Sunday, December 7, 2008
Robo trippin
Evaluating this project should be funny because this mostly definitely pushed me more than any project i have ever done thus far in film school. As i said in my last post my 48 hour video project turned into a 20 something hour video race due to all the other work i had due on the same days i had to work. So first of all i knew i wanted to do stop motion i had been working with alot of stop motion in this class as well as experimental film and i really love the way the projects have come out thus far. So as i was home for thanksgiving i went searching around my house. I came around a few drawers in my library/computer room of all over wires and electronics that were out of date and most likely useless. i found a few old video cameras that i had bak in the days off my young pup skateboarding videos that i had destroyed and no longer worked. I figured out since in the project we were not aloud to use a video camera the way i would open it up was destroying one. The idea came from there i make a whole world out of old obsolete electronics and such with stop motion. So i packed up my bag full of electronics and wires and hoped to good security at the airport did not think i was a terrorist. I made it home to wilmington without prosecution and went about to get my prop and hopefully try it into my idea. So dylan picked up my prop for me since i was already working on my pile of other school work. He picked told me they were cookie cutters. i was very happy because i thought the metal idea would match my electronic idea very well. To my surprise he picked me up a bear cookie cutter and the idea of him being a robot bear popped right into my head. So i finished up my music video for experimental at around 9pm on tuesday in the editing lab and rushed home. I ordered a pizza continued to not bathe myself and got to work. I started out with the camera and the idea was supposed to be like someone getting really frustrated with their little mini dv video camera and just fucking it up... cuz i know theres a few times ive wanted to do that, and it felt great to take a sledge hammer to it. So i went on to doo all my stop motion till about 1 or 2 and then started to upload all the still photos and make the stop motion sequences into quicktime movies to avoid problems in the exporting stage which i learned from a project earlier in the year. Doing a project like this makes to very conscious of playing it safe because if you have problems exporting last minute your fucked. So i most definitely played it safe with the technical side. I stopped editing at about 6 am when i was falling asleep in between renderings. I woke up at around 11am and started editing and making titles and such. I got pretty close to completing th edit and decided it needed more. i had stopped in south caroline on the way back from the airport and purchased some fireworks. and i had an already blue-screen painted canvas from an older project. i ran outside and tried to film some quick blue screen smoke and explosions. i didnt light and thing i just prayed for them to work alittle bit because i didnt really have time. It funny how your brain works when your under pressure. some of them worked some didnt and had to just change the opacity but it think it turned out okay. I exported to my video camera because i didnt have to time to go to the lab and find a deck that worked. This was at about 4 30. i jumped into the shower grabber tacobell and ran to jengos to practice our installation for experimental. Due to the circumstances i had the 48 hour video race almost killed me., but it made me grow alot and showed me what i was really capable of. It is quite a challenge to doo everything in 48 hours. granted i had a concept but i really just got lucky that it worked out with my prop so well. All in all looking back now this was one of the best projects we had all year. It was really interesting to see what everyone else came up with as well.
ps maybe this format should be in 6x1 2.0 post a web version of your video and then right you evaluation over top of it. just an idea
Friday, December 5, 2008
6x 1 revisted .. hardly
okay sooo ive been recharging for the last few days sleeping and doing absolutely nothing and loving life because the last few days have been none stop. Monday night i finished my world history paper so hopefully next semester i can actually be a film major. Tuesday i thought id be finishing up my music video for experimental film but i ended up getting into the video and spent alot of time finishing it up so i left the editing lab around 9pm and got home ate and started the 48 hour video race which was now less than 24 hours. I was all set for it because i knew i wouldnt have the whole 48 hours . So my last few days of this class even tho we didnt meet were very stressful, but a good learning process. So i think the only thing i might suggest putting the 48 hour video race somewhere in the middle of the semester and putting something like the found footage project at the end of the semester. i think it definitely pushes us as film makers to have a project like this at the end of the semester but across the board you might get better results from the whole class if its earlier in the semester. As for the rest of the class honestly i would not change anything this was one of the best classes ive ever taken. i love that we actually get to work with the film the very first day we walk in the class i think thats perfect how it is because for alot of people like myself thats the first time they have worked with real film and the hand painting is soo different it prepares the students for a new style of filmmaking.it was really nice having soo much time for that project as well. The second project the rhythmic editing exercise followed it well. we switched to video and it gives use more experience with editing in a different style now digitally. Those two projects should absolutly stay how they are. i wish i could give you more to change but really i loved this class soo much i cant say much. i hope i can apply all the concepts i learned it all 3 of the classes i have with andre next semester and i hope he doesnt get sick of me and try and kick my ass all in all 6x1 is pretty perfect how it is and i think everyone next semester will feel the same way.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
On a lighter note
Ear of corn shorts kicked ass. And im not saying that to kiss your ass andre because you were the vana white of the program but it did. I did really know what i was getting into i knew they were more experimental shorts, and i recognized Provost from class with gravity but over all i just wanted to go to a good block with alot of variety and thats exactly what i got, plus a Q and A is a very small intimate venue to boot. fucking perfect. bear with me because im bad with names and titles but ill try to go in order. The first film i thought was really interesting. One because i have been messing around with this exact sort of thing... sine rob stole Andre's drawing pad for me to work on taints mouth. Thanks by the way.. anyway i thought it was awesome. a simple parred down idea. Very specific but interesting at the same time. It was just overhead shot from a plane or like google maps and animations of line cutting up the land into what i assumed were developing communities or building or parking lots of whatever the fuck our country feels like putting up. It gave me and very specific feel that i get when im in a plane flying back to new jersey of back here to north carolina. I always get a window seat since i was a child. I traveled a lot with my family when we were all together. Fiji New zealand mexico bahamas puerto rico yearly and all over the states. i was fucking spoiled i know it, but anyway i was always the kid with my face glued to the window ...while my brother was this kid with his head in the vomit bag... but as i got older i would do the same but think about it alot more. New Jersey is one of the most densely populated states in the US. It was interesting to see the progression Ive flown out of Newark or Philly or atlantic city airports sooooo many times and usually go west or south into the rural areas. It was really interesting how the filmmakers sort of simulatd the way corporations of housing developers just cut up land like a puzzle with little regard to what is already there. I really liked the sound scape and the progression of the images with the beats of the song. It was a cool approach.
So the next one that caught my eye was the japanese animated short.. mi mi mi or ayi ayi ayi or yo yo yo shannon just told me it and now i forget. It cover such a huge amount of material in like a minute or two. Im soo impressed with that kind of rapid fire approach. They used the idea of a cartoon child like sing along to address fairly serious issues. and it was fucking a hilarious satirical short. Im a sucker for dancing dicks. I really want to watch it again soo i can quote some of the lines but i think i was laughing to hard to remember any of them..... to be continued
So the next one that caught my eye was the japanese animated short.. mi mi mi or ayi ayi ayi or yo yo yo shannon just told me it and now i forget. It cover such a huge amount of material in like a minute or two. Im soo impressed with that kind of rapid fire approach. They used the idea of a cartoon child like sing along to address fairly serious issues. and it was fucking a hilarious satirical short. Im a sucker for dancing dicks. I really want to watch it again soo i can quote some of the lines but i think i was laughing to hard to remember any of them..... to be continued
fucking dead chicks
Soooo Cucalorus huh.. this year lived up to all my expectations. some great films some not so great ones some terrible ones and lots of drinking. soo i guess this post will be about the film is did not like so much. Dead Girl... soo background story I was really excited to see this film i love horror films even campy ones. It seemed like this would fit my mold. it was a pretty independent production as well soo i was pumped. I took a little break from downtown so i didnt get worn out my midnight so i could see Dead Girl.i had prior engagements to stop by a friend's birthday party. So i headed downtown at about 11 30 got a seat right up front and sat down to enjoy my film. By that point most of the people at the theater were quite intoxicated. I thought this would make for an interesting viewing experience. So by about 45 minutes through the film i started to become angry and this anger just contined to grow and grow with every use of the word "dude". I anyone says there was no arch to this film they are wrong there is an arch in the quality of acting. It progressively got worse and worse. i heard people argue that the dialogue was modern but i refuse to believe we all talk like dumbasses no a days. It was like if Highschool Musical fucked every bad horror film that came out in the last 2 years and had a "retarded" "dude" child. I hear a total of 45 people walked out of this film. As for myself i made it through the whole film and walked out of the theater at 2 to realize it was every too late to drink that shit out of head because all the bars had closed by that time. Okay soo maybe my review is a little harsh and exaggerated. but it was a learning experience. I know im not gunna like every film i got to at a film festival and this year i saw a few i was not fond of. Good dick was not so good dick maybe mediocre dick as a i put it in shannons paper. but its all for the better knowledge of my interest in film. Im just narrowing down the shit i will never ever put in my films. I will most likely stay away from teenie highschool films now.. I do like horror films but i dont think ive seen a good one in theaters in years. Im not into shock value. I mean two hours of fucking a dead chick. Dicks getting bitten in half... shitting out your intestines.. not me and i know that now. I mean just seeing this film didnt show me that but it sure as hell reassured it. I think ill stick to my classic horror films in private and makes film of another content. Another good asspect of seeing this is ... I feel way better about any idea that i have come up with when movies like these are getting produced out of the taint of the film industry. now i sound pompous again im exaggerating but i still say fuck Dead Girl. oh and ive learned i should ever do movie reviews either.. i learned that just now.. yeh
Monday, November 10, 2008
Thursday, November 6, 2008
I got vomit on my sweata already moms pascetti
that was a 8 mile reference in no one got it... freestyle.. i duno fuck it. What i would like to talk about in this post actually has to do with an experimental film projects which was inspire mostly my this class and with the help of andre in the final cut field. im sure shannon will read this soo im sorry for no posting this on your blogg maybe ill link it or copy and paste or something. soo i recently completed my self portrait and after screaming my brains out and throwing my tripod at the wall and slicing open my finger i is finally outputted and ready for viewing .. a day after it was due. im very happy i didnt smash my computer but i should have know a couple of hundred still photos would give my mac a computer STD urethra blockage when i was outputting. So my self portrait was kinda bout me having stress problem as you can see in the sentences above.. very ironic that a work about me being stressed brought out the hate in my heart for inanimate objects. but anyway i basically made a skateboarding part with still photos in a flip book type format.. so the background information.. i am a skateboarder.. i have been skating since maybe 4th or 5th grade i used to skate competitions when i was younger. and the concept was that i am prescribed to anxiety drugs but i dont take them often and skateboarding really has been my escape. i could take my anger out on my board and it seemed that all my other problems went away soo i wanted to describe this visually. So i got on the phone with all the older filmers i knew and my friends from home and asked them to upload all the old videos they had to youtube. I had hours of vhs footage from when i was younger that i would editing along with a friend Bill Spice. So i rounded up clips that i liked visually not for necessarily the best trick i had done but ones that had some sort of visual appeal and often alot of those were of me falling on my face which i liked. i didnt want to to be perfect i wanted it to kind show my whole experience of skateboarding. and i focused on alot of riding shots because to me thats one of the most relaxing parts of skating. soo i took all the clips sped them up and exported them as image sequences. i then printed the image sequences on index sheets.. which didnt fucking print in numerically order soo i had to though them and re oder them. i bought sticker paper previously soo some were on sticker paper and some werent but i basically made flip books with the little picture and took and digital camera and re "filmed" them in a sense. it took a long fucking time to say the least. id experiment with backgrounds as well i tryed to find reflective surfaces.. i guess creating a motif in a sense.. glass beer bottles and cans i shot through a bowl of water and other semi symbolic images. often you cant tell what they are or what the trick is that im doing but.. i guess that the point..I tried to parallel that with a very blurry shot of myself to open the whole piece . this whole idea was taken from our 2 plabe stop animation sheet i thought the idea of making stills move was soo interesting. i almost felt like i was recreating the moving picture.. ha because that about how slow it was going .. but i really liked the result and ill give u a link to my other blogg where its posted.. but thank you again for cutting my work in half.these alot more to talk about with my sound design but that doesnt concert this class as much anddddddd... im freestyled out.. you just got served
im soo confused about blog topics soo im going write a short one about 3d because im not sure if we had to but i want to anyway ... the end
The 3d exercise was one of the hardest things i think we've done in this class which is weird to say because i thought it would be easy. its sooo hard to think of an idea on the spot. its a really cool exercise though. trying to come up with an idea a location and actors and crew. its chaos and that my favorite was to work. it challenged everyone. But most of alli liked making my 3d glasses which i forgot and im sorry for that. But it was eally cool to doing all these different aspects.. shooting.. planning.. acting... editing .. and the last dimension or 3rd dimension.. making the glasses by hand. I think this was one of the coolest things we have done soo far. It was also cool to see after effects im such a noob to editing with good systems like final cut and after effects and i look learning new stuff. ive been editing on imovie for a year before this and i think i should have attempted suicide at least once a week but im strong. Im not learning all the ins and outs of final cut and i cant wait to get more into after effects.... maybe in modes of animation???? its very strange though the week before u told us about the 3d assignment i was on the pot doing my business and i picked up the 3d issue of surfer magazine which came with 3d glasses at the time i just thought how fun it would be for someone to walk in on me on the toilet with my pants at my ankles wearing 3d glasses but it was really cool to add this weird effect to all the photos that you see every month of surfers and waves. little did i know( in the bam margera marbles in my mouth east Pennsylvania accent).. i would be shooting and editing in 3d in the soon future. Neato.
Friday, October 31, 2008
one way ticket to midnight
iadeas eh.. i will write down whats on my mind right now but i will promise u the final product will resemble nothing of these word i will write for you. i stay this because soo far every idea i have had has evolved into something completely different than my original idea. So as for research so far i have looked around my house first of to find recording devices that are not video cameras. Both roommate i live with have macs so thats to internal webcams for starters. I have a digital camera myself with video capabilities or stop motion abilities which is something ive been getting into alot. i do have scanner but its not working sooo well so i might smash it with a hatchet. could be part of my video concept as well. I wet on to do more research i saw a commercial about a crayola light pad type dealeo so i ventured to toy r us to look around for gadgets. i did not find the pad but i did go to the electronics isle .. yeh they do have one of those now... when i was a kid they didnt. and i refuse to get my child and cell phone before middle school .. fuck that i was fine .. but instead of toy trucks and star wars toys like i ejoyed every christmas kids now get ipod and hana montana video cameras. anyyyyywaayyyy theres a whole sections of digital camera web cams and "kiddie" video cameras i was quite unaware you could buy a video camera for under 100 dollar i was tempted i sure love that hana's jams but lucky i wasnt sucked in .. yet .. i couldnt really find much to help but i did walk out with a "color explosion coloring pad" and sponge bob ice cream pop.. soo cynical of toys r us to put icea cream right next to the cash register who is gunna say no to there kid right in front of the employees. As for the conceptual aspect i was thinking about a rotoscoping type of idea but i guess there no telling whats going to happen until the 48 seconds is actually counting down. getting a little taste of being timed to film a scene this thursday with the 3d glasses shoot was kind of intimidating. it was much harder than i thought so as for i will keep writing down ideas and hopefully i can inoperate the object cleverly in my concept. i think the biggest thing im scared of is choking at the last second and settling because of the 48 hour limit. hopefully all will be right in the universe for me.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Okay so im writing this blog post at my house in Text Edit, because our fucking internet is out and they wont send someone here until monday. So im going to try to go to the Connection Cafe and steal internet but incase that doesnt work im going to smash my router piss on it then regroup and make a new plan. As for the actual post here it is.. action... i was really pumped to watch the Yesmen before class. I had heard a lot about it and it was way more that what i had originally expected. the first explanation of the yesmen kind of made them look like a politically driven jackass cast. as a i watched it most definitely more than i expected. they like if the class clown was combined with the valedictorian. the film was genius. I'm not very political and don't really watch too many documentaries unless besides planet earth, but I really found myself enjoying this. I was so blown away at how oblivious the crowd was toward the complete mockery they would make on stage. It just shows far the major corporations can take it. they have now boundaries what so ever and if this film isn't a testament toward the change that need to take place i don't know what is. i really wish i could go on the internet and check out the website so i had more to talk about but i cant because the man is holding me down. I think it would be really interesting to see what the yesmen are up to now and how hard it would be to get involved it the activities they are involved it. Id also like to know if any changes were pressed against them.i guess technically they did not do anything wrong but i feel like impersonating anyone could get you thrown in jail. maybe not elvis. it would be interesting to look up the laws behind all the pranks they pull and maybe do something within the parameters that they did for another type of cause. maybe one that was more prevalent in my life. so over all viewing Yesmen was a nice relaxing ed to the week for me. i thoroughly enjoyed it and i will be going to se the prequel YesMan starring jim carry in theaters in the near future.. . . yeh
Thursday, October 23, 2008
d3ar andre 3000.
i fucking hate my internet..my post is written..due to technical difficulties my post will be .
posted..
tomorrow morning when the connection cafe opens.
sorry andre.
posted..
tomorrow morning when the connection cafe opens.
sorry andre.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
copy wrong
these two articles were very interesting but the molotov one especially. I have a background in studio art and i have been painting far longer than i have been into film. And since i have been drawing of painting i have been practicing this same type of decontextualizing images for my own use. i guess in a sense stealing them whether it be from books and more so now a days the internet. i know my favorite drawing i have ever down is pretty much completely stolen from a copywrited image from an online photography website which sells their photos for commercial work. Although most of my work is for my own pleasure and not for sale at first i believed in what joy is saying.
But as i started to read susan's side i started to change my mind almost completely in a 180. The picture she took was during and certain time and place and held a certain meaning. When Joy took that image painted it and gave it a new name under the Riot exhibit it changed i symbolism of the image. i felt forget her argument.
but after hearing that she wanted money for the exhibition of the work if kind of felt like a cope out. she says all these things about how the image meant something different than joys title of "riot" but then it seems to all come back to the fact that she wanted money. i can see the argument from each side and its really interesting to read an article in this format. it reality art has been borrowed and "decontextualized" for ages and mostly likely will be with all the technology at our finger tips, for the rest of time. Some of my favorite bands do this is a musical sense Justice and daft punk take loops from other sources and turn then into a beat. Rap music is essentially only made through sampling. Last night i listen to a headed debate over kayne west by robert barnett and dylan pettengill. I threw in a line from 6x1 trying to make the point that shakespeare borrowed from greek tragedy and the bible haha thanks andre. they didnt really listen to me anyway but in my opinion are should be free to remake over and over again thats how things grown and evolve. Sometimes they grow in a negative way but thats how progression works i guess. i hope this "borrowing" does not become extinct because of law suits and copy-write law because and am an internet guerrilla image stealer myself. long live the molotov man
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Basement shows and dirty ho's
this reading was interesting. i remember thinking a lot in class about the idea of adding the grit. adding the human mistake in the synthetic sounds. I kind of thought of this in terms of Hollywood. Im not sure if this is the point he was trying to get across but none the less this is what i got out of it. The grit is the spectrum of experimental methods of film making and the synthetic is The norms of Hollywood. You have to add in the "grit" to make a successful film. Experimental ideas and techniques are often bleeding into Hollywood big production videos. You can make a model and guide lines to produce a "successful" film all you want but its never going to produce 100 percent success. Innovation or grit is a part of the equation. MAybe this is just my corny interpretation of a small part of his argument, but thats what i got out of it.
As for my experiences with the rough theater in terms of music shows i have had a great deal. From middle school through high school I often went to basement or back yard shows. Most of the bands played hardcore music. It was a great time in my life. The basements were always moldy dark and had terrible acoustics. It was as rough as i had ever seen as a 15 year old kid. Kids drinking, people getting bloody noses.
As for experiences with an actually theater type venue when i was younger my friends and i filmed and edited skateboarding videos. This is how i actually got into the production aspect of film. So we would film for months at a time taking trips to philly and NYC since they were only two hours each from my home. Each town around me had their own "Crew".The TRC, LBC, GIMR NQS and so on. and we were all filming and making videos at the same time. After completing a video each crew would throw a premier party invited all of our friends, girl friends, collaborators and such. Those were some of the best parties I have ever been to to this day. Drinking around a TV in back yards or basements on lawn chairs drinking with your friends, Being nervous for your part to come up. hearing everyone yell for you when ur last trick comes up. It really was an awesome feeling
As for my experiences with the rough theater in terms of music shows i have had a great deal. From middle school through high school I often went to basement or back yard shows. Most of the bands played hardcore music. It was a great time in my life. The basements were always moldy dark and had terrible acoustics. It was as rough as i had ever seen as a 15 year old kid. Kids drinking, people getting bloody noses.
As for experiences with an actually theater type venue when i was younger my friends and i filmed and edited skateboarding videos. This is how i actually got into the production aspect of film. So we would film for months at a time taking trips to philly and NYC since they were only two hours each from my home. Each town around me had their own "Crew".The TRC, LBC, GIMR NQS and so on. and we were all filming and making videos at the same time. After completing a video each crew would throw a premier party invited all of our friends, girl friends, collaborators and such. Those were some of the best parties I have ever been to to this day. Drinking around a TV in back yards or basements on lawn chairs drinking with your friends, Being nervous for your part to come up. hearing everyone yell for you when ur last trick comes up. It really was an awesome feeling
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
What?
First off id like to say that i desperately want to be a scratch film junkie. id kill a gang member to be one maybe some like head light beating initiation of some sort. and i would like a full on knighting ceremony when i am accepted. i feel like they have a secret warehouse projecting hand painted films all over the walls in a seedy part of town. i guess for now ill just have to sit in my room alone and paint on film and play with bleach.i really am very inspired by them tho im soo impressed by the control they show with their work i was watching some trippy smith and brackage hand painted films in experimental today and they also show this super natural ability to control the uncontrollable. The precision these film makers possess in unbelievable. The scratch film junkies bring in the idea of silhouetting actually film and incorporating it into their reels. I really like how they take ordinary meandering conversation and make it into a sound track... i mean to accompany and abstract image you have to think outside the box for an abstract sound for your film. i remember in intro to production i did the sound track for our first project and thinking it was very strange. it was the intro u a weird indy song loop and in the background i put a dialogue of a guy explaining how " hamburgers were his" favorite instrument of eating" i dont even know what that means but everyone agreed that it works with our creep film about a man being chased by a block of cheese. sometimes unconventional is the answer. ive been realizing more than most of the time it is for me. now im babbling but watching more and more of these films is making me want to be more and more into this vein of film making. now that im thinking back i got into actually film making through skateboarding and skate videos when i was in 7th grade or so. My friend bill got Pinnacle studio 10 and i thought it was the coolest thing in the universe. thinking back on how ridiculously awful that program is makes me giggle like a school girl. but we were always trying to make our movies look like the ones wed buy in the store. one of the first skate videos i bought was Photosynthesis this was a film that actually shaped the entire look for the company Alien Workshop but this was clearly the first experimental film ive ever seen. i didnt know at the time what it was i just knew it looked different it used super 8 and 16mm and split screen shots of out of focus plants cut with skateboarding its cool to think about how these alternate forms of film bleed into main stream im sure there a place for film painting somewhere im not sure how this post got here .. i might have just blacked out for 20 minutes .. what did i just write..
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Second try
Well this is my second try at posting about this article. being a novice blogger i tried posting on a school computer in the library and something happened and i lost the whole post. this article took me back to my childhood. The days of violent cartoons, cats and mice playing with gun knives and a explosives. the glory days. We all grow up watching cartoons. I know i was a big fan of the older looney toons because a i had and older brother, but also the newer nickelodeon cartoons of my time (rockos modern life, Ren and Stimpy, and such)This articles takes these "childish" cartoons and bring to life that there is a real structure around them. They have a ll the elements of live action TV and film, narrative structure, continuity, and dialogue for each character. I think its really interesting to analyze cartoons because they were such a big part of almost everyones adolescent lives.The case study for Duck Amuck was very interesting as well. The first time i had every seen this wasn't until college in a film class, but it was cool to watch all the rules being broken and the artist showing his presence in the cartoon. The article then explains others modes of animation that are less conventional. As i was reading through the different types i actually had cartoon network on and adult swim was on. A lot of the shows featured in their line up are pretty experimental. The narrative style is almost always strange or offbeat. Aqua teen hunger force often used live action explosions instead of animated ones. It cool to get to write this response again after having some more experience with animating. I can be pretty confident our adam and eve acid trip would be called abstract. It has a loose story line in the beginning but from there it gets a little crazy.the end of the article talks about non-objective non-linear animation. These are animations that deal mostly with line color and shape and usually correspond with the soundtrack. i haven't been exposed to too much of this type of animation but from what i have seen i have liked. The most recent being Paper Rad this is a cartoon of expanding shapes colors and line that go to a sort of electronic soundtrack there are little characters but they never really have any purpose besides visually. The barrage of color and movement is almost mesmerizing. I really liked this article and it might have just persuaded me to take modes of animation in my near future.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
C4
Ok im sorry my entries have been so miniscule as off now im new to blogging ive never had one but this topic ive been really excited about.. actually its really the only thing ive been doing all week. I almost completely tuned out all other school work. Sorry shannon but its true I am also a studio minor and this kind of hands on work with film is soo interesting to me. Getting my hands dirty playin g with bleach cutting out magazines and splattering paint and oil all over my house has been the highlight of my college experience. Lucky i live with my partner so we can fuck up out house as a unit. Our living room looked like a bomb went off in a third grade art class .. minus the bleach i keep finding pieces of tape in the carpet and bit of magazines in the carpet but its completely worth it. Learning that i could mask of piece of film and bleach the entire rest of clear was awesome .. besides the purple stains we have all over our kitchen now as well as the numerous toxins ive taken in through my skin.. fuck it .. it for the good of the film. I was away for the weekend and i came bac k to see Dylan had already done two strips of magazine transfer and they were pinned to our wall i had barely un packed my car before i had magazines and tape in front of me trying to fines red yellows and oranges to create my fire section. the colors were a simple way to represent the word fire but what other ways could i do this burning paper.. flammable labels? these ideas have all gone through my head testing some out some still up there waiting to be release some how. I actually took a black and white photography class this summer and had about 50 negatives of a bone fire i built for a project that have disappeared in my house and now im kicking myself for being soo unorganized. Ps shot gun any off these ideas if anyone reads my blog and steals them then ur a fake and as bad the script stealers in hollywood u communist. i fire myself sticking tape to everything that has any ink on it to see how well i can transfer it. I had actually be introduced to this process freshman year while watching a roommate make fake Id's. He would scratch out the last digit on a drivers license and print out a small number off the computer and stick it to packing tape then rub hot water or saliva on the back of the paper to take the pulp off. I realized a day after andre showed us this process thats where i had seen it before. oh the circle of life.well in conclusion i hope everyone trembles in the wake of our film.... or at least we do something no ones else has done and hopefully dont make the projector explode but who knows maybe thats what im trying to do for fire youll never know till the day of our film that could be the culmination. C4 taped to the film strip think about it
Thursday, September 4, 2008
this article was very interesting for the amateur film maker who is new to the experimental world. most of us grew up in the age of digital film. I have had a mini Dv camera since middle school, so i had never experience using real film whether be in still photography or moving pictures. This summer was the first time ive ever developed photos myself in photography 101. The whole film realm is still a mystery to me and the beginning of this article is almost like a film for dummies. It gives all the different types, the mechanisms and the way a projection actually works. this is all so new to me and very exciting. He goes on into the editing process and give some pointers. this is a great article for every film student. its inspiring and it gives you the means to go out an do it. brakage seems to be trying to pull people into is his field of film. good stuff
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
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pablo picasso's full name was Pablito Diego Jose Santiago Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispin Crispiniano de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Blasco y Picasso Lopez
RE: nudes of that disney channel girl from highschool musical
the bombardment of color and raw guerilla shot images really kept my attention to my surprise. I honestly think after 5 semesters as a film student im finally starting to enjoy and maybe even understand experimental work. Its such a shock to have so many shapes and colors and effects constantly coming in and out of frame, concealing parts of the image or silhouetting the subject. The piece really kept me interested the entire time. I felt like i was in a count by numbers acid trip. Or a really fucked up version of sesame street learning shapes and colors with count crack-u-la featuring the band justice, and i liked it .. a lot. The percussion sound track really went with the collage of imagery. It did not take away from the images, instead it subtle accompanied it. The rhythm went with the progression of the film well. Scratch Film Junkies get some.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
1. Bro-tien
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Male ejaculate fluid. Especially amongst fraternity brothers, surfers and other brosephs.
Male ejaculate fluid. Especially amongst fraternity brothers, surfers and other brosephs.
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