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The emotions you go through every year during the holidays. The grinch preferctly represent every phase I go through during these happy times. Everyone has a little grinch in them 😉 Happy Holidays ya’ll! I hope you guys had a good semester! Don’t forget to watch the Grinch!

Artist Statement

Vanishing & Becoming

This project could be tricky, yet inspiration. It could go in many directions. I decided to do a vanishing sequence of Christmas lights.

I love Christmas, it is my favorite holiday ever. Every year I wait for it, and when it comes by, it vanishes so quickly in a blink of an eye. Seems like I never get to enjoy it. When I see something I want to do; something that attracts my attention, its always gone by the time I try to do it. Then more things pop up, and the same thins happens. The point of this would be, that things come and go so quickly, and you have to appreciate them while you have them. See the beauty, meaning, presence, and value of these things, because in the blink of an eye, everything can be gone.

The colorful lights represent everything that is meaningful, and darkness is vanishing those things . When i was doing this, I was sitting in my room in the dark, randomly touching the LED lights to find the ON/OFF button, which made me thing that not having light and direction can make it tough to accomplish something, and when you do, it makes it a bigger accomplishment.

This project does represent vanishing and becoming, and it shows that is a cycle that never ends.

The simple idea of showing something, then vanishing it, isn’t as simple anymore. As we look at an image, it is in our brains for a few seconds, and then drastically taken away. We are stuck on detail, memorization, and in anxiety to see it again. The more an object is taken away, regardless of what it is, we always want more. We want to capture more of it; what does it look like? What is it doing? Can I notice more details if I see it a second, third, fourth time? This type of visual art, can keep us at the edge of our sits.

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The idea of making things vanish and reappear made me think of the different kinds of habits that we can pick up. A lot of times we can feel like we have control but don’t realize it’s temporary or we aren’t being honest with ourselves about having a problem. Along with the light sources coming and going throughout the video (with little light switch sound effects to emphasize the theme) I made the scenes vanish and get replaced with new habits. Some of them are good, bad, or depend on how you use them, even the good habits can be abused. This whole idea connects to the way I felt about the reading because the habits project on me with captivation and from me as a way to identify myself, the light sources project onto me, and the whole medium is a modern projection technique.

In addition, I put a song that could kind of help blend all the different moods of the habits so that it feels more like a trance. Lo-fi hip hop has those effects on me personally so I thought it’d be a nice touch on something that represents me habitually tranced out.

Growth, with soft music

Reading & Response #3

Chapter 6 : Time & Motion: Throughout this chapter, the essentials of a motion video are explained. Time & motion can be defined in different ways, and thus the chapter explains it. Both time and motion compliment each other; they go hand-in-hand, and cant have one without the other. Both connect to make art.

Vanishing & Becoming: Thdefinedis reading is very interesting, due to the fact that it does not only finds a connection between the old, and new innovations, but it makes different connecting regarding shadows.

The way the shadows are represented, with such importance, gives the reading and outside look of what they really mean, not in in art, but what they represent on our daily lives. Also the way that shadows are explained in works of art, and how they are meaningful, can be intriguing. The representation of a shadow, is sometimes forgotten, it goes beyond of a reflection, it has a deeper meaning, and it is explained, and acknowledge in the reading.

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Project 2: Looping GIFs

For this project, I chose to work thematically. I am a music major studying jazz guitar, and I thought what better way to showcase a series than to pick ten of my favorite jazz guitarists and highlight each of them playing their instrument. I was initially inspired by the instruction to consider rhythm and repetition. When I see those words, my mind automatically thinks in musical terms, and I wanted to blend the concepts of musical rhythm and repetition into a set of moving images that also have a visual rhythm and repetition. I attempted to find clips that would appear as seamless as possible when I looped them, and it certainly worked better for some than others due to severely limited video options for some of the older players. Nevertheless, I am quite satisfied with how they all turned out.

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I’ve always liked thinking about this. It’s really cool to actually see the different courses that music could take when people have new ideas to tack on to certain styles. Each segment represents a world of personality and character in their genres so yeah, good stuff.

PROJECT #2: THE LOOP: I have watch this movie countless times, and every time, I notice something different. This time, I noticed that this clown, (different from the Pennywose from 2017) has a more cheerful, and funny side (although he is suppose to be terrifying). And that’s what I love about art, what some people may find horrorrific, others may have a different take on it. This movie to me, is such a cheesy, funny, and one of a kind ‘thrillers’. To me is like that ‘must watch movie’ every year for Halloween, almost like a tradition. These images represent a happy clown, yet a scary character that has fun in scaring people.

Excercise #2. You can never go wrong with some animated sword vs mud showdown.

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Reading/Response 2

I have seen .gif images for as long as I can remember. I found it especially interesting to learn that within the last few years, people have successfully sold digital images in a completely digital format for some pretty vast sums of money. Coming from the position of knowing the .gif as a purely internet-based medium, I feel ambivalent about the commodification of data. I feel that, in order for a .gif to be worthy of more than reposts on places like Instagram or Reddit, it should contain some note of originality. To me, simply spotlighting a line from a movie does not really constitute the transcendent use of the media that I think defines .gif art. That being said, I absolutely love being able to find .gif images of a lot of my favorite media, regardless of whether or not they happen to be of high art aestheticism. I picked a lot of these images mostly because of nostalgia, and mostly because they make me chuckle.

1. Just after Dark Helmet tells them to comb the desert.

2. For when you need sheer motivation.

3. As a guitarist myself, I love that this guy chooses to shred on the big hotdog.

4. I watched an awful lot of MTV as a kid.

5. Cat Breading was a fad for a while. Pretty self-explanatory.

6. Chairman Kaga loves food almost as much as I do. This was the best version of Iron Chef.

7. Kuato gives good advice. This film had some of my favorite special effects, and I still think this stuff is way better than CGI.

8. So, this guy runs our country now.

9. This is an older .gif, and one that I think is masterfully done. While it does not have animated motion as many contemporary .gifs tend to, it scores high points for creativity and execution.

10. I laughed so hard the first time I saw Dave Chappelle’s Rick James punch Charlie Murphy in the forehead.

When I’m just tired and annoyed and frustrated and don’t wanna hear you..... 🙄

When someone makes me angry, hurts my friend, hurts a puppy... or take my last piece of cake! 🙅🏻‍♀️

Don’t panic. Don’t panic... everything is cool cool cool. I use this a lot with my friends. 💯

Elf is one of my favorite holiday movie. Is one of those movies you keep watching over and over again, you know every line, yet you get excited every year to watch it! Is it Christmas yet? 🎅🏻

It doesn’t have to be Christmas in order to bring out some Grinch in you.... it could be a all year long kind of thing. 🎄

I love holiday GIFs. They are honestly the best. 👻

I love Nic Cage. And I often use this to be dramatic. BTW: the bees can be a representation of anything. 🐝

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