Projects
Sound Project part 1
Sound Project part 2
Chroma Key
Guitar cinema-graph
Slow it Down (found footage)
Self Portrait
One on One ( multichannel)
52 Card pick up (60 sec shot)
Waking up Surreal
Wiki Write ups
Rage and Depression (1972) by William Wegman
Merce by Merce(1978), by Nam June Paik
Men Seeking Women (2007) by Penny Lane
Cafescape gif (2011) Jackson Finter
-Alex Schwalbe
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Monday, April 15, 2013
Tec. Demo
For my demo I went over the steps i took to recreate the MC Escher piece Drawing hands> I demonstrated how to use a green screen mask in Photoshop in Final Cut Pro X. Also I should how I used that mask technique to cover a seem and blend areas of the video together. Basically I went over all the problems i had while editing and how I went about solving them.
Monday, April 8, 2013
Laurie Simmons
Laurie Simmons
Born in Long Island, New York 1949
Lives and works in New York
BFA from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia
lauriesimmons.net
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Final Project
For my finale I have the idea of re-creating past work into video that will include myself. What i mean by that is that i would like to focus around one artist, MC Escher, and create shots to look like his well known artwork. On top of that i plan the images telling a story narrated with a voice over. What I'm going for, is a basic story with all the shots to have MC Escher references so that anyone that knows the works will easily recognize them which is all part of the story. I feel that if done right it will make a great and interesting piece to any fan of Escher's and for those that don know him it will hopefully give a reason for them to look him up.
The video will be done in a single channel format and will be very difficult to pull off because of the complexity of Escher's work. I will need to match shots from the original works as well as use multiple layers of video in some cases.
The video will be done in a single channel format and will be very difficult to pull off because of the complexity of Escher's work. I will need to match shots from the original works as well as use multiple layers of video in some cases.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Multi Screen
I'm having a really hard time coming up with an idea for this project. As of now I'm leaning towards a two channel video side by side with a bit of a gap between the two screens. I want to play with the idea of the gap being there either with animation or live action, i want to have the idea of jumping the gap literally people running from one screen and trying to jump to the next. It may turn into a bit of a narrative with the goal of trying to get over the gap in between the screens. Another small idea i had was to just have people throwing and object back and forth from one screen to another.
Both ideas are fairly simple which I don't really like, I feel that there is something I'm not thinking of that could be a much more interesting video so I'm still thinking and hopefully come up with something better then these small basic ideas i have right now.
Both ideas are fairly simple which I don't really like, I feel that there is something I'm not thinking of that could be a much more interesting video so I'm still thinking and hopefully come up with something better then these small basic ideas i have right now.
Monday, March 4, 2013
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Gallery
In the gallery I looked at two pieces on being David Shrigley"s 'New Friends' (2006, animation, 1 min.) which is an animation about a box that lives in a box world and falls into a hole to meet round friends. what i like about this one was the way he did his animation it was simple and still very understandable and created a very different feel to it. he even refers to his drawings as a mix between hand writing and drawing.
The other artist I looked at was Andrew Bush 'Women southeast at 64mph on U.S. Route 101 near Santa Barbra at 4:39pm sometime in March 1990' (1990, chronogeneric print) which is exactly what it sounds like a women driving on a freeway in her car but the image isn't blurred its as if he was right next to her and she was stopped.
Both pieces take a simple idea and add to it by altering it just a bit Shrigley could have done a more realistic cartoon and Bush happened to be there at the right moment and decided to shoot it so it looked still getting a completely natural reaction or pose from the women driving. both deal with identity in diffrent ways in one the artist is creating everything about the charters we see including there world. The other has only selection of images we see the artist has no control over the subject and neither does the subject in a sense because she doesn't know she's being photographed. I just shows a portrait can be all knowing or all unknown.
The other artist I looked at was Andrew Bush 'Women southeast at 64mph on U.S. Route 101 near Santa Barbra at 4:39pm sometime in March 1990' (1990, chronogeneric print) which is exactly what it sounds like a women driving on a freeway in her car but the image isn't blurred its as if he was right next to her and she was stopped.
Both pieces take a simple idea and add to it by altering it just a bit Shrigley could have done a more realistic cartoon and Bush happened to be there at the right moment and decided to shoot it so it looked still getting a completely natural reaction or pose from the women driving. both deal with identity in diffrent ways in one the artist is creating everything about the charters we see including there world. The other has only selection of images we see the artist has no control over the subject and neither does the subject in a sense because she doesn't know she's being photographed. I just shows a portrait can be all knowing or all unknown.
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