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This is another part of the portfolio dvd. I made a video of a digital image I made a few years ago. In the original, the pictures made a larger 4 by 5 array of pictures. Here they are bigger and on screen for 10 frames each.

forgotten drawing

This is a drawing I did in life drawing a few years ago that I almost forgot about until I was looking for stuff to put into the portfolio dvd. This came out much better than I remember, and I'm going to put it on the dvd. Here it is (this is the best I could make it look when scanning it. It's larger than the scanner bed...).

spaces

For the spaces dvd assignment, I forgot to put the pictures I took on a cd, and I couldn't get them from the camera to mac os. But I still wanted to do something with them, and this is it.

ARGs

ARGs (Alternate Reality Games) have interested since I heard about them about five years ago with the game Majestic. The game failed, but it was an odd experiment (especially for Electronic Arts, who haven't been doing too much experimenting since...). A couple others are ilovebees (a marketing game for Halo 2 by42 Entertainment) and perlplex city (going on now, even uses trading cards).

These games use email, phone calls, fax, and GPS coordinates (to name a few) to set up clues to some mystery. This kind of thing just seems like a good fit for some kind of art project. I have no idea what right now, but I've been thinking about this more and more lately. The problem is getting people aware of it, and even harder still: getting people to participate. I guess that's why these are usually tied to marketing or some kind of cash prize (and probably why Majestic ultimately failed, since it was just a game by itself).

Snakes On A Plane

I just saw Snakes On A Plane, and I am very pleased with it. It's not a 'good' movie, but it's really fun. What I think of the movie is not the point of this post though.

What the most interesting thing about the movie is all of the hype surrounding it, and much of it wasn't even done by New Line. Even more interesting is that New Line took some of the marketing in the direction of pseudo underground type stuff. Like the cafe press thing where people can make and sell their own snakes on a plane shirts (and magnets and whatever else).

What really started it all was people getting excited about a movie titled in such a matter of fact way. All of the fan made posters and trailers being made and then being passed around so much, it became more of a large community type thing (which was really only made possible because of sites like youtube). What I really appreciate is that so many people got excited and made stuff (whatever it is, however good or bad). Right now I don't know what I'm really trying to get at...

I guess it's just the appreciation that a bunch of people who never saw any of the movie, and had nothing to do with it's creation were able to influence it (the marketing, and some of it was reshot to make it an R rated movie - it was going to be PG-13).

project that is still not done

I had a rapid prototype done of a model ( a bullet, 6 physical models of it was made), but the way I wanted it displayed is still not done. It's been over three years and I still haven't finished it. Just disappointed in myself more than anything else. It's been at the back of my mind for a while, and I look into it every now and then, but never completed it. I want to put the bullets in an actual gun magazine or in an actual box of bullets (or both), and ebay has them (maybe not the boxes, I don't know if I want to buy real bullets, and haven't found an empty box). Not much else to say about it, just something that came up when getting materials for the portfolio dvd.

my tv is not well

Saturday night, when I got back from the state fair, my tv started doing what you'll see in the video below. Every minute or so, there were popping sounds, and the picture got distorted. It was like this until, of course, I started to take video of it. The video below is the best example I got of it acting up (it seems to be fine now, and I have no idea why). For the day and half or two days it was doing this I tried to turn it on many times, and cursed myself each time I did because I couldn't watch it or use it at all.

The disconcerting thing is how dependent I am of the tv, not that this is much of a surprise. Turning on the tv is something I don't really think about. If I am going to spend some time around it, I turn it on. I watch it when I make food, eat, do dishes, do homework, plus I play a fair amount of videogames (this is not even including the shows I regularly watch). Perhaps I should steer away from so much use, or is it even a bad thing that I watch/use it whenever I'm around it? Something to think about, at least.



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the state fair flea market

Took many pictures of the flea market at the state fair, and I compiled them into a movie. Used soundtrack pro for the music (tried multi track variations, but nothing sounded too good, so I stuck with a single piano track).



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