Latest Project

This is my project for illumination in the Photo Class down here in Argentina.

MassMoCA field trip info

Just a reminder that our fall VARTS Field trip is next Saturday, October 16. Everyone who wants to go needs to sign up with Janet Lewis in the Architecture main office to reserve their space. Any extra space will be open to other students on Thursday.

The bus is free, students will need only museum admission ($10 for MASS MoCA) and money for lunch.

Itinerary:

Leave Bristol, 7AM North Campus Lot
heading to

Mass MOCA
http://www.massmoca.org/
1040 MASS MoCA WAY
NORTH ADAMS, MA 01247

Students: $10

Stay until 2- 2:30 PM

Then:
The Clark Institute
http://www.clarkart.edu/
225 South Street, Williamstown, MA 01267

Free to Full time students w/ ID

Stay 3:30 - 4PM

then
Williams College Museum (closes at 5PM)
http://www.wcma.org/
15 Lawrence Hall Drive, Ste 2
Williamstown, MA 01267

Free Admission

Return to Bristol by 9PM

Portfolio Links

I wonder if people could post links to their portfolio sites. I'd like to keep up with what everyone is doing, plus they are a great reference for those days when I'm searching for something inspirational.

Who would put themselves through this?

eyedeekay if this blog is inactive but:

PEN Giant

this guy is an effing freak.

btw, none of this is real. it is all rendered.

http://blog.iso50.com/2009/12/17/alex-roman-hyperreal-cgi/

FAV people:

Great show. Can I post your videos on the web? Kieran made a great site for us. Many heard about your work and are interested in seeing them.
[and I'm at home and don't have everyone's email, can you forward this?]

Murray

I just don't know what to say to this .. do all disney kids end up sluts?

Olivia Bee

So she is 15 and has pretty cool work.
i don't know her but here is the website

Film Festival Update

The third annual RWU SAAHP Film Festival will be this Wednesday, May 12, at 11pm in ARCH 132. Free Admission.

The Video and Animation class is organizing it and working on marketing. To that end, Kieran has designed some beautiful posters. We have $350 to spend on posters (Thanks to Steve and SAAHP). What I originally proposed was a two prong strategy:

1) One Giant awesome poster we put in a great location.

2) 500 color 11x17's.

You guys like this plan? Time is crucial and I'd like to go to the printers this afternoon if possible.

The Very Big World of Marius Sachtikus

This reminded me of Daniel Pelt's corner, but look closer and there's a little man! go here for a few more:
http://iconology.therndm.com/archive/very-big-world-marius-sachtikus/1146

This may help some of us out

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/30/50-fresh-portfolio-websites-for-your-inspiration/

Its 50 different portfolio websites, all of which are very interesting and interactive. A simple google search of "portfolio websites" also brought up many pages of the 50 most "whatever" portfolio websites.

enjoy

iPad :)

mmm...

foodporndaily.com [just keep clicking on the food]

This isn't really related to anything, but I'm posting it just in case anyone is able to get as much enjoyment out of this as I have. It entertains me for relatively long periods of time. Enjoy!

the moma exhibit murray was talking about

http://marinaabramovicmademecry.tumblr.com/

similarities

I just got this picture in an email. It reminded me of Jeanette's robot picture. Pretty Awesome

I guess i just neede a lil time

I took me a bit of time, but here it is "finalized"
i couldn't pick just one pic so top 4 :)
enjoy

Final Cut Help

I'm trying to export my video as a .mov from Final Cut Pro. I've done this before by going to File>Export>QuickTime Movie>Save to Desktop

This time it only exports a 5 second black clip. I've tried multiple settings for the compression with no luck. What am I missing? Why can't I save?

anybody have a spare sony battery?

It would appear that the cord that came with my video camera doesn't actually charge my video camera. project due tomorrow. i'm feeling awesome right now

Oh Shit Moment

I bought this awesome frame to use today. then took it apart to size it for matting, and what I thought was part of the picture that was framed in it was actually painted on the glass!

thankfully i later found that they make glass replacements and i found one that fit.

slugs in love

is there any way I could get a link to your video? I LOVE it so much and want to show it to people :P

MORNING BENDERS / MINIATURE TIGERS TICKETS

Hi all,Mostly I just remembered that Rose (I think it was Rose) posted a morning benders video here a while ago, so that's why I'm posing this to the blog:

I have 2 tickets to see The Morning Benders and Miniature Tigers (who are not very well known but are HILARIOUS guys and their music is fantasticcccccc and I LOVE THEM) in Boston on Saturday the 17th, but there is a giant cake decorating contest on campus that night that I'm participating in...

SO DOES ANYONE WANT TO GO SEE THESE TWO REALLY AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME BANDS FOR A VERY VERY LOW PRICE?

I paid like $30 total for the tickets, but I'd be willing to go for way less, since I would rather someone go and have fun than have the tickets wasted!

interesting article on some filmmakers

http://www.27east.com/story_detail.cfm?id=267015&town=&n=

more dancing. surprised? didn't think so.

Prime by The Medium

My brother's band! See if you can spot me running really really awkwardly near the end, hahaha

Hiroshi Sugimoto

I've never looked at clothing like this before:
And this is mindblowing
And can you imagine leaving the shutter open long enough for an entire candle to blow out? It makes me want to try it, but how many nights would you have to waste figuring out the settings?
Also amazingly awesome: http://www.sugimotohiroshi.com/LighteningField.html
and an Interesting take on 2d dioramas.

ok.. I should get back to work since they are paying me to be here.

hey guys,

im doing a stop frame animation for my video, but my files wont open in quick time so i can view them in a video form... they're all in photoshop files in a folder on the desktop in order. any suggestions??

thanks - nikki

book animation

apparently my idea of a break from work is looking up stop motion stuff online.

this is NONSENSE.

July Flame

on hold

I'm waiting for it to get dark out so I can start shooting...

Came across this really neat puppet animation!

The Ostrich from Lucas Zanotto on Vimeo.

film: if you don't have an idea yet

i can bring this in to anybody the first day of class or on sunday, i'm not going to use it, cldbgd.

DM Project

I don't know if any of you are reading this during break, but I'm down in New Orleans struggling with how to capture this city in one image. I've been taking some "research shots" I guess at the first st patricks day parade, down in the jazz clubs and walking around the city. I am getting some great portraits but its not really capturing my feelings about the city.  I'm really feeling this idea of new orleans as a welcoming home. So, the base picture would be a house in the garden district around dusk when everyone is sitting on their porches greeting passerbys. Then, I'd like to put a couple of images into the windows of the house so that it was as if the people on the porch were greeting you and welcoming you into their house, and in the house would be the characteristics of new orleans; jazz, food. I'm also toying with the idea of having a streetcar in front of the house. Problems being: the photoshopping. I am not sure if I would be able to pull this off successfully, but I won't know until I try. Its going to be a matter of getting the right angling for the photos so that it looks good, figuring out a good lighting situation so that the photos meld together, and sizing them correctly when I paste them together. I have some ideas that in my head are awesome, but i'm not sure how they'll work out in the real world.
Anyone else struggling?

holy crap Kirsten Lepore is my new hero. watch, um, all of her videos. the first one I found was the one with the cupcake. love love love love love love love

Hello from Greece

Hi You Guys,

It turns out I can't access my RWU email from Europe. If you've sent me something, I don't have access to it--however, I'll check this site daily, if you need help.

I hope you all are working and playing hard. And you don't even want to know about Greek food--authentic Greek. Don't get me started about the tomatoes.

Update on our project: going well. We're working 12 hour days and like where we're going. Our goal is to finish 1-2 days early so we can get lost in Athens, a city of secrets: amazing antique stores and video art coffee bars tucked away in allies with no signs. If I spoke Greek I could live here (and yes: my Greek is not going anywhere fast).

Murray

Anyone want to go skiing/shoot a video over break?

I'm going to be shooting some kind of ski video at stratton mountain, vt next week. does anyone want to join in? you can stay at my place on the mountain for free and possibly ski for free on the weekend.

hit me up
203-536-1428

falling and getting up

Started playing around with Origami art....
BEAUTIFUL things!! skills... not so pretty
after hours of experimenting and figuring out origami diagrams...
results below... (favorite character on top )

Not really what was on my head so.....
played by ear on my form making abilities and came up with this

Basically looking to do some models of spaces with different textures and lighting experiences.
trying different strategies such as below, and keeping a top of 3 spaces.

will bring updated work for next class.

Some Artists from a Gallery in Newport.

Robert Cook - I love what he does with trees  See More Here

Henry Asencio - To see his site, Click here


And, Danielle O'Connor Akiyama. I can't link to her images, so to see her you have to go to her SITE

This is completely absurd.

All with sidewalk chalk? Whaaat?

Cool surrealist video site

http://listicles.thelmagazine.com/2010/02/10-surreal-animated-short-films/

HEY KIERAN

how's this for feet? anything you'd like different?

and if the legs aren't long enough, I can just cut them apart and add wire.

2 inspiring artists

collected some photos from things I've been looking at recently


Edward Burtynsky





Sayaka Kajita Ganz:

Steadicam. Woohoo.

World Builder

Doc Film Institute

BLUE BUTTERFLY from Dikayl Rimmasch on Vimeo.

some shoes from a dutch architecture site. the actual site is pretty interesting too.

Click this

I like the jumping parts

CHALLONGE!

The New Annie Leibowitz

I Love This Guy

La Dama y La Muerte

I'm working on a presentation on assisted suicide for my Spanish Cinema course,
And I found this awesome little short on the Asociacion Derecho a Morir Dignamente website. It won the goya award for best short video. I am not aware what that is... but the video is GREAT

ASPIRATIONS

an original eye?

http://rentedsurroundings.tumblr.com/post/418887722

Weapon of Choice Response : More Christopher Walkin

Po-Po-Po-Po-Poker Face

Oops

Video/Animation class: I forgot that this Tuesday we have guest artists from MIT for the first hour of class. The second hour will resume the crit.

Murray

The Ultimate Dance Sequence.

Weapon of Choice

Stop. Motion.

COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis (2 times loop) from blu on Vimeo.

Mykonos from Grandchildren on Vimeo.

White Winter Hymnal from Grandchildren on Vimeo.

Au Francais

These are segments from the collective film "Paris Je T'Aime" from some of my favorite directors.



The Coen Brothers : No Country For Old Men / The Big Lebowski / Barton Fink / Fargo / O' Brother Where Art Thou






Sorry for the Italian subtitles on this one. I mainly included it because Cuarón is the master of long takes. This whole scene is one continuous shot.

Alfonso Cuarón: Children of Men / Great Expectations / Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban

I'm completely obsessed

I don't even know who showed me this but I CAN'T STOP LOOKING AT THESE

BENT OBJECTS

A blog I'm liking

Unhappy Hipsters

more dancing...

and now for something completely different...

I'm making something really weird

Haiti Exhibition is THIS Wednesday at 4 [sorry: I had wrong date before]

Rock on DM students.

BTW: the president will be at the exhibition at the library at 4 for a press photo shoot. Anybody have the free time (the more participants the better we look)?

"Clever girl."

Dino DNA.

Sent From Randall V

A Few Considerations

Hi artists,

1) Don't think of video as any different than your art. The mistake most artists make when they are new to video is throwing out all those composition, color and photography tricks you've spent so many years developing. You should be able to stop your animation or video on any frame and have it compete with any photograph you've ever taken.

2) Most of you are graduating in the next year or so. This is the time (or past the time if you're graduating this semester) when the goal is to transition from making "student work" to making "professional work". If you think your competition--you know: those artists who want the opportunities you will be applying for in a HANDFUL OF MONTHS--is content keeping it at the student level (even though they're students like you) than you're going to have a surprise. It's MUCH better to fail at making pro level work than succeed with student level work.

3) You are in charge of the scale/ambition of your work. I don't care what scale you choose, although the more ambitious you are, the more ambitious opportunities you'll be able to successfully pursue in the future. However, I do care that you NAIL the scale you choose. For example, if you have profoundly limited time, money, etc than bring in a 2 frame animation that just flicks back and forth like a subtly moving photograph--and where you NAIL THE COMPOSITION, COLOR, ACTING, LIGHTING, ETC. Increase your scale depending on your interest and ambition. The scale is flexible, the quality should not be.

4) If it's hard to do, it will need many tries to get it right (if your luck is like my luck). Meg and I spend a whole day, and usually 20-30 takes to get one 2 minute take that's usable.

5) Please bring to class a quicktime movie that's ready for presentation. What this means in most cases is 5 seconds of black in the beginning, 10 seconds of black at the end (and more if you have dramatically fading music--always depend on watching it over and over until you get the timing right. Some artists like intro logos and text, others prefer not: it's up to you. The sequence of presentation is like the frame around a painting.

6) Worried about what your doing and want a second opinion? Great. You should all get to this point. USE THIS BLOG! Export your project to a quicktime format from the FCP timeline. Create a You Tube account (super easy). Upload your quicktime to your new You Tube Channel (super easy--just go to the site and surf the options--fifth graders do it) and then post your work here for us all to comment on.

7) If you are freaking out, don't know how to get started, are scared about if what you're doing is good enough or are having a hard time getting past the planning stage, here's my best advise: JUST START WORKING. Grab a camera (any quality level), get in the car (and grab some friends if you like), go some place interesting, and just start having fun. Here's a great trick: buy your friends a nice meal. This is easily worth the $30-$50. When you take care of your talent then they will take care of you.

8) Lastly, if you're scared, confused or nervous than THIS IS IDEAL. Making art IS scary. Don't think for a second that Meg and I are not in the same boat. I get nervous with every project and frustrated trying to figure them out. THIS IS NORMAL. The reason I teach my classes in the way I do is I want you all to experience these emotions and learn how to move past the fear. The fear will always be there. Becoming an artist is not about learning to NOT be afraid, it's about learning to MOVE FORWARD even though you're scared stiff.

With experience and knowledge this gets easier, but if you continue to improve the fear will remain. I would argue the absence of fear probably means the absence of creative growth.

Great Shooting / Editing / Color Correction

Acoustics = Atmosphere

Fionn Regan - Be Good Or Be Gone
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video

"Excuses"

dancers wanted.

i'm thinking that i might want to shoot a dance sequence. does anybody know any dancers?

Welcome to 2010

I've changed the name from dmrwu09 to dmrwu (so that I don't have to change it every year). Happy new year.