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Project #4

For this I chose to do the Be Someone Else from the Artist Assignment, I have had purple in my hair for almost 7 years and during the stay at home order I decided to let my hair fade more than I ever have let it. Then I couldn’t stand it anymore with inch and a half roots and extremely uneven color, I bleached my roots and put in fresh dye in. I feel like I look completely different with my hair so light after so long of not seeing it or my natural brown color.

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Reading Response 4

Postmodernism is a form of art that came out in a time where everyone and everything was expected to conform and act a certain way which is why postmodernism emerged to rebel against. A lot of this style of art is combining things together that you don’t usually see together usually making statement or something ironic. To me it is a form of art that has no set rules except to go against whatever the set norm is, art that is ugly or tacky.

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Project 3

This project was incredibly difficult for me, when it was due my motivation was shot and I couldn’t think of anything creative or want to do any actual work. But I decided to try and remember something I miss dearly, snowboarding. The season got cut short because of COVID, thankfully I had 10 full days on the mountain but I had so many more planned. Strapping in my board one last time, hoping that the 20/21 season doesn’t get canceled. This is my therapy, my art and my passion.

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Exercise #3

To grab

To hold

To embrace

To love

To watch

To listen

To make up

To distract

To work

To study

To design

To create

To pet

To fish

To inspire

To discover

To rip

To break

To forget

To play

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Project #2

This was a difficult project for me to think of something to make sine video art is such a broad thing. I decided to show the story of my art, which is snowboarding, I took this video at Copper mountain over the last weekend with a group of friends. I also tried to add a story to it with trying to make it have a beginning, middle and end. Using Preimere is easy for me as I have used it in the past, though I am still working on getting smoother cuts and a better eye for editing I am proud of this video.

[casshobs]

Exercise #2

I love this Key and Peele skit and wanted to make it into a music video for Heartbreaker by Pat Benatar 

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I decided to make a series of my favorite movie, The Wolf of Wall Street starring Leonardo DiCaprio.  This movie genre is mainly a comedy so I thought that there were many parts within the film that make for entertaining gifs.  I tried to organize each gif in the order in which they would appear during the movie.  If you haven’t yet seen this movie I recommend you watch it not only for the many humorous jokes but for the enticing financial knowledge as well; and also the overall living life to the fullest message it sends.  If you have seen the film, feel free to repost these gifs and share something you like about this movie!

[casshobs]

I just watched this movie for the first time in years the other day and I forgot how wonderfully insane the whole movie is, crazy to think that this story is based on a a real person. The dancing gif is my favorite, the silly look on Leo’s face is makes my day.

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Project #1 - The Loop Love Actually is my all-time favorite Christmas movie, and probably my all-time favorite rom-com. I watch it whenever I need a pick-me-up or a good ugly cry. For this project, I wanted to focus on some of the moments in this movie that make me the happiest, but there are a few sad moments sprinkled in, as well. Bill Nighy does an outstanding job portraying a burn-out rockstar that is holding onto the last bit of stardom that he has, all while his poor manager has to deal with all the ruckus he causes. Hugh Grant’s dance scenes were his last filmed scenes since he was dreading doing them, but how great are they?! The movie would’ve completely changed without them.   This was my first time working in Photoshop and I enjoyed it! However, the only hiccup I had was figuring out how to speed up the videos, because they all seemed to slow down once I uploaded them. Interesting how something so simple like time can have such a big effect on a video that is only seconds long.

[casshobs]

Love Actually is also my all time favorite Christmas movie and up there on my favorite rom-coms. I love the scenes that you chose, especially with Hugh Grant dancing.

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what a tangled WWW we weave

In this series of ten animated gifs (appropriated from television & movies) I am exploring the aesthetic of computer security and computerized surveillance. The interplay of these two aspects of our digital world fascinates me. Authoritarian governments have created powerful surveillance apparatuses that are supposedly only used for legitimate law enforcement, yet my close friend, who is intimately familiar with such matters, assures me that the x86 platform that most, if not all, these systems run on is inherently insecure. What kind of world are we creating where an investigator with the appropriate computer security skills can access a near limitless database of personal information? If power corrupts, then aren’t these systems being built to create an upper-class of elite computer users who are naturally corrupted by the immense power they wield?

THE HUMANOID MUST NOT ESCAPE

[casshobs]

This is a really interesting theme and very relevant to today’s world of up and coming computer secutiry and the rising issue of facial recognition used by the government and corporations. 

[brea-reed]

What do you think? I pulled different moments in TV, Music, Online and Movies that have spoken to me or empower and inspire me. Also being so close to V-Day theres some hopeless romanticism sprinkled in there. From the intense love and power of the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, to the heroism and romance of Tuxedo Mask’s rose in Sailor Moon creates a narrative of power, love, and hurt. Rosalia’s “Juro Que” and Kim Petras’ “Faded” show relationships between people and how vastly different the two portray. Kim Petras being featured twice was no mistake, she is chipping away at the old structure of transphobia. Death Becomes Her and The First Wives Club are two movies that will always be ingrained in my mind. Meryl’s smiling face after shooting Goldie. The three wives dancing and skipping down the streets of New York in the 90′s is the exact energy I want my life to have for as long as possible. Mulan hits my heart so incredibly hard, ever since I was a child I’ve related to her and to this day cry at the movie. It’s been a huge symbolism of my identity and courage to move forward through anything. The last is a phenomenal video of Hong Kong, the city and its energy and constant movement has always been on my mind since I visited New York in 2005. This was fun, and most importantly interesting on trying to find those 2-3 seconds of these videos that really spoke to my narrative and also had the visual action to match it. 

[casshobs]

You have such a good variety of chosen media, with such iconic scenes and people it gives a good idea of who you are. The GIf from Hong Kong is memorizing and I keep re watching it! 

[casshobs]

Project 1

With this project I wanted to showcase the things that make me, me. I used several movies for this. The first gif is from one of my favorite songs, Buttercup by Jack Sauber it has a very nice looking lyric video. Willy Wonka is a movie that shaped my childhood and one I still love today, the tunnel scene in particular is something I'll never forget watching as a child. The Addams Family TV show is so special to me so I added my favorite scene of Gomez carving a pumpkin, Halloween is also my favorite holiday. Beetlejuice is a movie I quote constantly and have a quote tattooed on me. The Office is a show I've seen thousands of times and I can tell an episode just from one scene. Rocky Horror Picture Show is something I can always count on to bring me smile with the outrageous songs and plot. I'm happy in able to share these things in GIFS, each scene chosen was just a particular favorite of mine.

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Gif I made from my favorite scene in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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In the readings I was surprised to learn how old the GIF was, being created in 1987 seems so early since it was still about five years before the World Wide Web was created. I was also intrigued to see so many ways that the art community tried to sell GIFs at art shows and auctions, whether it be sold as a physical item like a sheet with screens embedded into it to display the GIF or the digital file be given on a USB device. The fact that many communities made such a big deal about the GIF showed the impact it made on the world and how it is here to stay.

This is one of my favorite gifs, it shows what can be done with an image to make something trippy and beautiful.

I really enjoy this one because I love snowboarding and there is no better feeling than carving in powder.

Marilyn Manson is my favorite musician and many people wouldn’t expect him to smile like he does.

GIFs that are made to be trippy are some of my favorites, bright colors and a slightly moving image are fun to look at.

The way this GIF gives me the mental image of Morticia asking “mind if I smoke?” right before doing this will always make me laugh.

What isn’t there to love about a cat GIF? Especially a black cat, which are my favorite and the type of cat I own.

A simple animation with a spooky theme and cats, that is why I think this is fabulous.

My favorite line from my favorite movie, Beetlejuice.

Snow is one of the most beautiful things in the world, a heavy snow like this is heaven to me.

This style of animation is so calming and nice to look at.