TRON Opening Titles

http://work.gmunk.com/#1190820/TRON-Opening-Titles

this is absolutely amazing

Video Art

FINAL!
I made all of these paintings and used my friends iPad for the effects. I took a smart phone with a high quality video camera and video taped the iPad. I created a ghetto tripod to set the smart phone ontop of- a good distance away to get all of the video channels in frame. I then pressed record and took one of my paintings and moved it around behind the ipad to create the moving effect. I made about 20 short videos and uploaded them to final cut. I spent over 48 hours editing this film to how I wanted it. The music is abstract sound effects found on the cass lab computers. I really enjoy the music I added to this- it gives the video a creepy effect and although it is simple, it is my creation and something i am proud of
this is my favorite project I have made thus far and I really hope that it goes well in class :)

lavalamp mascot

For my illustration final we were assigned to create a mascot. at first I wanted to do a dinosaur but I couldn't get it to how I wanted. I was thinking back to last semester in SIM class and remembered learning about lavaliere microphones. They are the type you clip onto your shirt and take with you during presentations. But I never could remember what it was called. I was starring at my lava lamp back at home one day and realized i could use a lava lamp as some sort of connection with the microphone. I drew it up and added a lizard - I planned for the lizard because they are small, agile and can attach themselves to anything. The microphone will have this logo on it in the form of a sticker on the black clip that goes onto a shirt. 

this project was drawn, painted, scanned, and completed in illustrator using a vector and gradient mesh technique

for my grid project I choose a project my mom used to make me do when I was a kid. I was always hyperactive so to calm me down she decided to give me mindless craft projects to do. That I would often start, and not finish because I didn't have the attention span at that time. So anyway, when Santi said grid project I immdietetly thought of the latch hook rug kits that I used to buy, do 1/10th of and not start up again. This time I think It was time to complete one. It took me a while to come up with an idea for a design. I went to micheals to buy a kit with as many colors as possible. My idea was to take the premade set pattern and transform it into my own design using the colors given to me. This was more of a challenge then I originally had thought. Who knew pixelizing and image would be so difficult? Well after about 2 hours in the Cass Lab trying to stretch an image of panda to grid size, I found a template website that helped me out with making a grid.
Choosing the image was the hardest part next to laying it out on the actual grid. I needed to pick an image that I could use all of the colors given to me in the kit. I went with the polariod photograph panda because it seemed like a not so difficult design and fit the color scheme I had.
I spent, over 48 hours doing this project I think
It took me a long time to match up everything correctly. I had to continuously count each square on the grid to make sure my pattern matched accurately to my template. Often times I was off by 1 square or two and would have to take out all the string and re do it. Pain in the ass.
I over all love the finished product of my grid project
It's something I am truly proud of and represents me, because I am- well. Apanda

paul allen

Microsoft and Google- probably the two leading technological websites outside of Apple we have seen thus far- Paul allen who is Microsoft's co-founder writes a novel called Idea Man about his work done at the company. In this he explains how their strategy was to copy Googles ideas. What is the point of copying another companies ideas? I understand that collaboration means two heads are better than one, but I can't believe that the ultimate strategy all along was to straight up copy their ideas. Getting to know your enemy is one thing, keep your enemies closer- but stealing is a bit over the line, Microsoft

Stealing other companies ideas is not going to put you on the fast track to stardom.
Don't get yourself to hyped up for an idea that may not be anything of what the clientele wants.
I think Microsoft definetely has some work to do with the rise of Apple and Google.
They produce good products, but it seems that they are doing the same shit they did years ago when they took the idea from Apples GUI system and made it their own

It seems to me Microsoft needs to get their shit together and make a product that outshines its competitors instead of copy them

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/18/paul-allen-bill-gates-google_n_850781.html

Phase 4

After about 4 weeks of riding my longboard around with my face on it,
I think this has seen its last days.
Honestly it's going to be sad to see this project leave but I think its time.
I'm surprised that so many photos managed to stay onto my board even to this day. I ride Sheila every day, so I guess this tells me my rubber cement was doing its job for this project! Right now the board looks even more destroyed since the last time I took photos. The paper is no longer hard, it has become a soft material that is doing wonders for my grip tape [not]
The only super frusterating thing about this project-
when the trucks area started to come apart the faces on the bottom would drag on the ground as I rode- probably not the best for my wheels

the coolest part of the final phase of this project- in the center my face which was behind the seran wrap the entire time is now gone only leaving ripped plastic. I think this is a metaphor for me jumping out of my skin ;) finally I am no longer trapped- or so it seems.
thank GOD classes are over

Phase 3

And so it gets more destroyed. I really enjoy this art project of mine. Dispite all the weird looks I get from people like, what the hell did you do to your board? I really think this is one of the most creative things I've ever come up with thus far in my art career. I expanded my horizons a lot with this project. I like to watch the papers crumble off my board day by day it gets destroyed. Even the best projects can't always be preserved forever :)

Song Recreations

Three songs that have been transformed into different works. Some may say it's plagiarizing but I just think that recreation of a song and making it your own is just using someone's original idea and adding a personal spin on it. As long as the song is clearly remade and the tones are different covering songs is very cool and can help lyrics be heard and felt in different emotional ways from the different song styles.


Discovery- I Want You Back REMAKE

The Jackson Five - I want you Back ORIGINAL

Discovery is an indie electronic band that creates songs using a synthesizer. The words of this song are changed, sped up and slowed down. The pitch of this bands voice is shaky and high compared to the original song. The overall tone of the transformed song is "trippy" and chill. The original song by the Jackson five uses a piano, drums and an electric guitar. The piano is the most definite portion of this song, it creates a happy tone and upbeat feeling. In the song by Discovery a loop machine is used, and not a piano. In the original song it is sung by clearly more then one voice, and in the recreated song there are only two different voices. The recreated song's voices are stretched and sounds are repeated 


hey ya- Outkast ORIGINAL

Hey Ya- Matt Weddle REMAKE






This recreation of the song has one acoustic guitar and one artist. The beat is much slower and the flow and tone of the song is much softer. Words from the refrain 'hey ya' and 'alright' are lengthened into full meters whereas in the original song by Outkast the words are shot, fast, and choppy. In this recreation each word is fully annunciated. In the original song, pianos, drums, horns, and percussion instruments are used.


Sing for the moment - Aerosmith ORIGINAL

Sing for the moment - Eminem REMAKE

The original song is sung by Aerosmith in a jazzy type of tune. The recreated version by Eminem is hiphop and the words are faster. Eminem also changed some of the lyrics in his remake

Leigh Bowery

Leigh Bowery was an openly gay, open minded, beautiful spirit with shocking ideas. He used fashion to emanate his love for the female. He was part of the the club kid generation. They wore outrageous makeup and audacious clothing. He would go to a club dressed up in these outfits to make the biggest impression on the crowd as possible. Standing out was the philosophy of this group. Bowery wanted to be, and loved being noticed by everyone. When he entered the club Taboo people welcomed him with open arms. Using a range of materials to create his fashion clothes he took away the idea of prejudices. Acceptance of the skin you were born into was something he valued. He wanted people to look at him and not judge him for the way he dressed. Hiding himself, he embodied many types of people through his costumes and make up. A prostitute, a drag queen, an indian, whatever he felt that night he wore proudly. All his own designs.  He was practically famous in the scene of night life. He was an 80s fashion designer. He impersonated gods and goddesses, animals, children, women. He had a strong passion for the human body and its form. He liked to wear multiple parts and wanted everyone to accept who they were as a person because everyone is originally different.

Leigh Bowery was infected with HIV and kept it a secret. The disease caused him to form red lesion spots on his neck. To cover them up Leigh put spotted makeup over his face and body to hide the identity of the HIV. In a way, he understood his fate yet was not afraid to show it to the public through art. Yet, in reality no one knew he had the virus but at the same time would proudly wear his spots in the form of art to the public. 

Leigh Bowery was also a performance artist. He studied fashion at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology fLeigh Bowery 

http://www.leighbowery.net/xtravaganza/articles.php?lng=en&pg=74