perfectly then its a miracle and is probably worth noting. Does that make for my own work to be marginalized with the rest of the moderate quality internet content? Its good, but its not great. Is that fair?
Well anyways, its been too long for this project to continue running its course on me, so I'll let you see it and just judge on your own its quality.
enjoy.
¶ 4/14/2006 03:32:00 PM 0 comments
I had blamed my partner and I blamed myself for allowing him to step out of the responsibility of editing and shooting the damn thing. Now I don't feel so strange about this project. It is done and it is as good as it is going to get. Yet, I still watch it and notice that there are things that are still wrong and could use tweaking but I figure the internet is not home to perfection. If you do notice things working or appearing perfectly then its a miracle and is probably worth noting. Does that make for my own work to be marginalized with the rest of the moderate quality internet content? Its good, but its not great. Is that fair?
Well anyways, its been too long for this project to continue running its course on me, so I'll let you see it and just judge on your own its quality.
enjoy.
¶ 4/14/2006 03:32:00 PM 0 comments
Sunday, April 02, 2006
Laundry of Greyskull
So, have you ever smelled the scent of decade, or more, old action figures? The decay of plastic that has been through many children's hands, rolled in dirt, sand or grass and most defiantly played with in the bathtub. If you know the smell then I congratulate you for your tenure as a child who had the opportunity to entertain oneself with plastic toys that must have smelt of new cars, or something much like it when they were freshly released from their $8.00 enclosure.
Now that I have refreshed your memories of days gone by, I want to draw your attention to my pants. The pants I am wearing right now, at this moment. Not sitting at the computer in my underwears or naked, no, not at all.
Back to my pants. My pants, for whatever reason only known by the contents of a bottle of detergent with bleach, have taken upon the smell of what I remember my brother's He-Man action figures to smell like. How da fuck did dis happen?
The problem with this is not so much the smell, as I am likely to be someone who isn't offended by it. Rather, my olfactory centers are peeved primarily because I put these particular jeans in the wash to purge the putrid smell of tobacco smoke that permeated them from last Friday when I partook in some partying with Dave, Forest and Steve. Now they smell like the stale funk of action figures. Also, you should know that the bottle said that it was scented "Mountain Fresh" which I suppose what they really mean is a fresh pile of old toys. Not all of my laundry reeks at the same degree as my jeans, although I suspect that is because jeans are denser than t-shirts and underwears.
So, how do I end this? Should I say, "buy this detergent, it makes you smell like decrepit Ninja Turtles"? Or should I just say, "don't use dat shizz"? Really, I feel like I should say both but I actually want to say that my jeans just smell like crap.
Crap. The scent of my pants. ¶ 4/02/2006 01:26:00 PM 0 comments
Now that I have refreshed your memories of days gone by, I want to draw your attention to my pants. The pants I am wearing right now, at this moment. Not sitting at the computer in my underwears or naked, no, not at all.
Back to my pants. My pants, for whatever reason only known by the contents of a bottle of detergent with bleach, have taken upon the smell of what I remember my brother's He-Man action figures to smell like. How da fuck did dis happen?
The problem with this is not so much the smell, as I am likely to be someone who isn't offended by it. Rather, my olfactory centers are peeved primarily because I put these particular jeans in the wash to purge the putrid smell of tobacco smoke that permeated them from last Friday when I partook in some partying with Dave, Forest and Steve. Now they smell like the stale funk of action figures. Also, you should know that the bottle said that it was scented "Mountain Fresh" which I suppose what they really mean is a fresh pile of old toys. Not all of my laundry reeks at the same degree as my jeans, although I suspect that is because jeans are denser than t-shirts and underwears.
So, how do I end this? Should I say, "buy this detergent, it makes you smell like decrepit Ninja Turtles"? Or should I just say, "don't use dat shizz"? Really, I feel like I should say both but I actually want to say that my jeans just smell like crap.
Crap. The scent of my pants. ¶ 4/02/2006 01:26:00 PM 0 comments