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Monday, January 27, 2014
ART 350 - Project #1 Conceptualization - Me in 50 years
So I sort of thought that the future is going to turn out one of two different ways. The first is that we continue as we are with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer and since I'm not rich now it'll become impossible for me to get rich so I'll only get poorer. So if that's the case me in fifty years will look like this:
The other outcome for the future creates a little bit more interesting me. In this future I suspect that after we terra-form Mars the poorer class of people are going to seek this as an opportunity to have a revolution. They will be sick of Earth and what the powerful have done to it so they will leave the basically destroyed, corrupt, and natural-energy-exhausted Earth and leave for Mars. Here they will set up a new and simple society. Gardening and growing crops, music, simplicity, minimalism, and family will be major aspects of this new culture. On Earth people would have small families because of over-population but the Terra-Formed Mars colonies will have large families. There will still be advanced technology but it will not be so consumer and entertainment based as it is now. Technology will focus on crops and medicine. So people won't have technology built around themselves and their clothes as they once did on Earth. They will wear very simple, natural, rugged, and purposeful clothes. Music will also be an important aspect in this culture because I feel like music has played a huge part in the cultural changes in our country the past hundred years, so it will be an important catalyst for the revolution, and then therefore important to the new people's of Mars. Anyways, here is me in 50 years in this culture:
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The other outcome for the future creates a little bit more interesting me. In this future I suspect that after we terra-form Mars the poorer class of people are going to seek this as an opportunity to have a revolution. They will be sick of Earth and what the powerful have done to it so they will leave the basically destroyed, corrupt, and natural-energy-exhausted Earth and leave for Mars. Here they will set up a new and simple society. Gardening and growing crops, music, simplicity, minimalism, and family will be major aspects of this new culture. On Earth people would have small families because of over-population but the Terra-Formed Mars colonies will have large families. There will still be advanced technology but it will not be so consumer and entertainment based as it is now. Technology will focus on crops and medicine. So people won't have technology built around themselves and their clothes as they once did on Earth. They will wear very simple, natural, rugged, and purposeful clothes. Music will also be an important aspect in this culture because I feel like music has played a huge part in the cultural changes in our country the past hundred years, so it will be an important catalyst for the revolution, and then therefore important to the new people's of Mars. Anyways, here is me in 50 years in this culture:
Even at the age of 70 I will still be working in the fields because with advancements in medical technologies the average human life has been roughly doubled. I'm fit as a whistle, and have an abundant family, with grand-children and even great-grand-children. I'll have a sweet beard because I figure if I start now I'll get there someday... I also have a shovel for gardening because my children work the fields and I mostly focus on gardening and fixing things that need fixing. I'll also almost always have my guitar for playing music whenever the time calls for it. It's safe to say I'm a much happier guy in this reality than I am in the other.
Monday, December 9, 2013
Lecture #1 - Two TED Talks
I decided to watch two Ted Talks for this lecture.
The first was a TED Talk by Don Levy on A Cinematic Journey through Visual Effects.
In it Don Levy talked about how visual effects in cinema can be thought as essentially what magicians do. They create illusions using three basic principles. They are assumption, which is that people assume things in our world are the same as things in the world presented, presumption, which is people can presume things in the world presented will behave as we expect, and lastly, context in reality, which is does the items presented make sense in reality. In then becomes the obsession of the magician, or the visual effect artist, to never betray the illusion. He then showed some different clips of visual effects in cinema over the past hundred years. These showed different aspects and types of visual effects over the years. It was a very interesting TED Talk.
Link to the video: http://www.ted.com/talks/don_levy_a_cinematic_journey_through_visual_effects.html
The other TED Talk was Amit Sood: Building a museum of museums on the web. This was a very interesting TED Talk about the google art project. This is where google created virtual museums very similar to the new google maps. Whereas instead of walking along a street via your web browser you are walking through a museum! Then you can click on individual paintings and see them at 10 Billion pixels. This means you can zoom in to see the individual brush strokes and cracks of the paintings. People can also create their own virtual collections of their favorite art works and discuss them with their friends. These seems like an amazing project that google made and I am definitely glad I learned about it!
The first was a TED Talk by Don Levy on A Cinematic Journey through Visual Effects.
In it Don Levy talked about how visual effects in cinema can be thought as essentially what magicians do. They create illusions using three basic principles. They are assumption, which is that people assume things in our world are the same as things in the world presented, presumption, which is people can presume things in the world presented will behave as we expect, and lastly, context in reality, which is does the items presented make sense in reality. In then becomes the obsession of the magician, or the visual effect artist, to never betray the illusion. He then showed some different clips of visual effects in cinema over the past hundred years. These showed different aspects and types of visual effects over the years. It was a very interesting TED Talk.
Link to the video: http://www.ted.com/talks/don_levy_a_cinematic_journey_through_visual_effects.html
The other TED Talk was Amit Sood: Building a museum of museums on the web. This was a very interesting TED Talk about the google art project. This is where google created virtual museums very similar to the new google maps. Whereas instead of walking along a street via your web browser you are walking through a museum! Then you can click on individual paintings and see them at 10 Billion pixels. This means you can zoom in to see the individual brush strokes and cracks of the paintings. People can also create their own virtual collections of their favorite art works and discuss them with their friends. These seems like an amazing project that google made and I am definitely glad I learned about it!
Final Project #3 - Marclay/Tinguely MashUp - Christmas At Someone Else's
This project was an interesting project for this being a digital media class but I had fun. Chohnny and I combined our two ideas. Her original idea was to have something robotic painting the vinyl, and my idea was to have an elongated abstract record player. So I think we did a pretty good job combining the two ideas. We built the middle part on top of my record player, then we added the Santa, and the speakers and then spray painted all the pieces. The Santa, depending on how wet his brush was, would push down on the record, which would slow it down and add a strange creepiness to the music. This made it feel familiar, because of the Christmas themes, but creepy and uncomfortable so it was like having Christmas at someone else's house.
Here is a picture of our project:
Here is a picture of our project:
Final Project #2 - BYOB - Rudolph's Acid Trip
For this project I decided to just use my skills in Adobe Premeire to edit clips from rudolph the red nose reindeer. It turned into a freaky looking and yet funny video. I think it's hilarious.
Image from the video:
Video to be uploaded soon.
Image from the video:
Video to be uploaded soon.
ART 345 - Project Two - Sounds from the World
Here is the link to my soundcloud page with sounds I gathered for this project. Eventually all of these sounds made into my video triptych whether they were edited heavily or not.
https://soundcloud.com/patrick-zbella
Dog Barking:
Pages Being Flipped:
Bus:
https://soundcloud.com/patrick-zbella
Planes Flying:
Dog Barking:
Pages Being Flipped:
Bus:
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