Wednesday, October 22, 2008
the medium is the message
everything has a message. Everything that is used has a sub-context and the sub-context has a sub-context and so on. The idea that a word or a point of view or lighting can give a message without say a word, is the main idea that the author is trying to get across. The entire reading rest of the reading is examples of how a medium can be use to portray a message. Honestly this was not very interesting, the author could have talked more about the concept of materials and methods and less about who used them. There was just too much history filler to allow me to learn something from the reading. The main idea of the paper was clearly portrayed in the first page and a half.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
concept map
nature
human nature- old man, time, death, age, gorwth
Nature- growth, decay, destroyed, take over, over growth.
Nature in humanity
humanity in nature
homes in the wood, homes taking over woods
peolpe taking over woods and land
human nature- old man, time, death, age, gorwth
Nature- growth, decay, destroyed, take over, over growth.
Nature in humanity
humanity in nature
homes in the wood, homes taking over woods
peolpe taking over woods and land
artist statement inter
In the images that I am experimenting with, I am putting together a few simple motifs/ideas.
The first is time. The old man sitting in the chair is symbolic of our time as people on this earth. He is adorn with spanish moss creating a faux-beard. It i the nature of human existence to become old and it is this nature that we try so hard to fight. Another aspect of this struggle with nature can be seen in our homes. We take what we want from the land with little regard to the consequences of our actions. Here the house is being overwhelmed by the force of nature. When our time is spent, nature will move back in and take back what was once its own. The main scene is an agricultural setting. This scene is important because of the way we use nature and how we abuse it.
The first is time. The old man sitting in the chair is symbolic of our time as people on this earth. He is adorn with spanish moss creating a faux-beard. It i the nature of human existence to become old and it is this nature that we try so hard to fight. Another aspect of this struggle with nature can be seen in our homes. We take what we want from the land with little regard to the consequences of our actions. Here the house is being overwhelmed by the force of nature. When our time is spent, nature will move back in and take back what was once its own. The main scene is an agricultural setting. This scene is important because of the way we use nature and how we abuse it.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Artist Statement
In to the End
This piece is simple in concept with subtile suggestions of emotion. The constant and consistent motion of waves invokes a sense of serenity in the scene. Being surrounded by the sounds of the wave crashing and the boats playing a symphony some where off in the great expanse. Engulfed by sound, the viewer will be immersed into the scene and find themselves peaceful and alone. As the scene fades to a view of twinkling stars, the feeling of insignificance will become more evident. This feeling, however is not meant to be negative, rather it is meant to be empowering. Through the next scenes, this feeling of empowerment of self should grow. I will leave the rest to the imagination. Just enjoy the experience.
This piece is simple in concept with subtile suggestions of emotion. The constant and consistent motion of waves invokes a sense of serenity in the scene. Being surrounded by the sounds of the wave crashing and the boats playing a symphony some where off in the great expanse. Engulfed by sound, the viewer will be immersed into the scene and find themselves peaceful and alone. As the scene fades to a view of twinkling stars, the feeling of insignificance will become more evident. This feeling, however is not meant to be negative, rather it is meant to be empowering. Through the next scenes, this feeling of empowerment of self should grow. I will leave the rest to the imagination. Just enjoy the experience.
learn some flash...
http://www.entheosweb.com/Flash/default.asp
http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Flash/1
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash/index.htm (coding)
These site are supposed to help someone understand flash. Well they only kind of helped and still I can not do what I wanted to.
http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Flash/1
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash/index.htm (coding)
These site are supposed to help someone understand flash. Well they only kind of helped and still I can not do what I wanted to.
Flash, what a pain.
all 1000+ frames are in and since i did the waves and background as different layers I can not make a cross fade in to two wave scenes... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
remaking the audio
I have to totally re make the audio to match the piece.
The horns are now more epic and there are no airplanes.
The horns are now more epic and there are no airplanes.
15 more hours...
after fixing the lighting, timing, and other things, I have managed to have something that is useable.
Now all I have to do is get it to work in flash and make the audio for it.
Now all I have to do is get it to work in flash and make the audio for it.
20 WAvES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOLY CRAP!
20 waves is near impossible, the lighting is hard to not get reflections.
paper and acrylic medium.
20+ hours of set making and shooting later... photoshop time.
20 waves is near impossible, the lighting is hard to not get reflections.
paper and acrylic medium.
20+ hours of set making and shooting later... photoshop time.
better idea after talking...
Lots of waves, more atmospheric.
No narrative
20 sets of waves?
sun or moon, rise or set...
Moon... setting
I have to remake the sound piece to match video... it is to hard to make the video match music.
No narrative
20 sets of waves?
sun or moon, rise or set...
Moon... setting
I have to remake the sound piece to match video... it is to hard to make the video match music.
concept mapping
I want to build off the ocean sound piece
Waves, creatures, a rising sun, setting sun, moon?
A boat entering the scene, gets filled with... consumed by sea.
Waves, creatures, a rising sun, setting sun, moon?
A boat entering the scene, gets filled with... consumed by sea.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
artist statements
Loop 1:
Loop one expresses the concepts of temporal perception. In the piece, I used sound clips from Allen Ginsburg, Martin Luther King Jr., unknown fanatical preacher and a man reading Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Allen Ginsburg talks about how the future will perceive him and his generation and his speculations. MLK jr. talks about changing the future because of an unjust past and dangerous present. The fanatical preacher is representational of the extremist’s beliefs when the future seems to be most uncertain. Compositionally, the piece is laid out to make time feel uncertain and approached with much anxiety.
Loop 2:
Loop two is a symbolic representation of entropy. What better sounds than the sounds of space to help define the ultimate entropy. The universe is in constant decay, immediately after its creation it began to fall apart. In my piece I recreated that sense of birth, which lead to chaos and decay. With its defined beginning, middle and end, this sound piece gives the listener a real sense of entropy as it is defined with sound.
Loop 3:
Loop three talks about the world’s media culture and how it has consumed us all. The sound bits are from Russian TV and radio and some from the US media as well. The use of Russian clips is meant to be ironic and also telling of how America has poisoned the world with their Technicolor dreams and consumerist nightmares. So it follows that the world is full of static and advertisements and mindless entertainment that would control us all.
Loop 4:
Sound as an image. The rain falls hard during those long night in the northern Pacific. The waves and wind come crashing down like the siege of war that presses forth in the foggy air. As you the listener, sit huddled in a small boat offshore listening to destruction of your home. Sitting, hoping for a sign that it is over; there is a break in the shooting; have we won or is there even a home to return to?
Loop one expresses the concepts of temporal perception. In the piece, I used sound clips from Allen Ginsburg, Martin Luther King Jr., unknown fanatical preacher and a man reading Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Allen Ginsburg talks about how the future will perceive him and his generation and his speculations. MLK jr. talks about changing the future because of an unjust past and dangerous present. The fanatical preacher is representational of the extremist’s beliefs when the future seems to be most uncertain. Compositionally, the piece is laid out to make time feel uncertain and approached with much anxiety.
Loop 2:
Loop two is a symbolic representation of entropy. What better sounds than the sounds of space to help define the ultimate entropy. The universe is in constant decay, immediately after its creation it began to fall apart. In my piece I recreated that sense of birth, which lead to chaos and decay. With its defined beginning, middle and end, this sound piece gives the listener a real sense of entropy as it is defined with sound.
Loop 3:
Loop three talks about the world’s media culture and how it has consumed us all. The sound bits are from Russian TV and radio and some from the US media as well. The use of Russian clips is meant to be ironic and also telling of how America has poisoned the world with their Technicolor dreams and consumerist nightmares. So it follows that the world is full of static and advertisements and mindless entertainment that would control us all.
Loop 4:
Sound as an image. The rain falls hard during those long night in the northern Pacific. The waves and wind come crashing down like the siege of war that presses forth in the foggy air. As you the listener, sit huddled in a small boat offshore listening to destruction of your home. Sitting, hoping for a sign that it is over; there is a break in the shooting; have we won or is there even a home to return to?
it wont let me post images!?!?!?!?!?!?!
I have all the images on the CD that i used for the project.
loop 3 research
international broadcasting started in the 1950s
History of commercials: closely intertwined with the history of psychology. Designed to sway opinions, peak interests, encourage consumer activity
Capitalism depends on commercials and advertising to survive and thrive
Subliminal advertising was made illegal in the late 60s
Capitalist Russia now depends on the same advertising and brainwashing that runs America (oh, the irony)
History of commercials: closely intertwined with the history of psychology. Designed to sway opinions, peak interests, encourage consumer activity
Capitalism depends on commercials and advertising to survive and thrive
Subliminal advertising was made illegal in the late 60s
Capitalist Russia now depends on the same advertising and brainwashing that runs America (oh, the irony)
loop 2 research
NASA website
Observatories collecting sounds from space
Radiation decay translates into audible sound as it hits the atmosphere
Reflecting protons off atmosphere creates the whistle sounds
Universe is in a constant state of decay: Big Bang Theory
Sounds collected by large satellite dishes designed to collect data from space
Observatories collecting sounds from space
Radiation decay translates into audible sound as it hits the atmosphere
Reflecting protons off atmosphere creates the whistle sounds
Universe is in a constant state of decay: Big Bang Theory
Sounds collected by large satellite dishes designed to collect data from space
loop 1 research
mid 20th century was a time of changing ideas, attitudes and perspectives
Martin Luther King
Alan Ginsburg
They tried to inspire the world to change through the use of powerful words
The pen is mightier than the sword
These
These new ideas scared some and inspired others
Cold war
The apocalypse
Change can be scary, but so can stagnation
Martin Luther King
Alan Ginsburg
They tried to inspire the world to change through the use of powerful words
The pen is mightier than the sword
These
These new ideas scared some and inspired others
Cold war
The apocalypse
Change can be scary, but so can stagnation
loop 4
Sounds of the sea
Waves... Constant movement...ebb & flow
POWER
Harnessing the power of the sea: we try, we succeed to a certain degree, but it is always more powerful,a losing battle
War
WWII: much fighting happened at sea
The great powers of the world fought eachother using and facing the greatest power... Nature
Mother nature sure can be a mother
Makes us feel small
Helpless
Alone
Overwhelming
War at sea from the human perspective
Fog: fear, mystery, suspense, danger, isolation, communication
Fog of war, fog at sea
Waves... Constant movement...ebb & flow
POWER
Harnessing the power of the sea: we try, we succeed to a certain degree, but it is always more powerful,a losing battle
War
WWII: much fighting happened at sea
The great powers of the world fought eachother using and facing the greatest power... Nature
Mother nature sure can be a mother
Makes us feel small
Helpless
Alone
Overwhelming
War at sea from the human perspective
Fog: fear, mystery, suspense, danger, isolation, communication
Fog of war, fog at sea
Loop 3
culture
...and it's degredation
Media culture: tv radio movies
Advertisement=power over consumers
Best advertisement wins the dollar
Culture imposed on us by the media...
...we eagerly adopt it...
...it controls us.
America was subject zero. The virus has infected the world, and we have lost what we once had.
It seems to be getting worse.is it terminal...fatal???
Casualties: rich traditions, language, knowledge, species richness, diversity, architecture, the arts... Etc...
Adventure in travel seems almost lost... Golden arches on every continent
When will it STOP?!?!?
...and it's degredation
Media culture: tv radio movies
Advertisement=power over consumers
Best advertisement wins the dollar
Culture imposed on us by the media...
...we eagerly adopt it...
...it controls us.
America was subject zero. The virus has infected the world, and we have lost what we once had.
It seems to be getting worse.is it terminal...fatal???
Casualties: rich traditions, language, knowledge, species richness, diversity, architecture, the arts... Etc...
Adventure in travel seems almost lost... Golden arches on every continent
When will it STOP?!?!?
loop 2
what defines entropy?
everything is in a state of entropy
everything begins exists and ends
broad idea of ... space
time-space continuum
Breakdown of space into it's components
We are even present in the vacuum
Sounds of space are nothing more than the byproducts of radioactive decay and particle collisions on the atmosphere
everything is in a state of entropy
everything begins exists and ends
broad idea of ... space
time-space continuum
Breakdown of space into it's components
We are even present in the vacuum
Sounds of space are nothing more than the byproducts of radioactive decay and particle collisions on the atmosphere
Monday, September 8, 2008
loop 1
time: movement through time
from past to future, foresight, present
views of the past as it references the present
vantage point in time
continuation of time, repetitive
no resolution
time is forever
loop 1 is has 2 versions, a 30sec version (too short) and a 1 min. version that is the complete version.
The complete version takes the listener through all the aspects of relative time that I explained above.
from past to future, foresight, present
views of the past as it references the present
vantage point in time
continuation of time, repetitive
no resolution
time is forever
loop 1 is has 2 versions, a 30sec version (too short) and a 1 min. version that is the complete version.
The complete version takes the listener through all the aspects of relative time that I explained above.
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