Tag Archives: SOS: Media
SOS: Media – Week 10
For the last 7 days, I have been working pretty constantly on the Trouble With Unicorns. On Thursday of last week, we shot the Meadow pixilation sequence, and on Monday, we shot more stills of our actor who plays Morgan, whose name is Venu Mattraw, walking through forest. We also shot the pixilation scene that [...]
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458nm + The Cags
I was just looking at some videos on MeFeedia.com, and came across this amazing 3D animated short called 458nm. “It’s midnight. A smattering of moonlight falls upon the forest floor. Two mechanical snails move slowly through the darkness. They confront one another and briefly take the measure each other’s powers before uniting in love play. [...]
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SOS: Media Spring – Week 6+7 Update
Well, it is 4 days after the promised date that I would give my (now long overdue) Week 6 update, and the end of Week 7 is approaching by the minute. Given the current circumstance, and my lack of desire to mislead anyone, I am going to make this post a Confabulation post! It will [...]
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SOS: Media Spring – Week 5 Update
This week was one in which I didn’t make a great deal of progress on my own work. One could say that I benefited as a person from my other activities. I taught part two of the After Effects workshop for Mediaworks. This time I was without any support from official people such as Stephanie [...]
Continuing Thoughts About Artificial Intelligence (SOS: Media – Week 2 Update)
For the past couple of days, I have been getting reacquainted with all of the writing and notes and ideas I was engaged with during fall quarter for my Artificial Intelligence project. Involved in this process is the reading of the massive quantity of journaling that I did, and watching and reading some new research [...]
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SOS: Media – Spring Quarter Week 01
I was just falling asleep a moment ago when I realized that I hadn’t written a blog post yet this week about my progress and activities for SOS: Media. I have a bit of a little exigetic thought process on this topic. It seems that all of my classes this quarter are melding into this [...]
Suppress Control and All Cocks Plaster
These are two short videos that I created for Safe Harbor. The process that was used to create them is an interesting and likely somewhat unique one, so I thought I would write a bit of an explanation here. First, here are the videos for you to experience firsthand. Suppress Control All Cocks Plaster These [...]
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DIY Steadicam
Here lies a short videoblog about the DIY steadicam Brad and myself constructed from part bits of plumbing supplies from Ace Hardware, and weights from a sporting goods store. It contains an explanation of what the parts do, and a visual demonstration of what effect it has on footage shot with it. Operating this device [...]
Production Stills – Makeup Tests
The following are some photographic images of the things we have been doing for the last few weeks. Last week, we did extensive motion and lighting tests with a large variety of different video cameras. Here, we see Brad poking a Fusebox, a small kid’s camera, which records in 320×240 highly compressed video onto internal [...]
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Lethe – Section 1 Draft