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My 3-4 second video

30 second video

For my 3-4 minute video I videoed my friends and myself hula hooping around Chestertown. I had a lot of fun videoing, as well as some frustration as many people I asked to hoop declined. I ended up getting about 20 to actually do it. One of the funniest parts for me was what people said as they were hooping or when the hoop fell. Most videos were taken during exam week so it gave people a chance to be silly in a stressful time. When I put the videos together I had the most trouble with my transitions, but think I ended up making them pretty well. The reason I chose the song playing in the background is because it repeatedly says "I don't wanna touch the ground", which seemed appropriate since when you are hooping you don't want it to touch the ground.

Animation

For my animation I took construction paper and tore of pieces of paper one or a couple at a time so that each color morphed into the next color. About half way through I started cutting the paper with scissors so that the shapes started as organic shapes and slowly went into geometric shapes. This transition reminds me of how lifestyles have changed with technological advances over the course of history. The organic shapes being early in history without tv's or computers or iphones and the geometric shapes representing today how our worlds so dependent upon these things.

Self Portrait

I started this project by taking pictures of myself hula hooping because it is one of my favorite activities.  The pictures were taken by the waterfront in Chestertown, which looked pretty but I wanted to add a background that had more meaning. I have seen the show Cirque du Soleil that includes acrobats and contortionists, as well as hula hoopers. I remembered how unique the tents for the show were of blue and yellow. I put these tents in the background to make it look like I was going to hula hoop at Cirque du Soleil.

Ballas talk

I found Professor Ballas' talk on new media in digital imaging interesting because I did not fully understand what it was before. I like the idea of being able to make art that looks like it is out of a video game, such as Brody Condon. Being unfamiliar with video games I will probably try and draw my own pictures to animate for my project

Visual Poetry

For my project I chose a quote from the song "Scarlett Begonias" by the Grateful Dead. I have always liked this quote because of the picture that comes to mind of the sun being blue and the sky being yellow. The blue sun in this picture comes from a crayon painting I did on a small square canvas. I took a picture of it and cropped it onto a picture of yellow sky i found on the internet in Photoshop. I then added the text quote and made it into a spiral pattern in the center of the sun.

Purdy response

I enjoyed and felt a connection to Moriah Purdy’s examples of visual art because I grew up reading books by Ellen Hopkins. In these books, Hopkins tells her stories through the use of poems and arranges them in different ways on every page. Each way is meant to represent in some way the words being said, which in most cases are dramatic or sad because her books are about struggles teenagers go through in different social and economic settings.

            Some of the examples I found most compelling of Purdy’s examples were the “au pair” because at first when I looked at it I didn’t understand it, therefore I didn’t enjoy looking at it. When she explained the fact that each line, in different arrangements, is supposed to be a line of a poem in itself, rather than the aesthetic picture only, it made more sense to me.

The second example I liked was the piece by Kevin McPhearson Eckoff of the face made out of words because it reminded me of an artist who does something similar to this, but through the use of stamps. His name is Federico Piettrella.

Here is the article to view his art:

 http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/09/new-date-stamp-pointillism-paintings-by-federico-pietrella/