Portfolio

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

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.   

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

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.