Thursday, April 9, 2009

YouTube with better results?

Matt requested I redo 1 of the YouTube video (they obviously needed it). After sitting down with a computer savvy friend of mine and tweaking a bunch of settings these are what I was able to come up with. They're still not perfect (there seems to be a problem in the transition from Quicktime to Youtube) but definitely an improvement over the last bunch.



Monday, April 6, 2009

Client Quotes

Jacques Yves Cousteau:

“The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers: a demographic explosion that triggers social chaos and spreads death, nuclear delirium and the quasi annihilation of the species. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.”

Motavalli, Jim. 1996. Jacques Yves Cousteau at 85. The Environmental Magazine 7 (2):10.

Alfred Nobel:

"It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not."

Excerpt from the Will of Alfred Nobel. http://nobelprize.org (accessed April 6 2009).

Keith Campbell:

"We are not all mad scientists. We are not all looking to clone ourselves. The positive benefits that this may have for human therapeutic medicine and improving the quality of life for people with certain genetic disorders."

2001. Cloning Dolly, How and Why? Pre-Lecture Interview with the Marine Biological Laboratory. http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org (accessed April 6 2009)

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Late Submissions

These are late and I am sorry for that...I just couldn't leave what I originally posted as my only submissions:



YouTube of Project

These all ended up really grainy.  Apologies.






Final Experiment 1 Submission

There is so much more that I would like to do with this but time is short.  If I manage to get my animations done I will add more, further refined, images.  Anyway, here is my final submission for Experiment 1:









Week 3

I had a major technical 'snafu' this week and accidentally saved over my original (final) model at about 3 AM.  Frustrating.   So, obviously, I had to restart.  

This is about what I was able to put together by 6 PM on Tuesday.
 






















YouTube Video

As a warning this clip is a bit dark.  I've chosen to use a video of Nine Inch Nails' song 'Hurt,' shot in 1995 in Toronto.  I felt like the images reflected my original ink section quite well.  While the decaying animals are a bit morbid they work nicely with my whole saturation, boney underground level while, simultaneously, there is a lot of 'radiation' imagery reflective of my top level.  My final model ended up being much less depressing but in the end this song actually helped with my creative process and the video just seemed too perfect.