Collage = Love

I keep finding Flight of the Conchords Sequences that seem so applicable to class, I wish I had made the connection just a little earlier so that they would have been a more temporally relevant.

this one's for John

A look back before moving forward

Per Jeanne's instruction, I decided to take a look back at all my previous coursework up to this point. I'm able to blog it to you with my iPhone, my new light box and a 10x magnifying loupe.









ASSIGNMENT #1: PRECINEMATIC DEVICES

Do you recognize this image?







You might not because I censored it the first time you saw it.






Someone in this class is exploring similar objects for a final project.















I'm trying to hide the next picture past your browser window to heighten your sense of suspense.










Of course, this will only work if you don't remember my pre-cinematic object.















It's an escort calling card, from Las Vegas
ASSIGNMENT #2: DIRECT ANIMATION-SUBTRACTIVE

Then there was a title assignment. I scratched and bleached my black leader:


ASSIGNMENT #3: DIRECT ANIMATION-ADDITIVE

Clear leader, hockey puck and India ink.
ASSIGNMENT #4: COLLAGE FILM
My collage film. Scotch tape, selectively bleached 16mm film from FILM 2500 and pieces of a 35mm trailer for Pelham 1, 2, 3.




ASSIGNMENT #5: DISTRESS/DESTRUCTION
We collaborated to create an exquisite corpse style mash up.

ASSIGNMENT #6: HAIKU, EISENSTEIN, TRINITY
We all went to find film in a delightful Kuleshov exercise.

I'm still working on finishing this one, but I intend to create a new project for the Warehouse party at Astrolandd.

I'd love to show bits and pieces of it as I go along, but I feel like this might be a little too much of performance, distracting me from creating sincere artwork. In other words, the blog might slow down a little bit while I focus my energy on film making in preperation for my impending graduation, May 7th.

Now I'm going to go execute some criminal films with my guillotine splicer, stitch them back together, and shock them back to life.

Frankenstein monster.

Video as an alternative to audio blogging (audio isn't supported by blogspot)

I had to leave First Person Cinema with Craig Baldwin early because I had a hockey game last night at nine o'clock. I was really conflicted about leaving such an AWESOME show, so I had to blog about it right then and there, before the moment passed by.

My hockey team, The Fury, lost 4 - 6.

You can watch these videos from top to bottom if you want to experience them in chronological order (I posted them in reverse chronological order)