List of YouTube videos to be used for Project 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj9OEmUr0F8 (80's)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPzlPCpQguE (possibly, birth)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cVp46W_ZEY (maybe, DJ)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFFnl2PFZnM (DJ)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taTzMLVBwYU (2:55, computer)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKn8XIfqj2U (:54, emergence of new culture)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04mN4GopRZA (3:41, greater than)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUQD6Rr2M8 (instrumentalist)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty0JSf1zCbA (rave)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4rRr9kD-yo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFGVDWc_5Q8 (concert)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrux4QCSIC8 (Phillipe Thomas)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHstSuxC4LQ (3:50ish, everyone)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IitbJszd1kM (artworks)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK25YQNyjcE (shake up, :06)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pir_H7kf_JU (leonardo da vinci, olden ways)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLCEUpIg8rE (freedom!!!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV6k_SKkHKQ (Guy Debord)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM43UznSX1s&bpctr=1364839738 (Propaganda)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uATuM3ajhBw (combinations)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fIbrq8jFeA (fragments)

To be continued

Reading #2 Questions

1) There were some similarities between this reading and the last reading primarily in the discussion of the validity of art, or questioning whether something is art or not. My question is: is, and if so what is, there a difference is between digital art that an artist would make with the intention of submitting it to an art gallery and digital art that an artist created with the intention of marketing it to the masses like a motion picture? Does the first artist the true artist for sticking to what art has been in the past, or is he an uppity individual that would look down upon all other art that was not prepared in the exact fashion his was? And is the second artist a copout for making quite a bit of money, or is he the true artist because he wants his art to be seen, felt, and interpreted by as many people as possible?

2) During the rise of digital art especially in the '60's it seemed as though much of this new form of art was very bizzarre, out there, and shocking. Was this because that was just the style of the decade or was it because none of this had ever been done before so almost anything they could think of would have been strange or shocking? Probably a mixture of both.

Project Four - Video Emulation - Progress

So far I have decided on the two videos I am going to do. For the first I will need a mirror, for the second I will need a friend. I was going to film last week, by borrowing a camera from a friend but he ended up needing it last minute. I am going to borrow it this week. My friend is already in for the ride for being my actor for my second video, so now all I need is a mirror.

These are the two videos I plan on emulating:

Bank by Pat McElnea
http://www.ubu.com/film/mcelnea_bank.html

and

Flux Film - Evil Faerie by Owen Land
http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/video/fluxfilm_25_landow.mpg


All though if they don't turn out well I'm considering doing the first couple minutes of the video about Stephen Beck:
http://www.ubu.com/film/beck_illuminated.html

Project Three: Montage Animation w/ Audio

"unrequited love: as told by a herbivore"

  Top: C. Willis    Bottom: P. Zbella

Love will always find a way. Whether it must travel from reality through fantasy till it finds reality again, love will always find a way.

That is the story. A caterpillar must venture through a fantasy world till he finally meets his true love.

Project #2 Montage Animation

This is my montage animation. Crystal's is the first in our story of Caterpie finding love. In mine he tavels from fantasy into reality where he finally meets his love: the caterpillar.

Walter Benjamin - Reading Assignment #1

1. Throughout the piece Benjamin compares older more traditional methods of art and more modern methods, such as paintings and sculptures versus digital photography and cinema. With paintings and sculptures there can only be one true original while movies and photographs are mass-produced a served to many different locations. Does this take away from the meaning of the art? Does the fact that art now-a-days is so easily accessible that it can never compare to the singleness, the originality, and 'pureness' of traditional 'masterpieces'?

2. If the answer to the above question is yes, that is, digital art can never be 'pure art' according to Benjamin  but is there any way to create digital art that can be considered 'pure'? Whether it be by quality alone, or by a change in production, in other words, how the public sees it?

Diptych Montage - Art 245 - Assignment 1

      Crystal Willis and I worked together on our Diptych Montage assignment. Our approach was that we each picked 10 photos, then met together and each other's 10 and then decided on five more that would help to connect our 20. Crystal went for a paired approached in her ten, where she had five pairs that correlated  I sort of just picked what I thought would look cool together in a montage, and figured I would get the message across with exposition rather than planning. When we first meet up we didn't end up finding the 5 photos then, but we ended up working on the assignment at the same time and got our photocopies then. My piece splits down the middle with the fantasy side on the left and the reality side on the right.