Prrromotion?! What for?!

Art projects, music, and anything else.

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This is a quick animated .gif for my physics class. It's a "visual aid" for the paper I had to write.

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Research

How hard is it to do a little bit of research? I would have to say that one of the major examples of American laziness (and perhaps the modern world as a whole) is the willingness to believe whatever is advertised to us. A five minute Google search is all it takes for most things, if that.

Take the recent "Kony 2012" trend and the Beats by Dr. Dre. I concede the Kony 2012 movement, but I hate that everyone seems to buy into it just after watching the film. Is that it? A film tells you that you should do something without any real evidence, and you believe it? Try researching the charity before supporting it willy-nilly. If you research first and then support the movement, that's fine. I don't.

The same is true of Dre's Beats. It's amazing to see how much sway marketing has on the masses. Just because a celebrity wears them (I don't think Dre even uses them, himself), they must be good! In fact, they're incredibly overpriced, and if you don't listen to hip-hop or rap, you probably won't like them at all. If everyone who considered buying headphones did a few minutes of research, they would know that. Instead, Dr. Dre's Beats now have a huge market share.

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This is for my Design for Media class. We were supposed to make textures that seemed like gradients from black to white. I don't think I did them right, but I kinda like them anyway.

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Lucid Dreaming

I'm reading up a little on lucid dreaming, and trying out some things to see if I can take control of my dreams. It seems like nobody is sure about how long it takes to intentionally induce a lucid dream, though. The estimated time is from as soon as 4-5 weeks to a few years. So I guess we'll see. I need to work on dream retention first. I wonder if working on dream retention will help my memory in general?

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This is for my Design for Media I class. I took a picture of Carl Sagan, then laid down grids of 1", .5", and .25" squares on separate layers. I then colored each square with the color gray (from a scale of 9 grays) that most dominated that part of the picture. The result was a "pixelated" image. After that, the assignment was to mix the different grid sizes to make the pixelation more interesting.

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Project 1 from my Design for Media I class. We were supposed to transition from one mood or idea to a contrasting one.

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This one's a happy octopus!

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The second is a balloon!

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I have to paint three hour-long paintings; here's the first. A banana!

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This is an over-the-shoulder shot we had to take for film class. I think I held it pretty steady.

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Another for film class: I was supposed to have three shots (whoops!) of an object or objects.

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Another video for film class. We had to have two shots of someone walking (pan)and two shots of sitting down and/or standing up (tilt).

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This is one of the videos for my film class. I needed two close-ups and a wide shot of a conversation. Hopefully this counts as a conversation. Either I cut off the shots early, or something went wrong somewhere else.

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This is actually a friend's video, but it's of me and another friend. Not bad; maybe a little out of focus. And I suggest muting the video.

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This is from my Spatial Visualization class. We brought fruit and painted them in class.

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Lines

I'm up later than I'd like, trying to draw some lines. I'm supposed to put a word, such as "static" and "vibration" in my audience's head with just lines. Shapes are allowed, kind of, but they can't be the focus of the composition. I don't really get it.

Anyway, the compositions I keep coming up with are extremely...minimal. It makes me think back to what a previous instructor always said about my work; everything I did appeared to have been given little thought and/or effort.

But the opposite is true. Although each mark isn't given much thought, the concept is. I think I'll stick with this way of doing things, unless my instructor tells me otherwise. I should be projecting myself onto the paper or something, not cookie-cutting what creativity I actually have into whatever shape I'm told. If it's garbage, it's garbage. But it'll be my garbage.

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I stumbled across this blog, which seems right up my alley. They cover all kinds of indie music, which means something should interest you, if not all of it.