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just a project for my 4D art class
In the video you’ll find some of the people close to me and the things in life they find beautiful. The main voice in the video is mine, and I am featured at the end as well, the last set of eyes. I try to find the beauty in everything and look at others without judgement, regardless of how I feel about myself. And I think it’s important that we acknowledge that beauty isn’t just on the surface of our sins, but it’s everywhere.
So I took my own footage from a PSA project I did last semester about Depression and I sped it up, added Fuck Up by Tana Mongeau over it, and had it reverse the cycle back to bed, then start it again at the end. I think the song fits the message well and speeding up my footage helped keep up the idea of going through the motions. I reversed it mid way through because I wanted to give the idea of like an endless cycle of some sort.
Fair warning! This will probably make you cry!
I saw the Happier music video recently and it had me straight up ugly SOBBING. I had to suffer sooo now you do too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I chose See You Again over it because it fit well. The fading to and from black and white throughout the video is meant to signify that life is better with dogs!
I’m pretty familiar with Premier because I’m a video production major, so this assignment wasn’t too difficult for me, EXCEPT for the fact that youtube blocked the video for copyright content and then the file was too large for tumblr so I had to mess with exporting and find the right one that would get it below 100 MB.
I got 4 dog blog follows after my gif series lololololol
she’s pretty cute so understandable ;p
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.
I like that you took your passion and put it into this project in some form. (: It’s notable that each and every person seen is passionate about what they’re doing too. Good job!
Project #2: The Loop
For this project, the series of ten GIFs that I chose is from a video from one of my favorite artists, Segovia Amil. Segovia is a poet and in the video used to make GIFs was from her poem Genesis Cries. I tried to simplify the video without taking away its beauty and mood. I tried to capture the drama and the dark, intense emotions she is usually writing about and makes the audience feel. Her writing is very personal to me and I think these visuals portray what she writes about well. Her writing tends to have themes about individuality and the way we react to the world around us. It is haunting in a beautiful way. In the GIFs, I am hoping I showed these interactions and made it look just as poetic as her writing sounds.
Thank you, and I am excited to see everyone else’s projects!
Segovia Amil – Genesis Cries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8aW_ZDt_Gg
You did a wonderful job at capturing the mood and emotional tone. It seems very raw and intense. I think you did really well in rendering these gifs without taking away from what would be seen in the video. Super cool that she’s a poet too, and it isn’t just from a music video. Well done. (:
Project #2: The Loop
Life can feel a little loopy when not much changes in your day to day routine over an extended period of time. I chose to craft my series of gif images around the theme of working a full-time job (when it is not your passion). Outside of how relatable the theme is, I think it further emphasizes the “loop” feeling that both gifs and 9 to 5, Monday through Friday jobs can give you. Finding the perfect moment of film ended up being a longer process than I had originally anticipated due to the time it takes to perfectly sync the rhythm between the first and last frame. Also, you may not notice if viewing on a mobile device, but the Futurama coffee drinking gif is dramatically smaller than the others. I was not willing to sacrifice the message of the gif by shortening the length of the scene so I had to resize it to smaller dimensions so that it would be able to load on Tumblr. Luckily, when viewing on a phone (like most gifs are viewed) it stretches the dimensions to match. Overall, the process was fun and I found that shortening some of the scenes into loops actually made the moments more intriguing.
Nice pun ;) This gif series is so true that it hurts. The entire set tells a story and fits together well. It’s unfortunate how many people live in this loop day to day. Great job!
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.
Oooh, what an interesting take on Pennywise. Someone who knows nothing about It might not have any idea what is really going on. Eery! I also find the movie to be humorous, it’s hard for me to consider it a real horror because the comedic relief is often. Especially in the newer one. Good job!
GIF Project/The Loop
For this project, I decided to show how although trends come and go, technology improves, music and media changes, one thing that I have seen as a constant trend in music and media is the “Western”/“Desert Chic”. This trend has never really left. From the Spice Girls to Post Malone, we have all seen music artists use deserts as a set for their music videos at least once. The beautiful scenery and sunsets make it easy to produce a beautiful video without the need of too much editing. Yet, there are a few differences throughout the years in these music videos. Back in the 90′s, everything had to have a futuristic feel to it. In the first GIF, the Spice Girls are some form of future alien girls, and they seem to be on some sort of intergalactic mission to track down a boy. But as time progressed, we began to see more of the road trip/Americana feel to desert-setting music videos, especially becuase of the fashion trends that became popular on social media in the early 2010′s that music festivals such as Coachella, Camp Flog Gnaw, and Bonaroo began.
To explain, the beginning tends to show how artists were trying to look stylish and fashion-forward in their video, but then we slowly go more into modern-day music and see how artists are fully embracing the desert/western vibes. Lots of fringe, daisy dukes, and vintage cars and American flags. It’s funny how years ago we would have to add a future or techy element to everything, and now we’re all about the nostalgia. The more vintage cars, flags, and cutoff and high-waisted clothing, the better. It’s funny isn’t it? Back in time we couldn’t wait to advance technologically, and now we wish we could go back to the old days.
Artists featured:
-Spice Girls “Say you’ll be there”
-Pitbull and Marc Anthony “Rain over me”
-Selena Gomez “A year without rain”
-One Direction “Steal my girl”
-Kesha “Your love is my drug”
-Lana Del Rey “Ride”
-Ariana Grande “Into You”
-Halsey “Bad at love”
-Khalid “Location”
-Post Malone “Go Flex”
Super cool! Something I never noticed either. I had an editing project last semester where we had to edit a music video to some footage, and the footage was all in the same type of setting. Nice description of your assignment too, and where you were going with it. (:
Project 2: Loop
I decided to do my 10 animated Gifs’ on the game Legend of Zelda Botw, cause why not? Since I spend so much time playing the game, I thought, why not showcase the many things I do over and over for the project? These things include cooking, eating, talking to Beetle, because at some point in the game he becomes like a security blanket. It also involves horrid blood moons and skipping the cut scene for them. Then there’s the more annoying circumstance of running out of stamina during fights and paragliding that results in drowning. And the best of them all, trying to climb a mountain or wall while it’s raining. At some point I just learned to count while I climb, jump, slip, then climb some more. It’s the most effective way if you don’t have Revali’s gale. Honestly, games make me happy, and I was happy while making this project so it turned out to be a lot of fun.
Nice! I’m a huge gamer and love Zelda! One of the games I never feel bad using a guide for, there’s so much to do and so many things you can miss! Cool topic, well rendered. (:
Project 2: Loop
I decided to do this project about my best friend! This is Kahri, she’s a Red Heeler/Lab mix that I rescued when she was 8 weeks old. She just turned 5 in July. These are some gifs taken from videos I’ve gotten over the years. She is the first dog I got after moving away from home, so she has an extra special place in my heart. She’s super spunky and loves to high five! I wouldn’t trade her for anything in the world.
This project was fun! I’m glad I chose to do it about Kahri, it made it a lot more meaningful and brought a lot of warm and good emotions up as I sifted through things of her over the last 5 years.
Exercise 2
Literally no better representation of Jenna Marbles than this gif. Was super interesting learning how to do it on photoshop! I’ve used tumblr gif maker and giphy before, so it was cool seeing a way that actually gives you a lot more freedom. This was a fun assignment!
Reading/Response 10 gifs
The blinking guy is one of my favorite memes that I use consistently even though it kind of died out. It’s the perfect response to so many things.
Another perfect response that I use quite frequently.
I like this one because there is no obvious time where we can tell it loops back, it just looks like it goes on forever.
Gotta love Futurama, and skeptical Fry is just another great example of a response gif. (Can you tell I use gifs a lot for responses?)
I send this one a lot when my friends aren’t making sense, even if it isn’t a question. Meme trash.
Such a good movie, also use this one a lot.
Also a good one I use a lot, good at showing shocked confusion.
Same. This is also how I eat cheetos.
Parks and Rec is my FAVORITE show and I love Andy and this captures his personality perfectly.
I, too, hate everything.
Gif Reading/Response
It was interesting reading so many articles discussing gifs as an art form, as they have always been a form of memes or offered some great responses to conversations for me. I also didn’t realize that people are able to profit off of gif making. I find the cultural impact of gifs really interesting, I feel like I've grown up in the time where they used to not be quite as relevant and now myself and every single person I talk to uses gifs on a daily basis. The articles really proved that there is art all around us and in ways we don’t expect. Pretty cool!
PROJECT #1
My theme for this project was the idea of History repeating itself. How sometimes world events feel familiar because we have perhaps already been through something alike in the past. I merged two or more events in history, new and old, to depict a collage of how they are similar. The meanings or cultures might change but a lot of things are doomed to be repeated. Acknowledging the past and planning to do good is the only way we can create a better tomorrow.
I really like how this project was done, especially because in one of my other classes, a big thing that I’ve been bringing up is the fact that history is constantly repeating itself, and it’s interesting to see this through both a literature and physical example. Great work!
This one stood out to me the most, mostly because the message is so incredibly strong and well portrayed. You made amazing parallel’s and it really makes you think. Extremely impactful, well done.
Artist Project#1
The idea behind this comes from my personal tendency (that I know I share with many people) to get lost in thought and fantasy often times rather than focusing on what I actually have. I think a lot of people can relate in finding it easy to forget what we have around us. I symbolized this by using settings of places I really want to visit in my life but filling my position in them with neo-tokyo images which I find to be aesthetically pleasing fantasy images but are things I don’t actually get to see in my world. The little windows into other worlds are so obviously separate from these realities and the real beauty of these settings. At the same time, it’s important to hold on to imagination so the stark contrast emphasizes these figures as points of focus.
I really like the use of the two opposing scenery here to really obstruct from one another, especially since the image shown through the person is from one place, where-as the locations he’s visiting is all around the world. It’s very creative and a great way to show off daydreaming and movement.
I really liked this one, the meaning behind it is really interesting and it is very aesthetically pleasing. I also think it was well rendered. Great job! Makes me think of “the grass is greener on the other side.”
As I’m sure you’ve noticed from my exercise 1, I am a huge animal advocate. I chose to do this series to show the significance in the things humans do and how they affect the world around us, and more specifically, animals. The topics covered in each photo are as follows:
1. Greenhouse gas emissions
2. Deforestation
3. Animal testing
4. Plastic pollution
5. Oil spills
6. Poaching
7. Straws
8. Animal confinement
9. Factory Farming
10. Forest fires
All of these subjects and images I’ve combined in this series show the repercussions and impacts humans have on the world and the creatures we share our world with. It’s important to recognize that these things are cruel - and we should work to change them to the best of our ability, even if it’s as simple as reusable grocery bags and reusable straws.
