Video Art Piece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvta9UzeC24

Sorry the video would not post but the link above is the correct link.

My idea was to decontextualize a ps3 controller to represent it as a music machine. So I took a video of someone playing a game and broke down the individual noises and made them into a coherent song.

Sight Short Film

I LOVE THIS SHORT FILM! I have seen it before and I didn't really appreciate it for the technology aspect but holy crap! I definitely think this is stuff we will see in the near future. I really liked the film aspect to it and the cinematography was outstanding. Without all the graphics this short would not of been as cool or as powerful. I really liked there eyes and how they showed up as screens. I also think that if something like this were to become a reality it would become very hard to tell what is digital and what is not digital. For me the most interesting part is the games and how there lives revolve around games. I think that is a really cool aspect of integration from our gaming systems today.
This will be my last blog post for art 211 and I am really sad this class is over ;( It was a great class and Santi thank you for making me join this class it was really great!!!

Golan Levin interview and Website

Interview :
I really liked watching the interview and see him answer questions from his fans. I got really annoyed with the video because it was filmed with the connected and he filmed it in 3d space. My eyes started to hurt after watching it for about 5 minutes. After about 8 minutes my eyes hurt so bad I could not watch it and could only listen to it. I think this video form is something for the future and something we will see a lot more of but for now it was to distracting from the content of the video. Aside form the video I really liked the part where he talked about how we should all know coding but not just physical but software to web to java to ruby, so that way we have a really good overall view of the technology.

Website :
Out of all the cool projects he has posted on his website I choose to write about the digital bar. I really liked this concept and thought it was really cool because it was something someone of all ages could enjoy. I also really like how they interact table to table and could bring the whole bar together. It was also really cool that if someone put a drink down the little fish would circle the drink and create almost the same colors as the liquid in the glass. I wish I had the chance to see this in person.

Sheryl Oring

I wish I could have met this lady and had her write one of the I Wish to Say Letters. I think this is an incredible idea and an outstanding way to get people to send letters to the president. One of the letters that caught my attention was a letter from a 9 year old girl. I really like seeing the innocence in the letter of how the little girl just says "you are the best". I wish everyone could see things through the eyes of a little kid and still have the innocence we dream of. I think her idea of writing letters captures the true feelings of people and shares it with the president.

Massive Attack

A group that changed the world of music. In 1991 they released the first album "Blue Lines". I really like there rhythmic beats and trance like music. I feel this band set some new boundaries for the style of music. After listening to almost the whole album "Blue Lines" I feel in love with them. I really like there music.
After following up on some of there lyrics I found it very interesting that the group had some big political pushes. I really liked finding that they stood up for what they believed in and that they we not afraid to speak out about it such as the war in Iraq. I am going to keep listening to there music and reading more about them.

3 Video art examples from videoartes.com

HOLY CRAP! The things some people create is amazing! I really liked going through this website and I am saving it for future digging. It was hard for me to pick my 3 favorites since I spent about 4 hours on the site going through the videos. But for some unknown reason I was drawn to the stop motions ones.

I really liked this one video because ever since I was little I have been skateboarding.

The next video I chose was one with legos and music because it is a visual representation on everything we have been learning.

http://vimeo.com/180261

Lastly I really like the time lapse effects in this video.

http://vimeo.com/4166681

Performance Art Critique

Gina - No video to see

Andrea - I really like the idea! I love how it works with your major and how you asked people to paint slogans that they remembered. Although it may not have gone to plan and they painted random things I really liked the idea behind it. I wish you were standing up when being painted.

Bryan - THE COMPUTERS! Amazing idea. I just wish you made people look at you and put yourself in the way to force them to look. 

Kirby - I really liked everything you did. You made people stop driving to pay attention to you! Perfect! The only thing I would change would be so you could see peoples reactions.

Holly - No video to see (it said private). I really like the idea after reading your description. Just wish I could see it. 

Marveen - You could of done much better. Holding the camera directly over them took away from the whole project. We also could not see any reactions. 

Katelyn - I LOVE IT! Great idea with the sign and how you went onto a main street and distracted people. I wish you could do a bigger sign and kind of play around with it. 

Leah - Great project! The paint really shows peoples emotions and I think you did a great job. I wish you brought the board to class to see. 

Ralph - Great idea and concept! I loved seeing people interact with the piece and become one with your art. It made the idea come to life in many ways and helped you. 

Kyle - AMAZING!!!!!!!! 

5 artists

BLOG: Considering the grouping I used for this module, choose 5 different music "movements" from the ones listed above and add one group/musician/performer to that category. Why did you choose this artist? Why do you consider their work fits with technology and electronic music in their context? Post their works and your comments on your blogs.

1. Gummy - WarHorse 
I would add this song to the new electronic/producer dj culture. He creates all his music by hand in logic and it reminds me of the 808 in how the beats are consistant and change through modulation. This artist is part of the new age rave scene that is starting to associate with molly and new age drugs. 

2. Opiou - In Search of King Anchovy 
I would add this song to experimental category. It sounds as if they are sampling a ton of different beats and noises and mixing them together to create this mix. This song I think would associate with the house scene and the more hard core drugs such as heron. 

3. Avicii vs Krewella 

These two artists are constantly mixing songs and remaking songs to sound even better. They are the new age post modern crises. I would assume these songs are associated again with molly or the new age drugs. The technology in creating this song is part of our new digital revolution and is made completely on the computer. 

4. Anna Sun - Walk the Moon

I would add this song to the punk movement. Although it maybe doesn't fit perfectly it is when they stated to mess with voice alterations and instrument alterations. This band uses a lot of distortions in there music. I would associate this genre of music with the medical marijuana movement. For punk the music was an outlet for that generation and this indie revolution is the outlet for my generation. 

5. Beyonce - Run this world

Aside from the beats being sampled and sounding like and electronic version of the tr-808 and all the distortions and modulations. This song would be added to the girl power category. This is a new age song about how girls run the world and are taking over. It is a song that stands up for them and makes them powerful. 

Icona pop live

http://youtu.be/yGnrkZrO1AQ

http://youtu.be/Tc3Sv-mAMLU

Deadmau video http://youtu.be/Hr2Bc5qMhE4

Performance Art

For my performance art piece I chose to mock the communication department and how we are supposed to be the ones at communicated but yet it still feels like we are in ancient times communicating. 

The link wont load but here it is. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2W3quB8xQI&feature=youtu.be

Northern Soul and the Smiths

WOW! I find this extremely fascinating. I feel like every generation we have with music an underground movement comes with it but for this I think it was more of a lifestyle than a movement. I feel like it is almost comparable to the indie-rock and marijuana movement we are seeing today. I think its really cool to see how someones lack of success in the states can transfer to there extreme success over seas. I wish I could step back in time and visit some of these dance clubs and go to the concerts. I feel music back than was an escape from the times and with the digital age it has lost that touch. I began to research some more Northern Soul artist to see if I recognized any of them. Of course I did not reconize any of them but I found this list of the top 100 and I clicked through and played some of the songs. Click here  

808 Drum, 808 Kick, 808 Woopwubwubwub

The mix board that started it all the TR-808. From revolutionary to groundbreaking to amazing to everything else you can think! This device was the coolest thing under the sun in the 1980's. Every artists, every dj, every music composer had to have one of these crazy devices. All it did was create drum beats along with other instruments. This machine paved the way for all modern music we have today and is still being quotes in some of the worlds most famous songs today.

I found these three songs that still today, even though not made on an 808 quote the device in there lyrics.

Graphene, the Material of Tomorrow

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/02/tech/innovation/
graphene-quest-for-first-ever-2d-material/

Holy CRAP! To think everything we have ever developed in the past is about to be changed! Every advancement we have ever had is about to be blown away! Graphene is the wave of the future and I definitely think if this article is accurate we will see it being used commercial in the next couple years.
Computers might double in power and video games might shrink down to nothing. Graphene can do everything we want it to do and then ten times more. Oculas rift might actually become a fast reality. This little tiny sheet of carbon atoms are going to forever change everything technology and push us right into the future we dream about. If I could choose one item for them to start production on a mass scale of this item, it would be fios cables. I think that they could use this to speed up the worlds internet and change the way we all communicate. I cant wait to see what comes from this discovery.

Xerox Project Critique

Gina -  I really like the idea of how you made it to be wearable!!!! That is amazing! I also really loved how you used daily items that most people might over look such as q-tips. That was really creative and unique.

Andrea - I love the meaning of the dadaism behind the shirt and how the three hands represent people all trying to grab the lips to have there say! It is an amazing concept, I just with the shirt was bigger and involved more aspects to it.

Brian - It was a unique idea but the execution could of been much better. I wish you shaped the prints to the toilette so we could see the shape.

Kirby - I find this one much more unique than the others because it has a sub conceisous history to it. I really like how we talked about it maybe being another life you had.

Holly - The dark vs the good! It was amazing! It is so cool to see how you battled out the dark and good of college and chose the good to make your life much better.

Marveen - I really like the history connection to your life but I feel it was way to small and could of used much more effort.

Kaitlyn - I LOVE THE DOG! I think that took the project to the next level and really showed how in depth your concept was. I feel that it was extremely well executed and very well done.

Lea - Now part of your life the travel to Massachusetts to college, this concept is an amazing idea. I really like how you incorporated your tattoos in the images and made the image much more personable.

Ralph - AMAZING! There is not much more to say besides extremely well done and the fact you hung them in the tree it put the project over the top.

Kyle - I really like the hat the top part of it. I just wish you had more to it such as a sword and shield.

3D Mapping

3D Mapping. I dont really know what to say since I missed class but I am trying to at least keep up with the work of researching some 3d mapping projects. Theses were the 4 videos I found of 3d mapping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-1ScT3h82U

Advertising vs Propaganda

What is the difference between propaganda and advertising? 

I had to start with the definitions of both because I am unsure of what they really are or what they really mean. Propaganda is the deliberate spreading of harmful information and or rumors. A direct example of this would be the material used during world war 2, and how the germans idolized Hitler and knocked the jews. Next advertising is the act of calling attention to ones product. Another example of this would be commercials that we see everyday, such as people selling items or their services. 

Now that I know there is a huge difference between the two of them. I feel advertising is more to market items and to sell them.  Where propaganda is more to negatively promote someone. Although I feel their is some grey area in between the two of them. There are some places where things cross over, and they mix. I feel both take incredible amounts of skill to pull off correctly. Although they are for different causes they both have to accomplish the challenge of appealing to people. This is a very difficult task but when done right it is very successful. This is why I think there are some similarities between advertising and propaganda and why they can not be mixed. 

Grid Art

My grid art project has over 1000 pieces and his name is Randy.

Xerox project

This is my Flower of Life.

It says in sign language on it "When one door closes another opens"

TRISTAN TZARA “Dada Manifesto 1918”

"A work of art should not be beauty in itself, for beauty is dead; it should be neither gay nor sad, neither light nor dark to rejoice or torture" - Tristan Tzara

That quote out of the whole paper stood out to me. I do not know why but I feel that one quote is the backbone to Dada art. My interpretation of the Dada era is that they wanted to break all boundaries of art. No more cliche ascetic pieces, no more "natural" paintings. I think they wanted to prove that everything in the world is art. It just takes a special gift to see it. I really like how the paper broke down the meanings of Cubism and Dada. I feel that this whole paper is almost a declaration of independence form common art and they are breaking free into the world they want to perceive. I also really like how Dada art is here to break logic. It is being created to make our brains rethink the way we see daily objects. It is to confuse the stupid and enlighten the creatives. Although I did not understand a lot of the metaphors and crazy analogies I feel as if I have a better sense for what these artists were trying to say and convoy in there art.

Video Game Revolution

From pong in a bar to mobile gaming on our cell phones, video games have come a long way. Video games create a completely immersive environment for us to escape to.  Video games have come a long way just like computers have. It all started out with people who wanted to impress others and invent really cool things. Pong is a great example of that. From creating a game that need a full standing device to condensing that to a console that could plug into a tv, video games have yet to stop evolving. As the 1980's came to an end companies like Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft began releasing consoles and games into the market. They started to battle it out and fight to be the best. Along with these consoles came a revolution of addiction and learning. Kids became addicted to these false realities they were playing in and among these realities the creaters could hide hidden messages for kids to learn or see. This created an uproar in the video game world. Although that did not stop these companies from making these games, they are making great headway into the future. Pretty soon we should expect to see games that fully immerse the player in a full room that turns our reality into a game.

Nerds shall rule the world!

Triumph of the nerds

Part 1
From the drive to learn more to the need to explore. It is crazy to see that the beginning fuel for the computer industry was just to impress friends or impress themselves. From all the famous names such as Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak and many more, the personal computer started out to them as a fascination. All of these guys had a craving for electronics and the want to keep doing more. They became the driving force behind the worlds biggest revolution. Up until resistors came around computes we almost impossible to be around, but with Intel's micro chips and tiny resistors the game was changed. Micro chips and micro resistors paved the way for all current technology and gave all of these guys the correct tools to continue to push forward in the power house need to build the ultimate "PC". The Altair 8800 was the first personal computer released to the public for anyone to purchase. Most of the people interested in buying this computer were just hobbiest and people looking to tinker with the toys. It didn't even do that much, but people loved it. Next came the Apple 1 but that was a complete failure. Jobs needed to create an all in one computer that not only something a hardware person could use but a software person would love. They then release the Apple 2 and it took off and personal computers where beginning to be the wave of the future.

Part 2
As IBM, Microsoft and Intel leaned real quick, the personal computer was an industry only made for the strong. IBM was struggling in the development of the computer until one day they decided to build a computer in less than a year. They could no longer build the parts they had to buy and assemble them. Once IBM had this down they looked to Bill Gates to build an OS for it and create a more user friendly device. Although IBM had a great idea it did not take long for hackers and tinkerers to take the computers apart and replace and trade parts. IBM started to loose the market for computers. Bill Gates OS Began to take off since it was not directly linked to IBM it was its own company. Over night Bill Gates became a millionaire. As Intel, IBM, and Bill Gates had to separate, Steve Jobs release the Macintosh 1.

Part 3
Bill Gates - Master of the GUI world. As the two companies battle it out to become the best computer company around. Both Jobs and Gates can be seen taking others ideas and integrating them into there own work but does that make them thief's?  If it was not for people opening up computers stealing each others codes and fixing/adding to them we would have the computers we have today. As Windows released Windows 95 it dominated the market and almost killed the Macintosh market. The two have battled out the computer industry and have until now Apple is slowly making a come back.

Douglas Engelbart - The Mother Of All Demos

To be called the Mother Of All Demos you must have had an extremely good demo.... Well besides the obvious in that statement Douglas Engelbart earned the credit to have that next to his name. In 1968 he held a conference with about 1000 other computer people to release his new interface software.  He created software for the "Personal Computer". It was software that didn't rely on lines of code but instead relied on graphical interface. One segment of his demonstration he is showing how simple clicking and key words can search a user created database. He was using "open house" as the title and under each day of the week was a different group of names. As he went through the steps of the program it was displaying just the names and the titles. He was doing this without lines of code. It was the first word processing software that almost anyone with no computer experience could use. Douglas Engelbart had changed the way people were starting to look at computers. He gave them insight into the power of processing and began to show the world that anything was possible. 

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-mother-of-all-demos-is-45-years-old-doesnt-look-a-day-over-25/282152/

Alan Turing - Pardoned

A man of wisdom, genius, numbers. To see how he was treated when he saved the country from starvation. It is sad to read about history like this, to see a man such as Alan Turning be killed, for being gay, even after he single handedly saved his country. Turning was a code breaker in WWII and is credited with saving his country from starvation and possible annihilation. He was one of the many genius code breakers during the war. He was able to break the mind crunching german Nazi Enigma code. The Enigma machine was incredibly complex. If the sender and receiver did not have the same settings it was impossible for the code to be decrypted. The germans were ten steps ahead of everyone else when it came to sending code. Each one of their units had a different way to set the machines so the message could come through and each time they sent a message the machine had to change settings. The code was mathematically a huge mess. Turning, however was able to crack this code and convert the messages so that they could understand what the germans were sending back and fourth. After Turning was crowned a hero for cracking the code, the government found out he was gay. Even though he was the hero they sentenced him to chemical castration. He was forced to die. It is sad that a man who saved so many was forced to die because he was a different. Now many years later they have pardoned his death and admitted that is was the wrong thing to do. Honestly to me that doesn't matter now. They took a mans life that saved millions. He did nothing wrong and didn't hurt anyone. Waiting many years to finally admit that you were wrong about killing someone still makes you a murder, it doesn't change the fact that the government still killed someone. Alan Turning was a man of bravery and courage. He fought till the very end with the best interest for his country but only to be let down by stupidity.

Source

Mark Snyder - Electronic Music and Images

I had no idea what to expect when I went to see Mark Snyder perform live. I was thinking maybe we would see someone create some electronic techno music or dj something. I did not expect at all what I saw. As he started his first song, with no introduction, I was really confused. It wasn't making sense to me. He used a mix of pre-recorded noises and images along with one live instrument to create a wonderful mix of senses. It was a sensory overload between the images and music. As the colors came to life on screen his music transported me to another world. I was starting to see stories unfold before me  but in the most indirect manor.

My favorite part of his show was when they started the duo. I loved the girl who was playing the harp. When the two began to mix and the music picked up it was outstanding. I have never heard a harp in person before but it was absolutely beautiful.

Flip Book Reviews

Gina - I like how well it flowed and transformed the sections of stories together. The colors and images all came together in one vibrant incredible imagery of a flip book. 

Andrea - The STORY!!!! It was amazing! I love how you brought your life to life in the flip book and used so much color. I really like how you put all your effort into it and did not lack in any aspect. 

Bryan - I loved the story and the concept behind the flip book!!! Going through what we have learned in class was incredible. I wish that more effort was put into the coloring and the drawings. The book seemed it could of used more time spent on it. 

Kirby - The ocean! It stood out so much! I don't know why but it stood out so much for me. 

Holly - The dragon. It was amazing! I wish you put that much effort into the whole book and created something outstanding. 

Katelyn - I really loved how you introduced a character into the story but I wish you continued that throughout the rest of the book. 

Leah - I loved the story of the caterpillar and how they talked in the story. I wish that you used more of the page and maybe expanded on the story. 

Ralph - The ballon and elephant where extremely well drawn out and colored beautifully. I wish it had an overlaying story that could bring the whole book together.  

Kyle - I really like how you told a story about Boston history. It was really unique to do that but it worked really well. I wish that there was more to the story than such a short history about Boston.

Persuasive Games

As I was browsing the website I found a couple games that I really liked and played them several times. The first game I played was Windfall. It was a simple game about wind energy and how to make people happy. In the game you are given money and have to build windmills to power the city. Although you can do what ever you want the catch is you have to make the people happy. So it takes a lot of thought into where you are going to be putting the windmills. I really liked this game and thought it was really cool and an extremely unique idea for a game. The next game I played was Presidential Pong. This game was kind of bland but unique in its own way. In this game you play as two presidential candidates and hit a ball back and fourth. I see this game as being a metaphor that mocks how a real election is run. All the people do is hit a ball back and forth and run side to side. Behind all the back end political aspects of president this is what it seems like when they are running. I really think the game could be improved in many different ways. I wanted to play a 3rd game but every other one would not let me play it or "it doesn't support power pc"anymore error came up. I wish these games would go cross platform much easier.

Steve Jobs Stanford Address

Steve Jobs - an icon for the world to always look up to. He was a man way beyond his time and always pushed the limit. When Jobs gave his speech me made a comment "This is the closest I have ever been to a college graduation ceremony."  For me this quote means a lot. I am in the same position of wanting to drop out of college and just sit in on the classes I want to be in. He did the same and now he is one of the worlds leading computer engineers that has gone down in history and will always be remembered. He created a legacy that has changed the world for the better and he will never be thanked enough. In his speech he talks about how his parents put him up for adaption but at the promise he will get a college education. I think that was a huge decision for them to make. Although he did not finish college his new parents could not look down upon him because he was chasing his dreams. His dreams maybe a little crazy at the time but every one is a little crazy but that makes the world go round.

Coding = Art

Now that title does not make sense standing alone but Mark J. Stock has taking the two and created some outstanding art. He takes millions of lines of code and turns them into beautiful pieces of art. Now this art does not consist of code on a page. The code turns into colors, shapes, spirals, squares, basically anything your mind could think of. I picked this piece to wright about. I really like this piece. I zoomed in to try and see what the piece was composed of. It is composed of millions of little squares and boxes and rectangles. All of them appear to be different shades of grey, black and silver. I also really like how the depth is created with the blurring of the different layers. It makes it appear as if it is popping off the page and adds a whole new perspective to the piece. 

I enjoyed looking at all of his pieces and one day if I can I would love to buy a piece for my house. I really did enjoy researching Mark J. Stock and his works.

Raymond Kurzweil - A genius of man kind

Raymond Kurzweil is truly inspiring for me to research. I wish I could sit down and pick his mind and tear all his thoughts and ideas out and pour them onto paper. I love watching videos on him and seeing what his predictions will be for the future but not the far far away future a future that is in the next couple years.

After watching a handful of videos I chose to write about "Your robot assistant of the future." This video was all about how our computers and internet searching will soon become our personal assistant. Towards the end of the video I was thrown off pretty far. I was thinking that this will happen eventually but he predicts that in 2029 it will become reality. This prediction include that search engines will out perform humans, they will answer questions before we even ask them, they will be able to read and scan 200 million pages before a human could finish one and that they will be able to filter the internet so precisely for one person no one in the world will have the 2 same results. I cant even wrap my mind around that. He thinks computers will start to learn our personalities better than we can learn ourselves. That is crazy!!!! Maybe one day the internet will take over, and the sad part is I might be alive to see it.

Book De La Flip

My Book De La Flip!
Inspired by everything I looked at while drawling it.

War of The Worlds

I am truly speechless as what to say after listening to this. I feel like I just watched a feature film. The sound effects, the dialog, the "acting".  I can not wrap my mind around that this was produced in the late 30's.  I really enjoyed it and now understand why some people prefer this type of entertainment. I listened to this while I was working on my flip book and I really like how I was still able to listen to the story even though I was drawling and coloring. If I didn't know any better I would of thought that it was a real emergency broadcast that was airing at the time. I feel like I was doing my homework while the rest of the world was in a state of emergency, it was a weird feeling. I kept trying to look up and see a t.v. but there was nothing there. I kept searching for an image to associate with what I was hearing but their was nothing their. I do not know why my brain has been trained to search for the images related to what I am hearing but it is really weird to be put in a situation that stretches what my brain has been trained for. I really liked the broadcast and I wish we still did things like this today! But with no ads... Just the story!

Phillip K Dick (BEYOND LIES THE WUB)

http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1328340429l/11481021.jpg

I chose to read "Beyond Lies The Wub" by Phillip K Dick. The story was about a space captain who came in contact with a Wub or better known as a pig. They take the Wub onto there space ship and have a battle on wether to eat it or let it live. The captain being a ruthless leader and no regard for life kills the Wub. When the Wub is served for dinner the captain is the only one who enjoys the meal while Franco and Jones do not enjoy it and leave the table. I really liked his science fiction writing and how in 1950 Dick wrote this short story. In 1950 I could only imagine how people pictured the future and it is really cool to see how Dick creates this story of what his picture of the future looks like. The story is very short and I think it takes a stab at political figures and how they enjoy their own ruthless choices and do not accept the impact it has on others. I can see how if he did mean to write about political figures it would make sense. I really enjoyed his writing.

Singing in the RAIN!

Such a happy song yet it is being sung while the wife gets her clothes cut off and raped. This is a very tense scene that depicts an act deemed by society as a horrific action. I tried to picture this scene without the song to try and get a feeling for what maybe the directors where thinking before they decided to put it in the film. As I played the clip back with no audio the scene took on another perspective. I felt it had more meaning as if the raping was more thought through rather than a spontaneous action. When I played it back with music, it had almost a light hearted feeling. I can not really describe it but I feel the music and dancing brings a creepy almost innocent aspect to such a harmful activity. I also really like how at first the song is not sexual bust as it progress the song talks about making love. When I began to research why the song was put in, I came across some trivia facts from the movie. When the directors were playing with this scene it took them four days to perfect it. Finally the director asked Malcolm McDowell to dance and sing while doing the scene. As the scene started rolling and he started singing, he did the only song he knew by heart. That song happened to be "Singing in the Rain". The director then immediate bought the rights to the song for $10,000 because he loved how much it fit into the film. I really like that the song was put into the movie and I think that it adds more character to the singer. I could not picture this being performed any other way.

Sources:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/trivia
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/faq#.2.1.15

A trip to the moon!

I have no idea where to start with this one...
From the crazy ideas of space and physics to the aww of what they were making in 1902. I can't believe in 1902 they were able to film and color something as elaborate as this. It is almost like hollywood went back in time and told them how to make a basic movie. Although this movie breaks all the rules of making movies now, back then it was a tremendous break through. Now to the crazy ideas and sets. I want to know what they were thinking when they came up with the ideas for sets and props. A bullet to the moon? Never in my wildest dreams would I think of that let alone recreate it on stage. Once on the moon the aliens and sets were outstanding. I understand that they had no idea what was up there but the imagination and work it took to build these sets and ideas blew me away! I really enjoyed taking a step back in history when reaching for the moon was fantasy and an innocent idea of everyone. It really opened my eyes to what people used to be like and how our lives have changed so much.

Stop Motion Galore!

THOSE VIDEOS ARE FREAKING CRZAZY!!!
Thats all thats needed to be said...
As I scanned the videos on both links all of the super hero figures and toy ones interested me the most. I really want to try and re-create some of those videos. Doing stop motion is hard and very time consuming but this guy blows it out of the water.

Black Ox skateboard
This had to be one of my favorite videos out of all his work. I used to skateboard and play with the little skateboards all the time. Seeing this brought back so many memories and even inspired me to go outside and skateboard.

Breakdancing Stop Motion
Dancing in stop motion? Really? I have no idea how they could pull this off but it came out truly amazing! To see the guys spinning and flying through the air was really cool. I wish I could shadow the making of these stop motions for a day to just pick his brain and see how he thinks of these ideas to film.

Jono! A masterpiece human

To here the life the Jono has lived and to see she has put her feelings and life into her pieces. I was so interested in the fact that her art is direct representations to her. The meaning and love that flowed into all her pieces from the hair colorings to the huge charcoal pieces. Jono is a very brace person and I love to see that she isn't afraid to stand out and represent herself in her work.

Stage Door

I really enjoyed browsing this site! It had some really cool clips from singing on the Titanic deck to dancing in Damn Yankees. There is so much to learn from studying plays and operas that I couldn't even begin to describe what I have already learned. Although I couldn't read the site I really like watching most of the movie clips as I scrolled down the page.

Website:
http://angel-stagedoor.blogspot.com/

Behind the Scenes Wicked Edition

I think its really cool to see all of the work that goes into a play. Just to get a small glimpse into that world is breathe taking. Seeing all the small details that go into making sure the play is perfect, down to that last line change five minutes before curtain opens. I really enjoyed this video and the insight it provided into the background of the play.

http://alumni.gcc.edu/s/1472/images/editor/events/2012/wicked.jpg

Why are we so negative towards advertising?

Many controversies have revolved around commercials that are supposes to portray the American lifestyle. Sorry to say it people need to stop being so ignorant towards others. We live in America and we are a melting pot of the world and thats what makes us so special. We have the chance to embrace every culture around the world and experience things others would die to experience. Commercials that portray different countries, interracial couples, gay couples and other cultures is what America is! We need to be proud for what we have and not be so opposed to it. 

I think people who disapprove of these commercials are scared to embrace other cultures and therefore are scared to find who they are as a person. 

Oculus Is Awesome?? HELLS YEAH!

To 3d world or not to 3d world?
Oculus would open up so many doors with so much potential that it is scary to think we even live in a world like this! I would want to play video games where this mask! I think it would be so cool to be able to immerse yourself into a virtual world and run around.

Boom, bang, duck! Your swung to the side of a giant transformer running past you!

The possibilities for film is incredible, no more imax 3d. I can't wait to see where this invention goes and maybe one day be the one developing for them.

Madama Butterfly Animation (Aka the coolest stop motion I have seen!)

Stop motion animation has been a big interest in my film career since watching Jack Skeleton the Nightmare Before Christmas!

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I have always been fascinated with the limitless possibilities of stop motion. In Madama Butterfly I was taken away to a world of a lonely women who spent her life waiting for her mate to return. I was in awe of the creative artist standpoints in the short. The story pulled me in and took me away to a world of clay. They story was extremely simple yet embedded with very complex ideas. I feel it is a short film that most people can relate too, such as family members going to war or family members leaving the family. Overall the I feel the short film portrayed and amazing story through music and outstanding gestures.

History of Opera

Opera... Opera... Opera...
Why has something so simple as a play transformed the history of the world forever. Plays that began as entertainment transformed into political stabs. Operas may have started as a fight to the death match in the Roman coliseum but has now transformed into a form of art forever engraved in the world.

http://www.tribunesandtriumphs.org/images/christian-martyrs-colosseum-x.jpg


From running away and fearing of ones life to performing dramas that bring audiences to tears Operas have brought countries in turmoil out of depression and reunited them through relieving stress in emerging audiences into stories.

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Learning how Operas have influenced all of our modern entertainment intersted me alot. I want to see how certain Operas have changed video games and how they changed the movie industry forever.

Deus ex machina

Dun dun dun dun du du dun! Deus ex machina!!! 3 examples of Deus ex machina. 1. Futurama - In the episode Godfellas, Bender is floating in space and suddenly he runs into God and God is able to fling him back to earth to meet back with his friends. 2. Revenge of The Fallen, Transformers - Sam at the end of the movie is killed and instead of him dying it is an epiphany like experience where he travels to heaven to be told he is the savior of the Autobots, but really Sam has died while medics are working on him and he suddenly comes back to life. 3. The Simpsons Movie - Homer is lost in the middle of the Canadian forest and is going to die until he passes out and is found by a monk performing a special ritual on him hat wakes him up and allows him to wonder back to safety.

-> Paul Cuero <-

CREATIVITY!!!!

 I found everything he had to say very interesting. To think that creativity is more than stimulation of your imagination blows my mind. I think that if I change my out look on life and focus on the little things and interact with everything differently, a new world will open up for me to explore. Most people limit themselves and as Cuero shows he was able to over come poverty and live his life very well. I think he sets a good example for people to follow and how he looked at everything with an open, creative mind and that helped him pursue his dreams.

Juan Carlos Delgado

Why is this multimedia?
 Multimedia can be a mix of many different things but for Delgado he chooses to have his pieces interact with the environment. Instead of having direct contact with a physical force his piece freezes and unfreeze as it reacts with the moister in the room. That interaction with the environment makes it a multimedia piece of art.