Different ways to produce images
Scanners
Putting a piece of paper over an object and shading it
Imagination (not sure how to get them back)
Security Cameras
Cell phone cameras
Animating Pictures
The camera obscura (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura) was once used by painters to trace images of reality. It may have been valuable in humanities understanding it the fundamentals of perspective.
The thing I like about the idea of a 48 hour film race is the opportunity and necessity of improvisation. Being able to quickly improv is a valuable skill that can be used for evil, but also can get one out of sticky situations. Film is not a medium known for its improvisation, mainly due to what makes a film a film. Jazz is about being in the moment- you have a chord progression, we feel a melody, but still anything can happen. Its like a random conversation, it could be about anything, but the rhythm is born from listening and responding. While painting strives for the same ideals of music, improvisation seems to play less of a role in painting as it does in music. Perhaps this is because paintings are normally painted by a single artist, where music is a conversation among the many. Regardless, I feel like film is normally stuck to the constructs of the painting, where its permentability (?) tends to outweigh the emphasis on improvisation. Theater can be all about improvisation, which reminds me of the rough theater article we read earlier this year. I think the best ideas magically arrive in the minds of the moment, and i think that this 48 hour film race might just conjure up the inspiration to improvise brilliance towards the end of the year. I like the idea of film as an event. It bothers me how much it seems like the media, which filmmaking in all it's genres seems to frame, plays such a monumental role in the way we communicate and understand our reality. I think kids today have a perception of history and future shaped strongly by the images in the media that they have discovered and less by the knowledge they were A. Told or B. Read about. We go to movies in theaters, watch them in silence with strangers, then leave most of the time without mentioning a single word to the community we had just shared emotional experiences with. The fact that our civilization can produce art on the screen that is so seemingly real or produces messages we understand as important enough to believe in, get angry about, or even shed a tear over seems to only emphasize the importance of understanding those images to the point that we understand why they make us feel the way that they do. While this is possible to do alone, the probability of a group that shares emotions and knowledge with each other seem to open up an infinitely larger amount of possibilities than the single mind. I have enjoyed studying film in college for this reason and am excited that the 48 film seems to so strongly emphasize the idea of experiencing film as an event in a type of communal experience. I feel it’s analogous to when our ancestors would sit around a campfire and tell stories to each other (the midnight society).I suppose there’s good practice to the games we play. I like how this class has had limitations on the films we make. Normally that sort of thing annoys me but over the semester I think I’m beginning to see the benefits of it. Well yeah, it should be fun.
I leave you with this.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Can you own an idea? (can you own anything at all?)
What did you create? Creator? Why fluster existence with a wink of the eye? Purpose? Purpose to anything? We are tools for the greater picture- a step in the process, a feeling of progress, a flow of the past, present, future. Always in one place, everything else is shifting; the personal world revolves around you!
What are your ideas? Where do they come from? How did they get here? The past revolves around you. Your past is who you are at this point of the timeline. You’re a sum of the products before you, the entire range! Evolution, society, history; everything is a process and we are stuck in the middle of it.
You can’t completely own an idea because your idea was partially created by what inspired you to create it. An idea is a portal back to the whole. Like lightening, an idea needs two points of connection: the individual and the world. The exchange of energy creates magnetic fields that direct the process.
The first four letters of freedom is free. If our country is truly free we will abolish on copyright the things that massage our senses. It is apparent through studying history that the highest values of a culture are most strongly reflected through its artistic expression, limiting this expression seems anti-human. An artist can’t control individual’s interpretations of their own art, why should they limit to what others can do with it. It is completely necessary in evolution that we are able to use images and video in the most productive way possible to assure proper communications and reflections of the whole. I believe that it is more useful for images to be available for use than not for use. Sticks and stones may break my bones but words and images will never hurt me, or should I say society.
A bird doesn’t completely choose the song it sings. While it’s temperament affects the things it says, and in many ways there seems to be an internal independent energy that wants to say them, it still falls down to the result of a long math equation of circumstances. Even down to the evolution of the species vocal chords and its need to mate to survive. Birds songs help bring birds together all feeling spring from events beyond those feelings. Nerveless, the sound of the birdsong is what it is at that particular moment, and the bird can sing its song loudly and proudly. Sure, the bird “made the sound up”. But it doesn’t own it. I know birds aren’t trying to buy and sell their songs, but I think most of us agree that the sound is nature, and excuse me (or don’t) for sounding Native American but something seems wrong / disrespectful about buying and selling nature. Art, photography, the Molotov man, and anything you’ve ever experience from your first and last breath to the blog on this page is in some way nature and its only in the greatest advantage of man to share and harmonize with this great gift as much as possible.
We live in a time where the public is beginning to realize that technology is fundamentally changing the manner that we receive information. I think it is wrong to blatantly resell a persons work as your own, but I do not see any problem in using someone else’s finished product as a piece of your own. The world is a collage as it is. Art makes people happy, I wish money didn’t make people feel greedy or angry.
Below I posted a video below from the “future” that talks about Prometheus, a revolution released by Google (in the future). By this time of the future, scientist have found ways to digitally replicate the five senses. Logging on to the web is like logging onto your dream reality, a realistic web of reality we can all live in. Everyone’s thoughts generate the reality. Copyright becomes illegal. The desire to own is directly opposite to the desire to share. Artist who truly wish their art to resonate will let it travel among the information highway wherever it is meant to go. They will trust in their audience and in humanity to do what is right with their creation. They will understand that they are a step in a process. All that helped them create from the past helped shape the present, which in turn goes on to shape the future.
If God's a dude in the sky with a white beard we'd all getting hit for plagiarism. Fortunately God doesn't seem to mind. (does that make it ungodly to?)
What are your ideas? Where do they come from? How did they get here? The past revolves around you. Your past is who you are at this point of the timeline. You’re a sum of the products before you, the entire range! Evolution, society, history; everything is a process and we are stuck in the middle of it.
You can’t completely own an idea because your idea was partially created by what inspired you to create it. An idea is a portal back to the whole. Like lightening, an idea needs two points of connection: the individual and the world. The exchange of energy creates magnetic fields that direct the process.
The first four letters of freedom is free. If our country is truly free we will abolish on copyright the things that massage our senses. It is apparent through studying history that the highest values of a culture are most strongly reflected through its artistic expression, limiting this expression seems anti-human. An artist can’t control individual’s interpretations of their own art, why should they limit to what others can do with it. It is completely necessary in evolution that we are able to use images and video in the most productive way possible to assure proper communications and reflections of the whole. I believe that it is more useful for images to be available for use than not for use. Sticks and stones may break my bones but words and images will never hurt me, or should I say society.
A bird doesn’t completely choose the song it sings. While it’s temperament affects the things it says, and in many ways there seems to be an internal independent energy that wants to say them, it still falls down to the result of a long math equation of circumstances. Even down to the evolution of the species vocal chords and its need to mate to survive. Birds songs help bring birds together all feeling spring from events beyond those feelings. Nerveless, the sound of the birdsong is what it is at that particular moment, and the bird can sing its song loudly and proudly. Sure, the bird “made the sound up”. But it doesn’t own it. I know birds aren’t trying to buy and sell their songs, but I think most of us agree that the sound is nature, and excuse me (or don’t) for sounding Native American but something seems wrong / disrespectful about buying and selling nature. Art, photography, the Molotov man, and anything you’ve ever experience from your first and last breath to the blog on this page is in some way nature and its only in the greatest advantage of man to share and harmonize with this great gift as much as possible.
We live in a time where the public is beginning to realize that technology is fundamentally changing the manner that we receive information. I think it is wrong to blatantly resell a persons work as your own, but I do not see any problem in using someone else’s finished product as a piece of your own. The world is a collage as it is. Art makes people happy, I wish money didn’t make people feel greedy or angry.
Below I posted a video below from the “future” that talks about Prometheus, a revolution released by Google (in the future). By this time of the future, scientist have found ways to digitally replicate the five senses. Logging on to the web is like logging onto your dream reality, a realistic web of reality we can all live in. Everyone’s thoughts generate the reality. Copyright becomes illegal. The desire to own is directly opposite to the desire to share. Artist who truly wish their art to resonate will let it travel among the information highway wherever it is meant to go. They will trust in their audience and in humanity to do what is right with their creation. They will understand that they are a step in a process. All that helped them create from the past helped shape the present, which in turn goes on to shape the future.
If God's a dude in the sky with a white beard we'd all getting hit for plagiarism. Fortunately God doesn't seem to mind. (does that make it ungodly to?)
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
you dont have to wait for more instructions; no one makes a monkey out of me.
Ideas for the one shot-
Intense, to only have one shot; it adds a lot of pressure. It seems the simpler the better, the easier not to mess up. On a very fast side note I think all mess up’s are actually fate once all is said and done. But anyways, here is a list of things I would like to see in the one shots: gnomes, fireworks, Martians, dancing, giant insects, polar bears,
Animal suits in general, hysterical laughter, leprechauns, ray guns, President Bush, Dick Cheney, bubbles, fire, acrobatics, mirrors, and anything at all that is musical in any way. Ideally the one shot could feature all these things, but it might get in the way of keeping it simple. Although, there is a type of entertainment that results from the failure of complex things, not to mention the glory of accomplishing them.
It would be ironic to shoot some kind of competition where a person only had one shot- like one of those half time shows from sports game where the competitor must make the half court shot for 100 billion dollars. It be a one shot documentary. That reminds me of an episode of Upright Citizens Brigade where this kid has a chance to win 1,000,000 dollars for kids with cancer, but he ends up missing the shot- the organization decides to take 1,000,000 dollars away from kids with cancer. They give him a second shot, but of course he misses again. “Oh Timmy, you don’t want to take money away from kids with cancer, do you?” The simple fact is no one does, which makes the bit funny.
Occasionally people glow. The happiness of their souls forces photons out their bodies into the atmosphere. Positive rhythm is the happiness that makes the glow, the things they know is the happiness they show. Good film captures the glow, because what we know is what they show so you know.
Do you think there‘s an equivalent to a visual rhyme? Similar sounds, similar colors. Things that groove- you already got the idea from the last stanza so lets fit something that flows off the history into le future. A continuous link of good fitting ideas- clever transitions, respectable plot lines, interesting facial expressions… cartwheels.
I like to see things that are fun. People having fun, joy, smiling, flowers with faces on them. Quirky ridiculousness; happiness is more than a face you make, it’s a feeling too. Keg stands; I would like to see keg stands in the one shot. In fact, I would like to see Aliens doing keg stands. For the record Microsoft word, a recent authority on spelling denotes the words “keg stand” as two words, not one.
Are ducks quirky because they quack? Webbed feet and billed faces make me love awkward people. It takes creativity to break the out of the norm. Even animals make mistakes, in fact, they embarrass themselves. I like it when nature is goofy.
F: presidential debates, cheaters, people who want to tamper with the election, total slackers, Sarah Palin, bankers, bankers, bankers, people who say WWIII is on the way and theres nothing we can do about, people who don’t want peace, money for a profit in the sense of greed, not having enough hours to the day. Apparently you only sleep for a third of your life, I bet we still dream for half of it. God is love, don’t you forget it. Apparently I’ve lost the ability to brainstorm in an organized manner. In music it would be called a lack of phrasing. Anything goes!
Intense, to only have one shot; it adds a lot of pressure. It seems the simpler the better, the easier not to mess up. On a very fast side note I think all mess up’s are actually fate once all is said and done. But anyways, here is a list of things I would like to see in the one shots: gnomes, fireworks, Martians, dancing, giant insects, polar bears,
Animal suits in general, hysterical laughter, leprechauns, ray guns, President Bush, Dick Cheney, bubbles, fire, acrobatics, mirrors, and anything at all that is musical in any way. Ideally the one shot could feature all these things, but it might get in the way of keeping it simple. Although, there is a type of entertainment that results from the failure of complex things, not to mention the glory of accomplishing them.
It would be ironic to shoot some kind of competition where a person only had one shot- like one of those half time shows from sports game where the competitor must make the half court shot for 100 billion dollars. It be a one shot documentary. That reminds me of an episode of Upright Citizens Brigade where this kid has a chance to win 1,000,000 dollars for kids with cancer, but he ends up missing the shot- the organization decides to take 1,000,000 dollars away from kids with cancer. They give him a second shot, but of course he misses again. “Oh Timmy, you don’t want to take money away from kids with cancer, do you?” The simple fact is no one does, which makes the bit funny.
Occasionally people glow. The happiness of their souls forces photons out their bodies into the atmosphere. Positive rhythm is the happiness that makes the glow, the things they know is the happiness they show. Good film captures the glow, because what we know is what they show so you know.
Do you think there‘s an equivalent to a visual rhyme? Similar sounds, similar colors. Things that groove- you already got the idea from the last stanza so lets fit something that flows off the history into le future. A continuous link of good fitting ideas- clever transitions, respectable plot lines, interesting facial expressions… cartwheels.
I like to see things that are fun. People having fun, joy, smiling, flowers with faces on them. Quirky ridiculousness; happiness is more than a face you make, it’s a feeling too. Keg stands; I would like to see keg stands in the one shot. In fact, I would like to see Aliens doing keg stands. For the record Microsoft word, a recent authority on spelling denotes the words “keg stand” as two words, not one.
Are ducks quirky because they quack? Webbed feet and billed faces make me love awkward people. It takes creativity to break the out of the norm. Even animals make mistakes, in fact, they embarrass themselves. I like it when nature is goofy.
F: presidential debates, cheaters, people who want to tamper with the election, total slackers, Sarah Palin, bankers, bankers, bankers, people who say WWIII is on the way and theres nothing we can do about, people who don’t want peace, money for a profit in the sense of greed, not having enough hours to the day. Apparently you only sleep for a third of your life, I bet we still dream for half of it. God is love, don’t you forget it. Apparently I’ve lost the ability to brainstorm in an organized manner. In music it would be called a lack of phrasing. Anything goes!
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Elements project
this is the film I scratched, magazine transfered, inked, burned, bleached, licked, and sharpied
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