Video Project original sound

http://youtu.be/hn5joOxpEtU

Please watch second version if we have time also.


OK, so for my video art project i wanted to do something of a psychological thriller where you aren't sure if i am real or a ghost or a figment of reeds imagination, or if reed is just having a breakdown. In this version i made it mostly silent with only a few key sound bits  as it is all supposed to be strange and haunting.
In the second version reed and i were playing around and he added the song to it and it ended up matching up perfectly somehow with every action, if i was able to go further with this project i would want it to be more like the second one because i feel it has a bigger impact.

 

^ kindof my inspiration

 

version B of final

http://youtu.be/Adb8RaloDfA

not for a grade
we just liked it this way with the music

Hatsune Miku and how i hate anime.

So the idea of a Vocaloid is very interesting because it takes even entertainment industry jobs out of the hands of real live people, and creates an inanimate object to be desired by people. My problem with this, and honestly all anime as an art form, is the unrealistic proportions that make these characters desireable, to me, Anime is little more than cartoonized porn, and while i do understand that people that enjoy it could try and argue otherwise, i have zero respect for it. Big eyes, long legs short skirts and unrealistic proportions are created to form a character people want to be. The problem is, no matter how hard people try to be the character in cosplay, they are never going to be able to perfectly achieve the roleplay-esque man-trophy look of the characters. i like real people and real looks, i like dirt and blood and scrapes and uneven eyebrows, women who are unrefined and people who make mistakes. Quinton Tarentino represents reality more accurately in his archeatypes than any kind of anime. Anime is too much of just people living in a fantasy world for my taste, a world where singers are perfect drawings, and voices are completely generated. i support human error.

scopitones videos now and then!

now
vs. scopitones
then

Scopitones was cool because it really illustrated the postmodern crisis in all of the covers i never even knew about such as this one.

losing my phone; confusing a campus

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http://youtu.be/v90C97HEV50

Propaganda vs. Advertising

First let me post the definition of each word for your viewer needs.:

Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position by presenting only one side of an argument

Advertising is a form of communication for marketing and used to encourage or persuade an audience (viewers, readers or listeners; sometimes a specific group) to continue or take some new action

As you can read from the definition they are very similar and yet propaganda seems to have a negative assosciation with it while advertising is just a part of ur everyday lives. In my opinion advertising can sometimes be like propaganda as it is selling something without showing the side f its competition but advertising is usually considered less harmful because it is selling a product instead of an idea. Sometimes advertising crosses the line into propaganda when it is selling an image or idea along with the product, like in the video we watched in class about us being the product of television, advertising can be a way of selling social norms to a public subtly, this is a form of brainwashing as much as propaganda speeches are.This is dangerous. A society that is uninformed about all of the sides of adervtisements and images and products, can be easily swayed into being emotionally attached to something false.

eva and adele and flash mobs

Eva and adele like to say t hat they invented their own sex. They are a couple who has used plastic surgery makeup and clothing to become more or less the same person. They also enjoy claiming to be from the future.Eva still has her man parts but won to have her sex changed to female because that is who she feels she is on the inside. The couple has been together 22 years. I like that they are absurd, but i dislike how into their own image they are. They are shameless self promoters, because they have to be t make money, but its less respectable than an artist who is strange as hell trying to be normal and still pulling through as themself anyway, like man ray.

As for flash mobs, i love them. I would love to be apart of one like the freeze one because i can't dance, but i liked this one alot it was so upbeat and happy i couldn't help but smile too. what a cool thing.

iconoclasts

Iconoclasts deliberately destroy religioous icons with some kind of religious or political motive. Orlan was an iconoclast when she dressed as st. theresa and turned her into a sexual figure, dancing with crosses that were not always upright. Orlan was an extreme feminist so her art was done with a feminist statement of the way women were viewed and used in cultures and religions.

4th dimensional chair

i wish to say and joseph beuys.

The i wish to say blog is a project by Shannon Oring to get peoples voices heard. she has a type writer set up on a page for people to dictate what they think the president should know, she then sends them to the whitehouse. To this dates she says that more than 2000 postcards have been sent to the whitehouse. The website is very interesting to explore and if you look further you can find other projects like the "creative fix" where a bunch of people are taped saying in one minute what they would do t fix the country.
Joseph bueys was an interesting artist, perhaps most well known for explaining art to a dead rabbit, which is both strange and beautiful. He had kindof a naturalistic statement in a lot of his pieces
This kindof got me talking with my room mate about insanity and artists and why it's ok for artist to be crazy and not committed to a looney bin and what we came up with is that most off people are artistically inclined but the only people to be able to live real lives are the ones who do something with their talent and make it a career. Some serial killers believe they are artists and who's to argue? but they are not able to contain their art to even the edge of accepted insanity and are therefor not celebrated.

the dream machine, what a trip,

Ok so Brion Gysin developed this machine supposedly inspired by the book "The Living Brain". It is a cylinder with slots cut out with a light in the center, it rotates. Viewers of the machine go into trance like states and sometimes feel surrounded by shapes and colors brought on by the dreammachine. sometimes it is reported as being very intense but it is escapable by just opening up your eyes.

I think this machine is fantastic, it induces a trip and alters your state of mind without drugs involved. Im surprised more hippies have not found the location of this machine and just sat there for hours in front of it.

bauhaus

Bauhaus was one of the most important art movements. It was a proponent of modernism and an ode to simplicity and functionality. It was started as an architectural movement in Germany that made building design into art.Bauhaus made mass production and individuality a boundary-less thing. It was innovative in that it was again ne of those first to be done kind of things. The movement made people yet again scratch their heads and really extend their notions of what was art.

grid project

creeping on my roomate.

DADA

"I destroy the drawers of the brain and of social organization: spread demoralization wherever I go and cast my hand from heaven to hell, my eyes from hell to heaven, restore the fecund wheel of a universal circus to objective forces and the imagination of every individual." -Tristan Tzara
The DaDa movement was an act of rebellion from an underground sick and tired of the world around them. It was a questioning of status quo and mocked all seriousness of such a thing.
Tristan Tzar transported ideas into the sounds they made, he gave meaning to gibberish and therefore made fun of meaningful things.
A believer in prgress Tzara thought that the absurdist ideals would be a luanching point for new ways of thought to step in. He created an open door in art for nonsense and daydreams.

why apple?

so far all of the posts so far have been very theoetical but the one that seemed the most accurate was that Jobs had just come back from an apple farm and thought the name was fun and spirtied and less cold than IBM.
some fun theories do include though;
It was a tribute to Apple Records, the music label of the Beatles.
Jobs & Wozniak wanted their startup to be in front of Atari in the phone book.
And I've even heard it having to do with Newton somewhere too.

Ray Kurzweil

Kurzweil led the field in optical character recognition and  text to speech translator, this made him beloved of the blind community. he is a futurist and avid scifi fan  and writer. He believes in the extension of human life through  the combination of humans and machines, And of the Singularity which is when the bluriing of artificial intelligence and control will become a reality.He is also trying really hard to extend his life as long as possible putting faith in cryogenics and such sciences for after he dies.

radio & television

I listened to pirates on otr. com  it was annoying listening to the commercials and messages as the radio announcer had to pretend to care about each product, but the actual episode did create mental suspense, it was neat. i could not find how to share the link though.

For the television history website i went straight to marilyn monroes page because she interests me the most, there was little to do with television on there and i found no links to share, it was however educational about the starlet. I went further into the website and played with the timeline, that was a fun review of what we had learned in class and it was cool to see all of the pictures.

Listening to war of the worlds with Stephanie Will:
http://youtu.be/OzC3Fg_rRJM
 I think unless you missed the beggining of the broadcast where it tells you it is a story show, there should be no reason to mistake this broadcast for real life. but then again, this technology was a new thing back then so maybe the idea of a story being read aloud was so new and strange it was easy to be convinced.

my finished flipbook project:
http://youtu.be/sQa6HkE8AcU

Walter carlos and singing in the rain

I love Malcolm McDowell. He is still amazing.

 

Walter Carlos was born male but always felt female, and so after her success with switched on bach she underwent sexual reassignment surgery to become the woman she felt like on the inside. She did alot of the music for A clockwork orange.

Singing in the rain was an improve by Malcolm McDowell because he thought the rape scene was too boring for him, it was a joke that went down in infamy amongst movie lovers everywhere.

color and sound

Color was revolutionizing film in the late 1930s. In the Wizard of Oz the emerald city was used to show off this new technology of shooting film on three different filters to combine and create a colored screen. Color made focus shift to whole other businesses of the trade like costuming and makeup.

Sound was interesting because deison was trying for sound on his old recordings too. The first talking picture was the jazz singer. In singing in the rain it explores all of the problems with the first few sound movies. the way that the soound was not matching up with the actors mouths reminded me of the later problems with translating foreign karate films to make the mouths match up and even later, the way sound and picture still might not match up on netflix while it loads. I think having sound and imag be two different tracks is a problem because of the possible delays but it must be done to keep the layers of a film intact.
  Bruce lee film with sound and mouth delay:
http://youtu.be/X6MGtupe_zw

napoleon and a great bank robbery

In "The Great Train Robbery" the first thing to be said is that the music doesn't fit with the emotion of the movie. But as the film went the innovation of the movement techniques of the picture were interesting. The movement captured from inside the train of the scenery outside the train, whether real or an effect was still interesting for its time.The hand coloring of the smoke was interesting and i can imagine how it would captivate an audience of its time.I think the landscape shots and movement with the train were honestly the most important contribution of this film as it gave a more realistic feel for the audience.

I found in my research that napoleon was a movie vastly underrated by the people of its time. The tryptych shot it was so famous for, should have recieved much more acclaim.The filming looked beautiful, and even into modern times has it been brought up for style.

"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."
Napoleon Bonaparte

cool stop motion and fritz

before i write on the assigned topic here are some cool stop motion links:
one is a music video for oren lavie, it is very pleasant
http://youtu.be/2_HXUhShhmY
Another is by Her Space Holiday it also uses stop motion, though not as creatively as Oren Lavie:
http://youtu.be/-3Gyw5iBz5o

then because of felix the cat i had to link fritz. for those who have not yet exposed themselves to his wonder.It's very sexual, very symbolic and very strange.
http://youtu.be/A9qMEL-xip4

a trip to the moon

A trip to the moon is very fantastical for its time, the set changes were relatively smooth and the concept was magical, the moon face and space exploration and science fictiony-ness of it all it very lofty for the early nineteen hundreds senseabilities.
this guy on youtube made the video of this into a modern electronic kind of music video: http://youtu.be/ndQ0FKa92J8
 i really like it, i think it's a cool adaptation.
on hugo, i really didn't know anyone who owned it and wasn't sure if we had to buy it so instead i watched clips from imdb. it looks beautiful, i like the film quality of it, and the capturing of an era, but i don't know how much it would interest me. I'm not a big fan of stories about children, and if it is anything like tin tin, which i did see, it would not be my cup f tea storywise

7 pieces of great technology

Peter pan flying on stage:
interesting use of behind the scenes coordination to make the scene look fluid and realistic.
http://youtu.be/Xkg2w5ZUIPg
This was the only link i really liked from the first page of the stage door, I've never taken spanish so i have no idea where the "next" button would be if there was one, instead i went on youtube for the other 6 links i liked from broadway i hope you do not mind.
Cats body makeup:
yes we went over cats in class, but, their make up is so incredable i had to include a link for them in the technology department.Here is a time lapse video of the makeup process:
http://youtu.be/pRBedNGILvk
Defying gravity from wicked did a smooth job of lifting Elphaba from the ground while she was singing

http://youtu.be/BHOBHM935co
jesus christ superstar used technlogy to create a fantastic stage for jesus to perform dramatically
http://youtu.be/J4IrdzD6x34

lion king also was magical in set production and pushing technolgy to make the story appealing to the audience
http://youtu.be/-pgZtzDj_7o

the little mermaid on broadway is so creative in making the water and land interact watch:
http://youtu.be/LebGcVGMM9k

And finally the set transition of mary poppins on broadway was so neat! watch as the light darkens on the lower house scene and brightens to show the rooftop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeaOH3TB22c&feature=share&list=PL86F0A07CAA44F9E6



I think the little mermaid production would interest me the most because it looks the most magical and fun, there were so many challenges in presenting an under the sea tale on stage, I would greatly appreciate it.

Jazz and josephine baker

Today was fascinating in class.
Jazz was a music movement starting in the black community that was faster paced and more fitting for the free speak easy era of american history.
When i think of jazz i mostly just think of this cartoon ;

http://youtu.be/akAEIW3rmvQ

but speak easies are good old fashioned American parties, and i'm very interested in the fringe value folk of any time.
I really was hoping for more exploration into burlesque and Moulin rouge clips. The make up and costumes are so imaginative and the art so beautiful i could watch it all day.
clips that popped into my mind for burlesque:
http://youtu.be/jqay9-U0vMQ
mr.brightside by the killers
and
Moulin Rouge
http://youtu.be/msFLf9x7s6M

Also, i love the flapper girl, i love F.Scott Fitzgeralds image of the flapper girl from the great gatsby, and i think that the recklessness of that image is ideal in every woman and should be relevant in every era.

opera lessons from Hey Arnold

http://youtu.be/m7cjNYc1_t0

On Opera and Things Unsaid:
Today we were shown clips from operas and interpretations of operas in class. I know that Madame Butterfly was supposed to be the one we wrote about but it did not hit me near as hard as Aria Liebestod by Franc Roddam, so it gets my attention first. The story was of a young couple and it lures you in with a beautiful love scene then breaks your heart with a double suicide. It's so lovely, I shared it on my facebook for my friends not in this class. The opera music did add to the film but I think any genre, any decent song would have complemented the film.

Madame butterfly was gorgeous in a way beyond  where my heart is. In other words, while I understood the importance of the story, it did not reach me where i'm at in life right now.My grandmother loves Geisha stories and world war romances but the old values and roles,... i don't know i just can't get in to them and cry as easily as i could with the first clip.

The mozart movie deffinately looked worth checking out, I love that we live off clips in this class because movies are some of my bestfriends. Really. I sat in my car outside the blockbuster in my hometown and cried for an hour this summer when it finally closed. Movies express things so beautifully that can't always be said. One day I will make a list post on this blog of all the great movies you should get into, but for now you guys are going to have to just wait for the here-and-there trailers I link when I feel like they should be mentioned.

Okay so the link I am posting is to a movie trailer for a movie called Kids. I am reccomending it to provide another example of AIDS' affect on 1990's entertainment. watch it.
http://youtu.be/3mzhq-js1qs

So I'm recommending a Book called Invisible monsters to the class today if anyone is interested in further understanding a new and strange perspective of body modification and the beauty that is destroying in order to make room for true originality. The book is by Chuck Palahniuk who is also the writer of Fight Club if that gives you any idea of the depth.
some quotes to peak your interest:

“When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“Fuck me. I'm so tired of being me. Me beautiful. Me ugly. Blonde. Brunette. A million fucking fashion makeovers that only leave me trapped being me.
Who I was before the accident is just a story now. Everything before now, before now, before now, is just a story I carry around. I guess that would apply to anybody in the world. What I need is a new story about who I am.
What I need to do is fuck up so bad I can't save myself.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Find good in what the world says is evil.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

 

I love this book, i think if you really enjoy understanding new ideas, you should check this book out and really wrap your mind around it.

class today

Class two is today, i emailed this link to my professor several ways i hope he got it. I hope i'm not forgetting something to do, i'm always forgetting something. This college thing... It's interesting.

Really looking forward to the rest of the class. The projects look awesome but im afraid of getting lost in the small assignments as is normal with my life.