Notes and such

One of the breakdowns.

 

My heart is a runway/ trying to find God/

aching to sing/ for tired and dreamers/

our ugly has an alibi/

you know mercy/

sober is just another word for thirsty/

miracles running around

i just live there/ cabin full of fever/

hold what you see a little longer/

speak everytime you stand/

musical chairs with exit signs

Artist Talk and Mashup

So I went to the artist talk today. Amar had come to speak to my Nature Writing class and I have to say, she was much better in front of 10 of us then in front of 30. More on that later.

My mashup has taken a while. Last Wednesday, I went through 8 video clips and wrote down the information (name of clip, name of poet, time of words) that I wanted to make my poem. I then drafted 5 different poems to choose from. I chose my third. After I figured out how to use Final Cut, I cut the different clips into the couple second bits that I needed. However, it will not play as a whole. At first, I was cutting the clips on the same line and then I realized that I was looking at the wrong time tracker thingy. I switched to having each clip on its own separate line and I was able to edit the pieces much better. However, I am still not sure why it will not play as a whole. Also, after doing those hours of work, I realized that all of the compiled edits only added up to about 30seconds of video. So, I added about 25 more. Still the same problem. I read the entire tips sheet and watched several youtube videos but I can't figure out why it will not play. I think it is probably something really silly and simple that I am missing. I guess we will see tomorrow...

New site

I didn't have the best access to DreamWeaver this weekend because of trips home and work, but I have plans for the design that I am gradually working into place. I have a few ideas that I am trying to decide between, so for now I am just cleaning up the different pages and trying to remove others of them.

1. Ideally, I would construct an image and then put the different sections of my site within the image. I think that it would be nice to have a black and white sketch with cursive words (as links) worked into the design in the outlines of the different elements. I care a lot for simplicity and black and white. I'm in the process of constructing this image.

2. I would have a very stark and simple layout. Maybe some sketchy details, but the main elements would be out there in some kind of serif font, set apart from each other. The main focus would be the words, not the image and I would remove much of the work that I have up now, from Intro to Digital.


Unfortunately, I don't have these in place yet, but I have definite plans for my site. I just need to figure out which to do and how to do it and then implement the design and readjust the links.


EDIT /// I cannot figure out DreamWeaver at all. I stayed up late and got up early to try and fix at least a few things but could not even get my site open. 

Mashup Material

Yum.

Lee Jeffries

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Love old people tattoos

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Genesis

It is the beginning of a new semester!!! How exciting!
This studio class offers a plethora of opportunities to expand from what I learned in Experimental. Also, since there is not a photography studio class being offered this semester, this will hopefully take its place.


So, I want to focus on Photo. I think that the idea of a constructed image is interested and after going to Chris Saah's talk about the "perfect" image, I think it would be interesting to try and create one. If I did this for one of my projects, I would probably record all of the different steps that I made so that I had a video of my process after I completed the image, so that the viewer could see how I made decisions and went back and forth on the details of the image.


That being said, I think that there is something really disgusting and annoying about striving for perfection when there are so many beautiful and profound mistakes that have been made. I want to perfect my digital photography. I would like to maybe do portraits of people or macro shots of some contradictory subject. When doing portraits, I would talk to my subject the entire time, maybe steering the conversation towards something emotionally evocative in order to capture the response in their facial expression. As for macro shots of something contradictory? I like the interplay of textures and colors and contrast. I like drawing someone's attention to something new and weird and maybe making them stop and notice the light at night or the minute bike marks on a leaf or the skeleton-like veins in one that has been stripped.


I think it would be interesting to play with cliches this semester. Perhaps one project could really focus on pushing boundaries and one could almost be commercial-like in its perfection. Maybe I could make ads! I am looking at an internship with Under Armour this summer, perhaps in marketing. I think it would be fantastic to work with them on ad design. I have found that the composition of their prints are really appealing. I think paired with some research on what kinds of ads are most effective, I could make some really cool images.


http://www.imposemagazine.com/photos/haunting-realism-from-lee-jeffries
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16536699@N07/
What I want to explore. He is amazing.


So many options!