Final

So before this project really began I really had no idea how to start.  I've never been good with projects that were just open ended with out any real direction other than the one we take.  As I was walking home from work one night I realized the campus of OSU is almost alien at 5 in the morning.  It's crazy to see High Street completely free of cars or people.  I found this to be really cool so I took a picture of an intersection I pass regularly.  Then I took another picture of this intersection at around noon.  Then I started to compare the two.  I realized that they were different and lining them up was cool but it didn't really feel like a final project. So I took more pictures at different times and put 4 times together in one picture.  This was better but by only seeing part of any time you don't get the full experience of being at the same place at distinctly different times.   So I knew i'd have to make it move.  I decided on a rotational disk made up of 8 pieces so that any time could be represented in two places in the piece.  After some cutting of the pictures and some learning of the animation timeline tool, I was able to make my project.  While I'm pretty happy with it, I feel like after it was done I could have taken it further and done work times.  I'm not sure if it would have the same impact to have more subtle changes, but it would be interesting to try.

So Paper Tears, Who Knew?

As I started this project I wasn't really sure what to do.  My words were tear and support.  As I was cleaning through my room I came upon some old notebooks. 

These were notebooks from classes I had long since finished.  And I decided instead of just throwing them away, or tearing them up on camera, I would make something from them.  

To start I did have to do some tearing.

Next I folded and interlaced them to add some strength. 

After some stapling I was left with a strip like this one.  It seems pretty sturdy actually. 

A short time later and I have all the strips individually.  Next to fashion them together...

...and done.  A decently sized rope is formed. 

I tied and staple one end to a beam on my second story balcony..

And now to wait to see if I can climb up using this rope. 

Apparently not even a little bit. 

Footsteps in the Rain

So for the forth project I decided to take part of my route from work as video.  I usually work really late nights and I kind of enjoy how quiet and empty the city streets are at 4 in the morning. Sometimes it can be somewhat creepy and as I was examining the audio from the track I noticed an odd noise that I was able to scrub out and make into footsteps.  After I messed with the alignment I added it back in.  Since it was close to Halloween I made the video back and white to make it a little creepier.  

My Trip to the Wexner

So yesterday I tried to check out the gallery for Annie Leibovitz but found that it was closed on Mondays for some reason, so I went today before the Oval and the surrounding area became a madhouse.  So I wasn't really sure what this was going to be like going in.  I hoped it wouldn't be something too abstract that I'd struggle to get to 150 words for this post. I was actually pleasantly surprised. Also, as I toured that gallery I found myself becoming pretty jealous of this woman since she seemed to have taken pictures of so many notable people over the past 40 to 50 years.  I think my favorite part of her pictures was that they seemed to shift back and forth between these very professional looking, staged pictures and pictures that looked more like spur of the moment shots.  The pair that sticks out in my mind the most was two shots of Mick Jagger.  In one he's on stage in full outfit and makeup, and then the other is of him in a robe with a towel wrapped around his head like he just stepped out of the shower.  For some reason I find that comparison kinda funny.

Blog 6

The article I read for this blog was mostly about sound and its use as an artistic media.  One thing I liked about this article was that Miller and Cardiff were so happy with their piece "Dark Pool" that they wouldn't sell it. I just thought that was nice to have a piece you enjoyed so much you wouldn't be able to part with it. Another thing I found that was cool was that the piece of work and the environment the piece was in started to blur for some people experiencing it.

I think something that made this article difficult for me to grasp is that I have no prior experience with sound design or sound editing at all. That isn't to say that I'm too familiar with video editing but I do at least have a vague idea. When the sound project comes up it's going to be a tough time for me I think.

Project 2

So for our journey project I decided to walk to class and pay more close attention than i usually do.  Most of the time I walk to class with music going and I don't really think about the little things around me.  The first picture is of a bench out side of someone's house that I've walked by for more than a year now and have never bothered to notice.  The next part of my journey to class takes me over a bridge at the corner of Indianola and Woodruff that I've probably walked over hundreds of times, but I don't think it ever crossed my mind that people actually park cars under there. That got me wondering who are the people who park there? Where do they live that those spots are the most convenient for them? Also, it doesn't really seem like a very safe place for a car to be in my opinion.  So then walking down Woodruff a house caught my attention because out front were probably 4 different grills.  I can't imagine having such a need to grill food that I would need 4 grills.  So then as I walk down 19th avenue I've seen the motorcycles before but I never really stopped to think why so many in one place. Was it that this was the only place on campus to park?  Finally the last thing that caught my interest on my walk to work is that right across the street from our classroom there seems to be the headquarters for the groundskeeping of OSU. This was something I've noticed from time to time but I never realized where it was actually centered around. It really makes me wonder what else I miss by being so focused on myself as opposed to the world around me.   

Jesus Tap Dancing Christ

So the reading we were assigned for today had to do with the personal story of someone tasked with guarding a controversial piece of art.  What I really enjoyed about the article was that it was the story of someone who didn't have any real background in art but became extremely emotionally invested over the course of guarding the work.   I like how he said he understood the piece better than the artist herself because he doesn't just see the work, but he sees how people react to it as well.

What I didn't really understand was how the whole thing was just made to be destroyed.  The idea that the whole point of the piece was to get wrecked and then use it as an example of people's intolerance just doesn't sit well with me. I agree with the author that the piece probably had a greater effect on people while it was still on display than as a closed circuit video that may or may not even show what happened.