Touch of Evil: Mia Wasikowska

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schedule of events

Thursday:

black box:
nicole
katie
natalie (videos)
jenny
jasmine

(i will open the black box for installation at 6pm tomorrow. be ready to install.)

Tuesday:

black box:
obi
josh

yon:
cristina
natalie (books)
percy
julia
(i will open yon at 6pm monday evening so that you guys can start setting up.)

Living Books About Life

a great source for some source content.
all free and online.

http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/

warning: EYELID SURGERY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPEcdcmnAA0&feature=player_embedded

I've been trying to remember the format for this assignment, and I don't really remember it all. I know there were three things....gah.

My first project is going to be a stack of books. The books will be every book I have ever read in my life (or as close to that as possible). it's just going to be one stack of books with all the books I can remember reading, probably in chronological order with the first books of the bottom and the most recently read books on the top. It is like an indirect self portrait, my readings as I grow up. Some things I'm exposed to. There will be a lot. The viewers should realize what they have read in their past is a lot too, and that if it isn't, they are missing out. I guess.

The second project is pretty simple. I'm going to video tape myself drive my car as I drive until all the gas in my tank runs out. It'll probably be maybe a.....six hour video at least. The tapes will be in one hour segments (hopefully). I want to display them separately on different screens, one for each hour. I'm excited. Just driving in one direction. Hopefully I wont be alone for the drive.

twenty five

1. plexi kissing honey
2. plexi spitting out milk onto it
3. gallon challenge
4. sawing cypress
5. shaving face
6. shaving head
7. sandpaper inside clothes
8. shoes on nails
9. pillows filled with red feathers dropping feathers
10. rolling back and forth in honey
11. wear a sweater and snag it through a small corridor of nails
12. paint with horse tail
13. mimic horse
14. paint body as navajo
15. wear sequins and spin
16. run back and forth through room till exhaustion
17. blow bubbles all day
18. hang self on wall for a day (like a painting) not creepy
19. be pushed on wheelchair experience
20. braid my hair into horse hair
21. sit in circle of dirt
22. run with horses
23. bike ride on stairs
24. chew food with mouth open
25. creepy family photo

Monday lecture

The Authorship of Revolution & Mass Communications.

Paris, 1968 by Victoria H.F. Scott

October 31^st, 2011. 6pm.

The lecture on Monday was “The Authorship of Revolution & Mass Communications” by Emory University professor Victoria H.F. Scott. One of the main topics was Cultural Revolution, political revolution, and the difference between the two. “The confusion between culture and politics are what culture revolutions are all about”. She stated that before it became associated with China, Cultural Revolution was mostly in Russia. She mentioned many names of people that contributed to the events of 1968 in Paris, like Alexander Bogdanov, who opposed the government from a Marxist point of view. Even though the protest of 1968 was a political failure, it had an enormous social effect that gave way to anarchy and liberal thoughts. “Revolution is the highest form of creation, the re-creation of the animate matter of the social organism” was a quote she stated. She also talked about the manipulative way of the media and the popular belief that there is such thing as “unmanipulated truth” because there is no unmanipulated writing, filming or broadcasting. However, the important thing is not what is manipulated but who manipulates it, which brings forth the issue of authorship and how all of us as authors are actually manipulators. “The author has now become the producer”, something that was impossible in 1968 mainly because of the technology we now have, and now we face the political effect that this will have in art.

She also talked about how in 1967 the government still controlled what was played on TV and the radio with messages such as “sorry the revolution will not be televised” because “to let people imagine the idea of revolution is to let revolution happen”, and a battle to control what TV played began in 1968.

However, as Jean Baudrillard said, the media was the message because “Not only is their destiny far from revolutionary; the media are not even, somewhere else or potentially, neutral or non-ideological”, therefore, the media does not work as a revolutionary protest.

She also showed a lot of graffiti and posters (“the most revolutionary form of communication during May” because they were unmediated) that were a way for students and protesters to express their opinions about the government. Overall, the lecture was very confusing because she gave unnecessary complicated explanations, used complex words and French names every 5 seconds, and I don’t think anyone understood a lot of the things she said. 

projects for natalie

http://teamgal.com/artworks/880

http://www.theageofmammals.com/secret/readinglist/books.html

final project idea.. were we supposed to post the mashup of 3 different ideas as well?

Anyways for my final project, my idea is to interview and some how get some behind the scenes footage at subway. Subway has basically taken over my life and is the topic of many of my conversations (sadly). My co-workers and I have an infinite amount of stories and complaints that are quite hilarious. And of course people will mention what they do love about working at subway (hahahaha). Each interviewee will remain anonymous by being taped only from the neck down, they will be wearing a subway uniform minus their name tag (i don't want them getting in trouble if this video gets out somewhere). Not sure yet if I'll modify their voices. This is just my basic idea, it will probably evolve once I get going.

Final Project LKSFJLSDKfjsdfadsmreow

So for my final project I'm going to do a collection of mini projects relating to clothing and self. Clothing is an interesting subject because it's such a huge part of culture and labeled as a necessity. I was originally going to do an experiment every day, but now might shorten it to at least four days a week. I'm want to bring attention to clothing and how people react to unusual clothing options, for example wearing mismatching clothing or multiple, unnecessary layers.

ideas for final project

Ideas for final project
1. maybe i could combine #1 and #2 on my list. The animals could be playing with a ball made of many beautiful feathers and focus on the visual organic appeal of the object.
2. i could combine #9, #10 and focus on the concept of people and/or animals in places they wouldn't normally be.
3. i could combine #4, #6, #13, #17, #19 and #22 and focus on the concept of human parts and their functions, including smiling, talking, walking, blinking, kissing, laughing, screaming...
4. i could combine #11 and #12 and focus on the reaction of people when someone does something unexpected and/or unusual.
5. i could combine #16 and #18 and focus on "the passing of time"

Project Ideas

1. spin in a circle for 2 minutes and then run in a line.
2. send my neighbor a letter everyday signed by a secret admirer.
3. instead of speaking, only communicate through drawing for a day.
4. instead of speaking, only communicate through writing for a day.
5. have a funeral for all of the shitty artwork people have made. Invite art majors to join in and bring their unsuccessful work.
6. send a disposable camera to a stranger with instructions to use it up and return it.
7. set out ceramic cups with instructions to use them and pass them on. track them somehow.
8. make a sculpture of my family out of found objects that relate to the family member.
9. make a self portrait out of my favorite foods. eat the entire thing as a performance.
10. make a time capsule. record the making and hiding of it.
11. make a documentary about my friends lives
12. video of bored people.
13. video of angry people.
14. montage of clips from horror movies.
15. montage of clips from a certain type of commercial
16. make a commercial for a made up fantastical product.
17. paint really bad portraits for people.
18. make a cartoon of my day.
19. put strange ads on craigslist and document the replies and present them.
20. recreate stories on video
21. recreate childhood home videos/memories by creating sets and acting them out.
22. recreate family photos using sets that I create. photograph/video tape them.
23. animate a book I like.
24. animate a kids book that I used to like.
25. make a memorial for all of my dead pets.

25 ideas

1. no shave november

2. stripper barbie stop motion

3. push someone to the limit- nitpick them until they snap

4. living color- you can only wear and eat one color for an entire week, a color a day ROYGBIV

5. how someone sees you- survey of people you know and first impressions of how they view you

6. collection of how much time on facebook and how long you're there

7. chart grocery products and who they're owned by- less variety than we think

8. taking pictures of people on campus and making diagram of stereotypes

9. wear same clothes for a week

10. change single detail about self (eyebrows? bleaching?) a little each day and see when people notice

11. have fake injury and tell people different story of how it happened to each person who asks

12. taking picture of people and their technology and how they relate (phone, computer, computer background, etc.)

13. find similarities between genre of movies and mash all together

14. analyze princess movies- what does your favorite disney princess say about you and what you want out of a relationship

15. color and sound video- morphing and flexing colors and music complimenting it

16. being blunt for a day and how the creates problems

17. comparison of how society functions today and how used to function- how much we eat in comparison

18. add extra layer of clothing everyday

19. wear all clothing you own (or as much as you can stuff on) for a dayish?

20. how much trash you make in a day. a week.

21. being loud in a quiet space

22. what do you have to sacrifice to do nothing in a day? catch up work and losing out on live experience?

23. forcing to watch or be surrounded by media 24hrs- watching commercials for 24hrs? what do you want to buy? what are you sick of?

24. not allowed to go inside for a day

25. videorecord an entire day of your life- edit it according to how long each moment really felt- slowed down, quickened pace, garbled voices or conversations you dont remember

Possible Final Project Idea

As a final project, I would like to explore with Adobe After Effects and make a strictly, text-only, kind of Public Service Announcement based on the very serious and touchy topic of teen pregnancy and abortion. I plan on getting the text from the lyrics of a rap song I really like and touched me a lot from the first time I heard it. It definitely wasn't a typical rap song that I heard. It had much more depth and meaning than the ordinary raps of car, clothes, money, and hoes. Since I have never delved into After Effects, I am taking the risk of utilizing a program I don't have experience with but I hope taking the risk will have a positive effect on my grade. Without risk, there's no reward, right? Maybe I could make it into a mini-documentary too. IDK. To go even further, I like the idea of movie mash-up so maybe I could get different clips dealing with abortion/teen pregnancy and integrate with the text. Like side by side scrolling next to each other. I guess my goal would be to educate people about the issue and motivate them to keep their child.

EPIC MOVIE- Title and release date pending! Stay Tuned!

DESCRIBE: I want to create an advertisement for my own epic blockbuster... about the daily life of anyone who really could be anywhere at anytime. In other words, create a really awesome looking trailer for a movie that has to be anything but. I want to use epic voice overs, but low quality images.

I will create even more promotional material for this movie; a poster, website, and maybe even swag advertising the movie and it's release date. Actually; the movie could end up without much of a trailer and focus more on these promotions.

It's the best movie ever about nothing in particular.

CONCEPT: With this project i want to criticize the modern entertainment industry while reveling in the power of film to make basically anything seem a certain way.

I've noticed that as i've gotten older, I've gotten more jaded in respect to mainstream blockbusters. They seem to get airer all the time: all flash and no thought. All dazzle and no soul. A few movies that come to mind are "Avatar," the sequel "Transformers" movies, and the quickly-becoming-the-most-abused-genere-ever super hero movies like "Captain America." They have become so hackneyed they are hardly even fun anymore... I want to express my disgust with this. Hollywood's just so stagnent. They make so many movies about nothing.

I also love how film can change the meaning of images with sound, edits, and cuts. I want to play around with that power and make something boring seem exciting!

In terms of connecting to history and the art world at large, dada comes to mind (meaninglessness) and Matthew Barney (he created art films that can be considered blockbusters in their own right- but for real, not as a joke) and this http://www.0100101110101101.org/home/unitedwestand/intro.html which Budd so kindly pointed out to me.

GOALS: To have fun with this, for one, and learn more about video editing.

I want to expose the absurdity of what we accept as "entertainment." I want to express my frustration with the entertainment industry today. I also want to reveal the power of film to alter reality. I want to make whats boring and commonplace exciting!

Ideas

1- Post the end of the semester faculty reviews in the University Gallery.

2-Hide something in the Jim Drain exhibition.

3-Replace info plaques at the Harn with arbitrary facts.

4-Photograph series of dirty dishes.

5-Fill a teddy bear with diamonds and send it to a stranger.

6-Make a fur umbrella.

7-Embed a cork tree with wine corks.

8-Embed a cork tree with jewels.

9-Paint a chainsaw t look like a penis.

10-Make dinner wear that looks like breast.

11-Fill a bench in a waiting room with whoopie cushions.

12-Make a tower out of phonebooks from every resident in the city of Gainesville.

13-Make a tongue water fountain.

14-Place a silicone mold of a mouth over a public drinking fountain.

15-Pretend you are invisible.

16-Make the Mona Lisa out of popsicle sticks.

17-Call Jeff Koons and tell him he is boring.

18-Send Michelle Bachman a sausage.

19-Play hand clap games in a giant circle comprised of every student in the art department.

20-Make a nativity scene out of butter.

21-Film someone eating the nativity scene.

22-Draw a picture of Budd.

23-Make a documentary about Gainesville thrifters.

24-Act out a Martha Rosler film.

25-Make a chair out of bike inner tubes.

ideas

1.     I’ve always been interested in feathers and the different combinations of colors they have. One idea could be to make a video of a person flying covered in feathers (with Photoshop).

2.     Get an object that is visually attractive and indestructible, give it to many different animals, and film their reactions to it.

3.     A video of animals acting like humans (dogs skateboarding, etc…)

4.     Go to Disney and take pictures of people smiling

5.     Make a road trip and film the signs and cars

6.     A video of babies talking

7.     Video of flowing water (lakes, ocean, toilet, washer, etc…)

8.     Green screen video of a person camouflaging its body in different places

9.     Video of gainesville’s invasion of squirrels, miami’s invasion of ducks, and the keys’ invasion of chickens.

10.  A video of a baby monkey in different places

11. a video of me pointing at strangers with a wand and saying “expelliarmus”

12. a video of me stopping strangers n the streets to shake their hands

13.  a video of feet walking around

14.  a video of weird-looking people (in Miami beach, Disney, etc…)

15.  video of a magical forest (colorful cats on tree branches, talking squirrels…)

16. a video about waiting (people waiting for a bus, waiting for the light to change…)

17. video of many clips of parts of the body (eyes blinking, feet tapping…)

18. pictures of places during the day and at night

19. go to chucky cheese’s and film kids sugar high

20. video of shadows

21. video of lights

22. go to a concert and film people screaming

23. video of hands painted as animals

24. video of animals walking towards my camera

25. video of breaking things

Idea Party: 25 Ideas

1.) Ordinary Horror Movie: A movie about the super boring crap everyone does (brushing teeth, showering, taking a poo, ect) but with horror movie style suspense. Flickering lights, tense violin strings, creepy shadows… all spicing up the daily chores of ordinary life. Explores mood setting, studies the mundane in a new light.

2.) Gaming Hands and Faces: Record people playing video games: get simultaneous shots of their faces, hands and the on screen action. A new look at gaming and how it affects (or doesn’t) our bodies. Problem: need three or more cameras, nobody would keep a straight face.

3.) Graffiti Penis: Record all the penis graffiti I see. The scrotum is one of the most popular images for people to scribble on walls and in books. A collection of these images would be hilarious and also something of a sad critique of our culture.

4.) Bike Cam: Strap a camera to me bike and let it record while I ride.

5.) Beautiful Decay: Create a painting out of perishable food and take a photo of it each day; the result is a slowly decaying work of art.

6.) Movie Mash up: Bring together scenes from very different movies to create a single weird narrative.

7.) Commercial fun: Splice together a bunch of commercials, looking for similarities.

8.) Movie advertisements: Create a looping film of the “sweeping aerial view” shoots that are so common in movie ads. Could also combine more clichés of movie ads for one big movie.

9.) Unfitting Music: Play unfitting music for a various clips to change the meaning.

10.) Epic Movie Ad: Create a totally epic movie advertisement for my boring ass life.

11.) Booger Sculpture: Make a sculpture out of boogers. Nasty and I would never do this but it’s an idea.

12.) Turlington Creeper: Hand out fake fliers at Turlington that say something completely bizarre. Record. How often do you get rejected?

13.) Push the Button: Create a complex sculpture where there is a button on the wall. If you push it, something different will play on a screen every time. Not sure what though.

14.) Bike beatification: Go around and paint everyone’s bike that’s hooked to a bike rack. Record. You’re a total dick for doing this.

15.) Super Market Adventures: Set up hidden cameras in wal-mart, target, and k-mart if you can find one. Leave it there for a few days. Then take it back. Ask people if they can tell the stores apart. Sort of like people of walmart, only it’s art.

16.) Sequel to “Creature”: I had more for Creature but I ran out of time and energy to do it… I could use my unused ideas in “Creature 2.”

17.) Chickens discuss the meaning of life: Back home me and my sister have two bantam hens. They live in a rabbit hutch on the back porch. They could have a deep discussion on the meaning of their pitiful, smelly existence. Kind of depressing, but also funny.

18.) Mouse Adventures: A stop motion with my computer mouse. It roams the world, and using the arrow in real life to move around windows, send things to the trash, and just click carelessly around it wrecks havoc on the world. Could also be purely a flash animation.

19.) Interview people about poop: If an artists takes a poo and calls it art, is it really art? Ask the average joe about this and watch their reactions. Then tell them people have actually made fine art out of poo. Reveal huge disconnect between contemporary art world and the real world.

20.) Make art out of poo: Just that. Use poo to make some shity art.

21.) Tree paper: Tear bark off of tress; glue it together to make an 8.5 by 11 sheet of “organic paper.” Proceed to write and draw on it. Maybe get audience to write on it.

22.) Peanut Butter: Make a sculpture or painting or stop motion or something out of peanut butter. I’m hungry.

23.) Pencil shavings: Try to draw pictures with pencil shavings instead of pencils.

24.) Game playing game: Design a video game in which you play as a person playing a video game. GAMECEPTION.

25.) Ctrl-z: Make a movie about a world in which people can undo anything they want just by pushing ctrl-z.

25 ideas

25 ideas
1. Spinning around in a chair until you can’t (in the center of a room)
2. Stealing more tomato signs
3. Running around in a room throwing popcorn all over the floor
4. Letting water drop through the ceiling to make a puddle
5. Making your friends run around a house naked and take photos of them running
6. Video of exploding glass in slow motion. To funny music
7. Cut off people’s hair and sticking the ends to a board. Then each inch is another person’s hair. Let the other ends dangle.
8. Make a silent commercial. For toothpaste. Or cars. Or condoms.
9. A display of Chinese water torture
10. Go to Disney and take pictures of tourists taking pictures
11. Pin up any post cards of Santa at the beach or in Alaska (like on vacation) and cover a wall at least seven feet. It has to be overwhelming
12. Tye dye socks and underwear and pin them up for all to see
13. decorate a bunch of lampshades and install them on the wall with the top facing out
14. Measure exactly how far your car can go in one tank of gas. And have it run out. Document.
15. Steal the keys of the janitor and go in every dorm and clean it. And snoop. Take pictures of interesting things.
16. Shoot a gun. And then run. Of course videotaping it.
17. Plan a flash mob. A Chinese fire drill. At a big light. Maybe archer and 34th.
18. Eat poprocks on a rollercoaster. And then drink soda. Maybe refer to the first idea?
19. Drink super concentrated koolaid (each color) and take pictures of pee. Hopefully they’re different colours. haha
20. Stack every book you’ve ever read onto a scale
21. Keep one of those pins that squirt water and take pictures every time you surprise someone.
22. Dangle balls from the ceiling and turn on loud music to move them to the bass, vibrating
23. Time how long it takes to write this paper,( or two more ideas)
24. Get my nose or lip pierced and tape me telling my mom. Then take it out.
25. Have a contest on who can stand on one foot the longest. The winner gets pushed down anyway.

25 Project Ideas

1. Six Degrees of Drunkenness
“Mockumentary” featuring the types of drunks: such as happy, angry, and sleepy.
2. Shapeshifting Parkour
Person in green jumpsuit runs around campus and downtown doing flips and shit. Green jumpsuit will be chroma keyed in Final Cut Pro and replaced with shapeshifting abstract patterns
3. Flash Mob Compilation
A collage of flash mob videos to create one huge virtual flash mob or perhaps the title.
4. Surveillance/Voyeur Live Facebook
Crowds of people and passerbys doing ordinary things. However, text pops up above them in 3D as a live status update.
5. StompClap Live Music
Video of people stomping and clapping to create rhythm. However, instead of having the actual sounds project out, actual instrumentals and percussions will project out.
6. Beer Pong Portal
Players throw ping-pong balls into red cups. Instead of the cups having a “bottom,” the cups turn out to be portals leading to actual red cups. Akin to playing mini golf.
7. Reverse Sobriety
Reversed clip of an alcoholic’s night, focusing on the sobering process. Split screen to a parallel metaphor.
8. Apples and Oranges
Stop motion of apples and oranges having a battle on the kitchen counter. Would involve lots of “air” shots.
9. Synchronized Man and Music
Ambiguous take on daily life and how routine actions create a music-box song…or maybe how a music-box song creates routine actions.
10. Real-Time Inebriation
Spoof of “Real-Time Inception” YouTube video. Shows how time passes by for a sober person, tipsy person, drunk person, and a passed-out person.
11. How to Create Video Art
DIY video of how to create the ultimate video art. Includes step-by-step instructions on music and editing.
12. Cooking Grades
A cooking show spoof involving recipes on how to make certain types of homework, and the nutritional facts (grades) that come along with it.
13. Replicating Insomnia
Narrative of how one sleepless art student begins to affect those around him, and how insomnia starts to turn into a “virus” during finals week.
14. White Noise
Starts off with black-and-white security footage of daily occurrences in a convenience store. Zooms out to view several B&W stock footage, before viewer realizes all the video clips create a white noise effect.
15. Falling Asleep
A person plops into a bed, but rather than landing on it, goes through it as if it was a portal/gateway. Several levels of person falling from sky/ceiling and going through sleeping bags, hammocks, etc, before ending up in black space in the fetal position.
16. Sleeping Bag Catapillar
Metamorphosis of a restless college student in a sleeping bag. Several stages of physical development, before finally coming out as a member of society.
17. Cardboard Skateboard
Stop motion of using cardboard cutouts shaped like skateboards, scooters, and segways in order to get across campus.
18. Nerf Gun Wars
Hip-hop music video involving kiddie alternatives to motifs such as guns, drugs, and cars (nerf guns, pez/candy, go-karts/cardboard cutouts respectively)
19. Green Screen Zero Gravity
Creating surreal environments through green screening. People in front of it would be suspended by green or blue string/yarn.
20. Animation Intro
Title sequence intro done through animation regarding a mock video entitled “Video Art” or ArtBash
21. Suicide Flashback
Moments before Cody Zuccari tries to commit suicide, a long flashback sequence is shown in reverse, split screened with forward-shown flashbacks of those around him.
22. Cardboard Turntable
A random turntable in the Architecture atrium appears. A regular student walks up and tries out the turntable. As he/she starts using the turntable, music bursts out and a lightshow starts being projected on the architecture building windows.
23. Time Lapse of Weight
A time lapse of a college student losing weight as work and social events consume most of his time and sleep.
24. Time Lapse of Gluttony
Time lapse clips of people eating at restaurants, specifically fast food and food considered to be unhealthy and hearty. Focuses on massive weight/amount of food ordered.
25. Telekinesis
One pill/injection from the UF Health Department gives a student telekinetic abilities, and uses it to entertain himself.

25 Project Ideas

1. Tin Garbage Man (made out of garbage/recyclable products)
2. Create a flipbook of your favorite childhood memories.**
3. Illustrate a book cover. (children's/adult/romance/chicken soup for the soul)
4. Illustrate a magazine cover. (Essence, Life, XX, National Geographic)
5. Illustrate a CD cover. (Beyonce, Eminem, Lupe Fiasco, The Fray)
6. Create a painting with ketchup, mustard, and mayo. (any dimensions)
7. Make a life-size toilet-paper mummy sculpture.
8. Create a self-portrait from newspaper clippings. (Find clippings that influence you)
9. Design a deck of cards (could be for Uno, Phase 10, or a totally new game)
10. Gum sculpture (only using Winterfresh & Strident gum)
11. Appropriated sound project. (only using stuff breaking like dishes)
12. Calendar with on the stuff you celebrate.
13. Various refrigerator magnets that yell at you tasks you are supposed to do around the house.
14. Detailed blueprints of an all-purpose backpack that transforms with you as you grow up.
15. Windshield wipers that attach to your glasses/shades for those rainy/foggy days or when you
step off the bus.
16. Poster advocating for more parking on campus.
17. Animal photo frame with the cutest animals in the world.
18. Greeting card series for the world's fattest person.
19. Painted mural for homecoming game.
20. Biodegradable creations (Sprite flowers, robot made up of cans of tomato paste)
21. Ceramic 3- layer cake (vanilla & chocolate)
22. New line of Beats headphones with full color customization.
23. Ceramic converse. (USA edition_red, white, and blue)
24. Stop motion about how all my food gradually disappears from my fridge.
25. PSA expressing the importance of a college education.

Final Project Rubric

out of 25 points

7 points for concept: clarity of intention (for a (ir)responsible and engaged audience

6 points for creativity: not typical/imaginative/making connections analytically/well-thought

6 points for technique: craft, fluidity (is not distracting from its goals), has an appropriate relation to concept

6 points for presentation: prepared and organized, thoughtfulness in regards to the experience, documentation (which should recreate the experience in some way, deny the experience completely, or teleologically manifest from the event as material)

(this is what we've decided on in class. if anyone has questions or further clarifications please add them in the comments. good luck!)

also this is the list of processes that we made in connection with making work:
1. think about stuff/ brainstorm
2. research materially and conceptually
3. create
4. edit
5. refine
5.5 export
5.6 reflect
6. present
7. CRIT/ get feedback

My Stop Motion Video

Sound

Not sure if you guys like pogo or not but his work reminds me of our sound project.

Burning a DVD

Hey guys, these are the steps that you'll take to burn your DVD. This DVD will be an information or data DVD rather than a video DVD. The files that you should have burned are: 1) The Grab Bag Project 2) The Sound Experiment 3) The Stop-Motion Animation.

In the Mac OS X Finder (10.1.2 or later)
1. Insert a blank DVD-R disc in the drive.
2. In the dialog box that appears, enter a name for the disc and choose the format you want to create. An icon for the DVD appears on the desktop.
3. Drag files and folders to the icon. The space available will not completely update until all items have been copied.
4. From the File menu, choose Burn Disc.

Requirements to burn data DVDs:

DVD-R capable drive
DVD-R media
Mac OS X 10.1.2 or later

Can't wait for the critique,
Budd

designing women

Riva Starr Feat. Noze - I Was Drunk (Official Video HD)

Sound Art Project

Close your eyes. Listen to the millions of sounds around you: the hum of a refrigerator, the dedication of an oscillating fan, footsteps suctioning to the dirty linoleum of a kitchen floor. The waving of papers and thin plastic interrupted by teh occasional gurgle of the coffeemaker struggling without water to percolate. There might be a drippy faucet in your kitchen. A small child talking or breathing. A roommate sneezing. Beyond the kitchen and traffic and birds outside, there is still no such thing as silence. Miles away I can hear your favorite song blasting from your earbuds and your fingers snapping a rhythm (when the silence is a drone with staccato notes). I hear my blood traveling the rivulets of slicked tubing (when the silence is water). I hear satellites passing overhead (the silence's piercing crescendo) and the supernova of a star on the opposite side of the universe (when the silence is fire).

Use archive.org's sound section or some itunes jams to appropriate sounds. Then, with the help of Audacity, mashup, destroy, rearrange, repattern the sounds you have collected into a shorter length listening piece. Export your piece as an MP3 or AIFF.

DUE: October 6th
Length: 0m30s - 10m00s

Stop motion test

I was playing with sculpey clay, and made a bunch like this but I liked this one the best.

The only problem with the clay is that it gets brittle over time, especially with exposure to air. The critters I made started to fall apart as I move them- as seen here.

Solutions:

Utilize the clay's brittleness as part of idea.

Use wire to support clay and allow for greater range of movement.

Use a different kind of clay.

I like this idea though, it's fun and relatively simple to work with, and easy to control.

Observation Assignment

If you are looking at the road I am laying on my back looking up at the branches of the fourth oak tree to the left of the right corner of the chain link fence of Norman field.
I am lying. I am laying. I lay.
I am in the shade of the fourth tree and the grass is prickly. Florida grass is always uncomfortable and filled with bugs, but I am laying in the shade looking at the sky relaxing and enjoying the view. It's too cold inside the computer lab because the techy people want to keep the computers comfortable. The sounds of traffic is monotone and the consistency of people walking down the sidewalk that I can hear talking on the cell phones makes me feel part of something alive.
There is a bird in the tree hopping from branch to branch either picking at bugs or finding supports for a new nest. The leaves and branches are veins against the bright blue sky. They weave and jut in any direction they please as if their unwinding from a tight core. They stretch and twist across the sky and I mimic them on the ground with my body. I mimic nature. The moss hanging from the trees is such a tease. It looks so soft and pleasant but it is mite ridden. So its nice to look at thats it.

Meditation and Cell Phones

Out of all the benches to choose from this girl talking on her cell phone decides that the one that I am lying on, trying to meditate, looks especially inviting. Perhaps she wanted to absorb some of my peace and tranquility. It sounds like she is having a stressful conversation, maybe she she just wants to share her stress. Maybe by siting next to me it will somehow become diluted. Well it must be working. She just announced the good news that she "Sold her tickets for a SHIT LOAD of money!" I couldn't be more excited for her! Well I guess on the bright side she is giving me something to write about aside from the bricks that I just spent 10 minutes staring at. She must be talking to a sibling because she keeps talking about Mom and Dad. I think she is from South Florida. I have no basis for this assumption other than the fact that I find her presence overbearing and rude. This bench runs the entire length of the building! Why did she have to sit so close to me? I guess she just sat for the conversation because she got off the bench and the phone at the very same time. This building always feels like a maze to me, so many stairs and paths that seemingly lead to nowhere. I 'm so negative, and hungry. Snack time.

Observation assignment

All around me I see brick walls and then trees at the end of the hall. It's very peaceful and quiet except for the occasional steps of people walking near by. I feel the air softly brushing my hair and I can feel the heat coming from the light above me. I could fall asleep here. It is so peaceful and quiet...the hard floor I'm sitting on doesn't feel so hard anymore; my head is resting on a brick wall and it might as well be a pillow.

I wish I could paint what I see. I wish I could take a picture and capture this moment of peace. I could make a project; maybe film the little things and details I see.

I also see insects flying and the leaves of the trees are moving, as if they were waving at me. Now a lot of people are here. They're walking in all directions, some of them stopped to chat and they're looking at me. I hear birds. It's like there talking to each other just like the people around me are.

Now they're all gone and its back to the peaceful and quiet moment. I see colors on the brick walls. A lot of reds and blues and some yellows and greens...

I see a lot of materials around me...cement on the floor, iron on the bars of the stairs, wood in the ceiling, glass, plastic...I hear an air conditioner on somewhere...and now I hear people talking again. There's a lot of people around me talking about their classes, work...

I think this assignment has changed the way I see my current works in the way that right now I think little things are very important. Maybe I could edit my works a little bit and make them more detailed, maybe achieve the "feeling" I felt in this assignment.

field

The grass is so uneven in color and texture. It is mostly green with slight variations in tone, and also there are many browns and off whites where blades could not handle the extreme Florida heat, or have been stepped on. There are craters and bumps and tufts of grass formed by the constant crossings, games, practices that take place on this field. That seems like such a hazard, but looking at the field as a whole, it seems like a pretty safe place to be. It's surrounded by a fence. It is taller in some areas and shorter in others. It is made up of an endless amount of diamond shapes that are linked together, separating the field from the sidewalk. Interesting how the fence has openings that cannon be closed--for easy access in and out of the field. This basically defeats the purpose of a fence: to keep out, or to keep in. Without a continuous connection of the fence, anything or anyone can come in and anything or anyone can get out. The fence is pointless. But some people still treat it as a subconscious barrier between themselves and their destination, choosing it walk around it. Walking around and walking through the field--either way you lose. Either one trips, twists their ankle, or face plants into the ground due to the multiple craters all over the field; or taking the sidewalk route, one takes the risk of running into (onto) abandoned pieces of gum that use the bottom of your shoe as a new home. But which consequence is worse? Hard to tell, but the fence is there to help with the decision, because you must choose one or the other.

What time is it? Observation time!

-bird eating a lizard? bug? how often do birds have to eat?

-ants on the tree

-ants in a line/group mob going in same direction- that "ants go marching 1by1" song didn't come from nowhere.

-the tree has so many deep grooves bugs living in the grooves?

-pieces of tree are fragile and can snap off of tree

-leaves covering ground, things are constantly falling off the trees, leaves, pieces of bark, bugs?

-spanish moss, though cool looking and probably soft, is better not to touch- bugs inhabiting it

-small piece of trash on the ground- a part of a twix wrapper. did the person litter? did they try to throw away the trash but it fell out? trashcan too full? did they think because it was a small piece it didn't matter?

-the different shades of bark- from reddish brown to a dark and dull brown- actual changes and not just in lighting

-what makes a tree? how do we still know it's a tree even though we may have never seen it's type? what are people's personal connection to trees? childhood, work, relaxation

-slow constant flow of people

-some leaves have weird little circle bumps on them- what are they?

-green trace on bark- growths, parasites, fungus

-person w/ neck brace on and girly clothing on- how'd she get it? how does she feel about wearing it? she okay with it? embarrassed? is it due to an accident? or violence?

-people walking all have their ipods in- because of boredom? because they don't like silence? can't live without luxury? keeps them from thinking too much? helps them think?

-distance sounds from 13th street-even though nothing around is making noise, it's still not quite- feels like silence but background noise going on

-even though man hasn't directly touched all of nature, all of nature has been indirectly effected... affected? mreh- climate change, animals being forced into concentrated areas

-homemade signs with craft letters and laminated

-have to remove yourself when you stop talking- like you don't exist anymore

-someone's phone beeps- constant reminder of technology

-birds chirping- haven't heard it in a while

-lizards scampering- size is all relative- how big is the courtyard to them? a town? city? state? how far is the farthest they'll ever go? how long to they live?

-long spider web- what happens when they fall? do they die? or are they more hardy?

-old lady with furry purse- to young people is cheesy but other older people like it- who is right? will our own tastes change like that too?

Observation

I started out sitting under an oak tree that has branches extending out about 50 feet in diameter. I am near the fence that surrounds Norman Field and I am sitting on a root at the base of the tree. It looks like there is more moss than leaves hanging from this tree. Some of the branches dip down close to the ground as they get far away from the trunk. The grass was mowed recently but it is pretty patchy and there are a lot of areas that are just dirt or leaves. The side walk and bike path is about 30 feet away and Norman Hall is a little beyond that. A large group of runners just ran along the path from Norman Hall, towards the tunnel. Now a class is coming out to the field a few yards away and they are setting up things on the ground. I don't know what they are... But just now I heard someone talk about launching something. They are launching rockets into the air and measuring how far away they land. It looks fun.

Now I'm in a different spot because there were some ants on the ground next to me. I'm on a bench near the tunnel that goes under 13th street. I'm under another large oak tree but this one doesn't have any moss. The cars passing by are louder here. I am on a bench though instead of the ground and I am a few feet from the bike path/side walk. There are a lot of bikers and 2 rode by while I wrote that last sentence.

Observation Project

Sitting under the giving tree that gives me life through giving me air, I give it carbon dioxide while it pays me back with oxygen, all though I would much rather prefer some sort of monetary gift. But I'll stick with that. It's a nice tree, deeply rooted within the ground. Its bark effervescent of its age, and the trials and tribulations its gone through. A rough texture gives it the "bad-boy" edge I tend to look for in a customary tree. Its long, extended branches give a feeling of eeriness with a dash of creepy, yet I know they can easily wrap around and comfort me on my lonesome days. Funny enough, this is juxtaposed by the cherry, red berries dangling on the edges. Oh, how I wish they would fall so I could eat them! I do not want to "cherry-pick" the berries for it is not time. I must wait.

Is it me or does everyone who passes/walks by the giving tree a student/student in the making? Busy, engaged students walking lackadaisically step by step. Some faster than others late to class or to a possible job interview. Some even taking transportation into their own hands, skipping along, pedaling mountain bikes up a curvacious hill, or galloping by horse. LOL. Majority jog or run though.

I see some individuals with dark shades and brightly colored frames that could possibly glow in the dark. Some with yellow shirts, black pants or jean shorts. The typical Sperry's....ugghhh...no differentiation in that. Most with book bags on their backs, purses on their shoulders, food and cellphones in their hands. Consistent all across the board, male or female, black or white, short or tall, these individuals were plugged/tuned into their own world. Vibing to all types of music, bobbing their heads from side to side like bobbing for apples at a carnival, sort of. Everyone listens to music, no matter who you are. Nobody or somebody.

Observation in a Hammock

Wrapped in a cocoon of rope, isolated from the mainstream of campus, I witness people pass on by. They're usually alone, or with another person, determined to make it to their destination; these people are oblivious to the beauty around them. These people are oblivious of this concrete oasis, characterized by the pool of light at the bottom of the stairs and the slabs of concrete sprouting up. A couple of trees displace the landscape, but are simultaneously intertwined with this environment. The trees sway with the hybrid man-made/natural breeze; it's as if they want to escape the floor.

This environment is restricting, yet seemingly expanding. The sky spews into, and out of, these concrete barriers. Two circles expose the pipes that compose this atrium, while giving the false sense of space. The pipes themselves guide the scattered students (ascending and descending) that inhabit this atrium –– pipes create an imaginary route; they become imaginary guides.

As I look up, the light bulbs on the "ceiling" form a curve, akin to a smile. The windows around me expose me, and I become vulnerable. Once the next person wants to inhabit this hammock I'm in, I'll be displaced like the people who walked by me.

Observation Project- Birds and Bugs

I'm sitting on one of those bulky concrete benches, slightly weathered with age and lightly sprinkled with debris but in no danger of going anywhere anytime soon. They designed these objects for durability; at least thats my opinion, they certainly are lacking in the way of aesthetics and comfort. Sometimes I hate them for their blatant functionality, but I always appreciate their abundance and relatively large size, they are a great fit for a few friends or many papers. For whatever reason, I always feel compelled to sit on the edge of the benches. A girl close by in a pink shirt and jeans, who is laso sitting on the edge of a concrete bench, is also writing. I assume we write different things for different reasons, but from this distance I cannot know.

The wind is still, and the shadows only quiver slightly. Bird song brings a pleasant sort of life to to the area- the ever changing chatter of a mockingbird, the harsh "caw" of a crow, the slight twittering of what must be chickadees or tufted titmice. When I look to the trees, I can glimpse them. People always take birds for granted. I see one! It IS a chickadee, with its black cap and distinctive gray, white, and black color scheme. It is a warm sight. It reminds me of my childhood, of the years in which I was obsessed with with birds and frequently went birdwatching. Chickadees are known for being curious and playful, and are fun to watch.

Aww it's so cute!

Sometimes they land on branches where I can clearly see them. They seem ludicrously small. The crow, however, swopped over and has a bold presence. It's been a while since I stopped to appreciate birds like this. It's important somehow. I lost that patience I had as a child birdwatcher as I grew older, as life grew more frantic and demands became heavier. I am so very sick of urgency.

There are many bike racks here- white, scuffed, upside down "U's" in perfect rows on slabs of concrete. They are ridiculously boring. At this hour many of them remain unused, abandoned. The bikes line up with them. The whole sight is kind of depressing, like a conveyer belt.

A squirrel chased the crow away. The animal life march on above me. It is somehow reassuring to think that we are of little consequence to them, when on the whole I know thats not really true. The natural world is so inspiring compared to the sterile rows of bikes, representing sterile rows of people in a sterile institution.

Crawling near me on the lip of the table is a trash bug- those tiny worn like critters that build humpbacks out of debris. I got it to crawl on my hand- close up the creature has fierce looking pincers, but they are much too minuscule to pose a threat. The bug seems confused by the contours of my hand, but they don't they always seem confused?

A siren- so close to the hospital you hear those multiple times in a day. Adaptation is a blessing, but it makes you less aware. I no longer consider the potentially grave implications of the piercing sound.

The trash bug us pinching down on my skin. I can scarcely feel it. I wonder whats he's finding by doing that? I wonder what its like to be that creature. I'm taking him off off my hand now, because when he bites me it kind of creeps me out. Nature is like that- always so alluring, but so nasty! Like life it has all types of contradictions. I wish the trash bug luck. Personification is part of being human. Maybe the trash bug applies trash buggy qualities to his world, although I don't know if he's that advanced. Or she. It's a mystery. People want to unravel every mystery, but mysteries are what make life worth investigating. I hope we never know it all. I feel childish writing like this, but thats good I suppose.

Now I see an ant dashing across the table. This table is host to many lives, not just mine!

I see a downy woodpecker too- I never knew Gainesville was so rich in bird species. I need to pay more attention to the reality outside of myself.

a cursory unresolve

plaques line the walls, crooked. 4-9 names on each plaque, 10-20 plaques.

bridget mccarroll
robyn bomar
therese widemann

in a popular search engine a website beckons for a reunion, directories list locale within the last 10 years, obituaries mourn my loss.

students are on the same engine, different engines, different websites, popular, unpopular, unnoticed.

i am overwhelmed and recede back into my coffee cup, beige page, ball point pen.

bridget mccarroll..

an employee directs me to a computer catalogue

bridget mead
bridget miller
douglas mccarroll

woodgrain chairs creek, fingers press against plastic keys, but the room is otherwise silent. stares remain in 2D rectilinear constraints, the opposite of what would read as the eyes in pursuit of inquiry.

i still don't know who bridget mccarroll is.
i watch someone who is outside watching someone outside. he walks away. i walk away.

my coffee is cold.

Natalie's Amazing Time in "Nature"

I really feel like it is impossible to just sit somewhere and relax when there is so much to stress over: sculpture, work, my boss, people in my life, this stop motion project, photography project, work, money. This feels.....impossible. It makes my blood pressure rise and distracts me from things like relaxing, Or fun.
It doesn't matter if you're outside with nature or listening to music or alone in some quiet room. I am always thinking.
And God forbid I actually stop thinking about my temporary stresses; then I start thinking about larger and more profound things. I think about the significance of life, my life. I wonder what my future has in store; I hate not knowing what's going to happen. (I just interrupted my thoughts because this lead is super shiny and it smells like pot out here). I think about my relationships with other people and assess them. I can sometimes get really out there and contemplate things like the existence of god or a soul or something.
I worry a lot.
If I really start thinking about these things then Im really in for it. I'll be distracted all day from my thoughts, which continues into keeping me up at night. I don't have the time for all that stuff right now.
Although, This does help me with my projects sometimes. I like making projects super conceptual. I like making projects that are about something I think is important or that I spend time thinking about. I just don't have time for all this thinking. Art, when in art school, is super forced. It's hard to make well thought out art when its so forced.
There is some fat thing flying next to me with such a mechanical beating of its wings that it sounds like an engine. And it's annoying. And it one more thing falls out of this tree, I'm leaving this place.
There isn't much to say about my surroundings. It's hot outside, even in the shade. I can't even pretend that I'm in nature. There are these annoying girls talking and my "ambient sounds" are cars...and now a siren. This makes me think about my car. (Not that I can park in Norman or anywhere else at this friggin school, with its ridiculous parking). Now I have to repair it. Stupid old lady just drove into my car. Now my neck hurts.
It still smells like weed.
There are way too many people here who walk with their noses in the air. I hate that attitude. I feel like telling them to take that stick out of their ass. I can't handle that "I'm better than you" attitude. And so many people here have it. Ugh. Stop it, UF people. Teachers, frat boys, sorority girls, other girls (generalizing): quit it. No one likes that. You are not that cool.
This area I'm sitting in has a retarded layout. These stairs are useless. I actually have to walk upstairs, just to walk downstairs so I can go inside the building. What the hell is that? What a waste of materials and time.
I think i'm being negative today....

Human Skateboard

hehehe

strawberry swing

my inspiration for my stop motion project

more stop motion

Here's another stop motion animation made by PES. Check out their site for more of their videos: http://www.eatpes.com/index.html

A Stop Motion Within a Stop Motion :: STOPCEPTION

I feel that this video will sum up our process and final results ——— a very time-consuming and tedious process, but very rewarding results. Think about how many print-outs the man had to make...if any of you pull off something like this, STOP MAKING EVERYONE ELSE LOOK BAD!

stop-motion

Here is a music video by the band Mum. I like that they animated drawings and collages using stop motion. Enjoy!

Sin with Sebastian

Just thought this video has a lot of great effects we could all learn from. Maybe paint a baby or two gold for our projects. Just an idea.

video

SEMIOTICS OF THE KITCHEN: AN AUDITION BY MARTHA ROSLER

http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/media/video/10383

Harry Potter Teen Comedy

I'm sure most of you have probably seen this video by now, but for those of you who didn't, it's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince edited into a condensed trailer in a way to change the mood into a teenage comedy, akin to John Hughes' films and such.

I just want to point out the importance of audio setting the mood and essentially the theme of a video.

TERRIBLE

Smack My Bitch Up

what the title says.
watch 'till the end for a surprise.

Reflection on first project

Because I have no interesting videos to post this time... most of the videos I find on the internet are stupid video game flash parodies, young people trying to make funny videos, or movie trailers.

Anyway.

So... I don't think that I personally went as far as I could have on this project. From what I've seen so far, most of my peers are either in the same boat as me or found a really clever way to construct the footage (with tempo, music, good splicing... ect). I I think part of the problem is that the "found" footage was really, really difficult to work with. It was disconnected, boring, and repetitive; and very difficult to wrench a meaning out of it (beyond some sort of criticism or admiration of the school system).

Still, it was a good way to learn Final Cut, and it helped us remain disconnected from our work and not become too attached to it. I was glad to do the project, but I feel like I let myself down.

I just didn't know where to take my video; I felt "done" long before I actually was. I had that academic distance from it: I just wanted it finished at a certain point, as if it was an essay for class I had to add 500 more words to. In art, you have to develop a certain close relationship with your work: not a "precious" one, but a determined one, a drive to accomplish a little something with your art. At least I do. If I don't care about creating something that tries to impact others, my work will be weak. It might be "ok," but it won't resonate with the same kind of all important nuance that develops in art that I really "work" for.

This, for me, is the real challenge of being an art student: the struggle against the separation of "work" (school) and "play" (art). When the two unite, I am happy and productive. But I find this to be at odds with years of learning otherwise; grade school taught me to hate homework. To hate tests. To hate projects. To hate the classroom. With art, I feel maybe I can finally escape that, but art is difficult in this institutional setting that is ripe with old associations and reactions. But school provides such an excellent opportunity to learn, I can't pass it up. It's a tragic dilemma.

So that's my reflection/ramblings on this project. Next time, armed with my own footage, I will hopefully find that passion and create something i'm really proud of.

How To Murder Your Wife

I recently just checked this movie out from the library because Jack Lemmon was in it and didn't know what to expect. Despite being a black comedy and not totally serious, how do you take the sexism of the movie? Is it pardonable because it was '65 or totally inexcusable?

danse serpentine, 1900

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sdSRPTRGQs&feature=player_embedded

Cindy Sherman

Doll Clothes

Jan Svankmajer

I love these stop motion animations by Jan Svankmajer. They are surreal, humorous and kind of gross. Enjoy! there are a lot more of them on youtube as well.

SBTRKT

The Wildfire video by SBTRK is one of my new favorites. It has some interesting close ups and instances where the video changes speeds which I think fit in with the music flawlessly. The imagery and the concept of the video also parallel very well.

my oh my don't make me cry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyMhvkC3A84&ob=av2n Coldplay--Every Teardrop is a Waterfall. Maybe I'm biased towards their videos because I'm such a fan of their music, but it seems they always come up with something awesome. Stop motion is used, which is always exciting.. a lot of colors, black lights, and just overall extremely enjoyable to watch. I definitely have watched it more than twice and you probably will too if you haven't already!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2nmgcVbfKE

There isnt really much to say about this video. It has effects, other than that its terrible. Lol. (major laser- pon de floor). The effects are trippy.

Die Antwoord - The Answer

So, I have showed this video to a lot of people. Some people have freaked out and found it offensive (racist? until after a long and painful explanation on my part) and some people have absolutely loved it. Whatever you do, please don't turn it off before it is finished and keep in mind that this band is making a joke of itself and the video is essentially a parody. They are from Africa and reference a lot of the social conflict over there, please don't take it out of context!

ENJOY :>

Beyonce and Girl Power

Kind of a silly thing to point out but BK's new song, Run the World (Girls) is a slight tweaking of a Major Lazer song that's basically all about getting raunchy and has NOTHING to do with female empowerment from 2009. Then again I suppose BK really has no interest in female empowerment either.
Beyonce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBmMU_iwe6U
Major Lazer
http://vimeo.com/5936810

fav video

I really like the way this video was made. The shots and the lightning are really good and the editing is perfect because even though the video is chaotic, the shots are still in a harmonic sequence that makes the music video work. All the types of shots used are very artistic and it makes a very interesting composition.

Don't Make Me Call Child Services

http://www.wimp.com/snapfingers/

So Some of you may have already seen this video and laughed at it. But while it's a silly, low budget, child music video, does it strike anyone else as inappropriate? I mean, "Don't make me snap my fingers in a Z formation, hip rotation, BOOTY SENSATION"?! And the motions, while hilarious, also don't seem age appropriate.

Wacky Tacky Wibbly Wobbly Non-Inflatable Lad

So I found this video online and had one of those "what did I just watch" moments. Technically speaking, the editing was great: the pacing of the video was perfectly synced to the audio; the structured, diverse use of wide-shots and medium shots was great; and the length of the video was just enough to convey a message and make it somewhat memorable.

Aside from that, the content itself is rather....interesting. If I saw something like that in real life, I'd claim zombie apocalypse and freak out. Probably without the arms flailing like that guy. Or the seizure.

One of the Greatest Videos of All Time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914&ob=av3e

I just wanted to express my love for this video. I know its a music video but I think it justifies what we've been talking about in class. Given the time period, it being the 80s, this video in terms of effects, shots & editing is really advanced. I wouldn't think people would have this type of technology. Being able to make most of the video look cartoonish and drawn out. In my top 10 favorite videos.

Water, Ink, and Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq9mw8wR-1Q

I found this video a couple of months back and just rediscovered it. I think this is a wonderful combination of artwork, creativity, and video. The detail is also fantastic- the ink artist is out of control amazing and the perfect closeups done by the camera complement this. Although the video's content and music are horribly sad, I really like this clip.

An Interesting Clip

http://www.booooooom.com/2011/09/04/going-to-the-store-by-david-lewandowski/

I honestly just wanted to share this little gem; no idea if it's really an "art video. I think it was just for fun; although it may have social and political implications hidden somehwere. Apparently the creator was a lead art director for Tron:Legacy, so I think this video was created with some high class special effects.

Just wanted to know what you guys think...

I'm done with Rosler for now, just wanted to chill out with something a little less dense (but still mysterious) this time. I wonder if Rosler would find any value in something like this...

-KT

Rostler Reading

Mreh, mreh, mreh.

The Rostler reading was, as most people have already said, challenging. I guess I would agree with her points of wanting video art to be for the masses and not just secluded in the art world, but to me that just seems very unrealistic. Definitely now that experimental video is viewed strictly in an art setting, I doubt most people without an art background will ever look into it. Usually art videos give off the air of being pretentious, but I did like her video that we watched in class. Compared to the reading, the video was much more mainstream and I could see that breaking into people's lives, but her elitist way of writing was out of the question. People can relate to = being weighted and measured and their value in society being stamped on them.

Week 3 /// general plans

Tuesday:
1. THE ABOLITION OF WORK in-class reading

2. Bruce Nauman Art 21
3. final cut demo (sound, transitions, layering, double screen, keying, filters)
4. work or play with your videos

Thursday:
1. review shot topics and editing methods
2. group interpretations:

Francis Alys - El Gringo

Cory Archangel - Mario Movie or Video Ravings

Dara Birnbaum - Technology/Transformation

Gary Hill - Bathing

Paul McCarthy - WGG

Pipilotti Rist - Not the Girl Who Misses Much

extra credit:

5050 - oliver laric

Low Epic - jaakko pallasvuo

Inside Wildchatster's Apartment Pt 1 (with my voice) - Guthrie Lonergan

Short Music Videos - Guthrie Lonergan

Art Tape: Live With/ Think About - Michael Bell-Smith

3. work or play with your videos

Homework:
Work on your community footage videos.
Blog entry (no topic, but you could write about labor/work/play, Bruce Nauman, ideas spawned from your work on the project, a video that you enjoyed, an investigation of an artist on ubu.com (or elsewhere for that matter), etc.)

Grab Bag - Community Video Project Guidelines

Attention all fellow artist-citizens,

As you all know we are starting a new project today. I also wanted to give you guys a general idea of what's happening this week, and what you'll be responsible for (as our syllabus course calendar is now slightly less accurate).

Grab Bag - Community Video

You have each shot about five minutes of footage based a shot technique (close-ups, ambient sound, panning shot, etc.). You will all have access to each other's raw footage to use to create your own 3-5 minute videos. Please feel free to use as many video clips as you like, but you may not use your own footage.

This project is to allow you a moment to freely focus on learning Final Cut without the worry of planning for shooting. Explore the program. Experiment. On the other hand, this project becomes a challenge: to manipulate content/footage that you had no say in videoing to create poetry. How do you overcome these limitations to create art?

Barrage of questions: You have been given 11 visions of the world, how do you create your own? Do you see video in terms of the entirety of an action or a sequence of stills? How much editing should you do to your footage; does this in turn influence how you view your footage? Is your editing based primarily on cuts, layers, effects, play with speed; how does this conceptually change the perception of the work? Does your edit seem organized, seeking a type of rationality (aka the angel's view)? Does your edit rely on disorientation or lack of order (aka the devil's view)? Are you constructing a world anew or reaching to the one in which we already live? Is your video exposing a myth (a critical approach, see Rosler)? Are you asking us to notice something overlooked? Are you editing with a chainsaw or scalpel? Shotgun or tongue?

I want you artist-citizens to experiment, but not blindly. Notice what your experiments create. Remember the measurement brainstorming; what at first seems arbitrary can be shaped into conceptually sound art.

Barrage of phrases: sensation of time passing /// cause and effect /// compulsion and anxiety /// screen fatigue /// storytelling and narrative /// sea of perspectives /// the perfection of plastic parts snapping together /// underestimate overly sentimental /// passive viewing /// low-budget explosions /// guided meditation /// etc etc etc

Video gives you so many privileges. Feel the lack of limitations. If you don't believe me, then perform this experiment: video the sunset, import footage into final cut, turn the sunset upside-down. You have so much control; nothing would make me prouder than watching you all turn the world and it's celestial brethren on their heads.

Your 3-5 minute video needs to be an .mov file (no need for burning DVDs yet).

It will be due on Thursday Sept. 15th (that's a week and a half from today). It should be finished at the start of class, last minute exporting or tweaking means it is late.

This project is worth 10% of your final grade and will be broken down as follows:

3 points for experimentation and involvement with program - how much did you learn about how to use this technology as an art tool? did you adequately explore your options to accomplish the goals of your video?

3 points for formal and presentation issues - was your video well put together? did you make wise visual/sonic decisions? was the quality of the footage improved because of your involvement with it? is the video nicely finished or abrupt?

4 points for concept - in using this program and formal concerns, did you convey a message to your audience? even if you approached your edit intuitively, were you cognizant of the effects your choices had on the entirety of the video (and therefore the reception of your video)? did you consider the outcome of your edits? did you consider the access you gave to your audience?