A few thoughts.

After seeing everyone's project on Thursday, I was more than impressed. You all had such a grasp on what you were doing. It's been rather difficult to keep up because of the fact that I don't own a computer....or, I should say, "didn't" own a computer. I'm pleased to announce that this is my first post from my new macbook, and I'm playing around with Isadora and my panoramic images now.

I'm taking a break to share with you something that I have been spending a lot of time on. I've been working with a few people from a production company who are teaching me how to animate in Final Cut. I've been learning the intricacies of the software for a good amount of time already. I figured that it's not too different from what we've been using, and I'd be more than happy to share my knowledge with anyone who'd like to experiment with animation.

Here's an animation in the style of 8-bit that I was commissioned to do

And here's a series I'm working on in my spare time, called Super Box Pals

Episode 1

Episode 2

You can clearly see that things are improving from just the first to the second episode. It's much different than creating content with traditional frame by frame software.

-Mikal

10/18 Class Discussion - Midterm Reminders

Come to class prepared with midterm project on Thursday, October 25. Bring flash drive with your Isadora Patch and Media saved in a folder appropriately named your last name followed by your UFID (e.g. Primer 9982-6154).

Thursday, we will also be conducting critiques of eachother's projects. Critiques will include:

• Two positive reviews
• Two negative reviews
• Two overarching feelings towards the piece
• Overall impression of project

Pat will return flash drives with class critiques of your project, your grade and his observations and critique, the following week.

Projects should be completed by next Tuesday (10/23).

American Art Museum @ D.C.

I saw some projected art at the American Art Museum and thought about sharing it with you all. This piece is called Painting Room Lights and was made by David Haxton. It wasn't something too abstract but it had a nice use of lines and form.

Show at HARN

I thought the show was interesting in that the audience could have an effect on what was produced visually. I liked how images could be forwarded and displayed in the show from flicker in real time. The collage effect provoked thought by allowing people to view a set of images called upon by someone else using a smart phone. I don't quite know how I feel about the music. The beats were nice at times but I felt that the saxophone was not needed. Had fun.

Defining Art

Fluxus:
The art of using many form of art in one piece. Often given to the name of counterculture by artists who maintain one art form expertise at a time or in their lives.
Benefits: Avante-Grade of counter-culturism... come on..

Surrealism:
The art of using material vacant of meaning to create/build an image. (e.g. dots, paint splotches, solid shapes, horns, clouds, perspective even)
Benefits- Gives flavor to a beautiful image that displays little purpose.

Avante-Grade:
The art of playing with the boundaries of the present in an effort to make something new out of something that is not new.
The art of taking a step beyond the cliff that is current art... but not falling.
Benefits- Helps relieve the isolationism of propaganda when moving out of times of war.

DADA:
The difficult art of meaninglessness without being flushed into modernism.
The art of using form (not shape) while still avoiding purpose or reason.
Benefits- Helps relieve the tension of reality during harsher times in history.
Cons- In atmospheres already staunch with peace, it may cause dullness or bluntness
as the free minded would be given concrete brick to play with.
During these times, Modernism may be more appreciated.

Modernism:
The art of color and undetermined shape.
It may constantly be added to, but it will always be modern art.
Often used in Avante-Grade art as texture, space, or inspiration.
Benefits- Both alleviates the mind from focus and generates a pull towards finding personallity in pattern

Neo-Modernism:
Modern art with a concept and purpose beyond portraying modern art.
Benefits- Gives purpose to modernism... and teaches us what "Neo" means.

Pop Art:
The use of popular current art such as advertisements, comics, or fad material to collage a piece.
Benefits- Helps make stabs towards change of current mainstream demographics.

Doodle Art:
The counter culture art of both temperance and presence.
The art of imagining the finding the time to experience as perfect, and the art produced as the napkin.
Benefits- It still tends to look great, and is difficult to imitate style without adding your own personality.

Phantasmagoria:
The art of creating 3-dimentional live art using lights on material.
Materials include smoke, ice, water, buildings, etc.
(Different from sculpture.)

Clavilux Art:
The art of projecting light through source(s) of art, and displaying the meshed product.

Buddhist Art:
The art of understanding each moment as important and worth of perfection, as it exists in past-present-future. Counterintuitively, its product holds little importance.

Art:
Art IS Tao. (lol) :P

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Oct 4 notes

Youtube isadora tutorial 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqNw_4AWvvA 

Join the isadora forum

http://forum.troikatronix.com/ 

This guy

http://zugakousaku.com/  

For those with Mac

-Quartz composer files

-need to join forum to be able to download quartz

-it's given away for mac os for people that want to develop for it

For those with Windows

.wmv format

.psd

.png

.tga

320x 240 

Isadora

-10 elements of general video

-10 free frames

-3d/ particles system 

-generators/triggered 

-enter scenes/

-toggle/random/smoother/counter 

-text

at least say your name and 

name of song, 

must move and 

have colors

the rev is 6400x 1024

the sage is 3072x 768

the three major screens will be what you focus on while last two sides are peripheral 

School of music, of theatre asks for projection designers 

Nov 13 we will be talking to Peter Venous, 

http://vimeo.com/20328208

HW

For Tuesday bring in the work you've completed so far.  

Due on the Thursday in middle of October