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This is the first scene (no audio yet) of what I hope to continue to animate using After Effects. This is the implementation of my storyboard (previously posted).

This is our video for Comm Lab, originally titles void setup(). Enjoy!

1. Here is our initial storyboard. 2. Here is Fiona’s take on the initial storyboard. 3. My take – our third storyboard – again unused: 4. Final Video Concept – void setup() – (shot list): – David (programmer) sad and lonely at computer. – David opens computer and starts typing. – [Screen Capture] void setup(); size(); [...]

“On the Rights of the Molotovman: Appropriation and the art of context” by Susan Meiselas and Joy Garnett. Harper’s Magazine (February 2007) (p.53-58). A great article highlighting two points of view on appropriation and copyrights. Joy Garnett is an artist that works with photos she has appropriated from other sources. She believes that you do not have [...]

Servicing Anatoli - what it sounds like to get technical support at the Genius Bar. Fiona and I recorded audio at a busy Apple store, looking for interesting sounds and words that jumped out of the cacophony of the hundreds of people browsing. We mixed the recorded audio with some basic loops in Soundtrack Pro to create the [...]

…from “The Ecstasy of Influence,” a plagiarism by Jonathan Lethem: – Cryptomnesia – “the earlier tale exist[ed] for Nabokov as a hidden, unacknowledged memory.” – “Literature has always been a crucible in which familiar themes are continually recast.” – “[Bob] Dylan’s art offers a paradox: while it famously urges us not to look back, it [...]

[McLuhan, Marshall. "The Medium is the Message," "Media Hot and Cold." Understanding Media. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994. 7-32.] – Automation technology has reduced jobs for humans, but has allowed the jobs available to be more appropriate to the human mind, as opposed to man as automated machine himself in a mindless job (p. 7). – While [...]

Taking Marianne’s suggestions into account, Si re-edited the comic so that the word bubble was yellow, like the glow emanating from the ++machine, she scaled the poos in the background down to create perspective, and she changed the large heart to lots of small hearts for all the dog clones. One change that would still [...]