Experimenting with Effects

Eric's After Effects!

Ta-da!

Sample Video

vidjaffects

Uploading my video failed every time, the only thing I could get to work was compressing it down to horrible quality.

Cultural Bodies reference

http://inkbutter.com/tattoos-by-jef-palumbo

Jef Palumbo was my artistic reference for the cultural bodies piece. I was interested in the role of tattoos in our image-based culture and where tattoos fit into our discussion of art. Palumbo's tattoo work is extremely artistic in both its form and content.

DASS racist transfer

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DASS Transfer Image

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Dat DASS Transfer

Nixon

Dass Transfer Image—Christopher Squier

Dass Image

Initial Soundscape Written Piece

      The space is somewhat tight, without much extra room to move around, and the ceilings are average height. A table, covered with a tablecloth, sits in the center of the room with only two bowls of soup. The soup is a light, summer soup, mostly made from broth and cream, with herbs like dill sifting to the bottom. There is a large chandelier above the table, and although the room is dim, there are many points of light reflected across the table and on the walls. Color-wise, the room is full of muted grays and dark blues.  There are two entrances to the space, but they are at the far edges of the room. Neither entrance has a door.  No people occupy the room, except for the viewer—who is not a person either.  The viewer is a disembodied (but locomotive) ear or microphone, able to listen and move around the space without affecting the materials with anything more than a slight rumbling, pulsing vibration. The object-ear will descend from the ceiling chandelier slowly (the sound bouncing off the many lights and hanging bits of glass), fall through the empty air below the chandelier, lowering itself out of curiosity past the chandelier and into a bowl of soup on the table.

Transition Space

Taptaptaptap taptaptap taptaptaptap taptaptaptaptaptap. My umbrella intensifies the sound of raindrops. Taptaptap taptaptap. Bleak dreary day. Taptaptap rumble thunder and a flash of light illuminates everything for a second. Taptaptap. I enter an open-air hallway before finally entering the building. The sound of rain and thunder is replaced by wheels rolling on the uneven slate floors. Catering student pushing her cart of desserts. Even closer. I smell the baked sweets. More and more. I avoid eye contact as I walk past. Wheels are all I can hear. Our paths cross, each going our opposite ways. She continues down the hallway to who knows where those sweet smelling cookies are meant for. I approach the exit and rush outside back into the storm. I like to use transition buildings to get places in this kind of weather. No use getting completely wet on my way home. I take my umbrella out. Taptaptap taptaptaptaptaptaptaptap taptaptaptaptaptaptap rumble taptaptap. April showers and a flash of light.

Sound Project: Push

Edith March

Push

2013

Soundtrack Pro

Process-Developing Concept:

Initially, I wanted to produce a set of sounds the depicted an object trying to escape a trapped space. By using sound effects such as echoes, panning or increasing tempos, I plan to depict the object’s desire to leave the trapped space. If the space was to be visually explained, I imagine myself as being trapped in a rectangular box. I am slowly running out of air so I am trying to break the sides of the box down.

Final Statement:

            The final collective sound piece Tight creates a small box-like space. The object jumps around, banging against the sides of the box (each side of the box has a different texture/thickness). The smallness of the box can be suggested with the use of producing a sense of friction the box has against the ground as the force of the object causes the box (trapped space) to shuffle around the floor. The additional dimension the sound scape ‘illustrates’ is the listener’s contribution to try and get the object out of the rectangular box. When the listener comes across the jerking/shuffling box on the ground, he or she comes curious what may be in that small space. At the same time, I wanted the listeners to fear what may be in the box. The listeners would retreat from the jerking box in fear that the object may break out.

Throughout the sound tract, most of the time, the object tries to leave the space; however, there are also a few lulls where the object gives up trying the break the walls. After a lull, the object restarts its efforts to break down the unbreakable walls. As a whole, I wanted the listener to feel nervous and unsettled even though there are relativity limited dramatic sounds throughout the soundscape. I want the listeners to be stuck in limbo where they are curious what is in the oddly textured box, but do not want the box to break apart to free the object.

movie upload

I didn't know we have to upload this........here..........

i promise to do better in the future.....sorry.........
(will use technology understanding for cultural bodies project..)

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Dass Image......

Cultural Bodies.......Upholding aesthetics?

Cultural Bodies......
1974. Crowd

1974. Tea party

Ronit Baranga: "Giving Free Will to Clay" --gallery name

http://www.ronitbaranga.com/gallery.htm


She effectively portrays a strong sense of aesthetics in her work even though they disgust the viewer. She literally degrades human body parts as everyday objects such as cups and other tableware.

Soundscape - Walk

The goal of this sound piece was to boil the experience of taking a walk through civilization down to bare sonic components while keeping the soundscape recognizable and creating the illusion of movement. It consists of a loop of footsteps, pink noise whose equalization was gradually shifted in different ways throughout to suggest the movement through slightly varying spaces, and a few simple encounters with vehicles and other pedestrians.

Soundscape- The Hunted

As you walk through the sparse woods, with a gentle storm around you, you feel like you've finally escaped. 

They can't find you here. You've finally escaped.

Thunder begins to rise in the distance, as the storm draws nearer. 

Something is wrong. It's not thunder. 

They've found you.

You duck behind a tree, the ship hovers around the woods, passing back and forth over your hiding spot. The ship is so massive that it makes the rain simply stop. It blocks out the sun and the rain. With the gentle pattering of the rain on the leaves now gone, the noise of engine and the pounding of your heart are all you can hear.

You are sure that this is the end of your escape.

But just as quickly as it arrived, the ship is gone. 

You're safe once more. 

As your heartbeat calms down, you begin to walk again, into the rain and freedom.

The Hunted Mp3

Cultural Bodies Work

Akira - directed by  Katsuhiro Otomo

Godlike power corrupts and transforms a boy into a monstrosity of flesh and machine, allegorical of the corrupting power of nuclear weapons.

#shamelessbrownnosing

Jessica Harrison

Cultural Bodies Artist

http://www.jessicaharrison.co.uk/page8.htm

Swatch

Geometric Pong

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Well, I tried.

what chu know bout me

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Dots

Spiral Vortex of Pure Imagination

Whee!  Hexagons.  And Blogger did such wonderful things to the resolution, too.

The Greatest Animation of All Time*

*not.

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