For the last week of CommLab our assignment was to take an earlier project and improve it. I decided to work on the audio project I made with Paul Paradiso: Music for Public Restrooms. We were inspired by Brian Eno’s intention in making Music for Airports: namely, to make a rotten experience better. So, we [...]
Lara and I made a quick storyboard for our animation project. Click on the image to see the rest of the panels.
For the next few weeks we’re working in groups of four to create short videos. I’m working with Derek Chung, Martin Ceperley, and Hidekazu Furuya. We had a choice of two randomly generated phrases. We picked “usual relevance” over “presidential jury.” Derek did the drawings for our storyboard below.
Audio for the Public Restroom
McLuhan suggests that any new technology we embrace creates an extension of ourselves that affects our sense of scale, which in turn creates new personal and social consequences. This assertion is not too far off from Ong’s ideas regarding the deep influence of literacy on contemporary culture. McLuhan’s distinction between hot and cool media, particularly [...]
Click to play This is Optimo– Very Mild, a movie Bryan and I made for class this week. We used iStopMotion while we were shooting, and then we used Final Cut Pro to add the sound. The music is Jamestown Exhibition by Bayless Rose from American Primitive Vol. II on Revenant Records.
Since I remembered La Jetée as a very visually arresting film the last time I watched it (maybe eight years ago on a very small and blurry television screen), I wanted to make sure I gave it its proper due this time. Some friends and I borrowed the dvd from the library, hooked up my [...]
“The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” raises more questions for me every time I read it. For instance, what are the differences between mechanical and digital reproduction as far as Benjamin’s assertions go? How is a work of art different when it is meant for massive and immediate distribution vs. when [...]
I made this movie in class with Lina and Neo. Click to play
It would be easy to read this cautionary tale as some sort of premonition. Although the story was published in 1909, Forster could easily be writing a response to contemporary dependence on technology. What I find interesting, however, is that he is expressing such parallel fears to some contemporary concerns in response to technologies that [...]
Installing WordPress was easy for me, since I had helped a classmate through the process already. Getting it to look the way I want might be a different story, since I know I want it to look very different from this: So, I downloaded and installed to themes to play with, Aeros and Aurora. Aeros [...]