The New Aesthetic

This was my favorite post of the New Aesthetic blog:
http://new-aesthetic.tumblr.com/post/47612713896/google-street-view-hyperlapse-by-teehan-lax

Which included this video:
Google Street View Hyperlapse from Teehan+Lax Labs on Vimeo.

This video appealed to me because it was very beautiful to watch. It was like a moving-three-dimensional-time-lapse. All of earth was speeding along underneath the camera at very high speeds and yet the camera seemed to move and shift so slowly and smoothly. This really helped to give the viewer a sense of actually moving this quickly through the different environments with the ability to slowly tilt their head. It almost felt like a high-speed roller coaster. I'm going to go watch it again!

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?