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.

this is a stop motion video(the first and only ive ever made) for intro to production along with my group VTD which stephen brame another 6x1er was apart of not as good as EatPes but his kinda reminded me of ours

Slangsta

1 up, 2 down
someone who is slightly gangsta
"he is just slangsta damn it"

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

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