End of the line

Hi there. Even though I haven't touched this blog in quite a while, I feel like I need to say thank-you for the attention you've given to me and my work. I would also like to take this time to say please do not try to contact me through this blog as it is very unlikely that I will answer. If you are still interested in seeing what exactly it is I'm up to now a days, click HERE for the link to my current CyberARTS blog and HERE for the link to my new yearbook blog. Thank-you for your time and maybe see some of you soon.

Hi guys just wanted to tell you that I'm no longer opperating from this blog. I'm now using www.dead-reckoning101.blogspot.com. thanx bye

This Digital Surrealism photograph is called “ Tallest Insanity”. It could be interpreted as a commentary of insanity or the range of emotions a person can feel at a time. What I did was I took a full body picture or myself and eight headshots of myself and uploaded on to the computer. Then I cut out my body and my heads out of the nine pictures that I took. All of the head shots had different emotions attached to them, one head was happy, one was sad etc. But two of the heads I actually altered was the evil head of me and the good head of me. The Evil head I changed the colour saturation of the picture to red, drew devil horns on my forehead then cut the head out of the picture all together. For good me, all I did was draw a yellow halo over my head. After all of that was done I used the smudge tool to make it look like all of the head were growing out of me. The background of the picture symbolized that everyone around the world is capable of feeling a whole range of emotion ranging from happy to angry.
I had 3 alternate versions of the same piece, each trying different ideas for an end result.On version(one I never used)was my head blend my head into a tree.Another version the heads growing out of me,that was probably one of my favorites. But ultimately as you can see I went with another alternate idea inspired by my teacher .My personal favorite was the devil head me because it stood out. With the other heads, I just repeated the same process over again. Filter, Extract. But with the devil head, I filter extracted it then I changed the colour balance to red then drew devil horns, done. It required me to do more than filter extract over again.
Personally I don’t think that the idea changed from when I last thought it up a few weeks ago. The overall vision of the finished product stayed true to the original to end. I’m particularly proud of how it turned out.

Impressionable Racism

The making of this PSA was grueling to say the least. There was one difficulty after another. We had some difficulties between the talent and the director. To make things worse everyone I my group was sick so even if it was for a day. I had to do a key point in the filming. Once we went over the initial due date. The it was on Rali and myself to complete the editing on our own time. There was also a point where we were missing footage(which we found (: ) Though it eventually got to the point where I was just sick of looking at it, here is our Racism PSA. I hope you enjoy it alot more than we did making it. ;p

I liked the effects that I used. The effects that I used were the aged film effect with some shakes and scratches and a suspenseful sounding tune.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmWWfnKVbYY

This is a stop motion animation Super Mario video done with legos. It's cool because I like Mario games and it had the sound effects and everything.

Photoshop assignment

For the Photoshop assignment I gave a photo of myself that I took with isight, look like it was from a page in a comic book. At first it was hard because I had no clue how to use photoshop but now after doing this assignment, I have(even if a little)some experience with photoshop. It was kinda user friendly,I think that it was more for people know there way around photoshop but after skipping a few steps and putting my own spin on it,I can proundly say that I finished it.

http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Photoshop-blog/2007/09/13/give-your-photos-a-retro-comic-book-effect/

try it for yourself :)

Surrealism Assignment

Surrealism is a movement that started at the end World War 1 where countries were in disarray. It is an unrealistic art form that can challenge ones perception of reality.

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This piece of surrealism art is by Vladimir Kush


http://www.kidzworld.com/multimedia/surrealism.jpg


This famous piece of is the Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali


http://academics.adelphi.edu/honcol/modconart/img/Magritte-falsemirror1.jpg

This pieces of surrealist artwork is called the False Mirror.


This modern surrealist photograph is by Margot Knight

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I think that it was done by taking the photograph,with the worm I'm thinking that they had a snake-like object to fill the space where the snake would be.Then they might have got a picture of a snake and put it over the snake-like object, using it as a sort of guideline.

1) I did like this video because it went into black and white issues and misconceptions. It was two guys talking about racism through a game of chess.

2) The video gets it's point across in a kinda creative way. From the discussion you'd think that they're talking about racism but they're really talking about the chess pieces.

3) Though the video did not have any voice-overs or anything it did have a look at shots of the chess board, and of the guys talking. When the black guy's face(his name was never mentioned)showed annoyance at being the black pieces because he thought that being the white pieces would give him an edge in the game.The video its self is more if a dialogue than a narrative.The shots showed emotion such as annoyance,and confusion. The PSA didn't have a dark of serious tone at all, but I fell it got the point across nicely.

Phenakistoscope


I went to the site http://courses.ncssm.edu/gallery/collections/toys/opticaltoys.htm. It is an optical device website. Our assignment was to give a report on one of the optical toy on the site.

A Belgium physicist named Joseph Plateau and his sons introduced the Phenakistoscope to the world.
The mechanics of the device were adapted from Newton and a Greek mathematician named Elucid.
There are two discs, both with successive action. When spun it look like the couple is dancing.

Here is a Quick Summary of the article I read:


Sequencing is the foundation of any video story. Compressing the story really is the best way to go about it because filming every thing in real time will BORE THE AUDIENCE TO DEATH. Filming a scene for ten seconds per frame will get the point across without showing you the viewer every single detail.It is important for things like this to learned because theses are the fundamentals of editing. The question of where the scene is going is important, if the movements are anticipated it will make for better structure in the scene. Don't pan of zoom, just let the scene come and go. Throwing in two of the same shots are bad. It does annoy the audience or it at least raises questions. And last B.roll is good to have in some instances. It gives the editor more to work with and it'll make the editor's life A LOT easier.


http://www.b-roll.net/tv/view_video.php?viewkey=bc3dc5eefc89334cacdc&page=1&viewtype=&category=mr

http://masteringmultimedia.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/sequencing-the-foundation-of-video-storytelling/

This is a colour corrected picture of one of Daumier's portraits called Third Class Carage. We did it in Charcoal. Please enjoy the work.